You're craving musicals?
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Beverly - Jan 12, 2007 7:57:51 am PST #6984 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Gris - Jan 12, 2007 9:58:47 am PST #6985 of 10001
Hey. New board.
...that casting call is evil and wrong. I am sad. After the awesomeness that was the Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia, I keep wanting all of my childhood fantasies to be good movies.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2007 12:55:31 pm PST #6986 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm fascinated by the reviews of Tideland.
How can a movie that inspires that much upset be meritless? I mean, the tone of the reviews isn't just that the movie is bad, there's a moral tone of revulsion and disapproval. As if Gilliam gets his grimy little nails under their psyche.
But I haven't seen it. It may be utter twaddle, or a droning bore.
Did anybody see it? Jess?
Jessica - Jan 12, 2007 12:57:14 pm PST #6987 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It may be utter twaddle, or a droning bore.
This was pretty much E's reaction, IIRC. I didn't see it myself.
Hayden - Jan 12, 2007 3:18:17 pm PST #6988 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
See #1: [link]
Atropa - Jan 12, 2007 8:26:47 pm PST #6989 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
We just got back from seeing Pan's Labyrinth.
Wow. Just, um, wow. Jess, what was it you wanted to talk to me about, waaaaay back when you saw it?
Polter-Cow - Jan 13, 2007 3:41:39 am PST #6990 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm seeing it today!
Jessica - Jan 13, 2007 7:26:55 am PST #6991 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jess, what was it you wanted to talk to me about, waaaaay back when you saw it?
I wanted to know your opinion of the fantasy stuff, particularly the ending.
I've found that people who assume that all the fantasy elements are real and really exist come away with a much more positive view of the ending (when her earthly body has to die so that she can BE A FAIRY PRINCESS FOREVER) than people who think it's a story about a war-traumatized child who escapes into her imagination and then DIES.
Um, you can probably guess which side I fall on...
esse - Jan 13, 2007 7:55:21 am PST #6992 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I...but...what? Why? WHO? WHY WHY WHY?
...I think I just had a minor heart attack.
I suspect this is how the LOTR bibliophiles felt when the films were being made, only they didn't make the Hobbits AMERICAN.
Atropa - Jan 13, 2007 9:22:17 am PST #6993 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I wondered if that was what you wanted to ask me! Of course the fantasy elements were real. (You knew I'd say that.) And yes, the fact that her earthly, mortal existance had to end so she could return to her life in the Underworld not only made perfect sense to me, but made it a happy (well, happy-ish, because I felt bad for the mortals left behind mouring) ending to me.
The two moments that apparently made me gasp out loud (I'm assuming that's what caused Pete to turn and look at me) were when she showed the bug the picture of the picture of the fairy and the bug changed its shape, and when the faun gave her the mandrake root and told her what she needed to do with it. Tho' I will admit my initial suspicions about the mandrake in the bowl of milk were wrong; I thought it was going to turn into a changeling baby that she would end up swapping for her brother (after her mother died, because I knew that was going to happen), and then she would take her human brother into Fairyland with her. But I quickly realized that couldn't be it; that the nature of the tasks set for her would mean that she was going to be told she would need to spill blood to return to Fairyland, and that she (of course!) would not harm her brother, which would turn out to be the right choice.
Which means, yeah, I guessed the ending about half-way through the movie. But I didn't mind, because I wanted to see how it was done, and I think it was done perfectly. It had a very classic fairy-tale feel to it, and I loved loved LOVED it.