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post #1 of 91
7/25/05 at 11:35pm
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Now here's the movie Michael Bay should have made this summer. Ludicrously fun, magnificently stupid. Cohen proves himself a visionary hack.
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post #2 of 91
7/25/05 at 11:42pm
So WD Richter delivered? Any prize winning dialogue?
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post #3 of 91
7/25/05 at 11:51pm
Oh and is Roxburgh the voice of the evil plane?
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post #4 of 91
7/25/05 at 11:54pm
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Originally Posted by devincf
Now here's the movie Michael Bay should have made this summer. Ludicrously fun, magnificently stupid. Cohen proves himself a visionary hack.
Really? Are you sure you're not just overwhelmed by Jessica Biel's hotness?
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post #5 of 91
7/25/05 at 11:55pm
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The script is dickcheese. The whole movie is Cohen's insane energy. I don't know what Roxy was - he must have been the plane.
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post #6 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:51am
This looks totally lame but also looks like its filled with alot of dumb fun.
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post #7 of 91
7/26/05 at 4:06am
Good to hear. I have a shameful love for Cohen's brand of crap.
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post #8 of 91
7/26/05 at 9:04am
I'm still in two minds about seeing this when it comes out. Now I love my dumb movies as much as the next guy...but sometimes a concept can just be too dumb.

Then again it does have the magnificent curves of Miss Biel though, so I think i'll give it a go.
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post #9 of 91
7/26/05 at 9:09am
Why don't they just wait until the plane runs out of fuel, then blow it up?
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post #10 of 91
7/26/05 at 9:37am
Because it's a Rob Cohen movie.
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post #11 of 91
7/26/05 at 10:21am
I've seen entire theaters laugh at the trailers for this movie. And then, mysteriously, the TV spots no longer mentioned that it features an evil plane. Now it just looks like Top Gun on crack.

But I know there's an evil plane in this movie. And that's why I'll see it in the theater, stinking drunk.
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post #12 of 91
7/26/05 at 10:39am
I love Cohen's energy for action scenes. The guy just knows how to get that shit going.

Betcha I pop wood for the dogfighting before the Biel.
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post #13 of 91
7/26/05 at 11:15am
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They address the fuel thing. The plane's less evil than you might think.
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post #14 of 91
7/26/05 at 12:30pm
The plane is just misunderstood?


In a world where technology has run rampant, only three hotshot pilots who play by their own rules can stop an aritificially intelligent experimental rogue plane that threatens to destroy the American way of life.

AWESOME.
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post #15 of 91
7/26/05 at 12:45pm
I'm hoping for cameos from Jan-Michael Vincent and David Hasselhoff. And their respective vehicles. I got erection.

Is JM Vincent still alive?
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post #16 of 91
7/26/05 at 12:48pm
Whenever I see the phrase "technology run rampant", I always picture the "Mother's Day" episode of Futurama, and that garbage disposal.

"Someone left a diamond ring down here..."
"Really?"
"AMY NO!"
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post #17 of 91
7/26/05 at 12:49pm
I hope this makes enough to justify the sequel, Stealth Vs. Blue Thunder.
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post #18 of 91
7/26/05 at 12:52pm
What about Firefox?
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post #19 of 91
7/26/05 at 12:53pm
Can Firefox see through walls?
I think not.
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post #20 of 91
7/26/05 at 12:54pm
*Sigh*

I guess you're right.
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post #21 of 91
7/26/05 at 12:54pm
This should have been called HAL: FULLY LOADED.
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post #22 of 91
7/26/05 at 12:55pm
The hauteness of Biel, and the geekiness of high-tech SmartJets that go bonkers will get my ass in the seat.

I watched the extended trailer from ComicCon and it seems that the plane is named E.D.I. I kind of suspect they end up calling him "Eddy," right?
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post #23 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:04pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
Can Firefox see through walls?
I think not.
Only firewalls.

