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Post by ADigitalMan on Oct 23, 2019 16:31:35 GMT -5
Only if CGI villains rule the world. Please try to do it.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Oct 23, 2019 16:29:52 GMT -5
Quaint thread worth bumping.
So Allison Mack has been up to something ...
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Post by ADigitalMan on Aug 14, 2018 19:06:53 GMT -5
We finally got the Extended cut of STM (widescreen hi def at that) so I still have hope, all these years later, that I will see Selutron's cut one day.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Jun 17, 2013 21:04:10 GMT -5
More CGI villains ruling the world. Please?
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Post by ADigitalMan on Dec 11, 2010 11:30:30 GMT -5
Does a big alien spaceship fit the world created in STM and SII and SR? Last time I saw STM and SR there WERE alien spaceships in them already.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Dec 13, 2009 21:21:00 GMT -5
[If only SOMEONE could make these extra takes/footage from the Donner time available on dvd.....*sigh*... We should ask Mr Thau to do it please. I think I found some Thau-restored rare footage right here:
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Post by ADigitalMan on Dec 12, 2009 17:35:16 GMT -5
start with cleveland. then detroit. To be seen next year in Michael Bay's "Union-Man: The Movie." Pending approval by the teamsters, of course.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Aug 18, 2009 13:58:40 GMT -5
I just realized another small detail in Thau Donner Cut that is wrong. Remember when the villains go flying by the Washington Monument in that shot lifted from A Few Good Men? And it gets broken into 3 pieces.
Wouldn't happen.
The Washington Monument is not mortared together. It consists of cut stone stacked one on top of the other, and the only thing holding it together is gravity. Instead of it kinda folding over itself, it should actually have crumbled like a set of child's blocks being knocked down. And THAT would make for a cool shot for any of you editors reading.
Thought you'd enjoy a bit of pointless trivia for your day.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Aug 15, 2009 22:49:00 GMT -5
Surgeon General's Warning: Sex Causes Children. I think Jason was an inspired choice to move a 70-year-old plot forward. To be bold enough to suggest once again that Superman's actions have consequences, I think it's a heckuva play that his one chance to copulate with Lois resulted in a kid.
Of course, if there were an internet 30 years ago, we'd be shocked by the idea that Clark and Lois had sex at all and we'd probably have ripped Lester a new one for putting it in the film.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Aug 15, 2009 22:34:32 GMT -5
As much as I want this to happen, I'm pessimistic. The inkling of hope I have is that WB did put out The Final Cut of Blade Runner and a kick-booty DVD/BR set featuring no less than five cuts of the film and 45 minutes more of deleted footage gorgeously restored.
If they could do that for a box-office disaster, I'm hopeful they can do it for friggin Superman.
Maybe they'll want to release Superman Redeemed too. :-D
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Post by ADigitalMan on May 8, 2009 23:55:41 GMT -5
Superman Origins: Lenny Luthor Like, it's this totally rad picture of the 80s dude. It stars Molly Ringwald and, like, that loser that played Spicoli. That dude is so going nowhere in his career. Anyway, it, like, gets all into the gnarly history of, like, how Lenny got his first drum set from Charlie Sheen, and how Vans became the coolest shoes in the world. Right on, dude.
Superman Origins: Otis Terror is afoot in the Georgian foothills when Otis goes canoeing with some friends, encounters some moonshining hillbillies and finds himself on the wrong end of the stick ... so to speak ...
Superman Origins: Kara This prequel to Supergirl attempts to explain ... oh who the heck am I kidding, that movie is totally unexplainable.
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Post by ADigitalMan on May 8, 2009 22:39:50 GMT -5
My lord I've missed this place. Best laugh I've had in ages. Can hardly see the monitor for the tears.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Mar 20, 2009 21:55:23 GMT -5
I probably would have kept the fortress destruction scene if Thau's eye-beams weren't so gawd-awful. I actually thought the fortress in Superman Returns looked like it had been all bombed out. But do take note that Jor-El didn't exist in my edit of SR either. His energy was expended in SII.
I always felt awkward about Superman being in Clark-wear before entering the chamber, but I so preferred the RDC scene on the whole. I really like the cuts out there that I've seen that were able to weave Jor-El AND Lara into the scene though.
It was truly the toughest cut I've done. I'm not 100% satisfied with the end result, but I'm pretty happy with the end result, especially in conjunction with the other Superman films I did. Maybe one day when both versions are out in HD I'll re-do it again and cook up some improvements.
Or maybe Selutron will render all of it moot. I look forward to that most of all.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Feb 13, 2009 9:17:12 GMT -5
I love how WB is seeing a superhero movie that made almost as much as Batman Begins after being mothballed for years after a truly dismal predecessor is suddenly a failure and requires a reboot.
