Looks like it’s going to be good! A boxing movie at the Academy; class-struggle in the hallowed halls; and timely, with all our gung ho militism to help fill seats. Speaking as a old Annapolitan, I couldn’t stop giggling at the trailer. Growing up in the shadow of the Academy walls, we used to sneak up on rooftops with pea-shooters and aim for their white caps as they strolled down the cobblestone streets. Sounds like this movie might be an equally enticing target.
― donald nitchie, Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)
My dad is a Naval Academy grad, class of '62. He looked at the 'coming soon' poster when we went to see
King Kong over Christmas and didn't seem enthused.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)
Wow, Jordana Brewster's still alive.
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:36 (twenty years ago)
Dan OTM.
I look forward to throwing posters from this film in the face of Republicans who they complain about liberal, unpatriotic Hollywood. BS propaganda. When can we epxect the Air Force to respond with their "No, the USAF is the coolest war machine out there"?
― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)
I'm a Johnny (graduated in '93), so I gots no love for the Middie Horde (well, no hate either, really). Still, I'm protective of the town, so when I read
this, my response is a hearty FUCK. YOU. YOU CHEAP. DISNEY. FUCKS:
Despite its title, not a single frame of Disney's upcoming boxing drama "Annapolis" was shot at the famed U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland...
The film, which opens January 27, ultimately became the first project to take advantage of a 2004 Pennsylvania law offering a tax credit of up to 20% for every dollar spent in the state, as long as at least 60% of the film's budget was spent there...
"If you go to Annapolis, they have Bancroft Hall," Lin says. "It's beautiful and huge, and it's their big dorm that houses everything. But when you go away from that building, it's like a college campus. We re-created our own Bancroft Hall, and we redesigned Annapolis. We did 3-D matting to help re-create it. We have no shots of flying over the campus, and we didn't need to. At the end of the day, it's a more personal story."
Fuck you. FUCK. YOU.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)
But when you go away from that building, it's like a college campus.That's because it IS a college campus, you moron.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)
My sister goes there. She sez everyone thinks its going to be stupid.
― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)
Wow, Jordana Brewster's still alive.-- Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (wooderso...), January 21st, 2006.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! My thoughts exactly.
― Mama Roux, Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:19 (twenty years ago)