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Tag: movie

  • Hollywood finds new things to rip off

    I just watched a trailer for an upcoming Hollywood movie called Brick Mansions, and immediately noticed that it looked like a crappy ripoff of a fairly well-known French action movie that aired in the US with the title District B13 (the original French title was Banlieue 13). It even had the same actor playing what looked like the same part. Then at the end of the trailer, the words “based on the screenplay for Banlieue 13” flashed on the screen.

    I guess they ran out of Japanese and European horror movies to make bad copies of, so now they’ve moved on to European action movies.

  • Dubious movie advertisement

    I just saw a trailer for a science fiction movie that didn’t look very good which contained a quote: “The Woody Allen of science fiction.”

    That would probably make for a better advertisement if I actually liked the Woody Allen of Woody Allen.

  • No wonder it was too good for Hollywood

    I happened to see a movie on cable, Colombiana, which struck me as being too good for Hollywood. At the end (before the annoying cable channel advertising interrupted), I got enough of the credits to see the writer’s name: Luc Besson. Well, that explains it.

  • Quote of the Day

    Not doing Transformers 3 is not an option. Too much money involved. And Micheal Bay has to blow things up! Not giving him a creative outlet to do that could be disastrous.

    norsehauk