Superman doesn't need a reboot. It just needs a few adjustments.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Jan 9, 2009 23:44:29 GMT -5
ADM, was Stalkerman the primary motivation for your fan cut? ;D First and foremost. I was cutting that scene in my head when I first saw the movie ... in IMAX.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Jan 9, 2009 23:34:33 GMT -5
I'm concerned that WB didn't learn from the -- I won't call it failure -- less than resounding success of Superman Returns. That film was already too dark for a Superman film. Superman films need to be uplifting, PG family fare. Y'all know how I love most of the film, but those parts that bother me kept most people from seeing it in droves.
He doesn't need edge. He doesn't need more brooding. If Singer can not make the next film so darn moody, he doesn't need a new cast.
Superman needs to be the opposite of The Dark Knight. Sure it needs emotion. It needs action. And yes, it needs peril. SR delivered that in spades. But it also needs brightness and hope. Don't flush the cast, flush the crew. Keep Ottman as composer, but put Baird in the editor's chair. Fire Sigel as cinematographer and get somebody who can do beautiful, sweeping epics like Lesnie or Semler (ironically the guy attached to Justice League). Those guys even come from down under, where they shoot Superman.
If they fire anybody from the cast, it should be Bosworth, and pay Rachel McAdams whatever she wants.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Jan 8, 2009 22:33:42 GMT -5
My top five: 1) The Helicopter Rescue - STM 2) "General, would you care to step outside?" - SII 3) Superman emerges from the plane to cheering ballfield in SR 4) Bullets, Fire, & Ice in STM-extended 5) Junkyard fight in SIII
And the bottom 5 scenes (dishonorable mention) that make me want to stop the film 5) Mortar-Vision SIV 4) Skiing Gus - SIII 3) Walk/Don't Walk - SIII 2) Stalkerman - SR 1) Phone Booth Guy - SII Lester
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Post by ADigitalMan on Jan 8, 2009 21:55:41 GMT -5
I think it will make $100MM. It's a nice round number. Nice, wound numbah, eh Biggus?
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Post by ADigitalMan on Dec 13, 2008 23:25:14 GMT -5
Blu-Ray entered my home this week and it is all that.
Not upgrading Superman films until I can edit them, but I can say I hope the Blu version of SR is better than the SD version. It's utter crap.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Dec 9, 2008 0:57:02 GMT -5
At the rate this film is going, Superman will be played by Tristan Lake Labeau.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Sept 13, 2008 23:18:24 GMT -5
My five-year-old son LOVES this movie.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Sept 13, 2008 23:15:38 GMT -5
He's alright, but he's by far the geekiest Jimmy we've seen so far. But he is a lot pissed. :-D
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Post by ADigitalMan on Sept 13, 2008 23:13:08 GMT -5
"Tom Welling for Superman" ... I once felt this way.
Then I saw Superman Returns and I got over it fast.
Smallville really sucks hind teat these days. I'd pay to see a movie about Chloe Sullivan. That's about it.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Sept 1, 2008 21:49:59 GMT -5
Watchmen is going to end up being the new Donner Cut. It will be in a vault and buried for 30 years.
I wonder if Thau will be the one to resurrect it.
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Post by ADigitalMan on Aug 24, 2008 14:40:34 GMT -5
Rebooting this franchise just after rebooting it is a dumb fracking idea for Warners. Period. Returns "failed" because of a lot of little things ... weak Lois casting ... weak scripting ... weak cinematography ... weak editing.
But not wretched, festering, smelly, dog-crap like the colossal failures of Hulk, Batman & Robin, Starship Troopers, Godzilla and Battlefield Earth. This was a Superman that was just a little ... off. And when compared to Superman III and IV, the proof is that it was a step in the right direction in getting The Man of Steel back into our good graces.
Changing the cast will be the worst thing they can do for the franchise now. I'll allow a Lois change, but that's as far as I want to go. Routh was great, but so was the vast majority of his supporting cast. Even Marsden and the kid were rather likable and I'd like to see that story line continued in some fashion.
Dark is NOT what Superman needs. If anything, the last film was too dark for Superman. Take that cast, brighten up the sets, make a more family-friendly film that parents, their teenage kids and their five year olds all will want to see and it will be a success.
Make a moody, brooding, namby-pamby Superman and you'll waste another couple hundred million and wonder what went wrong this time. And you'll likely come to the conclusion that the public just doesn't want a Superman movie any more. Superman should be closer to the tone of the second half of Iron Man. Nowhere near the tone of The Dark Knight. Superman is the yin to Batman's yang. Highlight what makes them different ... don't force them to be the same.
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