By unanswered questions they pretty much mean plot holes… Enjoy the list from Wired.com:
10. Independence Day: The computer virus - This movie has so many unanswered questions that one is forced to conclude that most, if not all, really are just plot holes after all. But then there’s the computer virus that Jeff Goldblum uploads into the alien mothership, that is ultimately what allows the humans to defeat the invaders. Ask any software developer, and they will tell you that it is ridiculously hard to write a virus on a PC that works on a Mac, or vice-versa, and those are two computer systems that were designed and built by human beings. The likelihood of being able to successfully write a virus on a human-built computer of any sort that would affect a computer built by telepathic aliens is infinitesimal. Of course, this is an alien species that has managed to travel in huge ships across vast distances but has never invented a clock (hence the countdown timer they use before initiating their attack), so who knows what sort of vulnerabilities their computers might have?
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark: Indy on the U-boat- The Nazis stop the cargo ship and take the Ark and Marion to their submarine. The crewman tells the captain he can’t find Indy, but then notices that Indy has, of course, swum over to the sub and is climbing onto it. There’s stirring music, Indy waves at the crewmen, he climbs up onto the conning tower, he looks around for a second, and then… the movie cuts to the interior of the sub, where it gets underway, and then we see the red line moving across the map. So how, exactly, does Indy survive this journey? He has no special equipment, can’t get into the sub (the hatches have already been closed, since they’re about to get underway), and it’s about to, y’know, go under the water, in that way subs do. Now, I remember reading once that they scripted (and possibly even filmed) a scene where Indy ties himself to the periscope with his whip. This is, of course, patently ridiculous, since it requires that the sub go no lower than periscope depth on the whole trip and, even if that happened, he’d still probably die. But Indy does tons of things that should get him killed, so we’d have believed that if they’d shown it. But they didn’t.
8. Back to the Future: Marty’s parents’ bad memory - Even though Marty is only in 1955 for a week, he plays a pretty pivotal role in his future parents’ lives. It stands to reason, then, that they would remember him pretty well, don’t you think? Now, I’m not George McFly, but most men would probably have a few questions if one of their children grew up to look exactly like a friend from high school that their wife dated briefly.
7. Star Trek (the 2009 movie): Old Spock biding his time - Kirk gets marooned on the ice planet by Young Spock, and Old Spock saves his life. Then Old Spock tells Kirk that there’s a Starfleet outpost nearby, and they trudge through the snow to get there. Now, Old Spock was marooned there a while before by Nero, and he knew that Nero was going to try to destroy Vulcan. So why didn’t he seek out this Starfleet outpost he knew about until after Kirk arrived? Don’t you think that maybe it would’ve been a smart idea to warn Starfleet that someone was about to try to destroy Vulcan, and, oh, by the way, he’s from the future?
6. Spider-Man 2: Doctor Octavius’s arms - OK, so Octavius had to invent these heat- and magnet-proof metal arms, controlled by sophisticated AI, that attach directly to a human body and interface directly with the brain. So why, exactly, does he need Harry Osborn to finance his big fusion experiment? Is there any doubt that the technology behind these arms would be worth millions, if not billions, of dollars? He could buy and sell Harry.
5. Star Trek IV: The ease of time warp - So, all you have to do to go back in time is slingshot around the sun on a carefully-calculated route, right? It’s the same thing they did in the TOS episode Tomorrow Is Yesterday. If it’s really that easy, then any warp-enabled ship can do it any time, so surely someone in the Klingon or Romulan empires must have figured this out. The Klingons might be too honorable, but why haven’t the Romulans taken advantage of this, and used it for all sorts of nefarious purposes?
4. Star Wars: The Death Star’s slow attack - So the Death Star follows the tracking device on the Millennium Falcon to the rebel base. They jump out of light speed, and, for no clear reason, emerge on the far side of the planet Yavin from the moon where the base is. This light-speed jump takes a split-second, but now they have to wait minutes so they can clear the planet. Not only that, but the Death Star is capable of blowing up entire planets, not just moons, so why don’t they just blow up the entire planet of Yavin? Surely that would effectively destroy anything on its moons as well.
