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That's weird about Eric Roberts doing the voice work over the phone, because he was interviewed about this and when the interviewer pointed out the bad sound work Roberts blamed it on a sound engineer.

On the other hand, he was great as Charles Darwin in Creation.

Yeah that Wolf of Wall Street movie looks kinda insane.

Well I have to disagree with you there. There's amazing CGI stuff out there, and the best stuff is usually the bits you don't even know are CGI. But that monkey was awful, even for the time period.

How about this?

I think the movie is pretty horrible. The cast has no chemistry whatsoever. Everyone looks bored. At least Gary Oldman tries to play up the campiness and have a little fun. Everyone else is taking it way too seriously. Also, this movie is UGLY. The color palette is ugly, the CGI is ugly, the costumes are ugly. I think there's plenty here to digest for an episode (and at least it isn't as boring as After Earth).

This movie pretty much marks the end of the good portion of Dabney Coleman's career. He had a bit of a comeback with Boardwalk Empire, but the 90s & aughts are a dark period.

Gary Oldman's scene-chewing is the only thing that makes this movie close to bearable. Also, I'm pretty sure Heather Graham is a robot. She can never approximate anything close to a real human emotion, regardless of the material.

I honestly thought Priest was a sequel to this when it came out.

My favorite Star Trek show was Deep Space Nine, and I remember reading an interview with Avery Brooks (who played Captain Sisko and is an amazingly powerful actor - much like Patrick Stewart he can elevate crummy material to near art), and he was talking about the final episode of DS9 where (warning, there are going to be some vague spoilers for that episode ahead) Sisko basically goes into another dimension to teach these aliens about our universe, etc (he sort of ascends into higher consciousness, if you will). So the thing is Sisko had a son in the series, and then he had just married another woman and she was pregnant. The way the ending was originally shot it was more tragic because it was clear he'd never return, but Avery Brooks went to the writers and said he was uncomfortable with the implications because even though the show was taking place in the 24th Century and people were supposed to have moved beyond race, the viewers were in the 20th and in the 20th there were a lot of stereotypes & hangups about black men abandoning their children, and he didn't want to play into that. So the writers went back and rewrote the ending, and then they reshot all the scenes to make it clear that he would return to his family at some point. I thought that was a great example of why you need more diversity not only in front of the camera but also behind it (regardless of the genre).

My only takeaway on this was it looked like Constantine Redux.

So you're saying Peter Hook doesn't make an appearance?

I felt this was the best way to express how bonkers this movie is. Words are not enough! Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, plus he co-wrote Blazing Saddles (and was originally supposed to play the lead). He was frequently associated with crap, though.

I will publicly throw my support behind that one. The teddy bear/furry scene alone deserves discussion.

Relevant quote from a recent interview with Jane Espenson: "...if we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones."

If they don't end up doing Southland Tales, I would like to start a pre-rumor that it's all Amy Poehler's fault.

OMG WHAT IF LEE ISN'T REAL?!?

This made for a nice 30-minute Twilight Zone, but I can't imagine how they'd stretch it into a 2-hour movie.

It's okay Shannon, you couldn't have known the horrors The Happening would unleash upon us.

Sorry, I didn't mean to seem snarky, I was just starting to see this thread as a sort of mobius strip from which we would never escape.

Oh boy, here we go again.

Hey now, Oblivion was silly but at least it was fun and pretty to look at. And none of the spaceships were made of toilet paper.

I dunno, I'm with Patton on this one. I loved Man of Steel. It didn't seem like that much of a downer to me. But then again, I've been waiting for what seems like forever to finally see Superman have a real fight on the big screen.

The same is true of a lot of golden age sci-fi literature - the covers would often have absolutely nothing to do with the content. But they sure were pretty to look at!