mrbellamy

How many times?

I want him to play the whole movie like this:

Francis Ford Coppola mentioned in a Directors Guild interview a few years ago that he still talks about it. I'm not holding my breath, but I'd be curious to see if it restored even the tiniest spark to his work. He used to be such a wonderful filmmaker.

Yeah, I really loved Hugo in 3D. Haven't seen it since, but I don't find anything especially ugly about those stills Shark posted. I don't know if I can ever bring myself to watch Battlefield Earth.

You're probably thinking of Half-Blood Prince. I'm kind of mixed on its look. Some of it is quite evocative, other times it's just drab, though Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is even worse IMO.

300 Alice in Wonderland (2010) The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Fifth Element Fight Club Little Monsters Manos: The Hands of Fate Moulin Rouge! (2001) Natural Born Killers Sucker Punch

This looks great. Seems like the fantastic and criminally undervalued JK Simmons finally got his big showcase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvOksqh1Td0

I think for the purpose of the film, keeping the Ring in jeopardy was a fair decision. I guess the "not asleep, dead" scene suffers a little but it's still quite a strong emotional moment thanks to Astin's heartbreaking performance, plus I really do like that moment where Frodo wakes up and realizes the Ring is missing. Due to the intercutting between Pelennor Fields, I think it would have given the film a slightly episodic feel to basically put the destruction of the Ring on hold so Sam could rescue Frodo. By keeping the location of the Ring unknown, its fate continues to be the focal point which gives the film a clearer through line. It probably would have worked fine otherwise, but I don't think there would have been any less give-and-take. As far as the structure of the book goes, I do think a TV miniseries would have more accurately reflected the reading experience. Still, I'm glad they went with film. I love those cliffhangers and that slow, uninterrupted descent into Mordor as much as anyone, but in the end I think those were a small price to pay for the vast, immersive, yet still quite moving and intimate films we got. As relatively impressive as something like Game of Thrones can be, The Lord of the Rings wouldn't have been the same on television even by today's standards.

I don't really recall Elfman's stuff. "Stream of Stars" by Jeff Lynne was my favorite original track written for that film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekwNEuFGY64

That series was a genuine masterpiece. It's still going!

Yes, they've been confirmed for over a month as Spielberg's next two films. True, but it's sometimes hard to know with Spielberg. Every now and then a movie looks like it's about to get off the ground and then he abandons it. I don't think that'll be the case here, though. There's been a lot of news in just a few months and he really seems committed to doing this asap.

Still rolling along: Amy Ryan and Alan Alda are in talks to join the cast, principal photography set for September with the Coen brothers' screenplay.

*roll-sighs*

West Sighed Story

Weird Sighence

Agree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_in_film_and_other_non-print_media#Film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan#Film.2C_radio.2C_and_television_adaptations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Sherlock_Holmes#Film Obviously the biggest difference now is that there are millions of dollars invested in these things, they all have interminable running times, and most annoyingly, they're all high-octane action flicks that are completely bent on maximum sensory overload. You go to one of these big summer movies and it's like the movie is Joe Pesci and we're Frank Vincent at 1:13 of this scene in Raging Bull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p58wHX4e0g I can think of hardly any action writers or directors who know how to generate excitement without blowing something up beyond all recognition at some point. The bigger and more iconic the locale, the better. I just don't get the fascination, other than I suppose it's because now they can, so by God they will. I realize a lot of our most gifted filmmakers are generally up their own asses making movies for other cinephiles, but you'd think at least a few more popular-minded directors would be equally interested in creating unique and memorable cinema, no? They're professionally creative, surely they'd have some ideas? Wouldn't they look around and say "You know, if I have to blow stuff up, let's maybe avoid sweeping aerial shots? Or ditch the apocalyptic news broadcast montages? Can we write out the military? Or government settings, characters, and entities entirely? How about staying away from match cutting during simple dialogue scenes and get our guys moving, since 10 times out of 10 going back and forth when they're just standing there is dull as all hell?" Not only are the stories and topics the same, so is the imagery! Movie after movie after movie, and even before that in trailer after trailer after trailer. Especially because it's never handled with any sense of drama. Grave seriousness, yes, but drama? Sure, Godzilla had some striking bits of acting and direction and Edge of Tomorrow had a great sense of humor, but is it really that hard to get around studio politics and inject some personality into these things? Worst yet is these guys have most likely been editing on computers their entire working lives and apparently don't even have the consideration for the idea that a cut or particular shot juxtaposition might actually mean something. Sometimes I watch these films and I wish they'd at least pretend they were editing on a flatbed...

1:10-1:17 of this one too.

Looks like the movie had a score release (with an arrangement of the Raiders March, funnily enough): http://www.allmusic.com/album/rugrats-original-score-mw0000671707 Couldn't find anything from the TV show, but here's a lengthy article about his work: http://splitsider.com/2012/03/mark-mothersbaugh-on-rugrats/

The first music video has been posted on his site, a parody of "Happy" - http://www.weirdal.com/

It's not an either/or scenario.

Put me with the deranged maniacs. Not anything close to 30 minutes unless I'm really in a zone, but things are always catching my ear and I'll definitely run through them at least a few times. I'd get way too antsy letting all that good stuff simply fly by everytime. For me, that's the whole point of having entertainment at my fingertips. Nothing beats live performances or a theater experience, but the one thing they don't provide that portable media does is the opportunity to really savor the details. Sometimes it's performance stuff that really satisfies, even unintentional things like the way a person's voice sounds in their upper register. Other times it's a matter of picking apart the composition. Not in an academic sense, necessarily, but like Pilgrim said, just zeroing in and enjoying those intricacies for their own sake. Especially with Williams, there's always so much going on in every measure not to stop and take notice. And like Quint, I'll do this with movies too. I'm definitely the guy who will play a joke until it stops being funny (and then a couple more times after that.) Or a particularly ingenious bit of staging might catch my eye and I'll rewind that bit over and over until I've noticed when the camera started moving, how it was motivated by a particular action, how it guided my eye to different parts of the frame etc. I find that stuff fascinating. Even if I'm going through it the first time, sometimes I can't help but notice something and focus on it for a bit. Going through an entire film or album more than once is reserved exclusively for my very favorites and even then I have to be in the mood. It's a special thing for me, maybe a handful of times a year I'll reach back to an old favorite and play the whole thing. I hasten to add this is all only when I'm enjoying stuff on my own. I can't imagine making someone else listen to the same few bars of music in the car, or watch the same shot over and over again during movie night...

"Dry Your Tears, Afrika"

Same, still haven't seen any of the sequels.

Probably true since Marianelli has a pretty steady collaboration with the director Joe Wright. He's only missed one of his films and I doubt they'd ask The Chemical Brothers to do Peter Pan.

It's cute, I guess, but just makes me hope even more that she won't write more Potter books.