Never seen that one. I know it's based on a Brian Aldiss book.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
I get so excited when I hear about a new Frankenstein movie. There seems to be this bottomless well of potential, with each new iteration somehow finding a fresh and exciting angle that makes us all rethink what we thought we knew about Frankenstein. It's almost as if the character itself is himself Prometheus, perpetually weaving new stories and ideas and dreams never before imagined. I can't think of any aspect of our culture that wouldn't be vastly improved by somehow incorporating Frankenstein.
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
What was the doctor called again? The one who made Frankenstein? Who cares, really. Frankenstein is the only one who matters, really.
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Frankenstein.
phil hartman and peter boyle kinda the only franks i need.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
if it wasn't for regular frankenstein remakes we wouldn't have experienced the wonder of ripped branagh
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2e/d0/b0/2ed0b03b046dab016bae81b88e7282ec.jpg
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
I can't think of any aspect of our culture that wouldn't be vastly improved by somehow incorporating Frankenstein.
he did wonders for cereal
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
Frankenstein's Daughter, guys:
https://huntercamp.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/84f0e-frankensteinsdaughter2b2528332529.jpg
(Which is terrible but actually also great but obviously mostly terrible.)
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
I watched that James McAvoy/Harry Potter "Victor Frankenstein" movie and it was godawful.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
If you want different angles maybe Mammoth Book Of Frankenstein? Agonizing Resurrection Of Frankenstein by Ligotti and the Aldiss book.
The Bride is another non-universal film but it's not very good.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
It has Sting in it.
I wish every year's Academy Awards had a Best Actor/Actress Portraying a Frankenstein category so I didn't have to try to figure out for myself who was the best Frankenstein of a given year.
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
"You're all winners! Get up here, you Frankensteins!"
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
now i miss phil hartman. :(
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
“You know, there is one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered and that’s the graveyard,” a teary-eyed Davis began. “People ask me all the time — what kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola? And I say exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories — the stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition, people who fell in love and lost.”
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
Last night I briefly saw this thing on TV where one of the voice actors in the new Smurfs movie was talking about finding the motivation of the Smurf he was voicing. I guess like trying to figure out why the Smurf likes farts and dancing to Meghan Trainor songs over the closing credits of computer animated movies. I dunno, I think the motivations of a Frankenstein actor are probably similarly complex and nuanced.
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
What do my neck bolts mean? How do these enormous shoes inform my personality? What secret longings am I trying to express when I say 'raaarr' and clumsily swipe my arms at things?
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
Does little girl float like flower?
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Recently learned this bit of trivia: when Bela Lugosi turned downed the Frankenstein's Monster role it was a completely different and inferior script that barely resembled the finished film.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
frankenstein is dumb. and so not scary. everyone just goes well here comes frankenstein again. how frightening.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
His monster is kind of scary.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
oh god i just remembered aaron eckhart's badass frankenstein in i, frankenstein
3% fresh on rotten tomatoes, which seems v generous
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
they should make a movie about a mad guy who wants to keep his circus going so he makes a little person frankenstein and its tom cruise. then tom cruise could be in the hall of fame for playing a tiny vampire and a tiny frankenstein and a tiny mummy killer.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Also Universal sometimes planted people to run out screaming. Wonder how many stories of audience responses to old horror films were really just people being payed to act scared or appalled.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
crisis actors
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
the true horror is real life do u see
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
i did that when i saw V.I. Warshawski at the movies, but nobody paid me.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
I thought "I, Frankenstein" was universal but it's not.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
barely global tbh
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
I think SNK said they wanted .couka shared film universe but I don't see that ever happening. Apparently lots of companies are aiming for something like that. Hope it's a fad, please please be a fad.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
".couka"? I meant "a".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
shared universe probably just means Van Helsing shows up in all the movies or something
people keep talking about that stuff that went down in Egypt
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
Hunchback remake definitely not happening.― Robert Adam Gilmour,
― Robert Adam Gilmour,
From Universal, probably not, but I wouldn't but it past Disney, who have twelve remakes in the works.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 00:31 (seven years ago) link
if this doesn't lead to a Monster Squad reboot then they will have blown it.
not really interested tbh. there are so many great classic monster movies to see why even waste your time? i don't need to see a CGI Dracula.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 01:08 (seven years ago) link
this is why i watch so much t.v.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Adam Bruneau- I don't want any of these new universal series either but I don't agree that there's that many classic monster films, at least in this mode. Bride Of Frankenstein is the best of the Universal set but it goes in a completely different direction, it's more like an old Disney film with horror imagery.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Ed Solomon is doing Invisible Man so that might be a comedy.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
What if in the new mummy movie they unwrap the mummy at the end and it turns out he's a dracula under the bandages, and then they chase the dracula through his own movie and kill him and then someone turns his dead body into a Frankenstein, and then at the end of the Frankenstein movie his back gets broken so now he's a hunchback, then the hunchback drinks a potion and turns into a jeckle. Would this work do you think.
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
What if there were no monsters? Just a thought.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
Would this work do you think.
Maybe if the jeckle got sent to live in a black lagoon, then got so covered in weed and stuff that everyone thinks he's a mummy.
― chap, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
These are beautiful ideas, I will pitch them.
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
You could make the no-monsters monster movie just by putting invisible sauce on them like what invisible man did to himself. They could be standing in plain sight and people are running around saying, 'wheres that dracula, wheres that wolfman,' and the only way they'd ever even know there were monsters at all is if they listen for them laughing under their breaths.
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Would wolfman's hairs turn visible when he moults? That could be a plot point.
