The reviews for Orphan have been all over the map. It's at 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Tom Scola - Jul 24, 2009 10:12:08 am PDT #3183 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
lisah - Jul 24, 2009 10:38:33 am PDT #3184 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Better in terms of more awesome/terrible
now I kind of want to see it! I didn't at all before.
DavidS - Jul 25, 2009 2:18:17 pm PDT #3185 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I didn't realize this was the premise of the Tim Burton Alice:
In Burton's version Alice is 17-years-old and after trying to find her place in Victorian society she returns to the Wonderland she first visited as a young girl.
It's not a straightforward adaptation, or even necessarily an adaptation at all. But kind of a fanfic what-happened-after.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 25, 2009 2:19:31 pm PDT #3186 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
That is not at all how it appears in the trailer...
DavidS - Jul 25, 2009 2:21:16 pm PDT #3187 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Some more quotage:
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Last night Burton showed some footage at the Disney 3-D panel at San Diego Comic-Con. (Johnny Depp also dropped by, supposedly whispered "Hey, happy to be here" in the microphone, and left.)
Burton explained that the new film doesn't exactly follow Carroll's book, and instead takes the characters and various scenes from the novel and molds them into an updated story, according to the Daily Mail.
"It's all based on [the book]," he said. "This material's seen a lot of film versions of it--we tried to take all the elements of it and weaved it into a story that had some motion to it and emotion to it, and not just a series of events."
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 25, 2009 7:56:18 pm PDT #3188 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
So it's Hook with Helena Bonham Carter instead of Dustin Hoffman?
le nubian - Jul 25, 2009 8:16:00 pm PDT #3189 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Amy - Jul 25, 2009 8:39:01 pm PDT #3190 of 30000
Because books.
Harry Potter and HBP in 15 minutes...
Oh god, I love her.
beekaytee - Jul 26, 2009 6:41:45 am PDT #3191 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Cleo...as awesome as ever.
I did a table reading (with costume elements) of her LOTR recap at a restaurant for a friend's birthday.
The 'I don't DO things like this' crew I foisted it on were in hysterics by the end of the first page. There was much flailing and a couple of tables over asked us to speak up. It was a beautiful moment and it was all down to Cleo's genius.
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2009 6:49:10 am PDT #3192 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Pssst. It's Cleo.