A second Hellboy? OK, I can live with that. I'd been wondering what was keeping them because the first one had the look of a major event that has come to stay. What, with the logos and paraphernalia that was selling around the movie's release. Ron Perlman did a fairly great job and frankly I couldn't think of a better person for that role. I liked him in Blade 2, but it really took a while before I was connect his carriage and attitude with the vamp in Blade. I liked all the attitude and soft side for the fiery lady,

Danny Craig signing a contract for 4 more Bond movies is not really surprising to me, in fact I already thought he was signed up. I'm wondering who's to lose, the studio or him as I can infer that the contract's an exclusive one forbidding him from taking on any other roles, and the studio has got to justify the money spent and roll out passable James Bond movies which frankly has material running thin except they plan to deviate from the original framework of the Ian Fleming books. Akin will indeed be pleased as he likes James Bond better than my Jason Bourne. Fanatic advocate of Bond, he is.

Since Spongebob and his friends have a movie what do you think will stop anybody from making movies from any background. Very soon you'll see Jerry Springer, the movie. Out this Fall! lol!

C ya!

Hi. Sorry for the absence but you guys seem to've done fine regardless,

I saw The Seeker yesterday and I totally agree with iice, they should just can mediocre movies that don't/can't pull their weight but one thing that made me kinda step soft is that some kid may watch that same movie and be totally blown away. LOTR was never actually written as a children's book, The Hobbit and The Chronicles were but admittedly in the translation to screen most directors don't mine the book for it's essence and show that. If you'd told most of the LOTR fans that there'd be so much left out and other things changed prior to the movies coming out, they'da freaked but somehow Peter Jackson got it as in "really! got! it!" and the rest is cinema-perfection. No other Trilogy stands as high and chances are none other will.

On Ben Affleck's movie, it seems to be a hit with quite the number of people. It would seem bland/limited actors make great directors.

I know you guys may want my head for this but I truly think POTC and The Matrix had only one actual movie each and two "Nigerian Films" as sequels.

Daniel Craig as Bond, hmmm well as long as they keep it more Bourne that Roger Moore era Bond, I'm all for it. Loved Goldeneye shaaaaa,




Okay, on the "complicated" thing I'd said earlier years ago: I started watching this new show "Chuck" and while it's a good show I generally had ascribed more cerebral affluence to it than necessary. It's supposed to be a spy-comedy type show. And I watched the 3rd or was it 4th Episode and I was really let down my the enforce clumsiness of the lead and the hiding behind the old chestnut of saying "it's complicated, " and that unnecessarily prolonging either a conflict or starting one.

Everyone Loves Clint back in his days gb&u. Martins got enuff Mafia and Irish Boss stuff.
Watch Dusk till dawn Tarantino Kill me Finish, Kill Bill,Finish me e.t.c
James Cameron too is a bomb in his own way

Spielberg is a bomb in his own way but, I think because of PINKY and D BRAIN I choose am.
Every of this guys are unique in with their style and kind of movies.

Shalom!!!

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Yo, Spikyn! We've missed ya man, really! Me and iice have been getting by haven't we?

Feeling refreshed already, though I'll be unavailable for the better part of today due to some attachments. Anyways it seems I'm the only one not really getting to see many movies nowadays. That'll change soon. Just committed to a lot of things at the moment. That's my problem anyway.

On Ben Affleck, I'm just giving him the benefit of the doubt plus the benefit of the subtle endorsement of Morgan Freeman. Keeping my fingers crossed. If he gets this right, I suspect he might wanna stick around and make a career outta this. well whatever, dude! Goodluck.

About the matrix and POTC having blasted sequels, I might want your big toe, spikyn. In the Matrix, the first one had a story, the second had special fx and the last had conclusion and real bad-ass warfare. I think the first one was the best in some ways but the reloaded was great too. POTC on the other hand came across to me like this; the Dead man's chest is my favorite and I hated 'at world's end' But if I had seen it independently of Dead man's chest, I might have liked it, but in relation to Dead man's chest, it sucks!

