'Beneath You'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I loved Godfather, even going into it braced against yet another classic, and the feeling some people had after Citizen Kane like when you have a really good spinach lasagne and you think maybe spinach is actually kinda tasty? Yeah, that. Then you go see Godfather II and you realise it's all about the preparation, and spinach can taste like crap after all.
I had a point. Spinach ate it.
I don't like the Godfather movies. I don't relate to anyone in them. Don't care at all.
I find Harvey very post-WWII, so I'm ... well, but Stewart is cool, so maybe not.
Well, my brother forced me to watch The Two Towers, so I feel pretty confident that I'd be just as irritated by the other two movies.
...Fucking elves.
Oh, but The Two Towers is an awful movie--or book--unless you've done Fellowship. (Or, as I typed first, Fellowhip). TTT is dirty, gritty, all about ugly orcs and horrible gollums and dark, dank, icky places. At least Fellowship is set in green and gentle lands, lets you discover in wonder before the dark invades. I'm not surprised you didn't like it.
The Two Towers is definitely the weakest of the three, and I say that having seen the first one. I cannot imagine it being a happy fun time on its own.
Not that I'm trying to talk you into it...I'm a rabid Ringer myself with much pervy elf love. But I think you'd be less irritated by either of the other two.
Perhaps not enough, but less.
Harvey just made me really upset. I can't watch it.
Hey, Vonnie, I think the Kubrick guy you're talking about was that asshat Merrwit. Haven't heard from him in years.
Possible. But I reckon there is probably more than one Kubrick-nut with manners like a wild dog running around the 'net.
It's got 2 of the people from MI 5 and Wash
Matthew MacFadyen and Keeley Hawes (Tom and Zoe from Spooks) are married with a couple of kids, if I recall. Man, their children must be pretty.
Is Alan Tudyk playing an American or a Brit?
Peter Dinklage! I'm reading the George R.R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books right now and keep thinking they *have to* adapt the books to screen before Dinklage becomes too old to play Tyrion.
Alan has an Engish accent. Peter is kinda the star. You have to see it.
I'm reading the George R.R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books right now and keep thinking they *have to* adapt the books to screen before Dinklage becomes too old to play Tyrion.
HBO has optioned the books for a possible series.
I'm torn. I don't want them to do it if they won't finish. But I still want them to do it.
Oh no, Fellowship would have been worse. At least Two Towers had Gollum running around; he's the only character I like at all. And the battle scenes were cool, at least.
My mom and brother are big on Tolkien. I mean, I dimly remember seeing Bakshi movie in the theater. I read The Hobbit and Fellowship, and that was enough. My antipathy is not based on a lack of knowledge.