Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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It made me wonder -- is it a straw breaking his back, or does he think this'll come out worse than his other stuff that was adapted?
I'm thinking more straw. Though he probably has no faith in anybody doing film adaptations of his work at this point. (Terry Gilliam should've done Watchmen as an HBO miniseries, I say.)
But I'm thinking V for Vendetta might be the work closest to his heart.
Worth watching?
Can't say, I haven't seen it yet. Stephanie Romanov was enthused, and Williams doesn't play a retarded janitor, so it's probably not the worst movie out there.
I saw RotS today. I thought Ewan and Ian McDiarmid aquitted themselves well, and Frank Oz did his usual voice work with Yoda. The rest might as well have used cardboard cut-outs of the actors.
Also, Palpatine was in desperate need of the Evil Overlord Handbook. When pulling an ambush on your enemies, you do not assign the task of assassinating the wisest, most powerful, and most prescient of their number to a pair of candy-ass robots. You have said robots give a locator signal that allows your orbiting star destroyers to bombard his exact position with energy weapons strong enough to rupture the planet's crust.
Mr. Industries, thank you! I'mma pick up the book.
Interesting article on Slate about how the insurance industry runs key aspects of Hollywood production. Nicole Kidman almost got blackballed for her bum knee.
I wish he'd talked a little about the fact that HK filmmaking was under no such requirements which is exactly why Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh could do their own stunts.
Mmmm. A friend of our left town to work for Fireman's Fund in SF. Maybe I should tell DH to start looking around for Hollywood actuarial work.
I want to see Mr and Mrs Smith. I've seen the trailers, and it looks like lots of fun.
Plus, dude, PRETTY!
I agree. Besides fun and pretty, it looks hot.
It makes me want to see the trailer again.
There are banners hanging everywhere at the mall.
Every day I think "When I grow up, I wanna carry a gun in my garter just like Angelina Jolie."
Or, you know, not. But still, hot.
They make you waddle. And they chafe.
At least handcuffs in a garter do. Gun has to be worse.
I just watched a new (to me) trailer. Yeah, that's my fun summer movie.