3. Gremlins: Feeding after midnight - Don’t get them wet; OK, fine. Don’t expose them to sunlight; sure, why not? Don’t feed them after midnight; um, how’s that again? If you can’t feed them “after midnight,” at what point during the day does it cease to be “after midnight” so you can feed them again? For that matter, how does the mogwai know what time zone it’s in? Suppose I get my mogwai in New York and then take a vacation to San Francisco — should I not feed my mogwai after midnight Eastern Time or Pacific Time? And what about Daylight Saving Time? Considering the consequences, these details seem pretty important.
2. The Empire Strikes Back: Time dilation - Luke and R2D2 leave Hoth to go to Dagobah at the same time Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C3PO leave to go… well, they never really say what their initial destination is. Anyway, on Dagobah, Luke embarks on an intensive Jedi training course with Yoda — it’s never stated, but it’s heavily implied that this takes a long time; and besides, you would think a full course of Jedi training would take at least months, right? (We know it’s a full course, because when Luke comes back in Jedi, Yoda tells him he doesn’t need more training.) So, at the same time that Luke finishes this months-long training and runs off to Cloud City, his friends have clearly just gotten there a short time before. Yet all they did on the way was flee from a Star Destroyer and fly down the gullet of a giant space worm. That must have taken hours, not months. So was the Millennium Falcon flying at close to the speed of light (but not at light speed) for a while and thus experiencing time dilation? Yeah, that’s the ticket.
1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Was all that really necessary? - It would really have been useful if Henry Jones Sr. had found out, or, if he knew, mentioned the bit about the Great Seal. You know, the Great Seal that the Grail Knight tells them the Grail can’t pass, and which sets off a highly localized earthquake when Elsa tries to pass with the Grail. Because, as it turns out, the whole race against the Nazis to get to the temple and giving a fake grail to Donovan so he could die gruesomely wasn’t necessary at all. The Nazis could never have removed the Grail from the temple anyway! I mean, leave aside the point that Donovan clearly had no idea how to get past the booby traps, and Elsa wasn’t much help to him, so without Indy and his dad there they probably wouldn’t have gotten to the Grail anyway. Once Henry Sr. had been rescued, they could’ve just gone home.
17 years ago Quentin Tarantino directed his first film, Reservoir Dogs. This video is Tarantino outlining his 20 favorite films from that period of time. Cool:
Thats right, the 100 worst movies of the year according the TimesOnline.co.uk,
Let the bashing beging, here are the first 11:
100: The Hottie & The Nottie
“The most eagerly hated movie in America is a tongue-in-cheek homage to Paris Hilton that has drawn nothing but poisonous reviews. On IMDb it has been voted the worst film ever made” - James Christopher99: Sex and the City
“Everything great about the series has been lost in transition. The fizz has gone, the fun looks fake and the laughs are few” - Cosmo Landesman98: The Incredible Hulk
“Millions of dollars of computer software at their disposal and the best they can come up with is something that looks like angry Plasticine” - Wendy Ide97: Wanted
“A movie ruthlessly designed for an audience of comic nerds who suspect that they are destined for greater things” - Kevin Maher
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“Wong Kar Wai’s first English-language film, and I, for one, hope it will be his last. Something got lost in the translation: his talent” - Cosmo Landesman95: Easy Virtue
“A criminal waste of Colin Firth – arguably the most charming man in British cinema – in a role that requires him to shuffle around looking like an unmade bed” - Wendy Ide94: Zack and Miri Make a Porno
“Seth Rogen is an amiable and chubby clown, and quite possibly the most unconvincing romantic hero since Adam Sandler. The most soppy and unsexy 18-certificate skin-flick ever made” - James Christopher93: Hannah Montana
