How desperate is Hollywood?

[Jammrock]

In my mind this is proof of how deperate Hollywood is to break their slump:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0449010/

http://www.eragonmovie.com/

Okay, the Eragon book was, at best, average. It is rip-off of Tolkien, McAffrey, and just about any other popular fantasy book, written by a 15 year old kid that was nothing really spectacular. Yet Eragon is being turned into a big budget movie. Why? Because the book was popular in the pre-teen/young teen sector, because they don't know any better.

Makes me want to write an unimaginative fantasy book so I can make movie royalties...

Further proof:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/07/box.office.ap/index.html

Though a lot of people may say this is because of Tom's Scientology nonesense, M:I 3 should have done better. As it stands, this is a poor poor start to the summer season.

Come to think of it, I haven't been really excited about an upcoming movie since uh ... er ... Star Wars ep 3 and The Return of the King. And this year I'm looking forward to ... Cars and uh ... not much else. And this from someone who used to watch 4-5 movies a month.

Jammrock

[Gurm]

We're behind on our movies. We want to see... uh... lots of stuff that's already on DVD!

But V for Vendetta, certainly.

[GNEP]

Saw MI:3 on Friday (only cos some friends dragged me along). Mr Cruise has had far too many facelifts... he really should grow old gracefully and stop trying to play (with ) young men.

[KvHagedorn]

They should have called it Fraudo.

[schmosef]

I really hope that some of David Gemmell's books get the Peter Jackson treatment.

That would be awesome!

[Marshmallowman]

I really hope that some of David Gemmell's books get the Peter Jackson treatment.

That would be awesome!

Certainly would, but I guess that would just be to much to hope for