What happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[doug maverick]

we use to have such interesting conversations on this forum now it looks like it's dying out we need to breath some new life into this **** it. there are a hole bunch of kung fu/martial arts based flicks coming out this summer. or maybe we could talk about how mike jai white's scene in kill bill two was cut but he still goes around plugging the movie. or something!!!!!

[Chang Style Novice]

Ummm..."Van Helsing" sure looks like a peice of cr@p, don't it?

[doug maverick]

why yes, yes it does! i heard it's based on the anime helsing. i don''t think thats true but thats what people tell me. but then again it might be good(not)

[Shaolinlueb]

you mean the anime hellsing?

yeah van helsing looks mega stupid.

[Serpent]

Originally posted by doug maverick
or maybe we could talk about how mike jai white's scene in kill bill two was cut but he still goes around plugging the movie.
What's that? Who is MJ White and what's the story with the cut?

[ZIM]

Who would win a steel cage death match between the Enlightenment and Nationalism for the title of "Most influential modern intellectual movement"?
:D

[MasterKiller]

There just aren't any movies out worth discussing. We are talking about Kill Bill in the main forum, and it will probably get moved here eventually.

Does anyone know what part White was playing in Kill Bill? He was in a couple of movies that a friend of mine made: Trois and Pandora's Box. I went to high school with one of the guys who started that production company. He (my friend) was the star of Chocolate City, their first movie.

http://www.rainforest-films.com/wow/area.cfm?xcr=pr

[doug maverick]

for the question above, Micheal jai white was the guy who played spawn. and for Mk's question he was supposed to have a casino fight with dave carradine but i guess it got cut. i work for big apple comic con. and he was there plugging the movie that he got cut from. i wonder how much they had to pay him for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@PLUGO]

Van Heilsing looks alot like Vampire Hunter D to me...

it's also got the girl from UNDERworld (which should be called underware)

Hmmm... I found The Mummy to be entertaining... it's from the same creators yeah?


BTW i finnally picked up QIMBY the MOUSE :cool: :p :cool:

[Chang Style Novice]

Quimby the Mouse would choke out Vampire Hunter D.

Well, it'd make him so depressed he wouldn't leave his apartment for a month and a half, anyway.

[mickey]

doug maverick,

I just asked the question about Michael Jai White in the Kung Fu forum. Thank you for sharing.

Did you see that scene or know why it was cut?

mickey

[doug maverick]

i think it was cut for time, the movie was overly(is that even a word) long you know. but it's going to be in the DVD which probably won't be out till the summer or fall.

[Judge Pen]

I read that the scene was shot to establish Bill as a bad azz, but the film flowed better by not seeing him in action before the final showdown. Anticipation. . . .

Who knows if it will make it into the extended DVD.

Troy looks promising.

King Arthur looks stupid.

Looks like a slow summer for movies.

[Chang Style Novice]

Wow, I had the exact opposite thoughts about Troy and Arthur. Although it's going to take a lot to knock Excalibur and Monty Python's Holy Grail from my #1 and #2 Knights of the Round Table movies.

[@PLUGO]

I've been waiting for ages for a film based on Greek Mythology... In that light I look forward to TROY just to see how they resolve the torjan horse thing.

I thought the tag line that came with the KING Arthur preview was hilarious...

"the truth behind the legend" or some such... they might as well have added based on a true story :p :p :p

[Chang Style Novice]

Thething that grabbed me about Arthur was that they seem to be trying to ditch all the "legend" stuff. In fact, according to my dim memories of a medieval history class I took years ago, there was a Cornish (I think) cheiftan who waged a pretty nasty war against the romans, who called him "Atriedes" (Dune fans take note) and was eventually the source for the King Arthur legends. It looks to me like they're trying to stick with what miniscule historical sources we have and leave out all the Mallory White Tennyson De Troyes magyckal hooey.

[@PLUGO]

So . . . you think there'll be a huge CGI Trojan Horse at the end of that film of the same name?

