Tars Tarkas posted:

Blazing Samurai - "The story revolves around a scrappy young dog Hank (Michael Cera) who dreams of becoming a samurai and fights to save the town called "Kakamucho" from becoming a litter box of a nefarious feline warlord Ika Chu (Ricky Gervais) who unveils his grand plan to get rid of the inhabitants."

Femur posted:

yes, but if you believed monsters cause your dreams, you wouldn't bother deriving meaning for it.

Red Bones posted:

It's hard to tell whether the film is leaning toward being earnest or sarcastic about its whole premise. Like the stuff in that trailer is a 50/50 split of the two, and I think it works a lot better when it's just sorta owning its silliness than when it's trying to undermine it by pointing out how silly the idea of power rangers, and all the trappings that come with them, are. I never thought I'd say this about a Power Rangers movie but there's honestly a good movie buried somewhere in there, but god knows if that movie will be what eventually comes out.

Phanatic posted:

The Dark Tower footage sounds as bad as IT looks good:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/we-have-seen-the-first-footage-from-the-dark-tower-1793703645


I wanted "The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." Sounds like we might be getting this instead:

Len posted:

I've only made it to midway through book 4 but there's been:

(Spoilers in case anyone cares)

-Lobster men that crippled one of Roland's hands and nearly killed him
-Three free standing doors on a beach that each open to New York in different years where Roland observes three different people ultimately bringing two of the three into his world
-One of those people is a black woman with DID who bounces between prim and proper and violently racist and horrible until the reconcile and fuse into one mind. Also she's in a wheelchair
-A cyborg bear infected with various diseases that's gone batshit insane
-Blane the Mono a monorail with an AI that's gone suicidal and gets stopped by riddles straight out of the Bilbo Baggins book of Bullshit Riddles

Enos Cabell posted:

Just imagine all of those many great, memorable characters from the Call of Duty franchise up on the silver screen!

Random Stranger posted:

And it had legs after the fact so in the end it did pretty well.

Though I am expecting Valarian to be about the same as Fifth Element: great visual design and absolutely terrible everything else. That would match the original comics pretty well. I will also predict that even though it will be a lovely movie, it will be defended by nerds on the Internet for years.

feedmyleg posted:

At this point I don't trust the Marvel TV folks to do a drat thing.

Casimir Radon posted:

Clancy had a bunch of stuff published under his name while he was still writing, like Net Force, and Op Center. Then he stopped writing around 2003 and those continued. He came back a year or two before he died and co-wrote a couple or more books with some other guy. How involved he really was is debatable. Apparently the politics were absolutely insane so maybe he did have some say. They're going to continue slapping his name onto video games forever until the point where nobody knows who this guy is anymore.

Crichton had a bunch of manuscripts or fragments of them left over. There's one coming out this summer about fossil hunting. Pirate Latitudes, one of the books from the Walmart/Amazon pissing match, was another posthumous Crichton book and is supposedly going to get adapted as a movie sooner than later.

The MSJ posted:

Apparently "Lord of The Flies" is a reference to Beelzebub, who was invoked to drive away flies from ritual sacrifices.

teagone posted:

New trailer dropped couple minutes ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48

Guy Mann posted: