The really important movie awards
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Hard to say which was the worse film though I think Battlefield Earth sneaks it on being utter shite whereas Transformers was only a bit shite. :-)
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Revenge of the Fallen had its moments... I could do without the goofy Witwicky family antics entirely (Honestly, Shia LaBeouf really overplays that). Whatshername (The girlfriend) would have been a lot less annoying if she didn't have to play off that. Could do without the GhettoBots... In fact, let's just retcon the previous movie and remove all of Jazz's speaking parts too. While we're at it, strip out Ironhide's parts at the same time "Aww, I just wanted to show him my cannons"... What is he, a soldier or a toddler? Hmm, I haven't said anything good about it yet. Ok, the guy who plays the Sector 7 agent in both movies... Good acting, good comedic timing without being annoying... I forget the actor's name, but he's good. Optimus is pretty much the same as always, right on target. I had my doubts about Jamie Fox and the other soldier guys in the first one, but it works... Keep 'em. Adds a nice element that was lacking in the old series. So yeah... As a fan of the original series and the original movie... The new ones could have been really great... They weren't, but they could have been :) As for Battlefield: Earth... I have two things to say: 1) Created by the author of Dianetics. You know where this is going, so I won't say it. 2) John Travolta = Rasta Klingon in high heels. And that about sums it up. Great choice for the big award.
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Revenge of the Fallen had its moments...
It's a bad movie, but I liked it anyway. One reason, really: Big f***ing robots. Sometimes, that's all I need.
He said, "Boy I'm just old and lonely, But thank you for your concern, Here's wishing you a Happy New Year." I wished him one back in return.
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The Razzies[^] Transformers had the "strongest" showing with 3 awards. Worst Picture of 2009: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Worst Director: Michael Bay TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Worst Screenplay: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Meanwhile a bigger PoS got it's 9th. Special 30th RAZZIE®-versary Awardz Worst Picture of the Decade: Battlefield Earth Nominated for 10 RAZZIES® / "Winner" of 8 (Including Worst Drama of Our First 25 Yrs)
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Dan Neely wrote:
Worst Picture of the Decade: Battlefield Earth
Oh yeah, Harriers that have been mothballed for fifty years then a bunch of cavemen who don't have the wheel jump in and fly them firing Sidewinders galore. :doh:
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The Razzies[^] Transformers had the "strongest" showing with 3 awards. Worst Picture of 2009: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Worst Director: Michael Bay TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Worst Screenplay: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Meanwhile a bigger PoS got it's 9th. Special 30th RAZZIE®-versary Awardz Worst Picture of the Decade: Battlefield Earth Nominated for 10 RAZZIES® / "Winner" of 8 (Including Worst Drama of Our First 25 Yrs)
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Dan Neely wrote:
Battlefield Earth
Me think that it could be redone with "modern" technologies (3d, motion capture, real CGI, ...) and not be a complete failure.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
Revenge of the Fallen had its moments...
It's a bad movie, but I liked it anyway. One reason, really: Big f***ing robots. Sometimes, that's all I need.
He said, "Boy I'm just old and lonely, But thank you for your concern, Here's wishing you a Happy New Year." I wished him one back in return.
Well put :)
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Dan Neely wrote:
Battlefield Earth
Me think that it could be redone with "modern" technologies (3d, motion capture, real CGI, ...) and not be a complete failure.
