Well. Excalibur is not a good movie. I support the idea of remaking terrible or kinda-okay movies, and fixing the problems. As a concept, anyway. Much better than redoing movies that were perfectly good the first time.
Van Sant's Psycho was basically a joke on the studio, wasn't it? I know I have an magazine interview where he explained how it came about in an amusing way. But I'd have to move to look it up, and if I do that I might as well go to bed. I'll try to remember to find it after I've slept.
Excalibur is not a good movie. I support the idea of remaking terrible or kinda-okay movies
Yeah, but it's a classic movie. I can see making another, better King Arthur story, but why you gotta make Excalibur again?
I know...I think remakes are getting out of hand.
Excalibur is considered a classic? I mean... as camp, I could see it. But really?
I should say: I'm fully prepared to believe that there are people somewhere who think it's perfect as is. I also believe that there are also people who think Twilight is perfect as is. But... in general? It's been a while since I sat through it, but I didn't think it was highly regarded.
I don't think classics and perfect are the same--I think
Princess Bride
is a classic, and it's hardly perfect.
Excalibur is frequently ludicrous, but it's got a visionary craziness that stamps it 100% the work of John Boorman (for similar cases, see also Zardoz and Exorcist II - visually lavish but WTF and "you've GOT to be kidding me" on so much more). Whereas, for example, great as it is, I think Deliverance could have been made by someone else (doing the book was pretty much going to produce the results you saw on the screen). Boorman certainly brought a lot to the party (so to speak), but that movie is also very much James Dickey.
I should also say, I'd rather see the work of a nutball visionary than a competent journeyman any day, much as I appreciate the skill that a journeyman director brings to the job.
Deadwood fans: We just watched the last two episodes last night. Did they know the show hadn't been renewed when they were shooting? Was that ever mentioned? I'm feeling like that wasn't what I expected for a series finale, and yet it works anyway, given the sort of iconic last shots of most of the characters.
Deadwood fans: We just watched the last two episodes last night. Did they know the show hadn't been renewed when they were shooting? Was that ever mentioned? I'm feeling like that wasn't what I expected for a series finale, and yet it works anyway, given the sort of iconic last shots of most of the characters.
Originally there was going to be a fourth season, which was reduced down to a TV movie (or movies), which HBO ultimately never came through on, so they were given hope they'd do more, but I suspect they also knew it might never come to pass.
Damn that stupid John from Cincinnati. Want more Deadwood!
Oh, exactly, Glam. I haven't fallen that hard for a show in a long, long time. Every characterization and portrayal was so dead on, and there were just so many characters I wanted to see more of. Not to mention the sheer poetry of the dialogue.
::crawls away to grieve::
