General Movie Chat

[kingfozzy]

I completely forgot about the new version of Salem's Lot but I see that they are rerunning the whole thing this friday night. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[rocketmaster]

Let us know what you think, Fozz...I thought it was fair...I give it a C...3 stars. But I enjoyed the ecclectic cast. I think my favorite part of the entire thing was Donald Sutherland's hairdo.

[kingfozzy]

Sutherland's hairdo was the best bit. [img]wink.gif[/img] Still undecided whether I like this version or the original more. I was hoping for more thrills this time around, but it was an interesting cast.

[kingfozzy]

Well, I might be off to see King Arthur today, not sure yet. Been looking forward to this one. Not to mention that Keira Knightley is in it. [img]wink.gif[/img] Hopefully it's as good as Excalibur.

[kingfozzy]

And just as a brief sidenote...yay!!! Sharapova beat Williams (womens tennis)!!

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[kingfozzy]

Darn!!! No Batman:Begins trailer before I, Robot.
Had to see that Catwoman trailer again. Yeesh!
On the other hand there was the new trailer for Resident Evil:Apocalypse and it looks good. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Wanted to see the new Bourne movie this friday, but i'll be busy on the west coast. YeeHaa!!

[Tard]

Anybody see that M. Night Shyamalan doc last night on Sci-Fi channel? If you missed it, they're replaying it again tonight, but I recorded it & have already watched it three times.

It was a pretty good doc, though much more about Night than his then-current filming of 'The Village'. Sure, Nathaniel Kahn (the interviewer) was a sneaky bastard at times, ambushing interviewees with left-field questions, very unsympathetic Hollywood prick at times, but feel he was led that route because Night wanted a shallow fanboy fluff-piece & Kahn perhaps dug a little too close to events in Night's past.

It's definitely worth a watch, though Sci-Fi padded the doc with about 45% commercials (3-hour doc, little more than 1.5-hours when skipping commercials).

<font color="#339900" size="1">[ July 19, 2004 03:51 PM: Message edited by: reved ]</font>

[Tard]

Thought about it a bit more.... The whole doc might be a fake. If so, it was a very well put-together mockumentary, so they get kudos for that.

Two hours before Sci-Fi replays the show, so set your Tivo's! I wanna hear some opinions before relocating!

[rocketmaster]

I watched it. Yes, as you say, I'm sure it was a mockumentary, with the full cooperation of shamalamadingdong. I was suspicious as soon as I heard the pot head kids hanging outside his house at the beginning. Their dialog was way too scripted sounding, and their purposely half-lidded appearance. I just didn't buy it. It was like they picked local kids who weren't actors, and it showed. Same thing with his ex-girlfriend, and the realtor. I think the final straw was that I just couldn't believe that Johnny Depp would participate in something like this. Anyway, it was well done, and it will serve it's purpose and fool a lot of kids and get a lot of laughs, but it was pretty thin, and you and I, Reved, we both saw through it right away.

[rocketmaster]

From IMDB Pro...


Marketing Campaign for Disney Film Goes Over the Top

19 July 2004 (StudioBriefing)
Reports that the Sci Fi Channel and director M. Night Shyamalan were fighting over a documentary that it planned to broadcast containing a "buried secret" about his past was all part of a "guerrilla marketing campaign" that was essentially a hoax, the channel admitted on Friday. The documentary, entitled The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, was made in connection with the July 30 release of the director's latest film, The Village, for Disney. Reports last week said that the documentary included a "disturbing expos?" about the director's past. However, the channel has admitted that Shyamalan had actually been involved with the production of the special. A spokesman for NBC, which took over the channel following its acquisition of Vivendi Universal's TV holdings, said on Friday, "This marketing strategy is not consistent with our policy at NBC."


Hammer admits Shyamalan PR science fiction
18 July 2004 (The Hollywood Reporter)
Calling it a "guerilla marketing campaign" that went too far, Sci Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer has admitted that the channel misled the news media last month in claiming that it was at odds with filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan over a three-hour documentary profile of the director that was scheduled to air Sunday on the NBC Universal-owned cable network. Sci Fi claimed in a press release issued June 17 that Shyamalan had initially agreed to cooperate with filmmakers Nathaniel Kahn and Callum Greene on a profile, The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, to air in conjunction with the release this month of his latest movie, The Village, but soon soured on the project and tried to get it shut down. The press release also claimed that Kahn and Greene had uncovered a secret in Shyamalan's past involving the mysterious drowning death of a child near his childhood home in Philadelphia and that the incident had a big impact on the director. In response to questions raised by the Associated Press, Hammer admitted Friday that the incident was fiction and that Shyamalan had been involved from the start on the development of the three-hour Buried Secret project.