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Got back from seeing Conan & Fright Night earlier tonight, both in 2D. Millenium/Avi Lerner, you cheap bastards suck!
Can't imagine seeing Fright Night in 3D. The movie was already very dark and the glasses would have made it darn near unwatchable. Entertaining enough movie though. The Poots is awesome and Farrell brought his A game and clearly had fun with the role.
As for Conan...oh so disappointing. There's so much potential for a good resurrection of the character but Avi Lerner and his band of idiots botched it so badly here that we may not get another chance with the character for decades. Momoa was fine in the role but the directing was a mess (Nispel should stick to slasher horror films with small budgets; his TCM remake was actually pretty good and I liked his Friday/13th one as well but he has no business directing films with budgets of more than $20M), the story shallow and basically a remake of the Arnold film from 1982 but even dumber.
I feel for Sean Hood though. He was brought in at the last minute to do a rewrite on Conan and apparently made the film at least coherent. What I would like to read is the original draft written by the credited writers Donnelly and Oppenheimer, the "awesome" writers of such dreck as A Sound of Thunder and Dylan Dog. Hood though isn't the class of screenwriter a project like this should have.
Really, when it comes down to it, Millenium and Avi Lerner are willing to spend upwards of a reported $90M on the film but hire a director whose only successes were low budget horror remakes and whose experience with similar material in Pathfinder was a box office flop...yeah, that makes sense. "Let's hire the guy whose last violent historical epic type film was slammed by critics and a box office flop. On top of that, let's get the writers of a franchise non-starter in Sahara, a flop of epics proportions in A Sound of Thunder, and another franchise dud in Dylan Dog. But their script stinks (what a shock) so let us bring in the esteemed writer of Halloween: Resurrection, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, and Cube²: Hypercube. He'll make it 100 times better."
Idiots, idiots. This film and more pertinently, how it was handled, just ticked me off.
Got back from seeing Conan & Fright Night earlier tonight, both in 2D. Millenium/Avi Lerner, you cheap bastards suck! Aug 23, 01:02
Tell us how you really feel. No, really. Don't be shy. Just let it out. {nm} Aug 23, 02:00
LOLZ {nm} Aug 23, 10:16