Kathy - if you have Netflix, look for the stage version of Victor/Victoria. I know it used to be on instant view. It still has Julie Andrews in it and she does the introduction at the beginning and also talks during the intermission. Both of these are to the recorded viewing audience, not from on stage. I really enjoyed it.
I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.
Snyder ,'Showtime'
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SuziQ - Dec 16, 2010 9:48:36 am PST #12486 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Jars - Dec 16, 2010 9:59:34 am PST #12487 of 30000
And both films sort of lost from memory.
The Dead was on the Leaving Cert (Irish GCSE's, sort of) English curriculum when I was in school, and might still be. So at least there's bunches of Irish teenagers watching it...
Kathy A - Dec 16, 2010 9:59:57 am PST #12488 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's a good idea. She is amazing to meet in real life, too. I love the commentary on the movie's dvd, because it has both her and Blake speaking.
Hayden - Dec 16, 2010 11:23:44 am PST #12489 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I saw The Dead earlier this year. Lovely adaptation.
erikaj - Dec 16, 2010 6:19:42 pm PST #12490 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Hayden! Heng mai, dude.
Jessica - Dec 17, 2010 7:23:20 am PST #12491 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - Dec 17, 2010 7:24:04 am PST #12492 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh dear.
From io9, Tron Legacy is a colossal failure of movie-making
Back in 1982, Tron zapped us into a whole new world of storytelling. You can still feel the love, and excitement, on every frame of that movie. So it's sad that Tron Legacy turns those thrills into snoozes. Spoilers ahead.
Polter-Cow - Dec 17, 2010 7:36:57 am PST #12493 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm seeing it tonight in IMAX 3D, so it should at least be a good spectacle.
Besides, here's a counterpoint:
Tron Legacy: 60 Terabytes of Amazing on a 2 Gig Flash Drive:
It's pretty much guaranteed to disappoint, right? I know some were, but I couldn't pry my eyes off the screen for the entire running time of the movie, and of all the emotions I experienced in the theater, disappointment definitely wasn't one of them.
Polter-Cow - Dec 17, 2010 9:01:03 pm PST #12494 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
As I expected, I fell more on the Zach Oat side than the Charlie Jane side (colossal failure of movie-making, really?). It's a fun adventure story with some cool thematic elements, and even though very little about the Grid makes sense, I didn't really expect it to. I expected lots of awesome setpieces, and I got them, CRAZY BIG and in 3D!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 18, 2010 1:32:35 am PST #12495 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Re: Dawn Treader, and Consuela's thoughts on the plot changes. I didn't hate the changes they made to the plot, not even the slightly odd concept of a great evil to be defeated. The problem with the book (which is my favourite of the Narnia books), for me, is that it doesn't always hold together very well. It aims for epic, but ends up feeling a bit unconnected. The changes made it work as a movie. This is what I really like about these Narnia films - they don't just film the books, as with the Harry Potter films, but they make movies. It works for me. I can see that they might have been trying to set up The Silver Chair, which I seem vaguely to recall features a lot of green (and is a truly pointless book that I can't remember very well), but I think it worked regardless of that.
I'll be interested to see if they can make a success of a movie of The Silver Chair. The BBC adaptations of the books, of which I was an enormous fan growing up, were great until they got to that one, which was a disaster. The book just doesn't appeal. Unless that's just me. But I think there's almost nothing to it.