BECAUSE NED DEMANDED IT

This is gonna be some Pi-meets-Se7en kind of bullshit.

Miami style.

The plot sounds a bit like the godawful Stranger Than Fiction. That’s three reasons not to see it, then.

4! 8! 15! 16! 23! 42!

When I was 19 I would be shitting myself with anticipation. Pants shat.

Now that I’m 28 though it still tops my sneaking-beer-into-the-dollar-theater list though.

watching the trailer for this makes me feel embarrassed.

I especially like the part where the filmmakers assume that the target audience can’t do simple 3rd grade math, because adding 4 to 19 when you’re chowing down on seven dollar chicken fingers is HARD.

So you all are saying you’d prefer Jim Carrey in a dual role as a serial killer nerd and as a grossly obese woman vying for his affections?

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

THIRTY THREE MILLION THIS WEEKEND, BAY BEE

looks even worse than conspiracy theory

Joel Schumacher hasn’t done anything worthwhile since he designed the costumes for Woody Allen’s Sleeper.

Dude, c’mon:

(Can’t find the gif.)

i saw the trailer for this last night. oof.

Joel Schumacher is definitely underrated. Phone Booth was a clever piece of genre film and Flawless is one of the best films ever to deal with transgenderism. If only it had discarded the silly crime subplot, it would’ve been, er, flawless.

other Joel films:

D.C. Cab

St. Elmo’s Fire

Dying Young

Batman Forever

Batman and Robin

8MM

The Phantom of the Opera...

can’t find the gif either : (

Flatliners

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

And I care about neither of these persons, but taking the number 23 in vain is just not done. OK, it could be worse, it could be 22. But this is just a step too far for lamer Illuminati conspiracy wannabees.

Since ILE so often loves genre directors who manage to put some life into non-personal projects, I wonder why Schumacher is so universally hated. Even Batman Forever had some great moments, it seems that people who hate it are the ones who think Batman should always be gloomy and gothic. (Then again, the sixties movie gets a lot love here too.)

Even Batman Forever had some great moments
Even Batman Forever had some great moments
Even Batman Forever had some great moments
Even Batman Forever had some great moments
Even Batman Forever had some great moments

Batman Forever is really kind of awesome.

The Lost Boys is still a fantastic film. Also, I loved the over the topness of the Phantom of the Opera.

But I know that I am film deaf, and not entitled to have opinions in these weighty matters. ;-P

My heart is physically pained by the lack of pelvisthrustingsaxman.gif.

(Consequently I had no idea Joel Schumacher—a filmmaker I almost DESPISE—was behind The Lost Boys...this changes EVERYTHING!)

(Not really.)

jim carrey looks like jared leto in this

On a scale of 1 to 10, my baby’s a 23

I’m actually kinda impressed that Jim Carrey is doing this. Every comedian wants to do the Tom Hanks comedy-comedy-comedy-OSCARNOM thing, but he’s actually going for a trashy thriller! Tom Hanks didn’t do that, unless you want to count The Da Vinci Code.

Also I love Virginia Madsen.

My friends and I went to a matinee of Batman & Robin aged 18 and stoned out of our boxes, and came out of the cinema having decided that it was the funniest film ever made. I’ve not watched it since, I imagine it would be a huge let down when sober.

Will Schumacher ever have a Verhoven-style critical reapraisal, I wonder (not that he neccessarily deserves one).

8mm is one of the funniest films ever made, batman forever is decent, batman & robin is unwatchable on any level

Verhoven-style critical reappraisal

Was there a time when people didn’t see him as a crazy old coot with arty aspirations and a fascism fixation?

Srsly, speaking from ignorance here.

The year of my birth adds up to 23!

Also I love Virginia Madsen.

Yeah, why are we having a thread about Joel Shitwhatever instead of having a VIRGINIA MADSEN TOTALLY HOT YAY BOOBIES thread

“(In) every interview I read, somebody was asking her about her weight and, ‘Do you throw up in the bathroom?’ I mean, no one asks teenage boys, ‘Do you have pubic hair yet? What size are your balls?’ Whereas they’ll ask a teenage girl, ‘Are you still a virgin?’”

How come no one has mentioned Hurley from Lost yet?