Yeah, I was confused by the marketing too... first the trailers were all about the sentient plane (evil or not), and now all of a sudden they're about the trio of pilots? I am confused...
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post #24 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:18pm
I saw the extended preview on MTV over the weekend, and it does make it look pretty fun. Jets flying around doing impossible shit and things blowing up. I think Scarlett will come out looking hotter in The Island then Jessica here, but the Island was a crap film, and this one looks more fun.

Does the jet mayhem get started early in the film, or is the first 2/3s of the film filled with boring shit like the Island?
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post #25 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:20pm
The only way this movie could possibly kick any more ass is if it featured a techno remix of the theme song from Airwolf.
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post #26 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by Turd Ferguson
Is JM Vincent still alive?
Alive, but not in the best shape due to his motorcycle accident and substance abuse. Witness his cameo in Buffalo '66.
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post #27 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:22pm
I don't see how the marketing has changed at all. Maybe I'm not watching enough TV, but everything I've seen highlights both points. There is a tight group of three pilots, and they're forced to deal with a crazy robot plane. I don't see the confusion. It's about the pilots, and it's about the jet. Even a dumb action movie can have more than one plot thread. I know, it's a shocker, but it happens.
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post #28 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:30pm
No no no.

The first full trailer for this movie briefly introduces the pilots, and then goes into the latest in artificial intelligence, and shows the plane, and tells how it goes rogue and targets civilian buildings and can't be stopped. There are all kinds of shots of the plane flying and thinking and exploding things.

The TV spots, on the other hand, barely mention the plane, and certainly don't mention that it's a thinking, living entity with vengeance on its mind. It's mostly reminiscent of Fast and the Furious mixed with Top Gun - all about three daredevil pilots who kick ass and play by their own rules and fly all kinds of crazy stunts and face off against an unseen enemy.

They've blatantly switched marketing tactics after realizing that people were laughing about a movie featuring an evil plane.
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post #29 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:33pm
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Originally Posted by Scratch
They've blatantly switched marketing tactics after realizing that people were laughing about a movie featuring an evil plane.
Or quite possibly that in the first trailer they give away the fact that the plane does indeed shoot down the building when they've show moments earlier someone contemplating weather or not the plane will do so.
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post #30 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:35pm
Like I said, I don't watch enough TV. Like... none.
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post #31 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:38pm
I just caught the commercials when I was watching the Simpsons on Sunday, and both my girlfriend and I - who had laughed our way through the trailer (though I was secretly PUMPED for evil plane action) - thought it was for a completely different movie.
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post #32 of 91
7/26/05 at 1:59pm
I had no idea before reading this thread that this was about a sentient plane gone wild. I thought it was just a high tech Top Gun.
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post #33 of 91
7/26/05 at 2:05pm
See? BobClark has become ensnared in Stealth's web of deceit!

Here you go, Bob. Prepare to have your expectations raised...TO THE EXTREME!!!

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/stealth.html
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post #34 of 91
7/26/05 at 2:46pm
My friend who cites Con Air as his favorate film (I say this by way of explaining just how much he loves pointless action flicks) Laughed all the way through the trailer even he thought it looked lame.

I really hope i'm wrong but this looks far worse than underworld
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post #35 of 91
7/26/05 at 3:19pm
The blinders have been torn from my eyes!
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post #36 of 91
7/26/05 at 4:13pm
For some reason, the marketing has slowly drawn me towards this film all summer. I started off pretty derisive of it, and then I found myself enjoying sheer stupid flashinesss of the trailers more and more..

Plus, "It will - REPLACE US ALL." is my favorite movie quote this summer.

