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Originally posted by howdyrockerbaby1:
Joss originally wrote it to be a kind of Big Damn Finale for the series... but Universal wanted more of a spring board for a series or for additional movies. so its definately a good re-write

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Originally posted by DarkHood:
Not sure how I stand with this rewrite. It is all fine if Joss gets more movies or a TV show but what if Universal back out of a sequal of any kind after Serenity? It would mean that they messed up Joss' one chance of wraping everything up.

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Originally posted by rklenseth:
To point out, Universal can't make a TV series for Firefly or Serenity because of legality. Probably becuase 20th Century still owns the TV rights.

That is why I think Universal is pursuing the trilogy deal rather than a Tv series because that is what they can do as of this time.

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So the budget is 50 million now?

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So the budget is 50 million now?

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Originally posted by Gunhand:
Which doesn't seem like a lot when you see these multi-hundred-million budgets that sometimes pop up, but even though money helps a lot with quality it doesn't guarantee it. I can think of a few really horrible flops that cost well over $100 million to make.

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Originally posted by karenkay99:
yep. i just saw van helsing. i hear it cost 148 million. they could of saved a few bucks for my part. all cgi, no charactors/story/acting/etc. i was disappointed. even found myself wanting to laugh at the serious moments.
joss and company will do much better with much less, i'm sure of it.

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Originally posted by Tracer:
Van Helsing that bad?
well you've probably saved me about £3.50 then
anything you could recommend,

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3 of us went. one felt pretty much as i did. the other loved it. she's a big hugh jackman fan.
i read a review in entertainment weekly and it was dead on in my opinion. d+ i think.

i havent seen anything else recently but we are talking about meeting on monday's every other week to see something. the movies are empty on mondays.

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Originally posted by Gunhand:
Yeah I've heard that Van Helsing was pretty bad. Well actually I heard it was a stinking pile that wasn't worth the powder to blow it up with.

Of course I'll have to see it, because I love cheesy movies, but I'll wait until it's on HBO or something rather than directly pay for a ticket or anything. No way I'll be included in the ticket revenue for it because then if it makes enough you know there will be Van Helsing II.



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Originally posted by Gunhand:
Of course I'll have to see it, because I love cheesy movies,

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Van Helsing was okay, if you like LOUD CRASHING NOISE at a fairly constant rate... which I suspect you do, Gunny... also, there's like a grand total of 12 nanoseconds that do NOT have CGI SFX in it... but it's fun enough to watch, if you suspend your need for high quality acting.... plus, Kate Beckinsale in skin tight pants... heh heh...

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Van Helsing was okay, if you like LOUD CRASHING NOISE at a fairly constant rate... which I suspect you do, Gunny... also, there's like a grand total of 12 nanoseconds that do NOT have CGI SFX in it... but it's fun enough to watch, if you suspend your need for high quality acting.... plus, Kate Beckinsale in skin tight pants... heh heh...

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Do what I do when there is 'LOUD CRASHING NOISE' and Ms. Beckinsale in tight pants within the same movie...

Put your fingers in your ears and read her lips.

(Hello? Is this thing on?)

And now, like Gunny, I shall away to an underground missile silo located somewhere amidst the rural charm and 2-dimensional grandeur of a Midwestern 'fly-over state' until the radiation returns to a safe level.


Respectfully,

zoid
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