I thought the director's commentary was interesting, too; he said he'd put a lot of thought into modern westerns and why so many of them didn't work.
3:10 to Yuma was one of those movies that I was really happy I decided to listen to the commentary.
Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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megan walker - Nov 16, 2008 7:52:53 pm PST #8675 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Fiona - Nov 16, 2008 10:54:14 pm PST #8676 of 10000
Speaking of commentaries... check out the director's commentary for "Out of Sight", which is a great movie, probably one of my personal Top Ten. He doesn't say so explicitly, but you can tell that Soderbergh worked SO HARD with J-Lo to get that performance. Which is possibly why she's never been that good again.
le nubian - Nov 17, 2008 1:34:42 am PST #8677 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh, that's interesting.
Tom Scola - Nov 17, 2008 4:46:23 am PST #8678 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Via Slashdot, 75 Comics Being Made Into Films. Holy shit.
Polter-Cow - Nov 17, 2008 6:50:14 am PST #8679 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Damn. They include several that they don't think will actually make it, but still, damn.
megan walker - Nov 17, 2008 7:08:19 am PST #8680 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Sad to see that the Tintin trilogy is still having trouble getting off the ground.
Tom Scola - Nov 17, 2008 7:13:00 am PST #8681 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They include several that they don't think will actually make it
I would wager that more than half of these will never make it.
Volans - Nov 17, 2008 8:23:41 am PST #8682 of 10000
move out and draw fire
We watched the extended version of
Brotherhood of the Wolflast night. It makes more sense, in that it's possible to follow what's happening, but no more sense in terms of WTF would anyone think THAT was a good idea?!?
But then I started (over)thinking, and it's got a lot going on. There's the obvious thing where the "Brotherhood of the Wolf" is killing wolves and scapegoating them, but Mani and Fronsac are the actual brothers of the wolves. They never say what Fronsac's totem is, although presumably Mani read it for him. I'm guessing wolf or lion.
Then there's some neat motifs of disguise: Everyone first appears as something else, from the soldiers dressed as women to Mani in European garb, to the Brotherhood themselves, to the Vatican spy. Even the wolf presented to the court is a fictional construct, as is La Bete (which turns out to be wearing a disguise too.
Only the Marquis le Mullet stays the same, but even he is first shown as an old guy about to be (deservedly? we don't know) guillotined, and it's only at the end that we recognize the Revolution took the good with the bad.
And, aside from Monica Bellucci's costumes being amazing, there were some neat costuming choices: Marianne wears red at first, like the rest of the Brotherhood (even when not in BotW uniform) but as she realizes her own identity she starts wearing blue.
Most impressively, the movie had a theme - what is savagery? Who are the real animals? - rather than just being a slasher flick.
I'm still not sure I'd recommend it for anything beyond Mani's fighting...but hey. An attempt at depth.
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On a different topic, I titled my QoS review "Previously Drilled Oil Fields."
Cashmere - Nov 17, 2008 8:33:10 am PST #8683 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
They've been talking about an Elfquest movie for 20 years. I won't hold my breath.
DavidS - Nov 17, 2008 9:04:23 am PST #8684 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They've been talking about an Elfquest movie for 20 years. I won't hold my breath.
It was weird that they credited it to Richard Pini. Like Wendy was just off in the kitchen making biscuits or something.