Posted on 10/21/2010 6:54:14 AM PDT by tlb
That’s enough to make you believe in the end times.
All I ever see in a Will Smith movie, is a hip, lightweight, TV actor named Will Smith.
Randy Quaid was nice too.
But that movie was full of PC stereotyping and usual Hollywood fare....some righty pundits actually commented on this aspect. Cataclysm movies do that a lot.
It was a Bruckheimer blockbuster was it not?
some of his movies are pretty non insulting and lecturing but big
I just never liked Smith, I find his wife very manly and this notion that he is a modern black Jimmy Stewart in a solid marriage is a joke. He is a nutty left wing Scientologist in an open marriage.
Of course with obamacare around the bend, we won't really need a remake of that one.
Good point.
His character was the best in the movie. He was the hardworking, hard drinking Viet Nam vet that had been to hell and back. He stuck by his convictions in spite of all the harassment and everybody who thought of him as a kook. In the end, it turned out he was right all along, and he still ends up sacrificing everything for his kid's future.
Now that I'm thinking about it...his character was kind of a proto-tea partier!
There were some parts of the second book that were VERY un-PC (Forbin's wife sent away for "punishment"), no way anything like that would be allowed today...
Be on the lookout for them to cast Colossus as the World Wide Web that has been taken over by right-wing bloggers and FRee Republic and the good guys as the Dinosaur Media who have been put out of business.
I agree, Baldwin’s great in Chuck - and was simply terrific in Firefly.
It’s a Ron Howard, I would not pay one cent to see something he puts together. Plus ANOTHER remake! BOO! And Will Smith = so what and boring. It sure won’t be on my list of things to watch, ever
Thanks!
No, a remake of Zardoz starring Robert Pattinson, or Taylor Lautner, or better, or worse yet, Ashton Kuchar.
IMO they’re remaking it now for exactly the same reason they made it then: in the mid to late 1970’s our economy was in a world of hurt, and somebody discovered that The End Of It All in various forms sold tickets. (The amazing sequence of big-time disaster movies like “Posideon Adventure” and “Airport” is another matter.)
Recall “Rollover”, “Soylent Green”, and many “Planet of the Apes” movies that came out over the span of just a few years — they all ended very badly indeed.
How many people ever heard of Zardoz, much less like it. (I do!)
And if this falls through, Will Smith will star in the Tyler Perry-directed remake of “Soylent Green”, called “Soul Brother Wafers.”
Soul Brother Wafers and a bowl of Condoleeza Rice.
...with Al Gore as Tim Berners-Lee?
An idea pick would have been Harrison Ford or Mel Gibson.
I cant really see Smith as a computer wiz. He didnt sell me as a MD in I am Legend.
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