Movie News, Reviews, & Reactions 2010

[Desertpuma]

I was hesitant to watch mainly because Benicio Del Toro cannot be believable as a Brit

[Sletchman]

I was hesitant to watch mainly because Benicio Del Toro cannot be believable as a Brit

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They say that he was raised by his Aunt, in America.

[Nepenthe]

I actually fell asleep in the middle of Wolfman, so bored was I while watching it.

This. It's among the top three reasons I can't in good conscience recommend this flick. Maybe as a rental, when you can view scenes one at at time over a few days...

The worst part was that I saw it with a male friend, so I couldn't even focus my attention on my date. In fact, I found myself thinking precisely this several times during the movie.

[Wolverine]

Photos from the upcoming Tekken movie.

Oy vey.

[Sletchman]

Photos from the upcoming Tekken movie.

Oy vey.

Lets juts hope its as excellent as the other fighting game to movie adaptations - Dead or Alive and Mortal Kombat.

[Mister Andersen]

I am provisionally excited just based on those visuals -- a combination of pretty people (who will be beating the crap out of each other) and reasonably faithful key character design

[Morgenstern]

Yeah. I could recognize all of the characters and there was even a bit of relevant ethnic diveristy in the casting. Given the visual lexicon of live action mixed martial arts to tell the make-up artists what to do, this has some potential. The plot is gonna be terrible, but terrible plot is sort of a given in these things. Tekken has a shade more story than some of the fighting game franchises, but once you get the number of characters up that high even the love-dodecahedron model starts to break down .

[Mister Andersen]

I wonder which monstrous boss they're going to hit us with?

[glimmerrat]

Am I the only person who cringes every time they do one of these movies?

[Mister Andersen]

Only because of the natural expectation is the words "video game movie" will be followed by the words "directed by Ewe Bole"

[Wolverine]

Am I the only person who cringes every time they do one of these movies?

I try to take them on a case-by-case basis. Sure, Street Fighter was terrible, but they managed to slip some funny moments in there. Mortal Kombat was actually pretty good despite some odd casting choices.

I don't know what to think of Tekken yet, but the trailer isn't giving me much hope.

[ThunderMonkey]

Am I the only person who cringes every time they do one of these movies?

I try to take them on a case-by-case basis. Sure, Street Fighter was terrible, but they managed to slip some funny moments in there.

Yeah... it's a crying shame that "Street Fighter" was the final movie of one of the great thespians of the stage and screen, Raúl Juliá.

[Crafty_Pat]

Am I the only person who cringes every time they do one of these movies?

Nope.

[Crafty_Pat]

Columbia Revives Doc Savage

Ian McShane to play Blackbeard

[Mister Andersen]

I still think Brian Blessed would have been a better choice. The man's scaled Everest twice and undergone a Mars mission simulation, pirate shenanigans would be a walk in the park