Good to hear this lives up to expectations. I will go, laugh heartily the entire running time, and leave fulfilled.
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post #37 of 91
7/26/05 at 4:18pm
It's true, all the TV spots are filled with Jamie Foxx saying "Dat's hot" and "I'll blast yu right out thu sky." Then there's a shot of a building collapsing. No mention of ED and no ED lines. He said "goodbye." and everything in the first trailer. It's a crime to hide Roxburgh from the american public.
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post #38 of 91
7/26/05 at 4:25pm
I'm so incredibly uninterested in seeing this. Jamie Fox clearly wanted a fluff movie to line his pockets a touch...it might have some fun colors and boom booms....but its just not something I'll pay my $9 for.
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post #39 of 91
7/26/05 at 4:27pm
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Originally Posted by LlamaRama
Plus, "It will - REPLACE US ALL." is my favorite movie quote this summer.
It's this year's "And I can't. Wait. To do it!"
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post #40 of 91
7/26/05 at 4:32pm
I hope we catch a glimpse of a post apocalyptic future where crazed airplanes have taken over the world.
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post #41 of 91
7/26/05 at 4:46pm
I'd like to see a movie about a high-tech theme park where artificially intelligant planes are brought to life and then invevitably go all crazy, forcing a bunch of visiting pilots into a desparate fight for survival. The ending would be a climactic battle between the evil planes run amok and a genetically modified monorail.
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post #42 of 91
7/26/05 at 4:55pm
Dream project - WESTWORLD VS. JURASSIC PARK.
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post #43 of 91
7/26/05 at 5:20pm
I'm all for dumb action movies, but this is made by the guy who did DAYLIGHT and XXX. How he doesn't get the ridicule that Bay gets is beyond me. DRAGON was okay but that was like 12 years ago.
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post #44 of 91
7/26/05 at 6:25pm
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Originally Posted by wadew1
It's a crime to hide Roxburgh from the american public.
Unless he's playing Dracula.
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post #45 of 91
7/26/05 at 7:47pm
This is the most unappealing summer blockbuster of the year.

The CGI looks awful and lacks any creative inventiveness, even a step back from what was achieved in '99 with PHANTOM MENANCE.
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post #46 of 91
7/26/05 at 8:13pm
Y'know, an hour into the flick Stealth does something I would consider ballsy, and I was pretty impressed. Then I realized how completely boring the film is afterwards. It's the first movie in a long time where I checked my watch over and over. For a short time, I felt relieved it might end at 90 minutes... and then fucking Biel gets shot down over North Korea.

Oh yeah, and (BIG SPOILERS -- but c'mon, who cares?)

I hope someone laughs as much as I did when this billion dollar piece of government equipment is destroyed by a Korean helicopter.

And Roxburgh's just as bad as he was in Van Helsing.
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post #47 of 91
7/26/05 at 9:03pm
I LOVE that "sizzle" trailer on Apple's site. The last 60 seconds are super dynamite. Stealth looks like superb cheese.

If the trailer is any indication, then this + the drug farm scene in XXX show that Cohen shoots explosions better than Bay. And I think Cohen gets less hate than Bay because he's an old, easygoing bald guy who apparently smokes dope and doesn't sound like a terminally self-absorbed dickweed on his commentaries.
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post #48 of 91
7/26/05 at 10:21pm
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Originally Posted by reverse_viagra
And I think Cohen gets less hate than Bay because he's an old, easygoing bald guy who apparently smokes dope and doesn't sound like a terminally self-absorbed dickweed on his commentaries.
Both of these guys make braindead action movies. But what makes Bay better in my book is that on a few occasions his have been rated R, which is what braindead action films should be rated (with a RUNDOWN exception here and there). Maybe Cohen should smoke less dope and snort more coke and his films would leave a dent on the viewer 5 minutes after they end.
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post #49 of 91
7/26/05 at 11:16pm
I'm getting pretty sick of everyone in this thread crying about how stupid and dumb this movie is gonna be. I'm so excited about seeing this amazing film. How can everyone here complain about the sequel to completes a trilogy almost 2 decades in the making. Stop whining!!!
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post #50 of 91
7/27/05 at 5:38am
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Originally Posted by Werbal_Kint
It's this year's "And I can't. Wait. To do it!"

How dare you. Papparazzi can't be replaced that easily, and neither can that awesome line.
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