“Miley Cyrus hails from the Hilary Duff school of wholesome, squeaky-clean candy pop. She comes across as another (fake) blonde singing vacuous fluff, complete with pushy stage mom” - Saadeya Shamsuddin92: The Oxford Murders
“Imagine The Da Vinci Code remade by a philosophy student, set mostly in Oxford bedsits starring Elijah Wood in the Tom Hanks role, and featuring the world’s most unerotic sex scene” - Kevin Maher91: Mister Lonely
“Harmony Korine’s bizarre film about a group of celebrity impersonators who hole up in a Scottish castle: gives The Cottage a respectable run for its money in terms of making no sense at all” - James Christopher90: The X-Files: I Want to Believe
“It’s just not very good; it’s an average episode of the TV series stretched to feature length” - Wendy Ide89: Fine, Totally Fine
“If you’re someone who can never have enough Hello Kitty merchandise, this might be just the film for you, but I would have found it hard to bear even without the winsome music that dribbles through every scene” - Edward PorterFor the rest click here
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There have definitely been some brutal TV to Movie adaptations, Dukes of Hazzard I’m looking at you, but Rotten Tomatoes have compiled a nice list of 50 movies that actually transferred nicely to the big screen, and sometimes even improved on the formula.
Click HERE for the list.
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For better or worse here are 20 sequels that were never made, or at least, have yet to be made… from Rotten Tomatoes:
Total Recall: 20 Sequels We’re Still Waiting For…
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This is a pretty good look at whats coming up for 2008 courtesy of the Film School Rejects:
20 Most Anticipated Movies of 2008
Enjoy!
Do you dare? Can’t say I’ve seen all these… but damned if they don’t sound disturbing!
Check out the list HERE thanks to AlternativeReel.com
Planet of the Apes… The Pink Panther… Psycho!! Here’s a list of the 25 worst remakes of all time. AOL is pretty spot on with this one… some of these movies are absolutely terrible and it really makes one wonder why they even bothered to attempt a remake?
Check it out HERE
With the new Simpsons Movie hitting theatres in a few weeks, what better way to get ready than to look at 10 of the best episodes ever. This list was created by Vanity Fair, but its a pretty good compilation of some of the classics.
With help from a few Vanity Fair editors, this list was compiled by John Ortved, a contributing editorial associate at V.F. and the author of the August article “Simpson Family Values,” a behind-the-scenes oral history of the show. (For a more in-depth and democratic rating system, check out NoHomers.net, the unofficial home of all things Simpsons.)
Read a Q&A with former Simpsons writer Conan O’Brien. All images © Fox.
10. The President Wore Pearls (Season 15, 2003)
A parody of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. Lisa replaces Martin as school president, beating Nelson in the election. The teachers, unhappy with the election result, turn Lisa’s public against her by eliminating art, gym, and music classes. The final act (where the episode loses some steam) is an homage to the student strikes in Paris in 1968.
It may seem ludicrous to include anything later than Season 8 in this list, but this one is brilliant. The musical numbers are astoundingly good, and Lisa’s comeuppance is so well constructed it harkens back to the golden years of the show (Seasons 3 through 8).
Great moment: The students are anxious about President Lisa’s access to the teacher’s lounge. “Is it true they make fun of students in there?” Milhouse asks. Lisa waves away this suggestion as preposterous, and opens the door to the lounge. Inside, Groundskeeper Willie is mocking Milhouse: “Look at me, I’m Milhouse. I tuck my T-shirt into me underpants. I have no friends, so I confide in Willie.”
9. Krusty Gets Kancelled (Season 4, 1993)
When Krusty is pushed off the air by a new children’s show starring a talking puppet, Bart and Lisa help Krusty arrange a star-studded comeback special featuring Bette Midler, Luke Perry, Johnny Carson, Hugh Hefner, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. (Liz Taylor declines to participate.)
