Deity, why hast thou forsaken us? "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 03:45:35 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] From the "Please let them be wrong!" Category You have got to be kidding! I almost walked out of the second "Bad Boys", so bad it was with crappy writing, unfunny jokes, over-the-top-but-unmoving noise and explosions. I thought it was the ultimate exercise in bad Hollywood movie making: a film that was louder, more violent, more full of car stuff, more--more-- than anything out at the time. Instead it just made me feel numbed. The worst mix of Smith and Lawrence telling lame jokes (I was offended at the comments made at female corpses' breast), Bay at his directing worse. Even managed to waste Gabriel Union (her chase scene in that van actually had me and my wife laughing). And we're recently talking about the fear that Hollywood will go even further down the path of abandoning high concept films, good dramas, and original properties in favor of endless sequels, comic-to-movie adaptations, and low budget, high profit comedies and horror flicks. We hear that only the likes of Smith will continue to get big salaries. I was even watching Leonardo Di Caprio on Charlie Rose recently saying how it was getting harder to make a good drama unless it had a lot of action and appealed to key demographics. This is a key example of that unfortunate trend. I will *not* be in the seats for this one, if the rumours prove to be true. *********************************************************** http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3if39271c89709c28eceb20163c74fc6f4 'Bad Boys 3' in the works Peter Craig will write the screenplay By Borys Kit Aug 30, 2009, 11:00 PM ET Columbia Pictures is developing a third installment of the high-octane "Bad Boys" franchise, tapping Peter Craig to pen the screenplay. The hope is to have a script that would reunite director Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. At this point, with the project in the early stages, none has a deal to return. The "Boys" movies feature Smith and Lawrence as Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, caught up in cases involving car chases and explosions. The first "Boys," released in 1995, helped launch Bay as a director and Smith as an action star even though it was not a fire-stamped blockbuster -- it grossed $66 million domestically and $141 million worldwide. The sequel, released in 2003 when Bay and Smith's stars had risen, grossed $138 million domestically and $273 million worldwide. All parties have expressed a willingness to return if a story can be hammered out. One potential hurdle, however, would be the costly deals with the players. Craig, repped by CAA and Management 360, co-wrote "The Town," which Ben Affleck is directing for Warner Bros. and which shoots in Boston next month. He is adapting anime "Cowboy Bebop" for 20th Century Fox and Keanu Reeves. _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1
