I think the exam comment is par for the course with book adaptations.
As it should be! They are different media, after all.
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§ ita § - Nov 11, 2005 6:15:57 am PST #8631 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - Nov 11, 2005 6:17:49 am PST #8632 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Exactly -- you should flunk a lit exam that you studied for by watching the movie.
bon bon - Nov 11, 2005 6:22:00 am PST #8633 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The review in Slate mentions that even though the marketing campaign is atrocious the movie was charming enough to make up for it. I don't always agree with David Edelstein but the review is persuasive.
sumi - Nov 11, 2005 6:24:56 am PST #8634 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Ooh, just got this emailed to me:
Superhero Hype got official word from Warner Brothers that the Superman Returns trailer will indeed be playing with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The confirmed earlier reports that the trailer will run one minute thirty three seconds, and that it will be attached to Potter.
DebetEsse - Nov 11, 2005 6:26:08 am PST #8635 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Dammit. Now I have to go see that.
I am deeply skeptical of GoF.
Vonnie K - Nov 11, 2005 6:27:23 am PST #8636 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
That Salon review is a rave indeed. She states that she didn't like the BBC mini though, which makes me go, hmmm. Can't quite imagine how Keira Knightley (whom I find to be a fairly limited actress, although with a pleasant-enough screen presence) would be a better Elizabeth than Jennifer Ehle, but I guess I'll have to see for myself. Of course, it won't open here for another couple of weeks and I seemed to have agreed to being dragged to see "Jarhead" tonight. Bah.
sumi - Nov 11, 2005 6:30:16 am PST #8637 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Stan Lee is doing a cameo in XMen 3.
Ash - Nov 11, 2005 6:30:20 am PST #8638 of 10002
I see... I was thinking someone was saying it was the band Collide... never heard of Howie.
Someone not liking the BBC production? Does this mean I can have Colin Firth?
Nutty - Nov 11, 2005 6:32:39 am PST #8639 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Stephen Holden in the Times liked it, although he also seems to think Keira Knightley is the bee's knees. Which I doubt massively.
Nobody has yet topped Anthony Lane's hilarious disdain in the New Yorker. It was the sort of review that makes you want to watch the movie for a good laugh, and allows you to forgive yourself for liking a bit of claptrap. Everybody wins! Except keira Knightley, whose underbite he compares to the queen's from Aliens.
In other Times review news, Manohla Dargis has got it bad for Clive Owen. She dully recites how much she hated Derailed, and Jennifer Aniston, and the rest of the cast, and then has a whole paragraph about how wonderful Clive Owen is and how he could wipe the floor (and his nose) with Vincent Cassel. It was pretty funny.
alienprayer - Nov 11, 2005 6:42:50 am PST #8640 of 10002
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
So she's never seen the nazi kickboxing scene in Crimson Rivers then.