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megan walker - Mar 02, 2011 2:56:07 pm PST #13446 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

By the way, Jane Eyre was a very respectable version. Great mood, appropriate amount of gloominess, good mix of the gothic and romance elements of the story. For the most part, the choices for where to compress/change the story were right on the money. Loved the choice for framing the story: It starts with her fleeing Thornfield over the moors and ending up at the Rivers' place and that sets in motion the flashbacks to her story and we eventually join up with the exact same shots at the approriate moment later.

Mia W... was great. Fassbender was a bit too good looking for Rochester, but I'll live. Dame Judi Dench was, of course, awesome.

Annoyingly, we ended up not having press tickets and sitting in the second row, which was not good for the opening shots, but was awesome for the Q&A with the director and Mia afterward.

dcp - Mar 02, 2011 3:06:38 pm PST #13447 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Serenity

Atropa - Mar 02, 2011 3:29:38 pm PST #13448 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

but the opening scene for "Cutthroat Island" is a stitch. In fact pretty much the only thing in the film worth watching. (Jilli thinks a couple of other scenes are worthwhile.)

The town. EXPLODES. While everyone is running around in corsets and frock coats and pirate hats. What's not to love?

sj - Mar 02, 2011 4:59:26 pm PST #13449 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

By the way, Jane Eyre was a very respectable version.

Megan, thanks for the report. It sounds like it might be a version that won't make me run screaming from the theater.

megan walker - Mar 02, 2011 5:07:43 pm PST #13450 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

It sounds like it might be a version that won't make me run screaming from the theater.

Definitely not. I had a few quibbles with stuff near the end, but they really did a good job with it. Keep in mind, I just spent the last two weeks listening to a Librivox recording as a reread so everything was fresh in my mind to compare it with.

sj - Mar 02, 2011 5:10:39 pm PST #13451 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Definitely not. I had a few quibbles with stuff near the end, but they really did a good job with it. Keep in mind, I just spent the last two weeks listening to a Librivox recording as a reread so everything was fresh in my mind to compare it with.

Now I want to re-read Jane Eyre. It has been a while...

sumi - Mar 02, 2011 5:55:29 pm PST #13452 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

Diane Lane has been cast as Martha Kent in the new Superman movie.

quester - Mar 02, 2011 6:08:12 pm PST #13453 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

#1 All-Time TV credit sequence? Cowboy Bebop!

Yes! This!

Frankenbuddha - Mar 02, 2011 6:36:24 pm PST #13454 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh! The credits for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World are fun times. Also the 8-bit Universal logo.

LOVED!

Touch of Evil. Best. Credits. Evah! Much as I love the restored version, the one with Henry Mancini's score strikes me as more iconic.

DavidS - Mar 02, 2011 7:03:42 pm PST #13455 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yes! This!

::high fives quester::

Our opinions validate each other so we must be right!

Much as I love the restored version, the one with Henry Mancini's score strikes me as more iconic.

Concur.

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