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Maximilien wrote:
Me think that it could be redone with "modern" technologies (3d, motion capture, real CGI, ...) and not
stillbe a complete failure.IFTFY ... because the book is impossibly long to create a viable movie out of. :doh:
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Like Halle Berry in 2004(Oscar for Monster's ball, Razzie for Catwoman)
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Maximilien wrote:
Me think that it could be redone with "modern" technologies (3d, motion capture, real CGI, ...) and not
stillbe a complete failure.IFTFY ... because the book is impossibly long to create a viable movie out of. :doh:
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You actually read it? I can't bring myself to touch anything written by L.Ron, because of a certain group of people who like to harass pedestrians in Grand Central Terminal and Times Square, offering free "stress tests" in return for cult membership... Obviously I won't mention them by name, because I don't want to get sued :)
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Revenge of the Fallen had its moments... I could do without the goofy Witwicky family antics entirely (Honestly, Shia LaBeouf really overplays that). Whatshername (The girlfriend) would have been a lot less annoying if she didn't have to play off that. Could do without the GhettoBots... In fact, let's just retcon the previous movie and remove all of Jazz's speaking parts too. While we're at it, strip out Ironhide's parts at the same time "Aww, I just wanted to show him my cannons"... What is he, a soldier or a toddler? Hmm, I haven't said anything good about it yet. Ok, the guy who plays the Sector 7 agent in both movies... Good acting, good comedic timing without being annoying... I forget the actor's name, but he's good. Optimus is pretty much the same as always, right on target. I had my doubts about Jamie Fox and the other soldier guys in the first one, but it works... Keep 'em. Adds a nice element that was lacking in the old series. So yeah... As a fan of the original series and the original movie... The new ones could have been really great... They weren't, but they could have been :) As for Battlefield: Earth... I have two things to say: 1) Created by the author of Dianetics. You know where this is going, so I won't say it. 2) John Travolta = Rasta Klingon in high heels. And that about sums it up. Great choice for the big award.
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Did the Corvette fare well? Never understood why you'd want to build a battle bot out of fiberglass, but hey, I'm an Earthling, what do I know?
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Dan Neely wrote:
Worst Picture of the Decade: Battlefield Earth
Oh yeah, Harriers that have been mothballed for fifty years then a bunch of cavemen who don't have the wheel jump in and fly them firing Sidewinders galore. :doh:
Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]
Especially when you consider that from what I've heard, shooting Sidewinders is easy. Most Harrier fatalities come from taking off and landing.
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You actually read it? I can't bring myself to touch anything written by L.Ron, because of a certain group of people who like to harass pedestrians in Grand Central Terminal and Times Square, offering free "stress tests" in return for cult membership... Obviously I won't mention them by name, because I don't want to get sued :)
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Hare Krishnas? :)
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Dan Neely wrote:
Worst Picture of the Decade: Battlefield Earth
The book was pretty bad too. Though for some reason, I really enjoyed it as a teenager. Now, I can't imagine why. Marc
This is because the BFE series are targeting the yang readers and from that point of view they are more than perfect - especially the first three of them. The movie from other hand is brown water from the arse/thank you for this expression DD/. :-D
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Kudos to Sandra Bullock to have won 2 prizes in 2 days!! and being good sport in both events!
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It would have been awesome if she had mentioned her Razzie during her Oscar speech :thumbsup:
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You actually read it? I can't bring myself to touch anything written by L.Ron, because of a certain group of people who like to harass pedestrians in Grand Central Terminal and Times Square, offering free "stress tests" in return for cult membership... Obviously I won't mention them by name, because I don't want to get sued :)
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)I read it ( Battlefield Earth and Mission Earth ) before knowing about Hubbard and Scientology. BF:E is a nice sci-fi book, good premise, simplistic story telling, but good subway material. Mission Earth is a bit longish, space-opera with some good ideas and funny plot, but a bit "too much".
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You actually read it? I can't bring myself to touch anything written by L.Ron, because of a certain group of people who like to harass pedestrians in Grand Central Terminal and Times Square, offering free "stress tests" in return for cult membership... Obviously I won't mention them by name, because I don't want to get sued :)
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Like Maximilien I read the books long before I knew that his theology made his fiction seem normal. I grew up in a small town outside of pittsburgh; unlike NYC tghe cult's only presence in the area was the person who presumably donated the books. (Small library, about half its new titles came from a few biddies who signed up for book of the month clubs.) BFE is an OK of fairly cheesy story. The dreckology is more in line with how Weird Al described Jerry Springer. I finished it once out of a sense of 'how much stupider can it get'; but despite the library only having ~2mo of SF books for a 3mo summer vacation I never read it a second time.
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The Razzies[^] Transformers had the "strongest" showing with 3 awards. Worst Picture of 2009: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Worst Director: Michael Bay TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Worst Screenplay: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Meanwhile a bigger PoS got it's 9th. Special 30th RAZZIE®-versary Awardz Worst Picture of the Decade: Battlefield Earth Nominated for 10 RAZZIES® / "Winner" of 8 (Including Worst Drama of Our First 25 Yrs)
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