I hope you mean that you like Bourne better than Bond, cuz I do, though akin's a fanatical fan of Bond. Wanna know your opinion too iice. I just Craig won't totally spoil the Bond tradition with his lack of charm and suave. iice called him the first blond Bond, fancy that! it's even got a rhyme to it!

Eyah seems very appropriate from me too, cuz I feel your pain with the 'it's complicated' cliche. It's overused and only does nothing but escalate issues. What can't be helped must be endured, huh?

Now on to iice. The golden army (thank God it has a subtitle). I'm beginning to be hopeful, very hopeful indeed. It's like it's a trend in hollywood, once they find a well of novel ideas they wanna drill it until it's dry. That's what they are doing with the comic genre. Everybody wants a piece of he action. I heard they're gonna do a film exclusively on wolverine. ok, no wahala, he's always been a lone ranger anyway. Just don't make my kids say we suck in our time.

iice, it's freaking hilarious what you said about Keitel playing Jerry Springer. I said that as like the most off-chance adaptation and guess what bites me in the ass. Never say never, huh?

I saw Sinbad and the 7 seas too when I was very young. First I had a problem with the gorilla that played Sinbad, doesn't even look Arab. The vicar, now that wasn't bad, but sinbad, phtuee! That image spoiled everything for me. But I liked the story too. Kinda like Hercules' 12 labours. American Gangster is definitely good. I'm very happy with Crowe being chosen cuz he's good at playing one of those Depression days struck fellows with a beret and scrawny jacket. i don't really know anything about the film, just going by a friend's recommendation. Says he saw some reviews on it. Can't blame the critics, that's their job. If you're worth being chewed by them, at least that will advertise your product, innit?

Good old obsessed iice.

Lemme be the second to say welcome, Powerofmap. I loved Pinky and the Brain too. Do you see Freakazoid too. Poppin'

Hey Vesc.

<deep breathe> POTC:DMC was a good movie like you said but as a sequel to CoTBP? Haba! I actually went and rewatched CoTBP again and I really think they fell into the "law of sequels" trap i.e. make it darker and increase the frequency of everything you heard the fans liked about the original. Part of the beauty of the original was that "Captain!" Jack was supposed to be playing second fiddle but ended up with the whole caboodle, that subversiveness was part of the charm and then it was funny, both ha-ha and cerebral funny, it didn't talk down to you but it didn't dumb itself down either and if after the way Barbosa was painted in CoTBP you can accept he can ever work with Jack or even be remotely "good" then ,

M:R was a slap across the face. All the high hopes and they give us 100 Agent Smiths? A war is coming and an orgy was the best way to prepare? Right! Now I may have been so pissed at that because coming off the back of LoTR:TT where there was a virgil for the impending battle for survival and even children were being recruited to fight in Helm's Deep I felt the humans in Zion were plain suicidal.

"James B(l)ond(e)" is fine but Jason Bourne will kill him in a blink.

American Gangster will rock maybe not as hyped and I definitely don't like the angle they marketing it and tying it to modern hip-hop culture et al but come Oscar time, it will be named in a few places though.

Powermap. you are welcome.

OK, I think you've got a coupla points there mate. I can see where you're coming from. But at the time I saw Reloaded, I was too busy tripping for the effects than to care where the story's headed and which route it was taking. As for Dead man's chest, I had already concluded that POTC was fantasy/black comedy so I was less concerned about absurdities or who was repenting and who we thought could have an iota of good in him. Just hated the third one where I found the cursed crew of the Flying dutchman way weaker than they look. As in freaking way weaker. Nobody of the good guys camp even died. That sucks the reality out it for me.

I'll give you your big toe back and even add Scofield's since you think so highly of my Bourne. Hehehe. Have got to go now!

The orgy, huh? I was even wondering what the significance of that scene was. I guess there going back to their roots. Their primitive roots. But I had a good laugh hearing you guys complain about it.

Now it'll be a nightmare to suddenly see Pirates of the carribean; Guess who's back. We all knew how many installments there were gonna be, like LOTR and The matrix cuz the stories were left hanging. But I understand POTC is a series of books too, but I've not come across them. I hope there's nothing left in the books to inspire them. It'll be truly horrible.

