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Cloud Atlas Review | Movie Reviews and News | Fall Movies - Calendar, Trailers, Movie Photos, Movie Clips, Movie Guide | EW.com

Cloud Atlas is like a gonzo miniseries that, at times, seems to be cramming the entire history of Hollywood genre films into one multi-tentacled parable of freedom and authoritarian control. You'll catch echoes of a hundred other pop touchstones, from Roots to Guy Ritchie films to Soylent Green. I would never call Cloud Atlas profound — it's more like a pulpy middlebrow head trip — but the hook of the movie is that Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer so clearly meant everything that they put in it. B+
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PLEASE go see this.
 
Arnold Schwarzenegger Returns in THE LEGEND OF CONAN | Collider


I don't have a problem with this IF they were bringing back Momoa as Conan. But, since they aren't, this is a stupid idea. And having Ahnold in it is even dumber. Folks were lucky to live to the ripe old age of 35 in those times, no possible way he would still be alive at 65+. And really, are they just going to dust off every property Ahnuld had success with and shoehorn him in? Sad.
 
jerseydevil said:
Arnold Schwarzenegger Returns in THE LEGEND OF CONAN | Collider


I don't have a problem with this IF they were bringing back Momoa as Conan. But, since they aren't, this is a stupid idea. And having Ahnold in it is even dumber. Folks were lucky to live to the ripe old age of 35 in those times, no possible way he would still be alive at 65+. And really, are they just going to dust off every property Ahnuld had success with and shoehorn him in? Sad.
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And yet not True Lies?
 
jerseydevil said:
Arnold Schwarzenegger Returns in THE LEGEND OF CONAN | Collider


I don't have a problem with this IF they were bringing back Momoa as Conan. But, since they aren't, this is a stupid idea. And having Ahnold in it is even dumber. Folks were lucky to live to the ripe old age of 35 in those times, no possible way he would still be alive at 65+. And really, are they just going to dust off every property Ahnuld had success with and shoehorn him in? Sad.
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Sadly, I'm done with Arnold as an action star. I love Arnold, his movies and his characters but I have no interest in seeing him do an old, pale, soggy and wrinkly version of his younger self. I'll probably watch it eventually but I just know it's not gonna work.
 
BigBrown said:
Sadly, I'm done with Arnold as an action star. I love Arnold, his movies and his characters but I have no interest in seeing him do an old, pale, soggy and wrinkly version of his younger self. I'll probably watch it eventually but I just know it's not gonna work.
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But The Last Stand is going to be great. Bank on it.
 
Remember Alfonso Cuar?n's 'Gravity'? It Now Has A PG-13 Rating | The Playlist

Shot way back in 2011 and originally slated to be released next month by Warner Bros. before being pushed to a still unknown 2013 date, word has been deafeningly quiet around Alfonso Cuar?n's "Gravity." With nothing in the way of stills or posters, the movie is still somewhat of a mystery, though it does seem like we're inching slowly toward some fresh news about the movie.

The MPAA have dropped their latest batch of ratings (via Rope Of Silicon) and it includes a PG-13 rating for the film "For intense perilous sequences, some disturbing images and brief strong language." Of course, who knows what that means for the actual release of the movie, but it goes suggest a cut is finished.
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Review: 'Cloud Atlas' Is Bold, Messy & Disappointingly Unimaginative | The Playlist

On a technical level, we suppose the film is an accomplishment, with costumes and period details mostly coming through, but in most other ways, this $100 million effort offers fortune cookie social commentary put in a blender with a handful of thinly interlocking stories, in a failed attempt to say something meaningful about the human condition, and how modes of good and evil perpetuate themselves across centuries. Too long by at least a half hour, and both dull and repetitive as it goes on, "Cloud Atlas" reaches for envelope-pushing storytelling but never delivers on its promise. [C-]
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Friday Box Office: ARGO Tops CLOUD ATLAS and SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D Entering Extremely Weak Weekend | Collider

Ok. Not the worst news, a strong Sunday and they(Cloud Atlas) finish in second...only slightly off the projections. The almost 3 Hr run time cuts down on potential showings, so that has to factor in. As long as this movie does not John Carter up the place, the back end of DVD/Netflix/Cable viewings should make this a break even affair at worst. I am sick as a dog but I plan to get out and see this tomorrow, I believe in it that much. Please...go see it.
 
Frightening description of Wizard of Oz greatest synopsis ever | Blastr

Before we had the Internet to tell us everything we need to know about, well, everything—there was this neat little thing called print media. It often included basic TV listings, along with synopses of the movies and programs coming up for the day or week. And sometimes those synopses were absolutely hilarious (and kind of morbid).

A 1998 synopsis for The Wizard of Oz, which reportedly ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer, takes a very unique tack to describe the classic tale of a young girl transported to a fantastical land.

You just have to see it for yourself:
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Ghost In The Shell’s Mamoru Oshii Making English-Language Sci-Fi War Movie | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Taking place in a world of war known as Annwn, Garm Wars sets the scene with clone soldiers from 3 military tribes, in a bloody and perpetual battle of air, land and technology. One clone, Khara, finds herself separated from battle and on the run with unlikely companions. In seeking to know more about their joint existence, the fugitives instead find an unrelenting truth and the greatest battle of their lives.
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Hmm...
 
Learn What Warner Bros.’ Proposed TWILIGHT ZONE Movie Is About!!
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There’s long been a new “Twilight Zone” feature in development at Warner Bros., but this is the first I’ve heard about it’s about.

Buried toward the end of a Vulture story about upcoming time-travel movie projects, there was this:

Warner Bros. is developing The Twilight Zone (based on the venerated Rod Serling sci-fi TV series that also sparked a 1983 film), that until recently was to be directed Matt Reeves (Cloverfield). It follows a test pilot who winds up breaking the speed of light; when he puts down his craft, he discovers that he’s landed a bit late for supper — 96 years late.

That sounds a little like the Feb. 5, 1960 episode “The Last Flight,” the first “Twilight Zone” scripted by Richard Matheson. It followed a British biplane pilot fighting World War I in 1917 who finds himself passing through a strange cloud and ending up on an American air base in 1959.
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Interesting that they would choose to go with a single story and not an anthology. I wonder if they will forgo the Serling like opening/closing making this basically just a use of the brand name. Curious.
 
David Yates to Ape-dapt TARZAN For Warner Bros. | CHUD.com

After lording over the Harry Potter series for four films, director David Yates is skewing old-school for his next literary adaptation: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan. Vulture confirms the director is locked in at Warner Brothers for a deal that’ll see him bring the “Lord of the Apes” back to the big screen once again. And the director reportedly wants a name actor as well; in the realm of a Henry Cavill, Charlie Hunnam, Alexander Skarsg?rd or Tom Hardy. It sounds like Yates is trying to get meetings with all these names, though the studio has their heart set on Hardy at this point.
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