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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: scarred on 29 Nov 2009, 19:23
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Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spiderman, Drag Me To Hell) has given amateur director Frederico Alvarez $30-40 million to make a feature that may or may not be based on a short he made called "Panic Attack!"
Source. (http://io9.com/5414425/will-sam-raimi-come-up-with-the-next-district-9)
Basically this is the District 9 story all over again and the short even looks familiar - shaky cam, hella CGI, second-world country... the only thing really different is that instead of aliens, there are giant robots.
So essentially this could be like Transformers but fun.
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I'm trying to imagine giant robots in a ghetto and it's not really working but hey, I got faith in Raimi....
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Just imagine the power-armour scenes from District 9.
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But that's the entire point, the power armor was kicking ass and taking names -- how do you restrain a bunch of those guys in a ghetto behind chain link fences and such? Which leads me to my next question, when are we getting another Mechwarrior game already?
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Well, I'm not so sure it would be a "concentration camp with racial tensions" theme so much as "OH FUCK GUYS GIANT FUCKING ROBOTS." So maybe Cloverfield meets District 9.
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I like how working in a shaky handheld camera is every director's answer to ... a budget.
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That, and keeping big name actors out of work!
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Hey as long as Felicia Day is making webcasts, that's all the big names I need.
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fap
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But that's the entire point, the power armor was kicking ass and taking names -- how do you restrain a bunch of those guys in a ghetto behind chain link fences and such? Which leads me to my next question, when are we getting another Mechwarrior game already?
Pay attention, hoser. (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,23443.0.html)
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Sweet.
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(http://www.freewebs.com/carls-robot-page/Panic%20Attack.jpg)
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I like how working in a shaky handheld camera is every director's answer to ... a budget.
Where does this idea that 30 million is not much of a budget come from?
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Because it's not much of a budget at all for a sci-fi movie, particularly compared to what Hollywood likes to tell us. Now, for a drama or comedy in which one of the leads is a relative small timer or also has other duties, yes, that's a pretty nice budget-- For example, Clint Eastwood likely made decent bank up front for Gran Turino (and probably REALLY raked it in after you factor it's surprise success in), but the fact that he starred AND directed in it likely costed people less up front than getting a name director AND a leading man with decent drawing power. Even so, the film came in somewhere around $30 million. Note, however, that I said "around" $30 million; that's because coming up with an accurate number for this shit is a pain in the ass. Quite simply, producers and executives lie their asses off about costs all the time. Guys who work for the companies like to show that they can produce great films on the cheap and rival studios like to tell you that the same guys are routinely spending tens of millions of dollars more than they'll admit to the media. Sure, the truth comes out eventually in other ways, but the numbers available around the movie's initial release have a funny way of being subject to change.
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Moon (http://Moon) had a budget of five million dollars and managed to look pretty excellent, even if it was not a great movie. I recognize that compared to a hollwood blockbuster, thirty million dollars is not a whole ton, but it is certainly not a reason to resort to a shaky camera. I expect those choices have much more to do with creative decisions than financial ones.