[Stogieman]

Anyone attending the 10pm sneak peek of Superman Returns tomorrow? I got my ticket! I'm thinking of dusting off my old Superman shirt and wearing it to the show. Yeah, it's kind of nerdy but it's not like I'm wearing Klingon outfit or Darth Vader suit.

[ghporter]

You betcha! But not to the sneak-too much to do. I'll wait until the premier.

[rickey939]

I'm always eager to see the ManOfSteal....err, Superman. I'm excited.

[shabbasuraj]

Originally Posted by Stogieman

Anyone attending the 10pm sneak peek of Superman Returns tomorrow?

nah...this movie is on my 'renter' list...

[kaze0]

I'm going. Got my free ticket woooha!
I really wanted to do the imax 3d one, so I hope its good enough that I'll want to see it again.

[Dakar]

Yeah, not to rip on the movie, because Kevin Spacey is cool (and I've like Singer's work so far), but this looks like something to rent.

Superman just seems too one-dimensional.

[Gossamer]

I'm too poor to see movies in the real theater...I'll have to wait until it gets to the dollar theater.

[mdc]

I have my tickets to the IMAX-3D showing tomorrow night.
I'm sure it'll be good.

[Landos Mustache]

I'm not going to see it on opening night as it will be a zoo but when I do see it a couple days later it will be in IMAX 3d for sure.

[starman]

Going in 12 hours....

[Eug Wanker]

$260 million production budget. Holy crap, and WTF?

It's generally getting positive reviews though, which should help Warner make that moolah back.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

$260 million production budget. Holy crap, and WTF?

It's generally getting positive reviews though, which should help Warner make that moolah back.

$260?

I read an interview with the director yesterday where he said that it was an untrue rumor that it cost over $200 mil.

He said they were budgeted for exactly $184 million with some emergency money for extra special effects. But even with a ton of extra effects he said the cost would be well under $200 mil.

Unless that $260 number includes advertising.

This site says $209:
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2006/SPRMN.php

[Gossamer]

Quick! We need emergency special effects STAT!

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

Quick! We need emergency special effects STAT!

Lots of movies do that actually. If when they screen it to test audiences and it get bla feedback than they usually throw another 10 million at the film to make some fancy special effects climax.

[OwlBoy]

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Lots of movies do that actually. If when they screen it to test audiences and it get bla feedback than they usually throw another 10 million at the film to make some fancy special effects climax.

Name one? sounds like crap you pulled from your ass.

-Owl

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by OwlBoy

Name one? sounds like crap you pulled from your ass.

-Owl

Star Trek Insurection.

So FU

"The initial budget for Star Trek: Insurrection was closer to $60 million. But after last-minute reshoots, including a new effects-heavy finale, the final budget was $70 million."

http://www.geocities.com/phineasbg/trekcom.html

I'll give you another also. Star Trek Generations. The ending was filmed where kirk gets shot. It screened so badly they were given millions more to reshoot the ending where kirk has a more heroic death. It didn't work.

[typoon]

I can't wait to see it. I'm going to see it tonight.

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

$260?

I read an interview with the director yesterday where he said that it was an untrue rumor that it cost over $200 mil.

He said they were budgeted for exactly $184 million with some emergency money for extra special effects. But even with a ton of extra effects he said the cost would be well under $200 mil.

Unless that $260 number includes advertising.

This site says $209:
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2006/SPRMN.php

Yeah I read the same thing. Maybe they are including all the money WB spent before Bryan Singer signed on. This movie is like 10 years in the making. Kevin Smith, Tim Burton, Nick Cage, JJ Abrams were all involved at some point early on.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by OwlBoy

Name one? sounds like crap you pulled from your ass.

-Owl

"Well, director Bryan Singer has brought some sanity back to the table telling people at WonderCon that the film is actually going to come in at UNDER $200 million. The good folks at Dark Horizons give us the following:

"There's some idiot [who] wrote somewhere that the movie was $250 million, which is the most absurd thing I've ever heard. I'll tell you exactly: The movie was budgeted at $184.5 million and will probably climb with visual effects and variables that occur in a movie of this magnitude, with 1,400 visual effects, etc., to somewhere still south of $200 million. Which is still a great deal of money, but it is by no means ... what was published in that" said the director."

http://www.themovieblog.com/archives...0_million.html

[Cody Dawg]

No.

