July 2008 Entries
All moviegoers know that great dialogue can stay with you forever, but what about really bad dialogue? Lines that come across as dumb, or hit the ear like ball bearings in a sock; these kinds of dialogue can take a viewer right out of a film and make them goggle at the screen, certain they just didn’t hear what they thought they heard. That’s the kind of thing I’m talking about here, with this very list of Worst Damn Dialogue in a Movie
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards remake has been causing quite a buzz since the script was leaked online, with many web-critics going so far as to call it a “masterpiece.” Well, the major studios have taken notice, with Universal jumping in the ring alongside longtime Tarantino collaborators the Weinstein Co. to bring Inglorious Bastards to a theater near you.
Rumor has it that Tarantino and the Weinsteins sat down sometime last week to decide between Paramount and Universal and Universal won the debate. Don’t know if I would have gone that way given Universal’s lack of $trong returns at the box office the last few years, but hey, that’s why I’m just a blogger, and not a major player in the Hollywood game (a guy can dream though…)
The Dark Knight is still earning heaps of cash, but the execs over at Warner Bros. are already looking ahead to the next installment of the franchise. While director Christopher Nolan has yet to officially sign on for another go at Gotham City, the rumor mill is already churning out names of the next villain who will next take on the caped crusader.
So far Catwoman has been an early contender; the hot/cold relationship between her and Batman has always been one of the comic book series’ best themes, one that could translate reasonably well into the universe of Nolan’s films. 60’s era Catwoman, Julie Newmar, had this to say in a recent interview with the New York Daily News:
CelebEdge is reporting a rumor that actor Johnny Depp will likely don an oversized cap to play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s performance-capture / live action hybrid of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice In Wonderland.
Burton and Depp are peas in the pod, so this rumor isn’t all that hard to swallow. In fact, the only thing that surprises me about this bit of news is the fact that Depp is being offered so small a part in the production, (unless the new script has the Mad Hatter playing a much expanded role.)