I am recalling the Special Destruction Edition releases in theatres, which happened my senior year in college. We lined up for Star Wars (I mean, #1, or #4, or whatever), and when that cleaned-up print began, we cheered and fell in love all over again.
And fell out again, when it became clear how unnecessary/detrimental/obvious so many of the changes were. (I mean really. If your vaunted digital inserts are that fake-looking, why bother?)
Thus began a long period of disillusion, when the prequels came out, and word was that they sucked, though I don't kow because and I didn't watch them at all, and Star Wars was like a cautionary tale.
But you know, some time a year or two ago I sat down and watched Star Wars again, and it was such a cheerfully ramshackle movie, so wrapped up in its own odd enthusiasm and amateur whizbang and derring-do. It's a good movie (the original version, I mean). It's even a good trilogy. It's cute. I'm pleased that it can hold up despite the years and the large shadow of crap George Lucas casts now.
I was watching Godzilla vs. Megasaur (or whatever the monster was) last Sunday and realized that it came out just one year before Star Wars. I've gotten blase about special effects and all that, but there's really quite a leap between the two movies. They look decades apart.
ita's second link was the same as her first link for me.
Both were the guy who
died in the shipwreck
which made me sad, because I was interested in the character.
This was supposed to be the second link.
Sumi -- I got interested too. I kept waiting and waiting ...
"Village Sheriff" - does that mean he was one of the guys who were
burying Balian's wife
? Or are they talking a village attached to
Godfrey's Palastinian estate
?
Either way -- he couldn't have been in it enough, because I don't remember him.
Also, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are in final negotiations to star in "Bathory" -- a movie about Elizabeth Bathory.
Maybe he was one of the guys who came
to arrest Balian.
But yeah, I love looking at him, and didn't even notice.
That is the right guy, ita. I agree with sumi, he was interesting. I had this feeling the second time around that there were supposed to be other stories, and they just got cut for time. Which is a feeling I get with a lot of recent Big Epics. Apparently all epics now have to be about the giant battles, rather than the people. And Brad Pitt's thighs. (No, I'm not bitter that Troy sucked, why do you ask?)
Also, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are in final negotiations to star in "Bathory" -- a movie about Elizabeth Bathory.
So, basically it's the sequel to BEYOND SUNSET then?
They should call it
Just After Tea-time
