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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.
Nice burn, Corwood.
Jilli, I really love your optimism.
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.
That dude needs to have more ambition for himself...stop hiding his light under a bushel and all that.
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.
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."
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...
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.
I wonder if their two styles will cancel each other out or converge and amplify one another into something more over-the-top than a Baz Luhrmann movie...