I wish this was a poll, actually.

I have no desire to see it. I think Superman died with Chris Reeves, to be honest.

How many times are they going to reprise the role of Superman, anyway? I mean, it's okay to remake a movie or reprise a role after a period of time, but every 10 years? It gets old after a while. The only person truly successful in that medium is George Lucas and his Star Wars movies. That's it.

Another example is the remaking of Titanic which will probably be a huge success because they got Dicaprio back. But Cameron wanted nothing to do with it. He holds the stance that some movies should never have sequels or remakes.

[RAILhead]

Star Wars was never "remade."

Titanic sucked.

King Kong sucked.

Most remakes do — but it's a good thing that this NEW Superman movie isn't a remake, any more than the Spider-Man movies were.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Another example is the remaking of Titanic which will probably be a huge success because they got Dicaprio back. But Cameron wanted nothing to do with it. He holds the stance that some movies should never have sequels or remakes.

They are doing what?

[Cody Dawg]

The remake: Titanic 2

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

The remake: Titanic 2

i thought that was a joke. It is just footage from other movies.

[Cody Dawg]

Actually, I thought it was also, but then someone (a friend) from Italy said that it was shot there. I'm not sure. I wasn't paying too much attention to it.

My point is that some things shouldn't be remade...at least not until time has passed.

I just think it's too soon for another Superman movie.

And, honestly, I saw that guy, Brandon Routh, in an interview and he's, like, a doofus. No sex appeal at all.

[Stogieman]

Hahahahaha! I hope she doesn't believe that video is real.

[shabbasuraj]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

The remake: Titanic 2

I am gonna line up all night outside the theatre for this...

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Actually, I thought it was also, but then someone (a friend) from Italy said that it was shot there. I'm not sure. I wasn't paying too much attention to it.

What? The trailer makes no damn sense, the story, audio nothing. It is fake.

[Ghoser777]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Another example is the remaking of Titanic which will probably be a huge success because they got Dicaprio back. But Cameron wanted nothing to do with it. He holds the stance that some movies should never have sequels or remakes.

Okay, THAT was pretty funny!

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Actually, I thought it was also, but then someone (a friend) from Italy said that it was shot there. I'm not sure. I wasn't paying too much attention to it.

Ok either you are an idiot, your friend is an idiot or your friend thinks you are an idiot.

[Stogieman]

Too soon for a Superman movie? It's been almost 20 years since the last Superman movie was released. Well, actually 26 (I don't count Superman III and IV because they both sucked). When would it be a good time to release a Superman movie Cody Dawg? Every 40, 50 years?

[Cody Dawg]

In all seriousness, I have a friend who is an Italian director and she says that the movie was partially shot over there in and around Italy and Turkey and that the rumor that it's fake is being floated because someone pirated some of the footage illegally and put it on the internet. So, I guess part of it might be actual footage and part of it is patchwork. She insists it was/is remade.

If it is a fake then it's too bad, because judging by the public reaction it would be a hit.

If it's not a fake and the studio pretended to say that it was floated illegally (stuff happens like that all the time) just to see what the public thinks then the studio should be happy.

Somehow I think Celine Dion would have her attorneys and Renlec Entertainment pulling her song off of that clip faster than a speeding bullet (pun intended). Rene Angelil, her husband, is extremely touchy about unauthorized use of her songs, especially on the internet, and especially in fraudulent situations.

I honestly don't know what's going on, but both sides of the story make sense to me and then there is the added impetus of the fact that Celine Dion's song is used in that clip and I don't think Angelil and her attorneys would allow unauthorized use, even for a gimmick clip.

But, to repeat, I don't know. I usually go to Italy every year on vacation and this year I'm not because I don't feel well and I emailed a friend and mentioned this clip to her and she emailed back about it.

I don't know if it's legitimate or not. And maybe she doesn't either.

I think a remake of Titanic would be a huge success, however.

[Monique]

No, I hate to see the same thing over and over again.

[Cody Dawg]

Really?

