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Ron Howard should seriously just quit........
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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#1 - 2013-04-08 21:57:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
.......as he has fallen so far from "Apollo 13". I mean really. A car racing movie ? Seriously ??

Edit: Invalid link. See post below.

And you know you are in for trouble when there are no less than FIVE studio logos before the trailer starts.


EDIT: One would think he would distance himself from anything to do with cars after "Gung Ho".

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Noriko Satomi
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-04-08 22:22:50 UTC
Did you mean this one? http://www.aintitcool.com/node/61866

I got a 404 from your link.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#3 - 2013-04-08 22:26:37 UTC
Noriko Satomi wrote:
Did you mean this one? http://www.aintitcool.com/node/61866

I got a 404 from your link.



Yeah, that's weird. I copied the link when I was directly on the page and nowhere else.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Noriko Satomi
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-04-08 22:35:48 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Noriko Satomi wrote:
Did you mean this one? http://www.aintitcool.com/node/61866

I got a 404 from your link.



Yeah, that's weird. I copied the link when I was directly on the page and nowhere else.

Maybe those aren't permalinks?
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#5 - 2013-04-08 22:47:55 UTC
Noriko Satomi wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Noriko Satomi wrote:
Did you mean this one? http://www.aintitcool.com/node/61866

I got a 404 from your link.



Yeah, that's weird. I copied the link when I was directly on the page and nowhere else.

Maybe those aren't permalinks?



They have been static on that site since 1995. Just strange.

Maybe they edited a change on the page and it changed the article number.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#6 - 2013-04-09 02:24:19 UTC
...or how about watching "Ed TV" tonight on Netflix ?????

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#7 - 2013-04-09 14:12:23 UTC
Done right, it could be done.
It's a bit niche and out of our usual track.* There's an awful lot of complexity going on in auto racing; far, far more than meets the eye. It'll take both a talented director AND a really good script to make it worthwhile. Ron Howard may just be able to manage it, if he can rise to his old form.



*Heh.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#8 - 2013-04-09 14:18:29 UTC
silens vesica wrote:
Done right, it could be done.
It's a bit niche and out of our usual track.* There's an awful lot of complexity going on in auto racing; far, far more than meets the eye. It'll take both a talented director AND a really good script to make it worthwhile. Ron Howard may just be able to manage it, if he can rise to his old form.



*Heh.


Well, Tony Scott was able to make "Days of Thunder" at least look interesting. Ron Howard is just so.....visually bland. Even for his "Grinch" movie Ugh he could think of nothing but imitating Tim Burton's production design.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Copine Callmeknau
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2013-04-09 14:49:45 UTC
Don't care about movies
Just want arrested development :p

There should be a rather awesome pic here
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#10 - 2013-04-09 15:10:59 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
silens vesica wrote:
Done right, it could be done.
It's a bit niche and out of our usual track.* There's an awful lot of complexity going on in auto racing; far, far more than meets the eye. It'll take both a talented director AND a really good script to make it worthwhile. Ron Howard may just be able to manage it, if he can rise to his old form.



*Heh.


Well, Tony Scott was able to make "Days of Thunder" at least look interesting. Ron Howard is just so.....visually bland. Even for his "Grinch" movie Ugh he could think of nothing but imitating Tim Burton's production design.

The Grinch movie reeked of 'design by committee.' Don't know that it's true, but it looked like a committee trying to capture Geisel's inimitable look. I personally lost huge amounts of respect for Howard's integrity when he weasled the widow Geisel into allowing him to do the movie.

Slimy or not, though, he's got skills. I could see how a flat 'documentary style' looking movie could be turned into something interesting, maybe by allowing skulduggery to sneak in around the edges until what started out looking like a 'day in the life' starts showing signs of unsavory activities, tense situations, and moral ambiguity corroding the 'wholesome' race scene.

Idea being, don't tell the viewer what they're seeing, allow them to pick it up from context.

That might be a bit too subtle for Howard, though.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#11 - 2013-04-09 15:53:27 UTC
silens vesica wrote:


Idea being, don't tell the viewer what they're seeing, allow them to pick it up from context.

That might be a bit too subtle for Howard, though.



Thinking about it, I believe he actually accomplished this with "A Beautiful Mind".

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#12 - 2013-04-09 16:17:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
silens vesica wrote:


Idea being, don't tell the viewer what they're seeing, allow them to pick it up from context.

That might be a bit too subtle for Howard, though.



Thinking about it, I believe he actually accomplished this with "A Beautiful Mind".

