While She Knits--Goes to Hollywood!
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queensthiefI'm kinda getting tired of only having other things to talk about, and not new MWT books. :-{
I mean, in a revived way. It hasn't taken this long to kick in, I swear.
I did finally make the icon I've been meaning to have, though... Maybe someone should run a contest again. *hums to seem innocent*
To the Off-Topic Topic, though!
Movie Recommendations, Anyone?
Casting Characters?
Books turned Movies you loved/hated?
I personally just watched Inuyasha anime for the first time and was surprised that I liked it better than the manga. I think it's the color of his eyes...
Can't wait to see Prince Caspian, too! Looks like fun.
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Date: 5/16/08 04:27 pm (UTC)Re: THAT ICON
Date: 5/17/08 01:47 am (UTC)[But only for me!]
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Date: 5/16/08 04:31 pm (UTC)Tekkon Kinkreet: a Japanese animated movie, but not in traditional anime style. Not for kiddies, rather deep and kind of scary and bloody at times, hence its R rating. An awesome film.
We Shall Overcome: I believe this is a Danish film, and is subtitled. Basically about a kid in the 70s whose principal just about rips his ear off while disciplining him, and the hectic events that follow.
Pan's Labyrinth: I do like my foreign films. I find myself of giving a good description of this one, so just imdb.com it.
Muppets Treasure Island: lol. Who can say no to the Muppets?
Jesus Christ Superstar: Also lol - I'm atheist, and this movie is STILL awesomer than toast. A 70s musical, told more from Judas' perspective, really.
Iron Man: My absolute favourite superhero movie. Tony Stark is such an awesome character, and special effects added to the experience, as opposed to BEING the entire experience, which I have noticed is a naughty trend lately in movies. Out in theatres in US and Canada right now, although I'm not sure when it comes out for everyone else. Check here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/releaseinfo
I have no strong feelings on the other subjects at the moment, although I'm sure some will come to mind when others mention them. :)
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Date: 5/16/08 05:25 pm (UTC)"...Dead Tom's DEAD! Long John shot him!"
"Dead Tom's always been dead! That's why he's called Dead Tom!"
:-D
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Date: 5/16/08 06:58 pm (UTC)Look, at least I've got The Muppets Take Manhatten down, okay?
Oh! Me! Me!
Date: 5/16/08 05:01 pm (UTC)Some other good movies off of the top of my head...
Batman Begins
The Scarlet Pimpernel (I haven't seen the musical version, but I'd like to)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (I haven't seen all of Miyazaki's films, but this is my favorite of those I've seen.)
...more later?
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Date: 5/16/08 05:48 pm (UTC)Outside of this list, I love every Disney princess movie ever except Cinderella, and movies ranging from A Fish Called Wanda to Hero, so.... I would recommend Notorious and The Philadelphia Story as my favorite Cary Grant films. And...well, the list is a good place to start. I've seen too many movies lately to be able to start just naming them off the top of my head.
The only movie version of a book that I've ever been able to mostly disassociate from its source material is Ella Enchanted, and that was a survival mechanism.
I have...two movies, at least that I know of, that I can honestly say I thought were better versions of the books they were based on. One is A Room with a View--the ending of the movie is so much more satisfying than that of the book, but the movie also captures E.M. Forster's style perfectly--it's like watching the words, honestly. The second is Memoirs of a Geisha--where the book tries to be more of a biography, and thus tells the tale as far as it goes while including lots of information, the movie is more concerned with the story, and ends exactly where you want the story to end.
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Date: 5/16/08 08:27 pm (UTC)...aw man. Rewatching Room with a View is almost at the very top of my "things to do when I go home" list. *hungers for it*
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Date: 5/16/08 08:28 pm (UTC)*owns this movie*
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Date: 5/16/08 10:13 pm (UTC)~Feir Dearig
Prince Caspian
Date: 5/16/08 11:48 pm (UTC)Re: Prince Caspian
Date: 5/17/08 01:49 am (UTC)But hey, he's in the Atreyu cast of adorableness, so I think I'll live. ^_^
Thanks for the good report!
