Film Flam

[Cain]

No, but it's on my list.  Probably the next film I'll see in fact.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

haven't really been following this thread so this might be repost but has anyone seen John dies at the end??

Reminded me of what naked lunch would have been like if it hadn't been abject shite instead.

Naked Lunch was the biggest disappointment since all the other shit Burroughs wrote.

[LMNO]

The movie Naked Lunch would have been received better if they told you up front it was a magical realism (lit crit definition) telling of how WSB wrote the thing in the first place.  Anyone expecting the book was in for dissapointment.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The movie Naked Lunch would have been received better if they told you up front it was a magical realism (lit crit definition) telling of how WSB wrote the thing in the first place.  Anyone expecting the book was in for dissapointment.

Book wasn't all that, either.

[P3nT4gR4m]

All I was expecting was David Cronenberg. No one's head exploded even slightly. Fuck that movie. 

[LMNO]

A giant bug.  With a gaping asshole.  In its back.  That talked.


Cronenberg is more into orifices, you know.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Yeah, I get that. Still think he should play to his strengths, tho.

[Junkenstein]

I saw The Hobbit.

I'm kinda "eh" about the whole thing.  It really is too long for cinema viewing.  Also strangely boring in places.

If this is going to be a trilogy, then I can only assume that the role of the Necromancer, and Gandalf, are going to be enhanced even further, with Gandalf's breaching of Dol Guldur actually taking up screen time, unlike in the book where it all happened offstage (and, if I recall correctly, was not even mentioned until LOTR).

I didn't think it was terrible, or that all the additions were bad, the Orcs hunting Thorin, while definitely not canonical, make sense and are done well, but it can't decide whether it wants to follow the book and be a children's story, or act as a prequel to the LOTR trilogy.  Gandalf's meeting with the White Council is a perfect example of this.  I appreciated it, as it shows the Gandalf from the trilogy we all know and love, the canny, far-thinking leader who acts to remove a threat before it becomes a more serious problem: namely, if Sauron returns, Smaug will almost certainly join his side in battle.  But at the same time, that's more relevant to Jackson's other trilogy than it is to this film.

I second this review. I actually expected to see some kind of "75% original footage!" note somewhere. A lot of the tourism shots could have been in the ultra extended editions of LOTR but who would notice?

About an hour to get out of the village, an hour for foreshadowing and an action hour. I hear film 3 is apparently a "bridge" so expect various people to turn up as babies and be handed to guardians with appropriately solemn scenes.

I.e -The end of film 3 is just going to be babies being thrown at various people for 40 minutes.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I.e -The end of film 3 is just going to be babies being thrown at various people for 40 minutes.

If you've seen Bad Taste and Braindead (Dead Alive) you'll know that if anyone can make this work, it's Pete Jackson 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

A giant bug.  With a gaping asshole.  In its back.  That talked.

Granted.

But that happens here anyway, and I'd like a little plot to go with it if I'm going to actually stop scratching and pay attention, if you know what I mean.  And I think you do.

[Junkenstein]

I.e -The end of film 3 is just going to be babies being thrown at various people for 40 minutes.

If you've seen Bad Taste and Braindead (Dead Alive) you'll know that if anyone can make this work, it's Pete Jackson 

I have, And I can think of little that I would love more than for jackson to take 98% of the budget of film 3 and set it on fire. Then finish the film with things he already owns.

Intestines using rope and red paint. Show the kids how it was done in the old days!

[P3nT4gR4m]

I dreamed of seeing Aragorn, charging onto Pelennor Fields waving a flymo. Don't get me wrong I loved LOtR but it did leave me wondering how much cooler it could have been if he'd just said "Yo, fuck going by the book!"

[Junkenstein]

Not only would it be cooler, it'd be utterly fucking terrifying.

Dwarves armed with household implements are scary man. Take it from someone who has seen a dwarf charge at someone with a lump hammer in each hand. It's a bad time.


So, you found the production company, I'll secure finance. See you in Aruba.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

About an hour to get out of the village, an hour for foreshadowing and an action hour. I hear film 3 is apparently a "bridge" so expect various people to turn up as babies and be handed to guardians with appropriately solemn scenes.

I.e -The end of film 3 is just going to be babies being thrown at various people for 40 minutes.

They could just redub Willow and call it a day.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Not only would it be cooler, it'd be utterly fucking terrifying.

Dwarves armed with household implements are scary man. Take it from someone who has seen a dwarf charge at someone with a lump hammer in each hand. It's a bad time.


So, you found the production company, I'll secure finance. See you in Aruba.

What kind of dwarf? My maternal grandmother's family were Orcadian (ie Viking) dwarves.