This coming from the person who said that Steve Jobs personally recommended them for an Apple position?



In all seriousness, I do like some remakes and some sequels.

But I don't want to see, for instance, 10 remakes of Anaconda you know?

[Dakar]

reowr.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

In all seriousness, I have a friend who is an Italian director and she says that the movie was partially shot over there in and around Italy and Turkey

I can't find ANY info on a Titanic 2. The only thing I can find is that trailer you posted and it is clearly labeled as a joke.

You'd think if someone was able to steal footage from a movie and make a fake trailer it would get some press.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

In all seriousness, I have a friend who is an Italian director and she says that the movie was partially shot over there in and around Italy and Turkey and that the rumor that it's fake is being floated because someone pirated some of the footage illegally and put it on the internet. So, I guess part of it might be actual footage and part of it is patchwork. She insists it was/is remade.

If it is a fake then it's too bad, because judging by the public reaction it would be a hit.

If it's not a fake and the studio pretended to say that it was floated illegally (stuff happens like that all the time) just to see what the public thinks then the studio should be happy.

Somehow I think Celine Dion would have her attorneys and Renlec Entertainment pulling her song off of that clip faster than a speeding bullet (pun intended). Rene Angelil, her husband, is extremely touchy about unauthorized use of her songs, especially on the internet, and especially in fraudulent situations.

I honestly don't know what's going on, but both sides of the story make sense to me and then there is the added impetus of the fact that Celine Dion's song is used in that clip and I don't think Angelil and her attorneys would allow unauthorized use, even for a gimmick clip.

But, to repeat, I don't know. I usually go to Italy every year on vacation and this year I'm not because I don't feel well and I emailed a friend and mentioned this clip to her and she emailed back about it.

I don't know if it's legitimate or not. And maybe she doesn't either.

I think a remake of Titanic would be a huge success, however.

That trailer is blatantly fake, Cody. I mean, besides the obvious humor ("Warm liquid goo phase", "In an unfamiliar town, and in the future"), it's made up of scenes from a bunch of other movies. Even if they were actually making this, it wouldn't have been filmed in Italy, because it's patched together from a bunch of existing films.

[Cody Dawg]

Okay, it's fake.

But it would be a good remake, no?

I'd see it.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Okay, it's fake.

But it would be a good remake, no?

I'd see it.

How is a sequel a remake?

And HELL NO. It would not be good! I mean what part of that appeals to you?

[Cody Dawg]

The love story.



Sorry, I keep getting sequel and remake confused.



In fact, why not make a remake of Titanic where Superman comes and saves the ship?

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by RAILhead

Star Wars was never "remade."

Titanic sucked.

King Kong sucked.

I was actually able to watch Star Wars III and Titanic. King Kong, on the other hand... DEAR GODS WHY DID YOU MAKE ME REMEMBER IT!?

[Landos Mustache]

I dunno I thought Titanic was pretty good. And I HATE any love story ****.

[Dakar]

Yeah, I've avoided that movie like the plague. At some point a girl will trick me into seeing it, and I'll probably end up liking it, much to my chagrin.

[paul w]

Originally Posted by RAILhead

King Kong sucked.

I dunno, I thought King Kong was pretty darn entertaining.

[starman]

The problem with the Superman franchise is that it died an untimely death with Superman III and IV. THey were awful, built by studios that would rather make a bad sequel than spend a little more time to make a good one.

Superman's a great franchise and I was always hoping that someone would bring it back PROPERLY. I'm sick and tired of the Uwe Bolls of the world f*cking up what could be good movies.

So, we'll see. I have high expectations for it because Singer directed it.

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by Dakar

Yeah, I've avoided that movie like the plague. At some point a girl will trick me into seeing it, and I'll probably end up liking it, much to my chagrin.

That's kind of what happened with me and "The Notebook," except I didn't like it.

[kaze0]

Cody Dawg is no lois lane or lois griffin.

[Cody Dawg]

And you're still krazy with 7 total posts.

[smacintush]

So, why after all these years and advances in technology does Superman STILL look like he is wearing tights?

And why in the hell couldn't they go with the older Superman motif?

[RAILhead]

Because he is?