I'm a little more enthused to see it after seeing the trailer in theaters, but not nearly as I was for previous Pixar movies. Along with Cars 2 and a slew of announced sequels coming up, Pixar seems to be in a sort of slump lately.

Agreed. It's very well done, very spooky.

No way they shelve it. The article does say people who've seen it say the first half is great. That's more than most movies.

I always suspected this would be a hard book to translate into a feature film. It sounds like they tried to go the "Contagion" route, or something similar, and that doesn't seem to fit what made the book so good. I've never been a fan of Marc Forster, and thought he made a pretty weak Bond movie, particularly in…

Isn't it time to give Giamatti his due beyond Pig Vomit? The guy was flat out great in "American Splendor", "Sideways", and "Ides of March". Meanwhile, Stern is doing "America's Got Talent".

Is "Noah" an indie project? You'd think after "Evan Almighty", Hollywood would stay away from stories about guys building arks.

Yeah, when is Nolan going to add the Bat-tusi back?

Studios get to recut film because they paid to make them. They own the film. Fans don't own the film, as much as they would like to think they do.

a lot of that happens when there's only a certain window of time you can get a lead actor. I've also heard movies starting to take advantage of expiring tax credits. To a lot of producers and studio executives, a script is just a treatment with dialogue, and not to be taken seriously.

World War Z always should have been a cable mini-series or, at the very least, an Altman-esque style horror movie, not another star driven apocalypse movie.

If you believe that they took a lot of stuff from H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", then the "why" is in line with the notion that the Engineers created mankind as a lark and that all our achievements and supposed superiority is nothing but the product of a joke, and, as such, could be wiped out for no…

I had an epiphany while watching Sucker Punch: Emily Browning in a little school girl outfit for 2 hours isn't enough for me to like a movie. I wouldn't have guessed that beforehand.

I always thought the "why" was deliberately left unanswered. Isn't that why the two survivors go out into the universe to try and find the answer to? I was more puzzled as to why David poisoned Charlie's drink and infected him. Maybe I missed it, but it seemed like a pretty random thing to do and all it did, story…

I was never a fan of this character, but this just looks awful. DC really has no idea what it's doing in Hollywood, do they? Once they lose Chris Nolan they're screwed.

I'm not one given to reading sci-fi, but Bradbury was always an exception. His movies were less about "science" and the speculative nature of the genre, than about how the future affected humans. Flesh and blood humans who had problems like us. That also extended to his vast wealth of stories and books that had…

I vacillate between Alien and Aliens. Right now, I'm on the Aliens bandwagon. I just saw it again recently and marvelled at how good it was and how Cameron went his own way and just got about everything right, even down to the subverting of the macho action hero. It just all worked, and still does. I've tried Alien 3…

#6: Well, they put Marion Cotillard's line right after that scene, so it's a good assumption, esp. if she plays Talia as has been speculated.

Gonna have to go cold turkey on anymore spoilers. Knowing a signature moment is that Bruce Wayne has to climb out of a pit like he wasn't able to as a child is enough for me until July.

Chris Nolan's movies aren't anywhere similar to Hitchcock (or Kubrick, as I've often also heard). He's more like Michael Mann. He essentially co-opts Mann's urban noir style that was used so effectively in "Heat". Even listen to the "Mombasa" track on "Inception" soundtrack: It's practically a rewrite of a track from…

Reeves was pretty good in that small movie that Sam Raimi made, "The Gift", where he played Hilary Swank's abusive redneck husband. He should play more villains.