― chap, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Hmm, yes, you always have to consider little details like that. I anticipate at least a couple of scenes where people can't tell the difference between a mummy and a wrapped-up invisible man, as well. Particularly after the mummy has made himself invisible under his bandages. It will lead to philosophical thoughts of, well, what is the difference between a man and a mummy when you take off their wrappings and they're both invisible?
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
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in the final credits, Cruise realizes the monster was him all along.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
Or maybe they could name the mummy Miscavige.
― The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
the thing I hate about these movies is that the supernatural leads are near-invincible so they're almost always defeated in lame ways
"OH NO YOU SAID THE MAGIC PHRASE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CAMPBELL'S SOUP LABEL, MY POWERS ARE DRAINING!"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
A Dracula falls asleep under a tree in 1869, he wakes up in 2019 and decides to run for President. And get this, his opponent is Van Helsing, who drives a stake through his heart during a debate. The rest of the monsters appear as pundits.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
I don't agree that there's that many classic monster films, at least in this mode
what is "this mode"? no idea if Universal horror movies are considered to have a certain style. but there are many classic films, from the originals with Chaney & Lugosi, the iconic Frankenstein monster, etc. and the later era spin offs are even worth seeing (i saw Abbot & Costello recently, it was a riot). then you have 50s/60s Christopher Lee-Peter Cushing era monsters and gothic romance versions of Dracula, which continued into the 70s with many of the same actors and sets but in a post-Manson Family post-Rosemary's Baby world, when it kind of became more about murder cults.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 18:07 (seven years ago) link
is Hammer Horror really different than Universal i have no idea
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
You know what would be a really good idea? Rebooting the Universal Monsterverse! Think about it: Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf-man, Bride of Frankenstein, Mummy, Invisible Man ... they're monsters! It writes itself.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
Friends forever
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/dark-universe-cast-may-2017_universal.jpg
― jmm, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
What a hunk of high profile pop culture detritus that photo is.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
really regretting my decision to watch the tom cruise mummy twice in the last three weeks now
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
would you rather watch some behind-the-scenes video of that photo shoot or eat a roll of tinfoil?
― phenibut rock (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
Noooooooo, now I will never see Stephen Dorff's Creature from the Black Lagoon team up with Kevin Corrigan's Dracula to battle Tom Sizemore's Igor!
― Bernard Crunderdunder (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
Bizarro- why twice?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
surely the live action Looney Tunes cinematic universe must be due soon
― the intentional phallusy (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
X-Men: First Class scribes Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz are going a little looney, and directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa may soon join them.The power writing duo has been hired to write the untitled Acme movie project being developed by Warner Bros. At the same time, Ficarra and Requa, who directed Crazy Stupid Love for the studio, are in early negotiations to direct the project, which has its roots in Warners' classic Looney Tunes cartoons.Steve Carell, who toplined Crazy Stupid Love, is attached to star in the project, which is being produced by Dan Lin and Roy Lee. The latter two were behind the mega-successful and franchise-launching The Lego Movie, and the studio and producers are envisioning the Acme project as an event movie that will also launch a franchise.Plot details are being kept under an anvil, but the Acme Corporation is a fictional manufacturer of crazy and sometimes dangerous products (that also tend to malfunction at the most inopportune times) that are used by many a Looney Tunes character. The company's products are most commonly used by Wile E. Coyote in his never-ending quest to capture the Road Runner.The movie, however, would not center on the Looney Tunes characters and is being planned as a CG/live-action hybrid.
The power writing duo has been hired to write the untitled Acme movie project being developed by Warner Bros. At the same time, Ficarra and Requa, who directed Crazy Stupid Love for the studio, are in early negotiations to direct the project, which has its roots in Warners' classic Looney Tunes cartoons.
Steve Carell, who toplined Crazy Stupid Love, is attached to star in the project, which is being produced by Dan Lin and Roy Lee. The latter two were behind the mega-successful and franchise-launching The Lego Movie, and the studio and producers are envisioning the Acme project as an event movie that will also launch a franchise.
Plot details are being kept under an anvil, but the Acme Corporation is a fictional manufacturer of crazy and sometimes dangerous products (that also tend to malfunction at the most inopportune times) that are used by many a Looney Tunes character. The company's products are most commonly used by Wile E. Coyote in his never-ending quest to capture the Road Runner.
The movie, however, would not center on the Looney Tunes characters and is being planned as a CG/live-action hybrid.
from 3 years ago though :(
― Number None, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
I finally saw Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and it was awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
There's an awful 90s video film that seems like the writers went on strike and the bosses had to write it themselves. Some of the worst garbage I've seen from a major company, like shockingly amateurish.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
Space Jam was rad.
they should just remake that. it even has ironic/magic Bill Murray.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
first time was on a plane with a limited selection of movies i han't already seen, second time was with my wife who refused to believe my reporting of how shitty and tin-eared the introduction of tom cruise's character is - once we started watching she wanted to see how much worse it could get so i ended up sitting through the whole thing again
have we talked about cruise's intro itt? he and jake johnson are allegedly-charming special forces rogues who steal antiquities from the middle east. we meet them fighting isis for control of a site of historical and archaelogical importance. they get in over their heads and are only saved by calling in an airstrike which... atomises the site of historical and archaelogical importance
tfw when you aim to write a lovable han solo character and end up overshooting the mark and have him help isis achieve their goals instead :(
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 November 2017 09:28 (six years ago) link
Gritty reboot of isis in syrian civil war universe
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 9 November 2017 09:34 (six years ago) link