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Halle Berry can obviously act well, as she demonstrated in X-Men and its sequel. Why she would take a crappy role like this, I don't know. Catwoman looks thoroughly crappy.
Kirsten Dunst is a good actress too. Don't be dissin'. |
Tell me you didn't want to just snap her neck during her cheesy speech at the end of Spiderman 2. I dare you:p
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Didn't they say after Die Another Day that Halle Berry's character was going to star in a spin-off? Whatever happened to that?
DAD - now that was a bad movie. |
Why couldn't they have called her something else though? I so don't understand that. Catwomen is a name that brings about an image of an amazingly dressed neutral character, who isn't afraid to kill people for a good cause. But now, they have an Egyptian God bringing her back, and the God is in the form of her pet Cat apparently.
The original concept for Catwoman rocked, with all the Cats flocking to her and licking her. |
Ugh. Catwoman. What the feck? Why do they take the liberal media lady and turn her into a dominatrix? I got an unsettling surge from that film the second I saw the commercials. What I'd like to know is how all these recent scripts are pure crap and suits still buy them.
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There's always an "anything goes" period in movie releases. People are having hard times coming up with new ideas so they recycle old ones. And maybe these days the consequences of making a bad movie aren't as heavy as they used to be, since CGI effects are becoming cheaper and easier to do. The CGI effects for a movie like Terminator 2 can pretty much be done at someone's home nowadays.
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I'm confident that future movies and some of the movies mentioned here will be better, but I can't really surmise anything at this point.
One movie I really hope gets bombed is the SpongeBob movie. *gags* I loathe spongebob with a passion and I even drew a picture of him depicting my hatred. It's here. Spongebob has been haunting me with his clich'e design and annoying laugh. And the fact that the guy who does spongebob's voice does the voice for 75% of all other male characters in cartoons today pisses me off two times over. God, please let Roger Ebert give this film a "BIG-ASS thumbs down". |
I must agree with your hopes, SS. But, I enjoy some of Spongebob. Granted, in excess, it takes annoying to a new level, and makes it grate on you for some time after. Which is sadly what Nick has done with it. Not only that, but pretty much all of the newer episodes suck worse than that of a low wage, imigrant hooker. A few episodes were actually quite good, and humorous at times. But pretty much like most all modern bands, you can pick out just as much stuff that sucks equal to that of brilliance.
But, don't you worry. Nickelodeon movies may do decent in the box office, at least as far as I know. But in actuall quality, they've paved the way for a new low in animation/live acting. Good Burger was a great skit back when All That rocked. But the movie was horrible. Rugrats was a pretty good show in its younger years, but a bit before that stupid Dil came along it was shot down. The Wild Thronberries was made worse than it already was. The Hey Arnold movie could've been decent, as it's a strong show for the most part, but was an utter failure in my opinion. About the only thing any Nick movie ever did good for the world was introduce Action League Now, one of the few shining highlites that made Kablam! (Which I heartily love for being the sole time I've heard "sexy" on Nick). EDIT: Wow, I seriously need some sleep. My head aches, and this post reads like crap. |
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Tis' one reason why I like Nicktoons TV. Much less of the old stuff. But afternoon, if I want, I can watch Rocko, Real Monsters, or the Angry Beavers with no real commercials. There's some filler crap, but that's about it. The actually good shows like Zim and Action League (The actual show had some uber nice stuff in it) now have a nice, set, schedule. Very little Spongebob or Rugrats, very very little. And the Rugrats they show are pretty much all of the older episodes.
My only problem with the channel is that the filler moves in waves. When it first came out (2 summers ago?) there were like, 10 music videos they showed inbetween shows/on comercial breaks. Then, those all got replaced by a bunch of inside interview stuff about the studios, which were actually pretty cool. Now it's just a bunch of shorts. Which actually gave me one of the most shocking moments of my life. There's a small series about this chef guy. Who's French, and constantly gets maimed. I was watching, barely paying attention, actually understanding some of the small bits of French inbetween grable and mumbling. I actually learned something in school, and recognized it outside of. I'm not sure whether to be shocked or impressed with myself. |
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And that Invader Zim everyone talks about. I watched the first five minutes of one episode and changed the channel because it's shit as well. All cartoons are shit now. Shit, shit, shit. Shit. |
Ugh...rugrats!
*barfs* Really, I just hate nickelodeon altogether. The only show I watch is SpongeBob when I'm bored, and in between commercials they have this stupid You Pick Live with annoying children and even more annoying adults. Blah! Oy...I like your taste in cartoons, Majic. I wish I had nicktoons tv...Angry Beavers is one of my favorite cartoons. Yeah. _oddguy |
'Invader Zim' is amazing!! I've only seen a few episodes, because CITV don't broadcast it anymore, so i'm looking for the Dvd's...and failing miserably.
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I do wish however that they'd release all the episodes, there's only nine episodes on the first DVD and the first season is really about 20 episodes. The next DVD still has nine episodes but it's season two, so they've skipped out on about eleven episodes between DVDs. Altogether about 62 episodes were planned, Nickelodeon ripped it off the air after 9/11 (because they thought an alien trying to destroy earth was to terroist-ish) and they had only aired about 30-40 episodes out of the 60. The remaining unaired episodes can be found on WinMX, Kazaa, and the like. Good luck, Jacob ;) |
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....So, anyone see "The Notebook?" I heard it rocked, and totally wasn't a chick flick at all![/sarcasm]
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Super mega chick-flick. It's all "heartfelt emotion and passion...." and crap like that. I'm glad I don't go for girls who are into that stuff.
