it maybe worst casting ever but it's a great move to pull in the revenue! those bastards in Hollywood have good number crunchers. place I used to work is 3 blocks away from a major concert venue in my city. all the big name acts that visit my city will have their gigs at this venue and let me tell you when beiber played here the whole downtown was clogged. it wasn't just a traffic jam, I mean the whole downtown. bieber is the biggest act out there. that's why those producers want to put beiber in robin's tights. just imagine all the beiber fans going to see batman!
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it maybe worst casting ever but it's a great move to pull in the revenue! those bastards in Hollywood have good number crunchers. place I used to work is 3 blocks away from a major concert venue in my city. all the big name acts that visit my city will have their gigs at this venue and let me tell you when beiber played here the whole downtown was clogged. it wasn't just a traffic jam, I mean the whole downtown. bieber is the biggest act out there. that's why those producers want to put beiber in robin's tights. just imagine all the beiber fans going to see batman!
kwaigonegin
Colonel
just GREEAATT!!!! so are you saying not only do I have to put up with the worst casting ever but now I have to put up with a bunch of obnoxious screaming teenage girls in the movie theater also? no thanks!
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
I sware Warner is trying to kill of the Batman... I mean They went and made a Serious Superman based on World one. Now they go and Seem to choose two panty waists to pit against him.... I would Rather See Addam West and Burt Ward then Bat Afflack and Robin Bieber.
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The word is the bad guy of the James Cameron's Avatar sequels is...
Apparently before making it public, Warner Bros. prepped Ben Affleck about previous fan reactions to casting of iconic characters. Batman talk starts about 1:45.
[video=youtube;m8BaVKUoUGo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8BaVKUoUGo[/video]
Apparently before making it public, Warner Bros. prepped Ben Affleck about previous fan reactions to casting of iconic characters. Batman talk starts about 1:45.
[video=youtube;m8BaVKUoUGo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8BaVKUoUGo[/video]
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it's the number crunchers man, I swear they are brilliant. they get a handsome hot (Oscar) actor like afflack to play batman. he can pull in the women audience from mid 20's-40's. then get bieber to play robin who will pull EVERY teenage girl (plus their teenage boyfriend who has to go with them) in the theatre and this will easily be the biggest grossing batman movie in terms of revenue!
ABC78
Junior Member
Wait a minute didn't they use that same calculus when they casted George Clooney and Chris O'Donald in Batman and Robin and a was a total disaster?
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Mixing the teeny girl and fan boy audiences together is like mixing oil and water. Unless the movie gets outstanding buzz that goes beyond just the actors, the primary audience normally targeted for comic book movies will be turned off by Bieber. Maybe Bieber's association was leaked out just to take the heat off Affleck.
I was at Comic Con throughout the years of all the Twilight movies so the stars were there to promote each movie before it came out. I had never heard of Twilight before that and was there when they were promoting the first movie. It was more deafening than being at a rock concert with all these little girls screaming. The next year James Cameron was there to show exclusive footage of Avatar but the event planners had scheduled the Twilight panel around the Avatar panel so everyone that wanted to see the Avatar panel was shut out because the 5000 seat hall was filled with teenage girls that spent overnight waiting at the door wanting to see the Twilight panel not Avatar and they don't clear out the hall after each panel. That enraged everyone else. So the years afterwards, the Twilight panel was always scheduled to be the first of the day so the teenage girls will clear out afterwards. But it left the fan boy crowd with a bad taste the years afterwards. Every year when you register, Comic Con gives you these giant bags so everyone can throw in all the exclusive free crap they get walking around that can become collectors' items. So the movie studios advertise on these bags with themes to movies and TV shows because they're so big they're walking advertisements. They've become collectors' items themselves and people trade and sell bags that are popular because it was completely random what bag you received. Every year they had a Twilight bag. You would see them on the floor throw away like garbage. You would see guys begging for a trade.
Trying to attract the teeny girls and fan boys together doesn't work. It's either/or... not together. Plus can anyone really take seriously Bieber kicking butt? Did anyone see him posing with Mayweather at the fight over the weekend. He does that face where he tries to look gangsta bad-ass but it just looks like he's helpless being raped in prison.
I was at Comic Con throughout the years of all the Twilight movies so the stars were there to promote each movie before it came out. I had never heard of Twilight before that and was there when they were promoting the first movie. It was more deafening than being at a rock concert with all these little girls screaming. The next year James Cameron was there to show exclusive footage of Avatar but the event planners had scheduled the Twilight panel around the Avatar panel so everyone that wanted to see the Avatar panel was shut out because the 5000 seat hall was filled with teenage girls that spent overnight waiting at the door wanting to see the Twilight panel not Avatar and they don't clear out the hall after each panel. That enraged everyone else. So the years afterwards, the Twilight panel was always scheduled to be the first of the day so the teenage girls will clear out afterwards. But it left the fan boy crowd with a bad taste the years afterwards. Every year when you register, Comic Con gives you these giant bags so everyone can throw in all the exclusive free crap they get walking around that can become collectors' items. So the movie studios advertise on these bags with themes to movies and TV shows because they're so big they're walking advertisements. They've become collectors' items themselves and people trade and sell bags that are popular because it was completely random what bag you received. Every year they had a Twilight bag. You would see them on the floor throw away like garbage. You would see guys begging for a trade.