This is Krusty’s best episode—better than the reunion with his father, or the Bar Mitzvah episode, which won an Emmy much later on. The incorporation of guest stars as themselves is top-notch, and we get to see the really dark side of Krusty’s flailing showbiz career. Hollywood, television, celebrities, and fans are all beautifully skewered here.
Great moment: When Perry, who is Krusty’s half-brother, pleads to be a part of the show, Krusty imagines shooting him from a cannon into a brick wall. Later, when Krusty actually does shoot him from a cannon, Perry flies through several buildings, including a sandpaper museum, shouting, “My face! My valuable face!,” before landing in a pillow factory, which is then demolished.
8. Bart the Murderer (Season 3, 1991)
After a lousy day at school, Bart falls down some stairs and into the hangout of local mobsters, who give him an after-school bartending job. Principal Skinner disappears after causing problems for Bart at work; when the mobsters are put on trial for Principal Skinner’s murder, Bart discovers there is no honor among thieves.
An oldie but a goodie. Here we’re introduced to Fat Tony, voiced by Joe Mantegna, who is one of the most reliable recurring guest voices. This episode makes the cut because of the inspired Mafia satire (GoodFellas, The Godfather) and because it goes deeper into Bart’s ongoing conflict with authority figures.
7. Homer’s Enemy (Season 8, 1997)
Mr. Burns is touched by a news story about an unfortunate man named Frank Grimes, who suffered terrible hardships as a child but went on to earn a degree in nuclear physics. Mr. Burns hires him at the nuclear plant, where Homer’s buffoonery and laziness earn Grimes’s ire.
Perhaps the darkest Simpsons episode ever. Grimes works hard, is honest and unselfish; he is quite literally everything Homer is not. To see him fail, and ultimately be destroyed, once he enters Homer’s world is hilarious and satisfying. Longtime scribe George Meyer once jokingly speculated in an interview that it was after this episode that the show lost its moral grounding.
Great moment: Homer: “Hi, Grimey, old buddy.” Grimes: “I’m not your buddy, Simpson. I don’t like you. In fact, I hate you! Stay the hell away from me, because from now on, we’re enemies!” [Grimes turns to leave.] Homer: “O.K. Do I have to do anything?”
6. The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show (Season 8, 1997)
When the producers of Itchy & Scratchy realize that viewers have become tired of the show, they introduce a new character, Poochie, a dog, voiced by Homer. Poochie, cobbled together by network executives, is resoundingly rejected by the public.
This episode, the 167th, marked the moment that The Simpsons surpassed The Flintstones as the longest-running animated sitcom ever. A classic satire of network influence, obsessed TV fans, and programs that survive long after the shark has been jumped, the episode is a meta-celebration, a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal to everyone who claimed that the quality of The Simpsons had declined over the years.
Great moment: After the ratings come in and the Itchy & Scratchy executives discover that everyone hates Poochie, Homer shares his ideas about how to improve the show: “One, Poochie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Poochie’s not on-screen, all the other characters should be asking ‘Where’s Poochie?’ Three …”
Tidbit: George Meyer voices the writer who insults the network executives and mocks their corporate-speak. Also animated in that scene are show-runners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. (Oakley is later roughed up by Krusty.)
5. Two Bad Neighbors (Season 7, 1996)
Homer goes to war with his new neighbor, George H. W. Bush. The former president steals Homer’s title of “King of the Neighborhood,” then spanks Bart after the unruly child destroys his memoirs (which conclude, “Since I’ve achieved all my goals as president in one term, there was no need for a second”).
Conservatives ended up loving The Simpsons, because the show extolled the importance of family, church attendance, and distrust of institutions. But George H. W. Bush and his family-values cronies were originally against the show. Barbara Bush once called it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.” While the Simpsons people have always claimed evenhandedness in their satire, the show is, after all, hardly right-leaning, and it’s hard to miss how gleefully the former president is mocked here.
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