I can see a good movie (series) but not a good adaptation coming of it.
And the anti-religiousness of them did fall into hostile territory for me, even though I enjoyed the books and am not religious myself.
Don't worry, I'm not gonna start any sword fights. I'm over that phase.
Mal ,'War Stories'
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§ ita § - Dec 13, 2004 8:49:13 am PST #7085 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mr. Broom - Dec 13, 2004 9:05:07 am PST #7086 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I felt it was more of a hostility to a misapplication of religious faith--bits where certain characters undertake to do monstrous things after having been assured a sort of pre-forgiveness by punishing themselves brutally beforehand, that sort of thing. Granted, the whole Authority is given as an illegitimate power, not the actual Creator, so maybe I'm reaching for the sake of peacemaking.
I saw this coming. I'm not disappointed because I knew there was no way this movie was going to be made without scrubbing it down, so I had no expectation that the Church stuff would remain intact to begin with. That said, I think this movie can succeed in the story's main themes, which are more to do with love and growing up. That's what has to remain intact for this to be good.
Jars - Dec 13, 2004 9:14:00 am PST #7087 of 10001
I guess YAnti-ReligiousHostilityMV.
I was hoping that if it was British-made, they'd be less likely to sanitise that aspect of it than if it was American. The stage show made some changes, iirc, but that wasn't one of them.
Alibelle - Dec 13, 2004 11:03:40 am PST #7088 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
AFI's top ten movies and TV shows for 2004: [link]
They're not ranked. Some of them don't seem quite right to me. I feel like they should have been able to find a better movie than Spider Man 2, for instance, which I thought was merely okay. But, whatever.
Theodosia - Dec 13, 2004 11:24:37 am PST #7089 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Was Touching the Void a 2003 release? Or is this list only American films?
SuziQ - Dec 13, 2004 11:26:56 am PST #7090 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I don't recall seeing this posted here before. It is the teaser trailer for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I am stunned. Must rewatch.
If this is old news, I'm sorry.
sumi - Dec 13, 2004 11:29:54 am PST #7091 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Hmmm, Johnny Depp as Willie Wonka is reminding me strangely of the guy from H.R. Pufinstuff. You know, the guy who had the talking flute.
Burrell - Dec 13, 2004 11:33:11 am PST #7092 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Jimmy!
Consuela - Dec 13, 2004 11:35:14 am PST #7093 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow. Tim Burton and Roald Dahl: a marriage made in nightmare heaven. Eeeeks! And yet, strangely compelling.
Jessica - Dec 13, 2004 11:38:41 am PST #7094 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
From the teaser, anyway, it doesn't look different enough from the original movie to have been worth re-adapting the book. But hopefully the longer trailer will have some footage that convinces me otherwise.