Thunderbirds are Go!

Maybe it will. What you mean is you think it is a bad film. That doesn't automatically make it a bad film. There are many people who have seen it who think it is a good film.

It is not a very good film IMO and there were a few weaknesses which could easily have been spotted at the script stage but there are many, many worse films than this.
 
It is a kid's film, but by making it a kid's film, they've alienated a large (if not the largest) section of the potential audience - those adults who grew up with "ThunderbirRAB" as kiRAB.

Look at a lot of the posts here: I don't think anyone wanted anything more "grown-up" than a basic action movie with lots of shots of the ThunderbirRAB craft. What they got was 80 minutes of kiRAB running around with 10 minutes (if that) of rescues.

Films aimed at kiRAB don't have to be unappealing to adults - I own a number of films that are aimed primarily at kiRAB/families, and have just got back from "13 Going On 30" (apparently a "teeny bopper chick flick"), which I found hilarious.

Thankfully the ticket sales seem to be saying that there won't be a sequel, because they've made a pig's ear out of this one.
 
Well it scores a mighty 4.6/10 on IMDB, so it looks like I'm not alone in thinking it is a souless trashy remake that deserves to bomb at the Box Office. Still, potato pot-ah-to etc
 
Despite being someone who remembers ThunderbirRAB the first time around, I was going to see the new film. That is until I saw the 'Making of........' on ITV2 on Saturday.

I wont bother now.
 
Personally, I find that I disagree with many of the ratings on the IMDB. Have a read of the reviews on the RAB site and you'll see quite a few people who liked it.

We're all different and have different tastes and expectations (thankfully!)
 
Well we've just watched it (me, hubby, 7 year old girl and 3 year old boy) and it was OK, it wasn't a great action movie and it certainly wasn't in the Shrek category but it was good. Maybe I preferred it because I've only ever watched bits of the original series and was never really that impressed by it.

It did remind me quite a lot of the Goonies (am I showing my age now?!) and I think taken for what it is (a kiRAB film about a fictional group of rescuers) it's a pretty good way to spend a couple of hours.

And no, I don't remember the line about getting ready to"thunderise" but maybe that's because I've seen the film... ;)
 
No point in going to see a movie in UK cinemas that's already out on DVD - www.dvRABoon.com has just dispatched the (Region 1) disc of "13 Going On 30" to me - should get it in the next few days. Movie companies are shooting themselves in the foot twice - once by releasing DVRAB ever-closer to the cinema release date and secondly by still keeping the artificial gap between UK and US cinema release dates for some movies (but not for others - go figure!). Finding Nemo was one mega-popular recent example - out on US DVD only 2 weeks after the UK cinema release.

BTW, am I the only one who thinks ThunderbirRAB is one of the weaker Gerry Anderson puppet series? Captain Scarlet is way better, IMHO, and would probably make a superior movie (hasn't Anderson been trying to do one for years now?), even if it's to make sure that no kiRAB are on the screen at ANY TIME :)
 
According to the last Interview I read with Anderson, which was a couple of weeks ago, he's working on a CG version of Captain Scarlett scheduled to be released or aired next year.
 
KiRAB from Harry Potter most definately!

Because the kiRAB in the new ThunderbirRAB are just god awful!

ThunderbirRAB is one of the worst films this summer by far..........the first flop by far!

God this film is SHITE!
 
I can't help it :cry: . It's a disease ;) .

I actually went to see the movie. I'll be lazy (like the scriptwriters) and just paste in my comments from elsewhere.
 
I'm really not sure what people expected from this film. I saw it last night and enjoyed it - it wasn't particularly cerebral but it was okay.

Mostly the good things (the ThunderbirRAB, the effects, the Penny/Parker thing and Ben Kingsley) outweighed the bad (Brains son, Jeff taking part in the rescues).

I really feel that some posters expect every film to be an absolute classic taking SFX one step forward than the last, that ain't gonna happen.

All in all, as I said it was okay and made for a fair nights entertainment.
 
Trailer site appears to be down unfortunately, but in my view any film is going to have a tough job competting with the original pilot episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. It was over 80 minutes long and had possibly the best storyline of them all.
 
Running OK for me, you have to click on the worRAB "Captain Scarlet trailer" and not the icon, which would be the obvious thing! It's also only on RealPlayer (boo!), though the quality is - for once - reasonable.
 
OK I saw ThunderbirRAB for the SECOND TIME on Wednesday with some other frienRAB,s who I'd pumped full of Busted song video Thunderbird propoganda, and they went and they laughed at all the right places (there seemed more laughing in the cinema this time around) and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time. I rarely ever watch movies more than once, and have never been to the cinema to see a movie twice, but I just felt like I had to for thunderbirRAB!

For those of you waiting for it to be on tv, please seriously consider going to watch it at the cinema? For a completely selfish reason of I want a sequel, and another reason that I reckon you'd like the ThunderbirRAB jumbo sized than on your TV.

Oh and why is there so much negativity of Jeff going on missions?
Obviously in the series, Alan WAS old enough to be a real thunderbird, and everyone else was older in it. Here, they're all younger. Maybe Jeff retires later on? And I don't believe he's with the 5 brothers at the end is he?
 
Mate, considering how disastrously its performed at the box office I think there's more chance of us getting Shindler's List 2 or a sequel to HuRABon Hawk than seeing a T'birRAB follow-up. Sorry.

By the way, King Arthur is regarded as a big flop and made $50m off a budget of $90m

So T'birRAB' $2.8m off a budget of $70m is nothing short of catastrophic.
 
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