Movies coming in 2008: Which seems to have the least potential?

[Crazy_88s]

Who's idea was it to put "A film by Uwe Boll" on the poster?

Spoiler

Anybody wish to wager on odds that this will somehow end up as a cult classic?

[RobtheBarbarian]

It's got a monkey and a midget, so there will be enough stoners and general retards out there for this load to make at least what they spent on it. Uwe's first "success"? A horrifying idea.

[Crazy_88s]

It's got a monkey and a midget, so there will be enough stoners and general retards out there for this load to make at least what they spent on it. Uwe's first "success"? A horrifying idea.

.... If anyone wants me, I am going to the top of El Capitan so I can leap off and (hopefully) die.

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I'm sorry but you forgot to add 'whatever the hell Nic Cage is starring in next' as a voting option.  Without that choice I'll have to go with Ace Ventura Jr. as well.   

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

In the Name of the King and Scary Movie 5 cannot be other than terrible without breaking fundamental laws of the universe. Ace Ventura Jr. would seem to fall into that category, but I don't know who they have playing Junior, and who knows, he might surprise people and be good.  Uwe Boll and the Wayans Brothers, though, are known quantities of awfulness.

But SM5, being an alleged comedy, will never get a Rifftrax.  ItNotK possibly might.  Therefore, Scary Movie 5 has the least potential, since it will neither entertain itself nor inspire others to entertain in its stead.  QED.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Who's idea was it to put "A film by Uwe Boll" on the poster?

Spoiler

Anybody wish to wager on odds that this will somehow end up as a cult classic?

As I was reading the description of the plot I started thinking of Cave Dwellers.....the backstory...."The part we like to call 'She Had To Ask'..."

Doubt it would get a cult following unless they did a Rifftrax of it.

You've supplied a difficult list there.

Frankly, the trailer of Get Smart told me that they didn't really understand the original show.

Ace Ventura Jr. = The Son of The Mask.  

Scary Movie 5 worries me because the Wayans are coming back.  I thought Zucker had finally found the right note with the last one.  But if they're coming back.....

If the new Mummy movie is anything like the last one, no thanks.

Thought 10.000 BC had potential until I saw that Roland Emmerich was involved.

Wanted sounds like a 13-year-old boy's wet dream.

The Madagasgar sequel is the only one I hold some hope for because the first one was really good and the same guys did that "Penguin's Christmas Caper" that played with The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and that was great.

I guess for least potential of those listed I have to go with Ace Jr.....

Although there's also this new Rambo movie and The Killing of John Lennon - like we should care what Mark David Chapman thought.

[Petey Wheatstraw]

I'm sorry but you forgot to add 'whatever the hell Nic Cage is starring in next' as a voting option.

Don't be so down on Cage. Sure, he's made a few bad choices, but he's still a good actor.

Scary Movie 5 worries me because the Wayans are coming back.  I thought Zucker had finally found the right note with the last one.  But if they're coming back....

The Wayans Bros. are NOT coming back.

http://www.moviepicturefilm.com/index.php?itemid=1629

MPF: I have to admit I was disappointed that you both weren't involved in "Scary Movie 3 and 4". Could you set the record straight and talk about what happened? Are you coming back to the series?

SW: We are not involved in 3, 4 or 5 no matter what rumors are put out there.

MPF: Did you see 3 and 4?

SW: Yeah, they sucked. (we both laugh) "Scary Movie 2" was better than both of them and it wasn't our best one, we know that, we were rushed to do that movie...the studio that was doing them (pauses)

MPF: The Weinsteins?

SW: Yeah (sighs) that's all I have to say. Don't worry though, we got some more R rated movies coming.

[...]

MPF: How about "Epic Movie" and "Date Movie?"

SW: Yeah I've seen them, they all suck and that isn't two of the six writers that were on "Scary Movie", they're lying. When you see that, it's a lie. They're just using that. If you don't see Wayans on there, they're phony.

If only the Wayans were coming back to make the fifth Scary Movie film. Then it would actually be funny.

The Killing of John Lennon - like we should care what Mark David Chapman thought.

Actually, one of two films focusing on Chapman:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488988

[Sideswipe]

The Dungeon Siege movie is going to be a 500 megaton nuclear bomb that will atomize you as you sit in the theater.  And if you happen to surive the movie most likely you will have irepairable brain damage as well as sterility.

[Hebs]

The Killing of John Lennon

There is a very interesting scene in  the play "Six Degrees of Separation" where Paul is talking about his thesis paper for his senior year at Yale:

"My paper is going to be based on the singular idea that "Catcher in the Rye" is the most deadly book a young man can read."

In the scene, he talks about how Chapman was holding "Catcher" when he killed Lennon, that Charles Manson swore by it's sentiment of total apathy, and some other example that I can't remember. 

Really interesting

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

The Killing of John Lennon

There is a very interesting scene in  the play "Six Degrees of Separation" where Paul is talking about his thesis paper for his senior year at Yale:

"My paper is going to be based on the singular idea that "Catcher in the Rye" is the most deadly book a young man can read."

In the scene, he talks about how Chapman was holding "Catcher" when he killed Lennon, that Charles Manson swore by it's sentiment of total apathy, and some other example that I can't remember. 

Really interesting

Kind of like Michael Moore's argument in Bowling for Columbine.....  After all, bowling was the last thing the killers did before shooting up the school - why did no one try to blame it on that?

Chapman and Manson saw in "Catcher" what they wanted to see.  As they say, you bring your own conceptions to Art.  Manson also heard The Beatles telling him in "Helter Skelter" to start the "Great Race War" in America that Manson believed was coming.  Anyone else here hear that?

I still think that Chapman had set himself up in his mind that he was actually John Lennon....hidden away in Hawaii with his Asian wife, working a menial job thinking he had everyone fooled into believing he was actually living in NYC (which Lennon's self-imposed retirement allowed him).  But when Lennon decided to start working again, it burst Chapman's "bubble".   He went to NYC (after signing out at his job as John Lennon) to check out this "imposter".  Getting the autograph was probably a test and Lennon failed....or didn't fail.  And Chapman had to get rid of the person threatening his reality.

And even if that's the truth of it, it doesn't make it easier that it happened.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I think Catcher in the Rye is a rather whiney book about a whiney teenager that used to be frowned upon in schools. Now that it is being forced upon bored students rather than bored students being warned against it and told not to read it, it has lost its sole charm.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

I think Catcher in the Rye is a rather whiney book about a whiney teenager that used to be frowned upon in schools. Now that it is being forced upon bored students rather than bored students being warned against it and told not to read it, it has lost its sole charm.

They forced it upon us, too (think "That 70's Show" period) along with "A Seperate Peace".....

But I don't remember people jumping out of trees left and right as a result, then or now.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Ah yes.
"A Seperate Peace"

That and the book about a girl who had sex with and killed a gay man, not necisarily in that order, that your friend from the other english class told you about during lunchtime.

And all those modernist short stories like Bananafish.

[Tripe]

You Americans with your wacky Eng Lit classes. I read L P Hartley, Stan Barstow and Steinbeck in mine.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

You Americans with your wacky Eng Lit classes. I read L P Hartley, Stan Barstow and Steinbeck in mine.

Oh, we read Steinbeck...."The Grapes of Wrath".  Also "To Kill A Mockingbird", "Animal Farm", "Silas Marner". "Great Gatsby", "Lord of the Flies" and enough Hemingway to make you want to slit your wrists.

Another class had to read "Andersonville", which had a scene that eluded to a rape....but I don't remember any books with girls killing gay lovers....