I dunno why, but for some reason this "expensive as hell"-looking movie opens next Friday...yet only last night did I see a trailer on TV for it. Is it rumored to be crappy? Or do the studios no longer want to pour $100 million into marketing that doesn't convince any more people that they should see a particular movie? After all, if you reduce your marketing from $100m down to say $5m, if you make enough money, you could make more profit from a similar sized group of customers...

Anyway, the trailer:
http://ca.io9.com/5688427/two-new-battle-los-angeles-trailers-are-eerily-alluring


While we are at it, Spielberg has a TV sequel to Jurassic Park. Actually, it's more like Jurassic Living! Premise is using a time machine, some people leave the dying earth, to travel back to the time of the dinos, to start a new life/civilization. A bit like leaving Europe in ships for "The New World", or to Africa...any colony really, but this one being back in the Dinosaur time. Called Terra Nova, it premiers in May on Fox:

http://io9.com/#!5773592/new-terra-nova-trailer-breaks-out-the-hard+core-dinosaur-drama

I am actually planing to see this, of course I plan a trip to a favorite Japanese restaurant and a few sake, so I can not promise how good my judgment will be on it the next day. I hope it will be good or at least a lot of pretty lights .


Bullet

Hoping to be able to go see it, I just want it to be as good as it looks.
I didn't care for District 9 all the much, this looks like a proper version of what I expected there.

Nothing on Rotten Tomatoes yet, but I'm interested to see what kind of reviews it gets. I don't completely go by what reviews say, but with Rotten Tomatoes you get so many that it does give you a pretty good average of what people think of it.

I didn't really have much in the way of expectations for District 9, which is probably why I liked it better than you did, RK.

it opens 3/11/11

I have my doubts about the quality of this movie. The trailers are good but I am banking on this just being an ID4 with more ground combat.

Oh and DISTRICT 9 was amazing.

As a general rule, if a studio thinks that a film of theirs is going to be a turd, they limit the amount of spending on marketing.

As for District 9 I absolutely loved it and it was a breath of fresh air. I'm tired of the American-centric chest thumping ra-ra-ra and brainless alien invasion movie.

D9 was a letdown for me. I could see what they were trying to do, I just don't think they totally succeeded.

The fact that it was too blatantly left open for a sequel without any true "ending" made it worse.




The Jedi Master

Was filmed here in Baton Rouge & the studio is in my 1st response area at the firedept.
We got ALLOT of calls of gunfire & explosions all the time.

Went on set quiet a bit but wasn't allowed to take pics it was cool to see an entire sewer system made of plywood & vinyl.
Got to meet a couple of the stars but the new Battleship was more expensive "set" wise. But looked to be a terrible film. Was filmed here in BR to.

Cool story Kelso. It seems more films are being shot in Louisiana lately.