'Shindig'
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I'm sitting here getting depressed about Sci-Fi's Earthsea attempt. The previews are looking a lot different from the books.
All I've seen is the three-second ad on SFC, and what I've heard about the casting. Those in themselves are enough to make me nervous. It makes it all sound... twee.
Sigh.
So The Score wouldn't have sucked had it been in Vegas?
I didn't hate The Score. Granted, it was Generic Heist Movie, Style 7 Plus Twist C, but still. Heist. Plust great cast.
Was that the one with Ed Norton? I liked that one too.
And I liked Reign of Fire, in that profoundly cheesy way. But as far as eye candy went, not bad at all.
Yeah, Norton, De Niro, Brando.
Brando.
Brando getting winded by the effort it took to walk from the front door of a bar to the nearest table.
I liked that movie too, but Brando looked like he was about to colapse under his own gravitational pull in that movie.
what I've heard about the casting
Like Ged being...white? Yeah.
Hmm, I didn't think it mattered that the events that happened at Troy were pre-literate since the story survived via the oral tradition for centuries before anyone bothered to write it down.
Like Ged being...white?
I think the entire cast is white or Asian. Not... well, I would have gone for Filipino, myself, not east Asian. Or Native American or latino.
It's just -- I fear they're turning it into something less meaningful and more epic. Less personal, less true. Because fantasy-on-film is always, always about huge epic battles, the fate of the universe stuff.
Not one arrogant kid making a mistake, and risking everything--with the help of some friends--to set it right.
And I'm not sure they'll let Ged make the mistake. Makes him too fallible.
I'm scared.
And, um, I can't think of any other dragon movies, period, let alone good ones.
Dragonslayer!
I think. I haven't seen it in 20 years. But it's finally out on DVD and so it's next in my Netflix queue.
I didn't hate The Score. Granted, it was Generic Heist Movie, Style 7 Plus Twist C, but still. Heist. Plust great cast.
I'm with Jesse--I rather liked The Score, but that might be partially due to the Montreal setting (we don't get to see that city featured too often onscreen, unfortunately), and partially because of my everlasting affection for Heist Films (due to my extremely early exposure to The Sting, I think). Also, I liked the chemistry between DeNiro and Norton, and even though Angela Bassett was basically wasted in her two minutes onscreen, she always adds something to the overall strength of the film.