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08-02-2018, 08:12 AM | #16 |
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I'm going to see it, read most of the books a while back then read some again recently. Hope its not a total shitshow.
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08-02-2018, 08:32 AM | #17 |
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This kinda looks fun in a rainy day rental kind of way.
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08-02-2018, 06:43 PM | #18 |
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Lots of Chinese money involved in this, and they're looking for it to make big money outside the U.S..
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08-03-2018, 11:14 AM | #20 |
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Syfy original with better SFX. I’m in for a home viewing.
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08-03-2018, 11:54 AM | #21 |
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That's definitely a PPV from home movie...
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08-10-2018, 02:38 AM | #22 |
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This is gonna be good its gonna be ****ing awesomeness.
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08-10-2018, 08:15 AM | #23 |
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I used to be obsessed with the book series and still really enjoy it....was hoping for a more true adaption to the book.
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08-10-2018, 08:15 AM | #24 |
Plays to win the game!
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Unless Jason Statham roundhouse kicks the shark, in it's face, then I'm out. At least Pirahna was smart enough to bring Kelly Brook and Gianna Michaels onboard to get viewers attention.
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08-10-2018, 08:35 AM | #25 |
Ain't no relax!
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Sounds like the PG-13 rating hurt the movie...
Even Jason Statham is Bummed ‘The Meg’ Doesn’t Have the Blood and Gore He Signed Up For Earlier this week, we posted a pretty crazy interview with The Meg director Jon Turteltaub, wherein he explained to us that his vision for the film was for it to be a gory, rated R shark attack flick. “I am so disappointed the film wasn’t more bloody or disgusting,” Turteltaub openly told us, adding “the number of really horrifying, disgusting and bloody deaths we had lined up that we didn’t get to do is tragic.” Turteltaub actually filmed some gorier deaths, but during post-production the studio made the decision that The Meg would have to be a PG-13 film. So, well, bye bye gore. “We shot or even did a lot of visual effects for [gory scenes],” Turteltaub explained. “We just realized there’s no way we’re keeping this PG-13 if we show this. It’s too fun a movie to not let people who don’t like blood and people who are under, say, 14 years old into the theater. I was very hesitant to cut out a lot of blood and gore.” Sadly, the visual effects on those cut scenes weren’t ever finished, so we don’t expect to see them on home video. After all, it’d cost the studio millions to finish them. Sigh. Crazy enough, star Jason Statham is now also speaking out about the original vision for The Meg being flushed down the toilet in favor of a PG-13 action-horror movie, telling Collider that the movie being released this weekend isn’t exactly the movie he signed up for. “Script’s totally different,” Statham explained, talking about how much the movie changed after he originally came aboard. “There was so many different … sometimes you just go, “How did it happen? How did it go from this to this to this to that?” You just can’t keep a track on it. I guess if you have the control to keep it a certain way you would, but you don’t. They have a movie to make. They have so many people deciding on what action stays and what scenes stay. How the characters … In the end they want to put something at the beginning. The whole thing at the beginning where I do a rescue on a sub? That was not in the script that I read. That was all brand new stuff, good or bad. I’m just letting you know.” He continued, “I’m just saying it was radically different. John’s interpretation of this is a fun end of summer [movie]. It’s full of humor. It’s a little bit more directed to a different taste of what my own is… I like more gory adult stuff. I’m a lot older but I can’t speak for what this film could possibly speak to a younger audience. I might have made a film that not many people wanted to see. I’m not a filmmaker. I’m sort of an actor that’s going to portray a role. I go there but I’ve learned not to get too attached with your own idea of what something could be.” He adds, “But you go, Where’s the ****ing blood? It’s like, There’s a shark.” [...]
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08-10-2018, 11:12 AM | #26 |
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It's currently at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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08-10-2018, 12:29 PM | #27 |
You think you can get by this?
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I have no clue why people keep hoping a movie will more closely follow the book it's based off of. Very rarely does that happen. I go in expecting it to be different and hoping that I enjoy it for what it's worth.
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08-10-2018, 12:46 PM | #28 |
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I think people want others to experience the great story the book gave them. That's usually what I am hoping for.
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08-10-2018, 12:47 PM | #29 |
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Looks like a damn Syfy original
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08-10-2018, 01:30 PM | #30 |
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Boyfriend and I are having a date night tomorrow night. We had a little left on a gift card to Alamo Drafthouse, so we decided to go see this.
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