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WTF? And I haven't heard of "The Notebook" either... |
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I literally missed all of Invader Zim. I saw a few episodes, and the one where Zim steals everyone's organs. That was funny, he replaces them with clocks and things, even a cat.
ANYWAY. I want...no, scratch that. I NEED to see Venom and Carnage on the big screen. I know someone who's doing a series of comics called "Venom." The one in that comic is awesome, and I think they should use that design. I wonder who would play Eddie Brock and that other guy who became Carnage... And I hope for humanity's sake that they don't just spraypaint the origonal Green Goblin's costume orange and call it "Hob Goblin," though I'm glad they didn't use the "hood and purple suit" look. |
Yes, Venom and Carnage are the ultimate bad guys, they deserve a movie. Or two. But if they actually make one with them, I hope Eddie Brock won't still be the whiny bastard... He should be more of a Dr. Jekyll kind of guy.
Note: I've only read one Spider-man comic book, so I really don't know much about what the characters are like now. |
Doug Tennapel (created Earthworm Jim, the Neverhood), is supposed to be doing a show for Nick, based on the Gear comics. I'm hoping it does good, but the plain and simple truth of the matter is, that Nicks fan-base is now mostly media saturated morons and stupid children, whom have had pop music and Hillary Duff cliche horseshit movies and shows shoved down their unsuspecting throats, who wouldn't know a good TV show if it assaulted them with a golf club. Don't get me wrong, I'll watch Nick every now and again, but I'm starting to get sickened by what I'm seeing 23 hours a day on my picture box.
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Earthworm Jim... echh. They could have done so much better with that show. The only good part was the theme song, which was one of the funniest cartoon theme songs I've ever heard. The game was awesome, they need to bring it back for the X Box.
Old Nickelodeon was awesome. They had stuff like Pete and Pete, the original All That (before it got taken over by a bunch of high-voiced pubescent no-talent teenagers and Britney Spears' little sister), and a lot of other stuff. Since then it's been on a general downward spiral, staying afloat with a few lack-luster movies and, once in a while, a surprisingly good cartoon that's either cancelled before its time (Invader Zim) or completely ruined by changes made for some inexplicable reason. What's Neverhood? What's Catscratch? Post some l1nk4g3z, j0. You know what is really needed? A good animated science fiction or fantasy for the big screen. So far the only things I've seen that really fit into that category are Titan A.E., which was great when first I saw it because I was a little kid, and the Pokemon movies, which I have to admit are technically sci-fi/fantasy in a very loose sense. Is this the best the world of animation has to offer to the silver screen? I hope not. |
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www.tennapel.com Select 'Works'. |
Oh much coolness. TY much.
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I just saw spiderman 2 today, and Doc Ock was awesome. I really want to see the village. It's a movie where they don't give away the plot in the previews, and it is so mysterious looking.
"We have had a gentle understanding with the creatures beyond our borders,";) |
Neverhood? I recall playing a demo of that, off some weird demo disk. You ran around on a ship or something with some pointless coins to toss around, and you went through portals or something for the games. Really, really weird. Or maybe I'm just remembering a mixture of things.
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No, no. It was one of the demos on the disk. The way you selected the emos was the weird space thing. It was, very very strange. The Neverhood was actually a somewhat neat game, if I remember, having a unique look to it. But the demo only went through like the first set of rooms, or until you walk outside. or... something. I don't know if the demo was actually a selection from the game, as it could always be something like the Half-Life demo was.
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The Neverhood doesn't take place in space nor does it involve coins. You might be thinking of Skullmonkeys which is the sequel to the Neverhood and was much more of an adventure game than a puzzle, it involved shooting, jumping, and collecting orange clay-balls.
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The demo of "The Neverhood" was reached from the space thingy. Maybe I'm not making myself clear enough...
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Oh, I get it! Sorry, I misunderstood.
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Good ole' Tennapel. I've liked his stuff ever since I played Earth Worm Jim way back on the Sega Genesis.
His comics are great too; the art is really exceptional. Not only that, his view on life is completely different than that of most "indie comic" artists. It's refreshing to read a right wing skewed plot instead of the typical "goth" story. Even if you disagree with the overall message (like in 'Creature Tech') it's still nice to read. |
One movie I really enjoyed was Mimic. It was not, by any account, the best science-fiction flick, but there were three main things that really tickled my fancy: 1) the overall darkness of the movie, 2) the autistic kid who could look at a shoe and instantly know its size and could imitate the bug clicking noise, and 3) the part where the two little street urchins get eaten. I mean, how many movies have you seen where the little kids get eaten, and don't survive just by pluck? I tell you, I can't think of any.
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Saw "I, Robot" and it was actually good. Better than SpiderMan in my Summer Movie Rating.
I thought it was going to be simple action movie, but it had an actual plot. Sure...it had a few action sequences and noticable Bullet-Timey-ness at a couple parts, but it was very enjoyable. 8 out of 10 -oddguy :cool: |