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Author Topic: Are there too many "tentpoles?" Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 04-30-2014 01:52 AM                        There are a number of movies I'm interested in this summer, but How to Train Your Dragon 2 is probably the only one I would say I'm excited about. I learned a number of years ago to keep my expectations low for most movies. There have been too many times where I've been left disappointed by something I was really looking forward to. But I have to disagree with you about Godzilla. It is probably the least interesting to me of all the summer movies.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-30-2014 08:50 AM                     I hope I'm wrong about it, but I have a sneaking suspicion Godzilla is going to be a bad movie. The family drama style schmaltz sprinkled into the latest trailer seems really hokey, like the forced drama crap seen on all the "reality TV" shows on cable. Just in terms of large scale movie monsters the quality bar has been raised pretty high. From what I've seen Godzilla looks like a lesser version of the Kraken from Clash of the Titans. It really pales in comparison to a monster like Smaug from the last Hobbit movie. OTOH, trailers don't show too awful much, so maybe Godzilla will seem more impressive and scary in the movie. But if it's just a CGI version of the old rubber Japanese guy in a suit get-up things aren't going to go so well. I can't say I'm all that enthusiastic about the slate of movies for this Summer. I'm hoping the upcoming X-Men movie will be good, but there's no guarantee of that. It could be just one cheesy star turn after another in that show. Edge of Tomorrow has an interesting premise, but it's also making me think of Oblivion too much. Malificent looks promising, but it's still a live action remake of Sleeping Beauty. I don't know enough yet about How to Train Your Dragon 2 to get amped up about it or not. Same goes for the next Planet of the Apes movie. Expendables 3? I might check out that one on video. Guardians of the Galaxy looks interesting to me. I liked the first trailer. It's not technically a sequel for anything, although it is linked story-wise to the next Avengers movie.  |  IP: Logged Michael Putlack Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Fort Collins, Colorado Registered: Sep 2011 posted 04-30-2014 07:15 PM                        Edge of Tomorrow just reminds me of Groundhog's Day!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-30-2014 07:38 PM                     quote: Bobby Henderson I hope I'm wrong about it, but I have a sneaking suspicion Godzilla is going to be a bad movie. Do you mean like the last two Godzilla remakes? Isn't the definition of "insanity" repeating the same mistakes over and over but expecting different results?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-30-2014 07:44 PM                        Yeah! So that means a Wile E. Coyote movie is probably somewhere in the pipeline.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-30-2014 10:27 PM                     :lol: Yeah! But there's probably a Rule 34 in Hollywood, too. "There's probably a bad movie about it, somewhere in the pipeline."  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 04-30-2014 11:48 PM                     quote: Randy Stankey Isn't the definition of "insanity" repeating the same mistakes over and over but expecting different results? It's not the definition, but I'm sure Warners wouldn't mind at least repeating the last Godzilla remake's numbers (worldwide gross 3x the production cost).  |  IP: Logged Terry Lynn-Stevens Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1081 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Dec 2012 posted 05-02-2014 02:27 AM                     I stunned that Spidey 2 is opening in 4324 locations across N.A. So with multiple screens at many locations, would 15,000 screens be a reasonable estimate?  |  IP: Logged

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