Even with another voice cast it would have been the same thing over and over. Bill Murray was right.
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I still like the Garfield comics. I grew up with the Lorenzo Music cartoon. It is what it is.
I actually went to the movies yesterday. Husband need to do coursework for the job, so I left the apartment so he could focus.
Saw KUNG FU PANDA 4–smallish theater, but a decent crowd, and people (amazingly) did not talk (and their were kids in attendance).
The AMC EMPIRE on 42nd Street was crowded (or seemed so to me).
The previews for ROBOT DREAMS and THE WILD ROBOT looked good, but otherwise, I am with SAF–the upcoming movies hold little appeal for me.
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I believe Eon did that on at least one occasion very successfully. Now let me think…
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But… how was Kung Fu Panda 4?
I went to see the first one and I realy liked it a lot.
The others I only know from tv, but I can’t realy remember them.
Edit: Sorry I just saw your review in the other topic. 
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Who would have thought that a much too heavy on CGI invested prequel costing around 200 mil to a movie which looked already to heavy on CGI for a Mad Max Movie that barely did 380 mil would fail…
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Agreed. I’ve never understood why this new Mad Max film was thought to be a potential juggernaut at the box office. Yes, it is a known IP, but at the same time, I don’t think that it has the reach to do big time business at the box office.
IP. IP. IP.
That is the current logic for every green light.
And it won’t stop even after this disappointing box office year.
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It’s a big reason why OHMSS works for me. They have an excellent location (Piz Gloria and its surrounds), stay there for a solid chunk of time and use it to near maximum potential. We soak in the atmosphere instead of leaving that to a couple establishing shots. It requires brave filmmaking and confidence in your script to justify staying somewhere for an extended period of time when there’s the urge to jump from location to location, trying to give the audience more.
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And I would love a summer, sunny, beachy, watery location - Bond as a vacation substitute. Enough with the dreary, doom-laden darkness.
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Hmm. I get the feeling that I have seen this film a million times already. But Clooney and Pitt together - yeah, I will give this film a chance.
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It looks like Heat crossed with a Nespresso commercial
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It’s hard for me to watch George Clooney. I always ask myself: is Clooney going to talk about how bad of a Batman he was again when he’s doing press? It’s getting predictable, George!
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Thank goodness they’re going in a different direction!
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It would be a nice change of pace, even from someone who prefers the more gloomy entries. That said, they just made roughly 2.5 billion on the last three films, were the dreariest and gloomiest films in the franchise, so I don’t think that approach is going anywhere anytime soon. It’s as much here to stay as Rogue Bond is, it seems to be among the current EON leadership’s favorite Bond tropes.
At least this isnt an existing IP and it certainly screams “blockbuster.”
I’m actually looking forward to reading this. I’m a big Crichton fan and while I’m not overly fond of all the posthumous releases of “near complete” drafts that seem to be “discovered” with regularity, the premise of this sounds a lot of fun.
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Flanagan officially on board. Also NOT a sequel to The Exorcist: Believer.
Sounds great so far.
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Haven‘t seen FURIOSA yet, definitely want to, but putting the disappointment on casting, claiming Theron was the big star drawing people in for FURY ROAD is revisonistic idiocy.
And again, how silly it is to believe that unnecessary sequels and crossovers now will suddenly overperform and save the box office. Even looking at M:I next year, thinking it might reverse the trend is hilarious.
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