'Lineage'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
Ron Howard's The Grinch.
Oh! Yes. This too. Oh God. The pain. I stayed far, far away from The Cat in the Hat.
I adore The Neverending Story far beyond reason. Atreyu was one of my first crushes (along with Disney's Robin Hood--yes, the fox). Haven't read the book yet, but I keep intending to, and from what I know, it bears not even the slightest bit of resemblance to the second movie, which is godawful.
The second half of the book is about Bastian in this fantasy world he has saved/restored, generating exciting new creatures and histories and adventures -- and discovering a down side. Which I will not spoil further, except to note that the cave where he mines memories, near the end, always made me cry.
Loved The Dark Crystal. Some of my all-time favorite characters are in it: Aughra, the feisty old woman with the sagging breasts (loved that detail!) and that incredible moving solar system, and the Chamberlain, with that whiny, smarmy voice who'll strike out at you in a flash (both were voiced by Frank Oz, BTW).
Has anyone heard anything about Beyond the Sea, the Bobby Darin biopic starring Kevin Spacey? I saw the trailer on Coming Attractions, and it looks pretty good.
Yeah, I've read the book, but it's been ages.
Martin Landau on the making of 'Ed Wood'
Well, it's a good thing they picked Landau rather than another actor. That still pings me as the best performance I've seen in movies made after they went color.
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The first Neverending Stories takes A LOT fof liberty with the book. However, IMO, it stays closer to the book than the piece of crap second movie and even bigger piece of shit third movie. The book is amazing.
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I knew Aims would eventually show up and let us know.
(I was starting wonder where you were, babe)
Ok, how do you feel about the movie The Neverending Story? With Bastain and Atreu and the Swamps of Sadness?
I loved it as a child, but I saw it again recently and I didn't remember it very well.
The scary part, to me, was where the storm was going on and Bastian had to scream out his mother's name to save the world. (I loved Bastian. Atreyu was just the other guy, I guess because Bastian was easier to identify with.)