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Also, there was a newish looking edition of Something Wicked This Way Comes (Jonathan Pryce version). Is it new, or has it been out for a while?
As a DVD I think it's been out for forever, but I have no idea if they did a significant new version. Also, is there a version other than the Jonathan Pryce/Jason Robards version?
I found XF more workable if I thought about it as an episode than as a movie.
Also, is there a version other than the Jonathan Pryce/Jason Robards version?
Not that I'm aware of. And I wish there would be a different version, because I want a movie of that story where the Dust Witch hasn't been changed into some sort of spider queen. Seriously, SWTWC is one of my favorite books of all time, and I'm sad that I can't watch the movie because of my phobia.
X-Files:
I hated the wink-wink-nudge-nudge moments. It angered me that the sadistic killer was gay (I leaned over to GF and said, "Goddamned homos - at it again!"). I thought Scully was ridiculous with the not wanting to go there again when it was she who dragged him back in. I didn't think the story was all that compelling and I'm not sure what made it an X-File. Just cause there was a psychic on the case? Meh. And finally, I truly hate that Chris Carter made them a couple. Seriously. Hate.
Seriously, SWTWC is one of my favorite books of all time, and I'm sad that I can't watch the movie because of my phobia.
Oh dear, for some reason that never occurred to me, but DUH, yeah, I can totally see why that would be an insoluble problem for you Jilli. Damn shame too, because Pryce was AWESOME.
And, in fact, if I remember the troubled history of the movie correctly, the spiders were something that Disney forced the director to do after the early previews didn't work out so well. Dammit - Jack Clayton directed The Innocents - he definitely knows creepy. Trust the man to do his job.
This, of course, would have been the same era of Disney that made Tim Burton want to rip his own head off out of boredom when he was working for them. Sigh.
Oh dear, for some reason that never occurred to me, but DUH, yeah, I can totally see why that would be an insoluble problem for you Jilli. Damn shame too, because Pryce was AWESOME.
I may try watching it again and just close my eyes a lot. I haven't seen it in years and years. Other than the Dust Witch issue, how faithful is it to the book? Do you remember?
Other than the Dust Witch issue, how faithful is it to the book? Do you remember?
I mostly remember Pryce being the best thing in the movie, but Robards was very good, and I seem to recall the boys were pretty close in terms of how their friendship is portrayed.
It's been years since I've seen it too, actually. I know Bradbury worked on the screenplay (though I suspect he got re-written when they revamped the film after the previews).
Glamcookie is me WRT The X-Files. Bleh. And didn't you also love how the whole plot was about women being abducted, mutilated, and killed? Whee!
I do agree, and had the eye-rolly moment wrt the villains' relationship. And the women being abducted makes little sense as the transplantee was male.
I have this vague feeling that there might have been something that was planned to be in the script, but didn't make it into the final version of the film, but nothing to base that on.