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Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?
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I watched it yesterday. The reviews weren't good when it first came out, so I hadn't seen it before, but I think the reviewers must have been expecting it to be "The Making of 'Psycho'", which it was not. If you take it for what it's about, the story of Hitchcock and his wife during that time period, it's excellent.
Re-watching Star Wars in between work, episode VI tonight - yay! 
Also watched The Hobbit for the 4th time on saturday and will be watching it again next weekend with my friend alongside a Lego LOTR/Star Wars gaming marathon
Do love my life sometimes!
Also watched The Hobbit for the 4th time on saturday and will be watching it again next weekend with my friend alongside a Lego LOTR/Star Wars gaming marathon
Do love my life sometimes!
Re-watching Star Wars in between work, episode VI tonight - yay!
Also watched The Hobbit for the 4th time on saturday and will be watching it again next weekend with my friend alongside a Lego LOTR/Star Wars gaming marathon
Do love my life sometimes!
lol. I thought it was much better than I expected, but five times? Alas..
Have been watching Rushmore by Wes Anderson lately (for the first time
). And lked it. Bill Murray is hilarious, as usual.
Saw Silver Linings Playbook on the plane, great movie- Jlaw is super cute in it.
Also spent 2 hours on the Intouchables, in french and subtitled, formulaic but good.
Watched Cloud Atlas again and I still like it, but I seem to be in a minority.
And Just heard about Dumb and Dumber To announced for 2014...
Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world? lol
Silver Lining is on my list to rent. DaDt is too, but I'm preparing to be disappointed. I loved the original so it's better to be prepared. Ya never know though, fingers crossed. Have you heard the most annoying sound?
Re-watching Star Wars in between work, episode VI tonight - yay!
Also watched The Hobbit for the 4th time on saturday and will be watching it again next weekend with my friend alongside a Lego LOTR/Star Wars gaming marathon
Do love my life sometimes!
If you read the Hobbit, I assume you forgave the 'little' changes they made to the story?
Maybe overkill?
If you read the Hobbit, I assume you forgave the 'little' changes they made to the story?
To be honest I find if you view it as a completely different thing to the book it is much better
To be honest I find if you view it as a completely different thing to the book it is much better
True wisdom...
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To be honest I find if you view it as a completely different thing to the book it is much better
A very good point, and one which needs to be made, again and again.
True wisdom...
Yes, it is.
However, my problem with this is whenever I come across a movie adaptation of a book I have loved, I find it difficult to disentangle the two.
Instead, I tend to see the flaws, the omissions, the narrative short-cuts, the conflation of different minor characters, the shallow interpretations, the lurid over-statement, and sometimes, worst of all, the ultimate crime against literature, the utter mendacity and heresy of tacking on a happy ending where the original text may have suggested a different outcome, opting instead for the bittersweet integrity of art.....(and life)...
But, yes, you do have a point and a very well made one; it is easier - and probably better - if they are treated as two entirely different things, the sort of different things where the art of narration must be approached entirely differently, too.
Nevertheless, because I'm an avid reader, my preference for the written word (especially if it is a book I love or admire) means that the book almost invariably takes precedence over film. Mind you, there have been cases (rare enough) where the movie far transcended its written source (the first two Godfather movies come to mind - both far better than the book which inspired them), but the converse is more usually the case.
In my opinion the rest of them aren't as good as the original. The one from just a few years ago with Adrien Brody (Predators) wasn't bad though.
The only other Predator movie I saw was Predator vs. Aliens and I thought it was okay. Not the type of movie that I'd watch over and over again.
Just watched the Hobbit - didn't get to see it at the cinema and I have to say I'm very disappointed with it. (Oh well...)
Have gone back to plugging my way through Game of Thrones (series 2) which I'm really enjoying! (I'm finding it like Dallas set in the Wars of the Roses...)
Have gone back to plugging my way through Game of Thrones (series 2) which I'm really enjoying! (I'm finding it like Dallas set in the Wars of the Roses...)
I think Jackson missed the point. The Lord of the Rings is Beowulf type tale. A tale of great hero's and events to be told loudly and expansively in the Saxon king's hall to all the gathered thegns by the scop (minstrel). It's a foundation myth.
The Hobbit on the other hand is more of a folk tale, while all the thegns are enjoying themselves (and the beer) in a very loud and important way in the big hall the Hobbit is being told by the ceorls, freeman and farmers to their children in the firelight in their small wooden houses that surround it. This is a story about how an unimportant little person, just by moving quietly and thinking quickly can triumph and win through where the 'big' people fail. Perhaps it was the studio and merchandising demands but I think he's completely lost that. In stretching the story and trying to make it more visually dramatic (with as much fighting as can be squeezed in) Bilbo surrounded by the fights between Gandalf, Thorin and the muscular epic baddies, becomes unimportant and child-like. It's not his tale anymore. The War Hammer audience might well love it but it wasn't my Hobbit.
Not sure if I totally agree. I re-read the Hobbit just before I went to the cinema, and the book goes from one action sequence/adventure right to the next adventure to the next adventure...and Bilbo does look really childish at the beginning just that he can slowly but steady grow and get more conscious about his own talents and how to use them. So he can finally, mostly by his moral decision / free will / intelligence and not by muscle or tool, end the war. (One example for Bilbo being even less important at the beginning/Spoiler: when trapped by the three trolls, it is Gandalf, and only him, who is responsible for the tricky release. In the movie it is already Bilbo who adds substiantially to the possibility to get rescued).
I agree completely that the movie itself was far from the book - adding even more rollercoaster action events to the story, while missing most if not all the witty and humorous remarks which are so important in the book to set the tone and add something special to it.
I agree completely that the movie itself was far from the book - adding even more rollercoaster action events to the story, while missing most if not all the witty and humorous remarks which are so important in the book to set the tone and add something special to it.