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Date: 5/17/08 03:20 am (UTC)Re: Prince Caspian
Date: 5/17/08 06:51 am (UTC)He'd better be good, that's all I can say.
It's not out till the end of June over here.
Re: Prince Caspian
Date: 5/17/08 12:38 pm (UTC)Well, Gen will be 27 some day... Perhaps this Ben Barnes person has a younger brother? After all, they got the sister of Lucy to play the adult Queen Lucy.
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Date: 5/18/08 12:11 am (UTC)Spoiler here, highlight for it: It could be because the general was rather good looking. And that his personality wasn't flat as a pancake. Yes. That might be it.
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Date: 5/17/08 12:40 am (UTC)One review in the paper hated Prince Caspian, the other loved it. I havent decided whether or not to see it.
I loved both the book and the movie Howls Moving Castle, but they are completly different because of the loss of Howls real character. Read the book before you see it, so you know the real characters
Now Ill go watch Singin' in the rain for the 34523 time. :-)
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Date: 5/17/08 01:51 am (UTC)But then, I'm a Miyazaki fan. Can he do any wrong?
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Date: 5/17/08 02:22 pm (UTC)Gigi
Date: 5/17/08 03:14 pm (UTC)As a rule I don't like to see books I am very fond of made into movies, but (in spite of my initial reaction) I do think The Thief could be well translated to the Silver Screen. I'd love to see all the scenery.
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Date: 5/17/08 08:31 pm (UTC)Pride and Prejudice, ditto. Greer Garson as Eliza, ditto.
Somewhere I recall reading that Olivier had been the first choice to play opposite Garbo in Queen Christina, but she insisted on having John Gilbert. Now *there* was an opportunity lost....
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Date: 5/17/08 09:56 pm (UTC)I'm not sure there are many books I'd like to see turned in to films. Just because books are such a personal thing and you always worry that when some mad money obsessed movie studio gets their dirty mitts on it they'll totally massacre all the good bits to make something with mass market appeal and no soul. Phew.
However...Lord of the Rings films are about 100% times better than the bloody books. I'm sorry Tolkien fans, but as much as I loved the films, Tolkien is far to descriptive for me. I don't want to read 4 pages of what the trees looked like, thank you very much. His editors should have done their job, and edited it. If he had editors. Which I doubt.
I guess I'd love to see MWTs as films, but I'd worry that they'd ruin it...Gen is just such a conivving arse I'm not sure there is an actor out there who can look the part of cover all aspects of his personality. Though if there is, bring them on down!
The Magicians Guild series by Trudi Canavan could be good films, but would require a bit of trimming down. Likewise with D.J. McHales Pendragon...though maybe you could combine several books in to one film with that series.
I'd say the Wind Singer series by William Nicholson, but although they are vastly cinematic, I just don't think there's an adequate level of detail in them to make a good film...sometimes I felt he could have taken a lesson or two from Tolkien! I'm such a hypocrite. :(
Books turned movies I didn't like - Sorry but Northern Lights [Golden Compass] was just not very good. Far too much dialouge, most of it exposition, characters introduced merely to introduce the next...and the acting. Well. When you have Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig in a film, they should be on screen for more than about 20 minutes altogether. When you have a young girl with a dodgy wooden accent, she shouldn't talk so much. The CGI was amazing though!
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Date: 5/20/08 03:11 am (UTC)Cheaper by the Dozen is another big one though. The movie had exactly one thing in common with the book: the title. Time period, plot, characters, even the number of kids is different. And yet they claimed it was based on the book.
I haven't seen Iron Man or Prince Caspian yet, but recently I was thinking about TV shows that I like even more than the books they were based on. I hadn't really thought that could happen, but it's true of both Bones and Dexter. They work well as TV series.
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