::shakes her head in disgust::
I'm glad to see the Beeb rep is 'unenthused' and I suppose I, too, can see the archival benefit, but historians have made due with 2D film since...well, film. So, yeah. Feh.
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
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beekaytee - Dec 10, 2010 5:25:34 pm PST #12452 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2010 5:27:53 pm PST #12453 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
historians have made due with 2D film since...well, film. So, yeah. Feh.
Okay, I'm not all over 3D, but you do realise that historians made do with silent and black and white too? It's not exactly the most unassailable of positions.
beekaytee - Dec 10, 2010 5:43:57 pm PST #12454 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
It's just me being cranky, ita. I know it's not a rational response.
It does make me wonder though, about the evolution of the technology. I can only imagine that VR is the next step. Instead of the movie 'coming out at you', you can be IN it!
But that technology has to be so different from dvd technology that dvds will go the way of the cylinder and the 78rpm recording, right?
So whatever is not migrated to the new technology will be lost...so how does that support archiving?
Don't mind me, I'm having an offa my lawn moment.
eta: Not that I'm supporting the slaying of trees, but newspapers in landfills can be read, like new, decades later. Whereas, ebooks are lost as soon as the technology advances 2 or 3 steps. My Mac G5 'powerpc', I'm lookin' at you!
Also, I can scarcely find a mechanism to listen to the cassettes I still own. Some of that music was never printed on cds. I'm going to lament the loss of The Bonedaddys "Hippie Children" for a very long time.
quester - Dec 10, 2010 5:55:34 pm PST #12455 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
The party I would like to attend is the Christmas party in Fanny and Alexander.
DavidS - Dec 10, 2010 7:18:31 pm PST #12456 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The party I would like to attend is the Christmas party in Fanny and Alexander.
Oh yeah. I still need to watch the full miniseries version of that. It's one of my favorite movies but I've never seen the six hour version.
Beverly - Dec 10, 2010 7:30:59 pm PST #12457 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Dinner pary, Beetlejuice.
What?
Actually, the dinner party in Bridget Jones' Diary.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 10, 2010 7:46:07 pm PST #12458 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Actually, the dinner party in Bridget Jones' Diary.
Especially if Beetlejuice showed up during it.
Atropa - Dec 11, 2010 12:09:16 pm PST #12459 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Dinner pary, Beetlejuice.
YES, THIS. RIGHT NOW, PLEASE.
Oooh, or the party from Addams Family to celebrate Fester's return. I'm a little rusty on the steps for the Mamoushka, but I can practice.
Consuela - Dec 12, 2010 9:28:41 am PST #12460 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I saw the new Narnia movie last night. I went in well-armed with spoilers, so as not to be disappointed. It was pretty and adventury and had dragons and sea serpents and sword fights and so forth.
Changes from the book of Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
Eustace stays a dragon for much longer, and in fact fights the sea serpent. Edmund is all whiney about not being in charge of things. Caspian does not in fact hit on Ramandu's daughter. Lucy doesn't do the eavesdropping spell but comes much closer to doing the "make me beautiful" spell. There are a few other things that are not just changes but actively non-canonical that peeved me.
The big change is that they made more of a plot, but I thought it was kind of a stupid plot. They created a Great Evil that has to be defeated with the use of plot tokens, none of which is in the original. The working theory is that this is all in service of setting up the story for The Silver Chair, assuming this makes enough money to justify making that one.
Acting-wise, I was less pleased with Skandar Keynes here as Edmund than in the earlier movies. Ben Barnes as Caspian was fine, and very nice in tight trousers. Georgie Henley's Lucy was fine and she got to do some fighting, so yay. But Will Poulter as Eustace Clarence Scrubb was fabulous--he was funny and unpleasant and simply wonderful, especially in the very end.
It's quite pretty, with fun clothes and sets and stuff. Not totally awesome, but fun.
Scrappy - Dec 13, 2010 7:50:12 am PST #12461 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw The Fighter last night and was really impressed. The trailer made it look like Christian Bale was going to be chewing the scenery in a standard sports film, but he gave a very real, impressive performance in a much more nuanced script. Wahlberg was great and Melissa Leo KILLED. Really, there wasn't a bad performance. I highly recommend it.