Kevin Costner as a director? Dances with the wolves. Got himself two smooth oscars for best director and best picture. I've not really seen it. I think he directed Waterworld too and one other I forget.

I like the guy a lot. But he seems to be too busy earlier. Now he's going back to the way he was.

Giving all the X-men the spot-light? You're really a cracker, iice. I was laughing harder than the first time.

Kevin Costner as a director's pretty good though. I think he did good especially on Dances With Wolves.

Part of my problem with sequels that were not originally planned is that they constantly need to reinvent the characters as they were in the first parts, e.g int PoTC Miss Swann's transformation from "posh" to two-faced minx that battles seasoned pirates easily with swords is just out of the blues and Jack going from rascally with a good heart to back-stabbing "illegitimate/unknown-father" defeats his original charm/appeal. Now this is not a PoTC-only problem o! D'you guys remember how hard the Agents were in The Matrix? Everybody used to run from them and only Neo could even take them on but at the start of Reloaded, he even says they're upgraded and still they were easy to take on even by those who were not "The One". I personally think the best thing about Reloaded was the P.O.D. song on the soundtrack, LOL

If Heath was trying to take on Jack and he'd fail. But from all indications he's playing it straight closer to how Scarecrow was played by Cillian Murphy but more psychotically deranged.

The Wolverine & Magneto movies I think may actually be at pre-production or even production level by now. Never saw the animated Tekken but I still consider the Street Fighter II manga to be the ultimate game to movie translation, so far.

I'm with iice, I always thought of Bond as smooth and deadly. Craig is a little too burlesque for me but then I'm a guy so maybe it works for the female Bond fans, ?

iice, d'you do music at all? What kind?

About POTC. You're totally correct, Spikyn. I was actually wondering myself how a conventional DID (damsel in distress) turns out to be one hell of a vixen not to mention the little thing of being a pirate lord. Also I couldn't really place whether Jack Sparrow was supposed to be a brave gallant pirate (if there's such a thing) or a two timing bastard with allegiance to nobody or at least the highest bidder. Nothing we can do about that anyways.

Ditto a lot of stuff about the Matrix. But their good points overwhelmed their flaws. For instance, I frankly identify with the plausibilty of the story. I actually believe it could have happened. In say like year 2639 or so. P.O.D? The only P.O.D. song I know was performed by Bone Thugs And Harmony who I'm a #1 fan of BTW. I didn't notice it in the movie. You might be refering to some thing else or I am not paying attention.

Street fighter was really great. Considering again that it was made when gaming was (in contrast with today's standard) grossly undeveloped. Nice! But it won't be easy with Tekken cuz I used to play Tekken 3 and I didn't notice any story in the game. The guys just kick each other's asses. Maybe Nintendo's Killer Instinct will be a good try. It'll be like Mortal Kombat.

I think the movie you're referring to that had Crowe and Denzel is Virtuosity, it wasn't such a good movie from what I vaguely remember.

I haven't seen American Gangsters yet, but I plan to soon. With awesome movies like Bladerunner, Alien, and of course Gladiator, Ridley Scott can't go wrong in my book.

Denzel is definitely "Ma Ni&&a" too. Plus we have our Naija broda Chiwetel Ejiofor in it as well, so American Gangster is definitely on the list

Virtuosity, I remember clearly. I even saw a documentary of Washington's travails and there was considerable spotlight on Virtuosity. I didn't really like the movie when I saw it sometime in '97 or so. I didn't even think anything of Russell Crowe, the crazy glass man. Be nice to the lil people cuz you don't know where they might pop up. I really didn't see an oscar winner in him, but I guess his role didn't do him much.

About Chiwetel, it's great to know. There have been a lot of Nigerian acts in the scenes and Africans in general. Apart from Djimon Hounsou (I hope I got that right) none has really got to be steady. This baloon navigator guy in The mummy returns (nigerian) and the top hench man for the evil professor too I think is African. Then there is this lady in Hotel Rwanda (nigerian). All these people show up and dissapear or get lil roles that don't make you realise they're there.

American gangsters wasn't that good? ow! What nationality was Crowe supposed to be playing?

