Steven Spielberg's Robopocalypse (2013)

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Expendable. said:
If it wasn't for that damn crosscutting sex scene, it would be up there.

...and wasn't Lincoln shelved? After Robert Redford's (very) mediocre The Conspirator I'd love to see Spielberg's take.
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People need to get over that sex scene. To say it ruins the entire movie is silly.
 
That article seems to indicate he has two movies coming out within a week of each other.

It puts Spielberg back into the large scale terrain that is important in his relationship with Reliance, because it is the kind of movie that can succeed on a global tent pole scale. Spielberg has two pictures he directed that are in post-production, Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn will be distributed in the U.S. on December 28, 2011 with War Horse following 5 days later. This might seem like a lot of action for one director, but remember, this is Steven Spielberg, and he has multi-tasked successfully before. Like when he shot Jurassic Park and then moved directly into Schindler's List. He turned out a summer blockbuster, followed later in 1993 by the film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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JGS said:
That article seems to indicate he has two movies coming out within a week of each other.


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Not a week. Five days apart. One motion-capture epic and one war drama. :D

This isn't the first time though.

In 1993 we had Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List.
In 1997 we had The Lost World and Amistad.
In 2002 we had Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can.
In 2005 we had War of the Worlds and Munich.

I wouldn't be surprised if he lines up something else in 2013.
 
Lakitu said:
Sounds pretty interesting, I'm glad he's returning to sci-fi:



http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/10/22/steven-spielberg-robopocalypse/

I want to see this and his Lincoln biopic in the same year. I guess this is the next big thing next to Interstellar.

Oh, and Munich is his best film. That's right.
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Lincoln is apparently a dead project at this point. Liam Neeson is said to have walked away from it due to the constant delays in getting it started.
 
antonz said:
Lincoln is apparently a dead project at this point. Liam Neeson is said to have walked away from it due to the constant delays in getting it started.
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Yep, its dead and will never happen. That said, you know if Spielberg really did want to do it at some point, Neeson would jump straight back on. He's not stupid.
 
Robopocalypse won’t be a hugely fantastical tale of the robot uprising, but aims to be more realistic. Wilson has a background in robotics and artificial intelligence which Doubleday Executive Editor and Vice President Jason Kaufman claims “grounds his story with a frightening level of realism and he has created an exhilarating story that we think audiences will really respond to.” Wilson has a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is a contributing editor to “Popular Mechanics,” and hosted a show on the History Channel called “The Works.” So yeah, expect something a lot more realistic than Transformers or Terminator Salvation.
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Fine, I'll watch it.
But if I even see a hint of robots "rebelling" or going crazy without having been programmed to possess traits enabling them to do so then I'll get pissed.
 
Expendable. said:
Not a week. Five days apart. One motion-capture epic and one war drama. :D

This isn't the first time though.

In 1993 we had Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List.
In 1997 we had The Lost World and Amistad.
In 2002 we had Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can.
In 2005 we had War of the Worlds and Munich.

I wouldn't be surprised if he lines up something else in 2013.
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I know he's double releaser, but there usually a summer release and a winter release not a double winter release. There are a lot of movie goers that go to see a movie because it's a Spielberg one, so there's possible eating into each other plus he has to do a double campaign which has to be a killer schedule.

Maybe he'll do a double feature premiere.
 
JGS said:
I know he's double releaser, but there usually a summer release and a winter release not a double winter release. There are a lot of movie goers that go to see a movie because it's a Spielberg one, so there's possible eating into each other plus he has to do a double campaign which has to be a killer schedule.

Maybe he'll do a double feature premiere.
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True. Tintin was always late December, but it was only as of a few weeks ago that War Horse got pushed from August to December for prime awards season.
 
Expendable. said:
True. Tintin was always late December, but it was only as of a few weeks ago that War Horse got pushed from August to December for prime awards season.
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Yeah, they say its because it would be another good family film for the holidays, but you just know its for awards season.
 
I couldn't disagree more with Sculli's reading of AI's ending. It closes off with David embracing the lie that was the modified recreation of his mother. He gets what he always wanted, her love, which is a total projection of his own wishes, and then goes to 'sleep', or shuts himself in his own mind to relive and recreate the moments he so long sought after. He never really faces the grand reality.

Blablurn said:
cloverfield was a masterpiece. a. true. fucking. masterpiece.
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No freakin' way. The cast of characters who are all intolerable pseudo-yuppy mouth-breathing douchebags and an incredibly misguided found-footage approach. Sorry, viewing events through a shitty cameraman's random shooting does not make me feel like I'm there. It distances me from the action about as far as a movie possibly can and makes me hate the narcissistic idiot who thinks he needs to actively document his life. I wanted all of those characters to die even before the monster arrived.
 
Dan said:
Sorry, viewing events through a shitty cameraman's random shooting does not make me feel like I'm there. It distances me from the action about as far as a movie possibly can
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I know this is all completely subjective, but I thought the handheld camera aspect of Cloverfield was extremely well done, and it did the very opposite of distancing me from the action.

and makes me hate the narcissistic idiot who thinks he needs to actively document his life.
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Uh, the camera guy had never documented a thing about his life before that day. He was given the camera to film a surprise going-away party and get people's messages on it. It was only after the explosions, etc. that he decided the experience needed to be filmed so people could know what it was like. This is not reaching at all, in my mind, especially considering that the movie takes place in New York.
 
