I hope you are right, Jilli.
Angel: Eve. So, I guess we should, I don't know, talk? Eve: About what? Angel: About what happened back there with us. Eve: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
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Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2010 10:07:45 am PDT #7306 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hayden - Mar 19, 2010 10:13:24 am PDT #7307 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
OK, I just saw an ad for yet another movie by that guy who wrote The Notebook that looked almost exactly like the one that was just out with Channing Tatum and that bug-eyed girl from Mama Mia! Just how many times did this guy get the same novel published with a different title, anyway?
Powell's Books had a link up yesterday with that guy calling Cormac McCarthy an overwrought hack. In movie terms, that's like Matthew McConaughey saying that Philip Seymour Hoffman has no range.
erikaj - Mar 19, 2010 10:20:38 am PDT #7308 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Nice burn, Corwood.
le nubian - Mar 19, 2010 10:30:09 am PDT #7309 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jilli, I really love your optimism.
Kate P. - Mar 19, 2010 11:24:34 am PDT #7310 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Powell's Books had a link up yesterday with that guy calling Cormac McCarthy an overwrought hack.
Good lord, Corwood. I thought I must be misunderstanding your post, but no, it's true. He also compares himself to Aeschylus, Jane Austen, and Shakespeare.
erikaj - Mar 19, 2010 11:36:33 am PDT #7311 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
That dude needs to have more ambition for himself...stop hiding his light under a bushel and all that.
le nubian - Mar 19, 2010 11:55:34 am PDT #7312 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Sparks is an asshole with no self-reflection at all. Admittedly, I haven't read any of his books, but if "A Night in Rodanthe" approximates the plot and characterization of the book, he is a full blown hack.
There is no redeeming value whatsoever in that movie. I cannot believe I got sucked in watching that movie because of Diane Lane. Seriously.
I cannot imagine any movie made from "Pride & Prejudice" to turn out that badly - even directed by Michael Bay.
Burrell - Mar 19, 2010 1:39:38 pm PDT #7313 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
If I may, please come and enjoy this little tour through my mind:
I cannot imagine any movie made from "Pride & Prejudice" to turn out that badly - even directed by Michael Bay.
::squick:: Not Michael Bay, please.
What if "Pride & Prejudice" were directed by Tim Burton? Hmm ::thinks a bit more:: No wait, he should really direct "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies."
§ ita § - Mar 19, 2010 2:41:58 pm PDT #7314 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2010 3:54:51 pm PDT #7315 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
That doesn't necessarily make me feel better with these in the potential works:
And in the stop-motion realm, there's the remake of his 1984 short film "Frankenweenie." Burton is also rumored for a villain-focused telling of the "Sleeping Beauty" villain in "Maleficent" and he's attached, along with "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov, to produce an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's excellent new novel, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
The first one makes me go "WHY, TIM, WHY?"
The third makes me go meh. The second - potential, but you know...