I still do not know about the POD sound track you guys are talking about and it's driving me crazy. You guys tell me the performers of the track already!

well i think the 3As is Adewale Akinnoye Agbaje, well i think he kind of cutting his stuff out.still in tune with his roots sticking to that kind of long african name,was funny seeing him in Bourne Identity speaking broken yoruba,and he also did a movie with Van dame can't remember it now though.

It's good to know y'all keep such an ardent track of all these fellas. In retrospect,, I think I done messed up especially with triple A. I should have remembered him a couple of of the films y'all mentioned, emphasis on Bourne Identity and The Legionnaire. So, uh, Jiddah, did u like Bourne Identity or it was too gory for ya. You see, iice, when it comes to violence, you and Jiddah are completely opposites.

well depends on the kind of violence though.
i can do without those stabbing and stuff,some people find it difficult to see why,was almost forwarding the whole film when i watched TROY with my little cousin reminding me that its just a film,with all the stabbing in the film,and mafia films with shooting and all those funny ways of tortures are not really my thing,freaks me out.
@ vescucci
well sorry to burst your bubble i just saw Bourne Identity since and i liked it,kind of adrenaline pumpin for me,after a long time of thinkin to see or not to see just watched the second Bourne,and am looking to watching Ultimatum soon .am hoping to be tough,very tough soon.
But i actually sat through The Departed without flinching,watching how the heroes die through unexpected shots.i just have a thing for when heroes die,heroes are not s'pose to die .

people think am chicken when i tell them that i don't like Violent movies so,and it seems funny because i don't seem like so,i hereby say am on a spree of watching violent movies,so any recommendation iice?

Jiddah get ready for a flood. iice go easy on her! About endings, I don't really dig too happy ending where every single one of the good guys make it through. I like endings that leave you saying 'oh damn!' like in that that Snoop's movie Jimmy Bones or something. A realistic ending like iin Coach Carter too is great, (not a great film, but a sensible ending) 300 too where everybody bit the dust? Now that's what I'm talking about. Going to buy Heroes before the week runs out. I'm really suffering being away from home. I should have been seeing these things pre-season, hehe.

Lol, iice. So you dig Benicio huh? What about his voice. Come to think of it I think I dig everybody in that movie except the yellow blooded reptilus son of the demented mayor or was it a governor? If Elijah Wood's character wasn't a sick cannibal he'd be my second favorite after Rourke's. I remember when I was reading Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, and this alien inhabiting a human used the power of the mind to make another guy drive a pen through his eye-ball (get ready) and into his brain! Now that's gangsta!

By the time they run out of Miller books what will become of them? hehe, typical thrill junkie, iice. I wonder if you sky dive for kicks. Me? Probably will pass out before touching the ground. When you say trailer, you mean trailer. That means Wanted has been finished. If I were in the US, I'd probably be a set-stalker meaning I'd be stalking film sets and get to know about films and their casts way before they produce them. Or better still (and legal too) I'd work for one giant film studio, say Newline and will have to do with whatever we come up with. With the way y'all go on about Heroes, I'll definitely get it. Hiro this, Takeo that. The name of the series fooled me. It seemed too bland and I thought it was some kind of a inspirational stuff.

I really hate to break the thread but stephen king's 'The Mist 'is on big screen.Haven't read this book i just said it cause i like the guy.check on countingdown.com for the review.Release date Nov.21.

well, I just got Heroes last week. Haven't started though. I wanna take my time with it. The Mist huh? I haven't seen any trailer on it but ditto on what iice thinks cuz Stephen King's reign has really passed. I don't think he's trying himself to make any more statements but some how people are still loyal to him and all that. He was great while he lasted though. I'd rather stick to his books than watch movies made from his books. He writes way too much, with more than fifty books to his name, that's what, one book per year non-stop ever. Damn.

About Beowulf, do make sure u see it and tell me what the fuss is all about the computer generated nude Angelina Jolie. I wanna know if it really is that explicit

asada, u ain't raining on anyone's parade writing anything u like on this thread. Afterall Seun is Zeus here. Just say smart stuff and you'll be okay. Ai karamba, I got a call to make