Trying to attract the teeny girls and fan boys together doesn't work. It's either/or... not together. Plus can anyone really take seriously Bieber kicking butt? Did anyone see him posing with Mayweather at the fight over the weekend. He does that face where he tries to look gangsta bad-ass but it just looks like he's helpless being raped in prison.
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I don't know how many Breaking Bad fans are in here but that was a spectacular storytelling ending. I never watched Breaking Bad as it was airing on TV normally but I was able to catch-up as they had a marathon of the whole series up to the last episode airing today. What was different from like Lost was everything seemed to be planned from the beginning or they cared not to leave any strings untied. They didn't throw in crap out of nowhere or had episodes that felt like filler. Everything served a purpose. It was like watching a three-day movie.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I haven't seen Gravity yet and wasn't planning to because George Clooney being involved reminds of Solaris which bored me to tears. The trailer only supports it because it just looks like it's about an astronaut floating in space contemplating death. My friends had similar assumptions. But I read a detailed review and it actually has a point. It's getting very high critical praise so I might go watch it. What may be interesting to people in here is it involves a Chinese space station. Shuttle Atlantis gets destroyed by debris from a Russian satellite exploding supposedly from a Russian ASAT test. Two astronauts find themselves floating in space and attempt to get to the ISS which is also damaged where they can use a Russian Soyuz capsule but it turns out it's damaged too and cannot re-enter Earth's atmosphere. So last chance is to use the Soyuz capsule to get over to the abandoned Chinese space station and return to Earth on a Shenzhou capsule.
Here's some pics involving the Chinese space station.
Here's some pics involving the Chinese space station.
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Saw the film today.
Spoilers:
The entire story, with full spoilers and all, can of course be read on the Wiki page:
I thought it was pretty good. There's lots of pretty shots of space, a lot of very satisfying attention to the way things sound in space, lots of pretty effects, explosions, and a surprisingly light touch on the topic of death, which isn't what I expected from the early trailer I saw.
Also, if you're into that sort of thing, there's also some shots of Sandra in small, revealing clothing, and she looks pretty good for 49.
The audio is worth mentioning again because the way sound is handled is very refreshing for a space film. When you're watching the characters working on the Hubble in their suits, the environment is perceived only through what vibrations would reach your ears through the suit. So for example, when using their torque-less drills, the drill sounds are muffled as if the vibrations through the glove are all that reach you, which is accurate. When in an airlock, sound slowly fades in, and then "explodes" in when the character removes their helmet.
You know you're in for an audio treat the instant the movie starts. Because after about 5 short lines of introductory text, you're greeted with an absolutely gorgeous shot of Earth in complete silence, and the first thing you start to hear is curt radio chatter.
Clooney actually dies early on in the film.
Specifics regarding the Tiangong are as follows:
-Clooney mentions that the reentry pattern of the Shenzhou is identical to the Soyuz.
-Despite having never trained in a Shenzhou, Sandra knows where the Start switch is on the control panel because it's in the exact same place as on the Soyuz.
-The Tiangong station has for decoration, a Chinese style landscape painting, a ping pong paddle, and a Budai () on the dash of the Shenzhou where the Soyuz had a small Christian image.
I laughed at the end, because the Russians in that universe are going to get so much crap for destroying basically every important piece of space infrastructure from a single ASAT test. They destroy the US Space Shuttle "Explorer" (Fictional of course), the International Space Station, the Chinese Tiangong, and most of the satellites at that general altitude...
Spoilers:
The entire story, with full spoilers and all, can of course be read on the Wiki page:
I thought it was pretty good. There's lots of pretty shots of space, a lot of very satisfying attention to the way things sound in space, lots of pretty effects, explosions, and a surprisingly light touch on the topic of death, which isn't what I expected from the early trailer I saw.
Also, if you're into that sort of thing, there's also some shots of Sandra in small, revealing clothing, and she looks pretty good for 49.
The audio is worth mentioning again because the way sound is handled is very refreshing for a space film. When you're watching the characters working on the Hubble in their suits, the environment is perceived only through what vibrations would reach your ears through the suit. So for example, when using their torque-less drills, the drill sounds are muffled as if the vibrations through the glove are all that reach you, which is accurate. When in an airlock, sound slowly fades in, and then "explodes" in when the character removes their helmet.
You know you're in for an audio treat the instant the movie starts. Because after about 5 short lines of introductory text, you're greeted with an absolutely gorgeous shot of Earth in complete silence, and the first thing you start to hear is curt radio chatter.
Clooney actually dies early on in the film.
Specifics regarding the Tiangong are as follows:
-Clooney mentions that the reentry pattern of the Shenzhou is identical to the Soyuz.
-Despite having never trained in a Shenzhou, Sandra knows where the Start switch is on the control panel because it's in the exact same place as on the Soyuz.
-The Tiangong station has for decoration, a Chinese style landscape painting, a ping pong paddle, and a Budai () on the dash of the Shenzhou where the Soyuz had a small Christian image.
I laughed at the end, because the Russians in that universe are going to get so much crap for destroying basically every important piece of space infrastructure from a single ASAT test. They destroy the US Space Shuttle "Explorer" (Fictional of course), the International Space Station, the Chinese Tiangong, and most of the satellites at that general altitude...