That was a good movie, but he took a lot of liberty in representing the guy's life. In other words, he invented events that had never, ever happened, just to make the story more dramatic. Not very cool to fictionalize, IMO, when you're representing a real person's life to the public. Now I wonder how much of Apollo 13's storyline was just Ron Howard fictionally-enhanced drama.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#13 - 2013-04-09 16:30:05 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Now I wonder how much of Apollo 13's storyline was just Ron Howard fictionally-enhanced drama.



That would be interesting to find out. It was such a terrifying incident, they probably did not have to do much enhancing.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#14 - 2013-04-09 17:49:24 UTC  |  Edited by: silens vesica
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
silens vesica wrote:


Idea being, don't tell the viewer what they're seeing, allow them to pick it up from context.

That might be a bit too subtle for Howard, though.



Thinking about it, I believe he actually accomplished this with "A Beautiful Mind".

Yup.
Thanks to that movie, John Nash became one of my wife's celebrity crushes.

Khergit Deserters wrote:

That was a good movie, but he took a lot of liberty in representing the guy's life. In other words, he invented events that had never, ever happened, just to make the story more dramatic. Not very cool to fictionalize, IMO, when you're representing a real person's life to the public. Now I wonder how much of Apollo 13's storyline was just Ron Howard fictionally-enhanced drama.

Fair point, though John Nash doesn't seem to mind - Not based on some of the speaking events my wife has stalk... erm, attended.

According to people who ought to know (my parents, both involved in the early days of the space program*), Apollo 13 was quite close.


*My father was asked to take the Flight Director position, but turned it down**, leaving it open for Gene Kranz. I've seen the letter.


** One of the moments in his life he regrets the most. He thought people would die an awful lot in the program, and didn't want his name on it.

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#15 - 2013-04-09 18:15:12 UTC
Thats not an F1 car...
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#16 - 2013-04-10 16:01:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Brujo Loco
I sometimes wish the opposite from certain directors, I would love to see for instance, Mario Salieri working on a big budget film that is NOT XXX. His "style" is so well known other new emerging directors try to emulate him. He really makes those movies something more than a 5 minute affair.

To this day I am addicted to chiaroscuro scenes in porn/mainstream movies because of him. Most Adult films these days are raw unprocessed IN YOUR FACE flesh. No lightning, photometry, proper angles, just GONZO obliterations over and over.

Some of his movies had good stories, solid directing (I mean it, making porn actors ACT must be a tough job) and he actually has a solid way of rating actors for their performances in his webpage

Also having a free uncoded XXX european channel in your decoding box , after the initial shock back in the day, makes you start looking at them from a diff angle. I also find European productions far superior to USA ones in terms of casting.

I also wrote all of this just for the fun of it (I also enjoy Apple Pie)

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Ivy Romanova
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#17 - 2013-04-11 02:25:02 UTC
Every time I watch back the old F1 races .. it saddens me how the Health and Safety communist department is taking away our fun one step a time ....
First theres no more flat bottom because of "potential cavity" , then we are forced to tone down the CC ... then computer overdrives ... damn

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Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#18 - 2013-04-11 12:45:47 UTC
Ivy Romanova wrote:
Every time I watch back the old F1 races .. it saddens me how the Health and Safety communist department is taking away our fun one step a time ....
First theres no more flat bottom because of "potential cavity" , then we are forced to tone down the CC ... then computer overdrives ... damn


You just reminded me of that awesome Anime, about lethal racing, where suddenly one guy just blows up in spectacular fashion during a race and then everyone´s appetite for the race winded down, as the narrator implied perhaps watchers were just waiting for a glorious accident/death to happen and once sated the whole fandom died down.

What was the name of that anime? I loved it! ...

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TomyLobo
U2EZ
#19 - 2013-04-11 19:21:20 UTC
Ivy Romanova wrote:
Every time I watch back the old F1 races .. it saddens me how the Health and Safety communist department is taking away our fun one step a time ....
First theres no more flat bottom because of "potential cavity" , then we are forced to tone down the CC ... then computer overdrives ... damn

Although I wasn't born during the era of Senna, Prost and Co, I can relate to this trend on many levels. This has been the case for pretty much every racing class of cars. Just three years ago, GT1 cars were fire breathing, burp spouting monsters but today they have all been phased out for mere GT3 cars. For example, The FIA GT competition isn't as awesome as it used to be and it shows in the steep decline of professional racing drivers. Almost everyone participating this year is either a factory driver or some rich dude. I'm left with the Japanese super GT as it's the only real thing left that I know of.
Dontlookatme TheGingers
State War Academy
Caldari State
#20 - 2013-04-11 19:29:49 UTC
Copine Callmeknau wrote:
Don't care about movies
Just want arrested development :p



Couldn't have said it better!
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