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I'll star in it for only $1 million, plus the $10 I paid to see Taken 2.
 
ucsdguy1 said:
Jim Carrey just seems so super douchey lately I'm not sure he can just let it go for this one. Plus, all the middle-agers who grew up thinking dumb and dumber was infinitely hysterical probably now are too cynical and will negate it as "they were funnier in my day"
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I'm not sure how much of it is that they are now too cynical and how much of it is simply that the humor isn't as funny now. When I watch it, I still think it's relatively funny, but, man, when it came out while I was in high school, I thought it was the funniest movie I'd ever seen.
 
Nick Cave Reveals Details About His 'Gladiator 2' Script 'Christ Killer' & You Can Read The Full Screenplay Right Here | The Playlist

In Nick Cave's hands, "Gladiator 2" would have involved the Christ man-god along with a bunch of Roman gods, all on the same theological footing. Yeesh, we're not going to touch that with a ten-foot Spear of Longinus. Cave explained that Maximus post-mortem, "goes down to purgatory and is sent down by the gods, who are dying in heaven because there's this one god, there's this Christ character, down on Earth who is gaining popularity and so the many gods are dying so they send Gladiator back to kill Christ and his followers." Remember, this was meant to be a follow-up to mega-blockbuster "Gladiator," not some side experimental project.

As though that wouldn't be hard enough for a typical Hollywood producer to swallow, let alone people still riding on the "Gladiator" train, Cave's script also called for a plot twist of biblical/Greek tragedy proportions. It was to be revealed "that the main guy was his son so he has to kill his son and he was tricked by the gods. He becomes this eternal warrior and it ends with this 20 minute war scene which follows all the wars in history, right up to Vietnam and all that sort of stuff and it was wild." To add the icing on this abstract multi-century "deities vs. deity vs. humankind" cake, Cave "wanted to call it 'Christ Killer.' "
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Someone should Kickstart a film of it. :)
 
Review: 'Red 2' Starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren & More | The Playlist

While we applaud the minds behind “Red” for making a film for adults in a sea of movies for kids and teenage boys, they didn’t actually make a good film for adults. It will satisfy the core audience who loved the first film, but there are no surprises here, other than the shock of letting “Whiteout” and “Battleship” screenwriters Jon and Erich Hober pen another film. Each moment is predictable, with the talented cast eking out as much enjoyment for the audience as they can. Overall, this is an action-comedy that should be as full of laughs as it is explosions (So. Many. Explosions.), but there’s little joy other than letting Mirren be (super) sexy and Malkovich deliver a few good lines. [C+]
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'Fight Club' Sequel Coming In Graphic Novel Form From Author Chuck Palahniuk | The Playlist

Over Comic-Con weekend, Palahniuk casually dropped the news that he’s working on a follow-up to the beloved 1996 novel and he confirmed it to fansite ChuckPalahniuk.net (via Collider). Here’s the twist though, the sequel will be in the form of a graphic novel or, rather, “a series of books that update the story ten years after the seeming end of Tyler Durden. Nowadays, Tyler is telling the story, lurking inside Jack, and ready to launch a come-back.”

And what about Jack and Marla? Though Palahniuk hasn’t mapped out the complete story he did share that the two are married (on the rocks of “the rocky coastline of middle-aged suburban boredom,” naturally) with a son but “when their little boy disappears, kidnapped by Tyler, Jack is dragged back into the world of Mayhem.”
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