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Martin Landau on the making of 'Ed Wood'
Some career similarities notwithstanding, Landau wasn't sure at first he could pull off playing Lugosi. "You got a character here who's 74 years old, who is a morphine addict and an alcoholic, who's Hungarian and has incredible mood swings, and that would be difficult," he says. "But [to top it off] he has to be Bela Lugosi?"
Dark Crystal:
boy: How come I don't have wings??
girl: Cause you're a boy, silly!
Fun movie. Well, any movie would be fun with villainous 6 foot tall cockroaches (surely an inspiration for Power Rangers villains to this day) and heroic stilt-walky 12 foot tall gazelles.
Neverending Story: A movie with excellent visuals -- it gave me nightmares too -- and a very different sense of adventure from your standard Extruded Fantasy Product. I adored the Luckdragon, and really liked the casting of Bastian and Atreyu. (Being who I am, I long thought/wished Atreyu was a girl.) I was even more intrigued when I read the book many years later and discovered the movie is only the first half of the book.
The second half of the book is much more adult, and I have no need to see it on a screen. That's one case where the book and the movie can be happily separate entities, being as they are so different.
boy: How come I don't have wings??
girl: Cause you're a boy, silly!
Maxipad product placement?
The second half of the book is much more adult, and I have no need to see it on a screen.
Is the second half of the book the same thing as the second movie?
The Dark Crystal scared the bejeesus out of me when I was little.
It's been years and years since I've seen The Dark Crystal so I can't remember anything about it beyond that the puppets freaked me out. Even the supposedly cute main characters.
I saw Kinsey last night. It wasn't bad, but it was kind of disappointing. I wish they'd had the budget to put more of the story in a historical context, because as it is, the whole thing exists in kind of a vacuum. (I normally hate it when biopics give characters lines like "You can't [insert thing they can't do], this is [insert year]!" but in this case, it really would have helped, since I had no idea when anything was taking place.)
I called Neverending Story The Never Ending Movie and walked out with my two best friends. I was 12.
Is the second half of the book the same thing as the second movie
Aimee is the best person to ask about that, but if I remember her vehement venom correctly, I'd say the answer is no.
I have dim memories of being "meh" about Neverending Story. I haven't seen Magnolia and don't really want to. I haven't seen Troy and probably will rent it at some point.
My most hated movies are Oliver Stone's Nixon and Ron Howard's The Grinch. Either one ignites molar-endangering loathing when I see as much as a film clip. Nixon is the reason I won't be seeing the Alexander the Great movie that Stone directed, so I'm thrilled to hear that Lurhman has one in the works.