'Lessons'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Jessica, regarding your whitefont,
I was vastly amused by how little of him they showed. Having seen Danny Boyle's Frankenstein via NTL multiple times, I'm really excited about the motion capture aspects of Smaug--Cumberbatch is ridiculously good with making unnatural physical motions for a human seem natural.
Will the subtitles float in the air?
There are actually already a number of subtitles--elves dwarfs, each using their own.
No floating.
But floaty subtitles would have rocked.
We saw Hobbit again last night, and, while the audience sees the Ring fall out of Gollum's...pocket(?), Bilbo can't see the ground from his hiding place. He doesn't go straight over there when he gets out, so I think it's a fair read that he does happen upon it and may not be sure that it came from Gollum until "What does it have in its pocket?"
So I finally saw Lincoln. That was a good movie with a killer cast (Hal Holbrook! I had no idea he was still alive), and surprisingly funny in spots. And not nearly as leadenly manipulative as I expected from Spielberg, except for the very end.
Plus, Tony Kushner in less than 3 hours, which must be some kind of record.
Apparently, the script for Lincoln they ended up using was essentially the first quarter of the original treatment he turned in.
I thought it was a phenomenal movie. As was Silver Linings Playbook. An interesting one-two punch, too!
Just saw Hobbit. Yeah, lots of extra stuff, but what was there was interesting. Andy Serkis is amazing.
Apparently, the script for Lincoln they ended up using was essentially the first quarter of the original treatment he turned in.
Given my previous experience with Tony Kushner, that doesn't surprise me at all.
I love Tony Kushner, and yet I've never seen anything of his that I haven't fallen asleep for part of it. Except the Angels In America film, which was sensibly broken up into non-marathon-length chunks. I've utterly adored every word of his I've been conscious for, and if all his stuff were produced over a 4-5 week stretch with a good night's sleep after each installment I'd want everything he ever wrote on constant repeat, but damn I cannot sit through a full-length production of anything of his without nodding off from sheer surfeit of rich language and ideas. About 3 hours in my brain just collapses, OD'd on intellect, and I have to sleep it off before I take another hit.
ICompletelyON, an interesting list of 2013 movies to look out for -- some of them sound like things to look out for in order to strenuously avoid them, but some sound rather nifty. Apparently another Buffy bit player is branching out into screenwriting, and there's something coming out at the end of the summer costarring Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers, so that's pretty awesome. And Joss is doing something with Shakespeare. I dunno. I didn't pay much attention.
Does anyone really want to see Die Hard until You Can't Die No More?