Scullibundo said:
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My memory may be hazy but... how is a man ferociously shagging his wife an unhappy ending?
 
Blablurn said:
cloverfield was a masterpiece. a. true. fucking. masterpiece.
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Someone else sees the light! Amen.

One of the most invested, absorbing theater experiences I've ever had and surprisingly has held up on repeat home viewings. Love, love, love it.
 
Is there a leak here?

What is wrong with people here?

War of the World was bad? Spielberg made Cloverfield?

Do we need to quarantine this place?
 
Dan said:
I couldn't disagree more with Sculli's reading of AI's ending. It closes off with David embracing the lie that was the modified recreation of his mother. He gets what he always wanted, her love, which is a total projection of his own wishes, and then goes to 'sleep', or shuts himself in his own mind to relive and recreate the moments he so long sought after. He never really faces the grand reality.


No freakin' way. The cast of characters who are all intolerable pseudo-yuppy mouth-breathing douchebags and an incredibly misguided found-footage approach. Sorry, viewing events through a shitty cameraman's random shooting does not make me feel like I'm there. It distances me from the action about as far as a movie possibly can and makes me hate the narcissistic idiot who thinks he needs to actively document his life. I wanted all of those characters to die even before the monster arrived.
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They were worse than the kids from Blair Witch but I liked Cloverfield none the less.
 
Expendable. said:
I can see why someone would hate the characters, but every other thing in the film I loved. Disappointed Matt Reeves had to waste his time with Let Me In after :(
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The best waste of time anyone spent this year.
 
Mike Works said:
I know this is all completely subjective, but I thought the handheld camera aspect of Cloverfield was extremely well done, and it did the very opposite of distancing me from the action.
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I'll admit I just can't fathom how that is. It works with real life events because I know someone was really there. In a movie every second of it just highlights how fake it is.

Uh, the camera guy had never documented a thing about his life before that day. He was given the camera to film a surprise going-away party and get people's messages on it. It was only after the explosions, etc. that he decided the experience needed to be filmed so people could know what it was like. This is not reaching at all, in my mind, especially considering that the movie takes place in New York.
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See, even filming that party is borderline to me. But I certainly can't relate to someone running for their life from a giant monster who's concerned about filming stuff, about getting batteries and successfully harassing his friends for commentary. There's just such a pervasive sense that they think their little adventure is special. There's millions of people in NYC, but their story is going to be important, so important that this guy is going to be fiddling with the camera while trying to survive. It'd be one thing if the movie somehow critiqued that prevalent sensibility within the generation, but it didn't. I also hated Blair Watch Project and Diary of the Dead, but at least the latter sort of attempted to show how ridiculous it is for people to be filming during these life or death situations.

If I can help it, I won't ever watch a found footage film again. I loathe the technique, and by definition it usually requires the characters to suck.
 
I've got an Advance Reading Copy of the novel and, so far, it's freaking brilliant. Structured like World War Z. Voice reminds me of Haldeman's Forever War. I have no doubt Spielberg will do awesome things with these stories.
 
I NEED SCISSORS said:
My memory may be hazy but... how is a man ferociously shagging his wife an unhappy ending?
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He's taking out his frustrations on his wife. That ferocious energy is translated to his penis and then inserted into his wife's vag.
 
effzee said:
So wait he has two movies coming out late 2011, the Abraham Lincoln movie, and this Robot one?

SWEET!
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No. He has a Tintin adaptation coming out along with a WW1 feature called War Horse this year. Lincoln looks to be on hold and Robopocalype doesn't start production until next year.

icarus-daedelus said:
Is that title real? That's sillier than Cowboys & Aliens. They'll have to change that before it's out unless they want snickers from average moviegoers.
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That's the name of the book, I don't see nothing wrong with it. In fact I like it.
 
I like War of the Worlds, absolutely hated Cloverfield (and Skyline even if no one brought it up).Chances are I will like this since it has Spielberg's magic touch.
 
Solstice said:
Agreed. It would have been perfect if
the son had died
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Completely agree.
The ending was tied up too nicely.
The movie was really well done apart from that. Great acting, great atmosphere, great effects, great directing.
 
mello said:
No. He has a Tintin adaptation coming out along with a WW1 feature called War Horse this year. Lincoln looks to be on hold and Robopocalype doesn't start production until next year.



That's the name of the book, I don't see nothing wrong with it. In fact I like it.
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Didn't they just announce DDL for Lincoln? I thought it was going to happen.
 
My bad, yeah they did. For some reason I was thinking about Pirates Latitude -which isn't on hold either- Lincoln will apparently start shooting this fall as expandable said.
 
Movie??? Why even bother this is just going to happen in real life eventually.

WE GONNA BE LIVING THROUGH THIS SHIT!
 
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