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Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:09:46 -0700
Neil Blomkamp. Originally, Blomkamp was going to make the halo film, of which there is footage shot and online, here is a link for some of that
The Halo film fell through, so Peter Jackson encouraged director Neil Blomkamp to do an original project that he would finance. That became DIstrict 9. District 9 is based on a short film from the director entitled "Alive in Joburg" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHYBpljIc...
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Final Crisis (Hardcover) by Grant Morrison]]>
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Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:35:58 -0700
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Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:21:05 -0700
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/146756-guy-ritchie-s-sherlock-holmes-movie
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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:24:44 -0700
Guy Ritchie is a soulless hack who built his career ripping off Tarrantino and making the same goddamned movie over and over again. This interpretation of Holmes apppears just so ridiculous and alien to the spirit of what Arthur Conan Doyle wrote. Why even call it Sherlock Holmes if you're going to make it that unrecognizable from the source material. Just do your own damn project and scuttle the pretense of calling it a Sherlock Holmes film. This is clearly aimed and marketed towards the same bunch of idiot kids who are flocking to the Transformers movies. Except in a way I think this is worse. There is no literary pretense with Transformers. You pretty much know what you're getting with that. Most kids today have probably never experienced a Sherlock Holmes adventure. And it is very sad indeed that this tripe will be their first encounter with an iconic character. ]]>
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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:07:03 -0700
Every other film of this genre I can think of is superior to this film by far. Dillenger in this story has no real arc, and is never particularly engaging. There is no real insight. Where idid his sense of outlaw chivalry come from. The film doesn't even bother trying to explore this question.
SPOILER ALERT! So as you know, John Dillenger was shot to death outside a movie theater. Remember the Brian Depalma film The Untouchables, about Elliot Ness and AL Capone. The climax to that film when Al Capone was convicted for tax evasion, was so much more stirring, exciting and meaningful. One man was shot to death, the other convicted for tax evasion. You would think one climax would be much more exciting than the other, well you would be wrong.
This is just poor filmmaking, plain and simple. A great true crime story of American history has been bungled by inept storytellers.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback) by Michael Chabon]]>
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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:38:42 -0700The Master and Margarita (Paperback) by Mikhail Bulgakov]]>
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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:38:07 -0700
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/81127-worst-movie-ever
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Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:02:37 -0700 I don't believe in the whole "so bad it's good thing." A movie can have something going for it or not. People talk about Ed Wood making bad movies. Well his movies are still around and people still talk about them and occasionally even screen them. Most filmmakers will never have the kind of remembrance in the history of cinema that Ed Wood enjoys. He must have done something right.
A lot of people make a lot of movies every year. A good portion of them are simply forgettable. Movies that don't make any kind of real impression. Movies that people don't even talk about how bad they were because they they are quickly forgotten. Those are the bad movies.
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The Tattooed Girl (Paperback) by Joyce Carol Oates]]>
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Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:01:46 -0800