A more or less glowing review of Sweeney in the NYT:
If the underlying subtext of "creepy as fuck" = glowing.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
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Dana - Dec 20, 2007 3:06:46 pm PST #2846 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Fred Pete - Dec 20, 2007 4:27:23 pm PST #2847 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Erika, I'm glad you said that. I also don't get Audrey Hepburn. I don't know why -- I just can't see what everyone else seems to see.
Volans - Dec 20, 2007 4:47:44 pm PST #2848 of 10000
move out and draw fire
Am I the only person in Middle Earth wanting PJ to keep his mits off any other installments in the Tolkein stories?
sits in the lonely corner with Juliebird.
Weta? Sure? Richard Taylor? Ngila Dickson? Yes. Alan Lee? Of course. But I don't think Fran and Phillipa are very good writers, and I don't think any of them have an ear for Tolkein's language.
And what's he going to do with 12 actors under all the makeup and crap that prevented John Rhys-Davies from acting? Have them all belch and talk about hairy dwarven women for 4 hours? Can he make the elves sufficiently sinister?
I am meh about this news. It could be worse, yes, it could be much worse. But still.
However, Eddie Izzard as Reepicheep? OOOOOHHHH Yeah!!!
sumi - Dec 20, 2007 4:52:47 pm PST #2849 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
And what's he going to do with 12 actors under all the makeup and crap that prevented John Rhys-Davies from acting? Have them all belch and talk about hairy dwarven women for 4 hours?
Given all the time that Bilbo and the dwarves spend w/o any other people around - I'll bet he'll try to find actors that are proportionally as tall to each other as Bilbo and the dwarves are and then there will be less of the other stuff to worry about.
Atropa - Dec 20, 2007 5:26:46 pm PST #2850 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Wait wait wait, I just remembered something from my looooong-ago reading of The Hobbit. I'm going to be really unhappy about the scenes in Mirkwood, aren't I? As in, watch from behind my hands if I open my eyes at all -unhappy, right?
sumi - Dec 20, 2007 5:37:46 pm PST #2851 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Mirkwood is definitely not a Jilli-safe place.
bon bon - Dec 20, 2007 5:45:34 pm PST #2852 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Can he make the elves sufficiently sinister?
Making something sinister is like the one thing he does really, really well. I have no personal attachment to the book, but I agree with those that think another director could do the picture as well as Jackson. He should produce it, though.
Atropa - Dec 20, 2007 5:46:32 pm PST #2853 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Mirkwood is definitely not a Jilli-safe place.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Swell.
sumi - Dec 20, 2007 5:51:59 pm PST #2854 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
If it's Sam Raimi directing perhaps Bruce Campbell can be the porter. . . or Beorn.
Juliebird - Dec 20, 2007 5:56:08 pm PST #2855 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Making something sinister is like the one thing he does really, really well
If we're talking a movie starring Michael J. Fox, sure. That worked. I adored The Frighteners. Heavenly Creatures creeped me the hell out, which is not something that I associate with TLotR. I also think it's two totally different types of sinister, and PJ's just didn't work in the Tolkein-verse, for me.
I could do without the CGI-porn, as well. (Hell, I even had a problem with the sweeping heli-shots of the actual landscape, because, beautiful as it was, who's perspective was that? I wanted more trudging down on the ground with the characters, not these long, impersonal distance shots.)
Um, I think I'll leave and take all my issues with me, yeah...