Marvel's Three Year Plan & How to Doom a Movie
So with the success of Ironman, Marvel is going out full swing and has announced their plans for how they'll be proceeding in to the future.
For the rabid fans the sad part is these plans begin two years from now.
Beginning with the Summer 2010 movie season, Marvel plans on launching with "Ironman 2" around the weekend of April 30th - May 2nd. They'll be following up a bit later in the summer with "Thor" around early June.
Their Summer 2011 plans are a bit more interesting. They plan on doing what is apparently a two-parter for the summer, starting with the tentatively titled "The First Avenger: Captain America" on the first weekend in May (May 6th) and then continuing with "The Avengers" in July of 2011.
So that's all done, now for the 2nd part of my title for this blog. Hollyweird has had this fascination recently with making movies PG-13 to try and attract audiences when the people who the movie is actually targeted at are of the "R" age level. They did it with the first Alien vs Predator, they did it with Die Hard 4, just to name a few of the more recent/high profile ones. Seeing a pattern in the general level of suckage brought to the film due to the non-R rating? Now don't get me wrong, I loved Die Hard 4. Great flick when you get passed the mental block in your brain that refuses to acknowledge that John McClain can't say the word "fuck".
So that all being said, especially with noting Die Hard there as a franchise that was ALWAYS rated R... WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE THE NEW TERMINATOR MOVIE PG-13?!
I barely believe it typing it out myself, so here's the article I read in Variety that spilled the news.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1
I really don't know what to say. Whatever promise the movie showed kinda just evaporated for me. The whole attraction to this flick is some amazing futuristic sci-fi action... but R rated level, like with armies of Terminators firing laser beams pew pew and actually hitting something and seeing, well, an awesome sci-fi action flick that makes my head spin... not one where punches are pulled to make it teen-friendly.
In other news, Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy fame has signed a $100 million deal with Fox. He's now the highest paid writer there is. Damn manatee bastard.
For the rabid fans the sad part is these plans begin two years from now.
Beginning with the Summer 2010 movie season, Marvel plans on launching with "Ironman 2" around the weekend of April 30th - May 2nd. They'll be following up a bit later in the summer with "Thor" around early June.
Their Summer 2011 plans are a bit more interesting. They plan on doing what is apparently a two-parter for the summer, starting with the tentatively titled "The First Avenger: Captain America" on the first weekend in May (May 6th) and then continuing with "The Avengers" in July of 2011.
So that's all done, now for the 2nd part of my title for this blog. Hollyweird has had this fascination recently with making movies PG-13 to try and attract audiences when the people who the movie is actually targeted at are of the "R" age level. They did it with the first Alien vs Predator, they did it with Die Hard 4, just to name a few of the more recent/high profile ones. Seeing a pattern in the general level of suckage brought to the film due to the non-R rating? Now don't get me wrong, I loved Die Hard 4. Great flick when you get passed the mental block in your brain that refuses to acknowledge that John McClain can't say the word "fuck".
So that all being said, especially with noting Die Hard there as a franchise that was ALWAYS rated R... WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE THE NEW TERMINATOR MOVIE PG-13?!
I barely believe it typing it out myself, so here's the article I read in Variety that spilled the news.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1
I really don't know what to say. Whatever promise the movie showed kinda just evaporated for me. The whole attraction to this flick is some amazing futuristic sci-fi action... but R rated level, like with armies of Terminators firing laser beams pew pew and actually hitting something and seeing, well, an awesome sci-fi action flick that makes my head spin... not one where punches are pulled to make it teen-friendly.
In other news, Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy fame has signed a $100 million deal with Fox. He's now the highest paid writer there is. Damn manatee bastard.
Total Comments 10
Comments
 |  100% agreed. |
Posted 05-05-2008 at 11:06 AM by Kazeyonoma  |
| |  YAY Family Guy! Booo PG-13! YAY Iron Man! YAY Marvel! |
Posted 05-05-2008 at 12:33 PM by MasterWolf  |
| |  Guess that does about sum up this blog. :P |
| Posted 05-05-2008 at 01:46 PM by Velhym |
| |  I don't think the state of being PG-13 or R necassarily means a movie will be entertaining/not entertaining. When the content is altered to suit a rating or audience, then it tends to hurt the film. The 1st and 3rd Terminator films were pretty brutal...the 2nd one was pretty Hollywood. But that's something where I think its a bad move to cut it down to PG-13. Alot of movies are dumbed down (not just on ratings flags like language, violence and nudity) to appeal to a wider audience. Hollywood doesn't necassarily destory everything it touches but it butchers quite a bit. |
| Posted 05-05-2008 at 02:24 PM by Horacio |
| | I don't have any doubt that the movie can still be entertaining and be PG-13. I conceded that point back when I was arguing with friends over Die Hard. I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to a franchise though. Having the new Terminator and Die Hard be PG-13 is like asking Rambo to be PG-13, or on the flip side asking Toy Story 3 to be an R movie. There are certain movies and franchises for certain things. You don't need to mess with what's made them immensely successful. |
| Posted 05-05-2008 at 03:45 PM by Velhym |
| | This is similar to my complaint about Australian video game classifications. Just as a bit of background, your R rating is about equivalent to our MA-15+ rating, and films and television shows have an R-18+ rating. However, video games do not. The film and literature classification office seem to still believe that video games are for children, despite the fact that the average gamer age in Australia is 28. In fact, this comment may end up becoming a full blog entry. I say this is similar because video games that cannot be classified as MA-15+ either have to be censored or are simply not allowed to be sold. (The former happened to GTA4 here, just one scene though from what I've heard). Edit: Okay, it's not really similar. I just needed to put it in text so I have somewhere to go from for the blog entry. |
| Posted 05-06-2008 at 01:31 AM by Arrivan |
| | An R rating on Terminator in 1984 is a whole lot different from an R rating today, not to say I disagree with what your saying, I don't like th idea of losing content to appeal to a wider audience. Mature content is viewed in a different light every passing year, as people become more and more desensitized to it, In the late 20s to much cleavage didnt warrant an R rating, the movie was not allowed to be shown. Lack of the word Fuck is one of the only things I can think of that the new Die Hard lacked compared tot he old ones. |
| Posted 05-06-2008 at 08:33 AM by Ceravantes |
| | Dear Entertainment Reporter: Any news on the rumored BioWare/Lucas new Star wars MMO? I caught a whiff of it and googled around some. Its super sekrit at this point but there are some signs pointing to it. Frankly, I'd be very interested in such a thing. I played both KotOR games and the first one rocked hard...the 2nd one was meh. BioWare made the first one. |
| Posted 05-06-2008 at 08:52 AM by Horacio |
| | I was just talking about this with a coworker yesterday. Lemme dig through my chat logs. :P As for "Rated R meaning less", I do agree that a full on action flick can often get away with what the MPAA tends to consider "R Level" violence while the flick remains PG-13. We saw this with Transformers, we definitely saw this to an extent with Die Hard. I'm a hard core movie fanatic, so I just get irked when something like this happens. Had Die Hard been filmed with the R rating in mind instead of PG-13, I can imagine we would have seen a bit more brutal movie. I dislike the knowledge that I could have gotten more auditory and visual stimulus had the punches not been pulled. :P |
| Posted 05-06-2008 at 09:03 AM by Velhym |
| |  I loved the first KotOR game. It was one of the first games where I found myself up at stupid AM to play it. Tell me more. |
| Posted 05-06-2008 at 02:45 PM by Honorshammer |
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