| dsage01 said: I did a FRIENDS marathon and finished season 1-10 (every episode) in about three or so weeks. Anyone else still watch that show? |
It was funny at the time, but aged rather quickly. I think people in America have become more like Seifeld characters than the people of friends. Kind of like Jay Leno and his "How Dumb are you sketches". America is not really that dumb. We know where the Statue of Liberty is and that Europe is not a country. Same with Friends. They all play dumb and extreme personalitites. Over the top Ditzy Blond girl, Retarded but sweet Hunk guy, Chandler who thought everyone was an idiot all the time by the facial expressions he made, Over the top sister to guys who plays giraffe on " Madagascar", etc, etc. I think Jennifer Aniston was the most normal character there, but despite how normal she was, she worked as a waitress and had some balding Albino checking her out all the time and waited on her friends. Two of them she really waited on!
@ Mr. Khan
It is surprising that it was so rushed since Orson Scott Card has basically been working on it publically since around 1996. Unless Gavin Hood totally reworked the entire thing when he took charge of it.
I was reading up on the film. There is a war room? Supposedly it is the size of a few football fields. Then there was some anti-gravity effects in the film as well? Those were done off of two new inventions. One is called a Lollipop arm, which is a counter balance, like a teeter totter to help people look like they can leap far distances, and there was also a machine that made it look like they were riding an air hockey puck. Floating through air if you will. Many of the actors and the film itself was shot at Nasa and they did a lot of training for it.
Too bad it is getting mediocre reviews. But for a 110 million dollar budget it has a good chance of making it's money back. There is not much competition since Bad Grandpa made most of it's gross last weekend I am sure. Sadly some may have already gotten their Sci Fi'x with the movie " Gravity". But if it does do well....maybe another one could fix this one's problems.
Yah, Screenplay was done in 2009, and Gavin Hood was attached in 2010. So it should have had plenty of time to develop. Summit Entertainment is a hit or miss company. Known for trying to turn books into hit films....such as ..cough..Twilight.
I decided to see Planes over Ender's Game last night. Planes was actually a good Disney film, I will wait for Ender at the Dollar Show.
