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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 1, 2024 18:17:58 GMT -5
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Feb 1, 2024 18:40:26 GMT -5
Tim Burton doing a remake? That's gone oh so well before. I suppose on the plus side, he can't cast Johnny Depp, probably won't cast Helena Bonham-Carter and Danny Elfman's probably a no go too so he can't fall back on his perennial favourites and cast them in inappropriate roles or to give everything a jaunty soundtrack.
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Post by Display Name on Feb 1, 2024 19:19:02 GMT -5
The Daryl Hannah one was bad enough. We don’t need this.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Feb 1, 2024 19:19:02 GMT -5
I know he's persona non grata to some of you, but Doug Walker got it totally right in his Edward Scissorhands review. It's a shame to compare 80s Burton to this one.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 1, 2024 20:20:20 GMT -5
Wonder if Jenna Ortega will end up in the title role. She's been ridiculously active even outside of their recent collaborations, so, I can imagine it's not out of the realm of possibility.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Feb 2, 2024 3:10:29 GMT -5
Why? Monsters vs Aliens was already the perfect Fifty Foot Woman movie.
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Post by Mr Mario Mario on Feb 2, 2024 4:27:09 GMT -5
Tarantino was going to direct it until he realised it was a woman measuring 50 foot and not a woman with 50 feet
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Feb 2, 2024 6:34:35 GMT -5
Tarantino was going to direct it until he realised it was a woman measuring 50 foot and not a woman with 50 feet It's be like American Godzilla or Cloverfield with feet, with lots of scenes of things being stepped on and people running away from them, except a plucky reporter played by Uma, and her cameraman, played by Tarantino himself, bravely running towards them with camera in hand.
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Post by Fade on Feb 2, 2024 10:41:39 GMT -5
Wonder if Jenna Ortega will end up in the title role. She's been ridiculously active even outside of their recent collaborations, so, I can imagine it's not out of the realm of possibility. . . . i would watch that.
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Post by schma on Feb 2, 2024 12:14:51 GMT -5
Tim Burton doing a remake? That's gone oh so well before. I suppose on the plus side, he can't cast Johnny Depp, probably won't cast Helena Bonham-Carter and Danny Elfman's probably a no go too so he can't fall back on his perennial favourites and cast them in inappropriate roles or to give everything a jaunty soundtrack. I would not entirely be surprised if he not only cast Johnny Depp, but found a way to make him the main character of this.
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Post by ace on Feb 2, 2024 12:20:22 GMT -5
I know he's persona non grata to some of you, but Doug Walker got it totally right in his Edward Scissorhands review. It's a shame to compare 80s Burton to this one. Wha did he say?
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 2, 2024 12:23:10 GMT -5
Wonder if Jenna Ortega will end up in the title role. She's been ridiculously active even outside of their recent collaborations, so, I can imagine it's not out of the realm of possibility. It's possible, but she may be considered too young for that part (she is only 21 right now) since both prior versions have had a woman older than that. Honestly I could almost see Margot Robbie being cast in the part.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 2, 2024 12:54:02 GMT -5
The Daryl Hannah one was bad enough. We don’t need this. I remember that airing on Fox for some reason in 1995. I actually watched it, too. I later saw it on HBO (for which I believe it was made) and saw how cheesy and low budget it was. I remember a young Barry Watson was in it as one of half a teenage couple at a drive-in theater. The girl who played his girlfriend knew how to shriek well.
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 2, 2024 12:55:51 GMT -5
The Daryl Hannah one was bad enough. We don’t need this. I remember that airing on Fox for some reason in 1995. I actually watched it, too. I later saw it on HBO (for which I believe it was made) and saw how cheesy and low budget it was. I remember a young Barry Watson was in it as one of half a teenage couple at a drive-in theater. The girl who played his girlfriend knew how to shriek well. Gotta give it credit though for doing more scenes with, you know, what the title of the movie is than the 50s version. At most the 50s version probably had about 2 minutes of the actual 50 Foot Woman on camera.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Feb 2, 2024 14:16:03 GMT -5
I know he's persona non grata to some of you, but Doug Walker got it totally right in his Edward Scissorhands review. It's a shame to compare 80s Burton to this one. Wha did he say? That 80s Burton was a creative visionary. 2000s+? Not so much.
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Post by pinja on Feb 2, 2024 14:23:01 GMT -5
Hopefully it will be like "Mars Attacks", where you think the movie is going down a dozen tried and true paths, but then just doesn't follow any path. And Tom Jones.
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Post by DichEvans on Feb 2, 2024 14:24:53 GMT -5
His movies always have a fun artistic flair, but I am having trouble thinking of the last movie he did that was a genuine hit
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 2, 2024 14:28:18 GMT -5
His movies always have a fun artistic flair, but I am having trouble thinking of the last movie he did that was a genuine hit Not movie, but I've heard the "Wednesday" series that he's helped on has been pretty good.
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Post by ace on Feb 2, 2024 16:02:15 GMT -5
That 80s Burton was a creative visionary. 2000s+? Not so much. I do not care for Burton’s aesthetics outside of exactly two movies. But I’m surprisingly passionate about those two movies given how little time I have for his work. With the asterisk that I’ve never seen Big Fish which I have always heard would be more up my alley…Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood are the only two movies where I thought his visual style really worked. That’s not me saying it’s the only one of his movies that I like. I like his Batman movies. I like Beetlejuice a lot. I like Pee-Wee’s Big adventure...which has some of what I’m talking about in a very early form. So what I’m going to say isn’t about the quality of his movies but specifically his visual style. The reason Edward Scissorhands is his best visual movie isn’t because of his repetitive Tim Burton style…which is there. It’s because of his take on suburbia and putting his repetitive Tim Burton style into it. His twisted castle and look that he tries to put everywhere is not interesting to me. Putting a character from that world into the ultra colorful over the top suburban landscape is. Ed Wood works because he’s completely forced to play within the rules of the world of the story…and he genuinely connects to the material in a way he rarely had. For all his outsider weirdo gothic bullshit…his stuff only works for me juxtaposed by a more interesting aesthetic. Without it you get Sleepy Hollow where everything has to look the same and it isn’t really saying anything.
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Post by chrom on Feb 2, 2024 18:14:14 GMT -5
Instead of being 50 foot tall, she'll have 50 feet
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