[MasterKiller]

Originally posted by Design Sifu
So . . . you think there'll be a huge CGI Trojan Horse at the end of that film of the same name? Yeah, they show the CGI Trojan horse in the previews.


In fact, according to my dim memories of a medieval history class I took years ago, there was a Cornish (I think) cheiftan who waged a pretty nasty war against the romans, who called him "Atriedes" (Dune fans take note) and was eventually the source for the King Arthur legends. I thought his name was Arturos. It's been about 10 years since my British Lit classes....

[Judge Pen]

Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
Thething that grabbed me about Arthur was that they seem to be trying to ditch all the "legend" stuff. In fact, according to my dim memories of a medieval history class I took years ago, there was a Cornish (I think) cheiftan who waged a pretty nasty war against the romans, who called him "Atriedes" (Dune fans take note) and was eventually the source for the King Arthur legends. It looks to me like they're trying to stick with what miniscule historical sources we have and leave out all the Mallory White Tennyson De Troyes magyckal hooey.

Ok, my thoughts on Arthur: What reference is their that Guinevere was a celtci warrior wearing a leather sports bra shooting flaming arrows and carrying a claymore? That alone was enough to turn me off.

Plus the director isn't known for good movies. Ok, Training Day was all right, but that was based on the performances of its actors and not any direction. Regardless it looks better than Van Helsing.

[Chang Style Novice]

Well, it's not like there's absolutely no instance of female warriors battling Romans in british history.

Boudicca, anyone? Or perhaps you prefer Boadicea? Or any of the dozen or so other spellings available.

[Judge Pen]

Sure, female warriors like Boudicca were as fearsome as the men of the time,

"She was huge of frame, terrifying of aspect, and with a harsh voice. A great mass of bright red hair fell to her knees: she wore a twisted torc, and a tunic of many colours, over which was a thick mantle, fastened by a brooch. Now she grasped a spear, to strike fear into all who watched her." Dio Cassius

Doesn't describe Guinivere to me.

I'll give it a chance (which is more than I can say for Van Helsing) but I'm skeptical.

BTW, what are your reservations for Troy?

[Chang Style Novice]

The CGI looked fakey and it stars Brad Pitt. The only person who I believe can rein in The Pittmonster is David Fincher, who used him to good effect in Fight Club and Se7en. He's been pretty awful in every other starring role I've seen him in.

I think he's be perfect in Van Helsing (I can see a new whipping boy shaping up around here!:p )

[Judge Pen]

He wasn't bad in 12 Monkeys or Snatch either. I'm holding out hope here.

[@PLUGO]

Well, Brian Cox will be in the film as well, as Agamemnon...

Eric Bana as HECTOR!

and Sean Bean as Odysseus

this could a fun film...



PS: anyone think we should change this topic to maybe

"What's Happenin' ?

[Shaolinlueb]

so ugh, how was your weekend?

[Chang Style Novice]

Well, "Snatch" wasn't a starring role for Pitt, plus he Boomhauered all the way through it, so it's not really a typical thing in any case.

And "12 Monkeys" was the movie that made me hate Terry Gilliam, a feat I thought couldn't be done. So we'll just have to agree to disagree on that one.

[MasterKiller]

12 Monkeys was pretty good. I liked it.

I liked Pitt in The Mexican, too.

I think he's a pretty under-rated actor. I've never seen him give a flat performance.

[doug maverick]

i'm not to much of a pitt fan(fight club was the only movie i liked and the only one of his flicks i bothered to see) but i think he's perfect for achillies. due to the fact that achillies was a pretty boy his uncle (or grandfather i forget) even dressed him up as a girl to hide him when he was young. i can really see anyone else playing this roll even though johnny depp would do i way better job. now my problem is alexander with colon ferrel playing my favorite general of all time. the bad part is there making him gay and i heard leo dicapprio is playing hephastius(alexzander's reported lover say some historians but there the minority) i wonder who plaing cassius the black. or any other of the many characters/ hero's alexzander had around him he was the true version of king arthur(not really i'm just saying...)