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tealinA Wee Free Men movie?!
Not the book I'd have expected anyone to start with, but it did seem to get the most attention in the States and won some sort of award. Now if only Dreamworks would do something with Bromeliad. NO, I take that back! Not till I get there! You guys are still waiting for me, right?
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Not the book I'd have expected anyone to start with, but it did seem to get the most attention in the States and won some sort of award. Now if only Dreamworks would do something with Bromeliad. NO, I take that back! Not till I get there! You guys are still waiting for me, right?
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Date: 2006-01-13 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-13 05:08 pm (UTC)BRUCE CAMPBELL FOR "ROB ANYBODY"!!!
At -least-. If not playing -all- the Wee Free Men.
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Date: 2006-01-13 05:09 pm (UTC)I nominate Billy Connolly for ... well, somebody.
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Date: 2006-01-13 05:15 pm (UTC)If Mel Gibson and Christopher Lambert can pretend to be Scottish, I think Bruce deserves a chance. :)
Sean Connery could have a cameo as the verra old Feegle mcgonagal-bard.
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Date: 2006-01-13 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-13 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-13 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-13 08:10 pm (UTC)But yeah, that makes sense.
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Date: 2006-01-19 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-13 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-13 07:22 pm (UTC)oh and GET TO DREAMWORKS!!!
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Date: 2006-01-13 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-13 10:09 pm (UTC)also Unfortunate events 2, gah!
you should work for dreamwords so then the whole world could see some tealin magic, it'd stick some dynamite up disneys ass lol
This just in from Variety: TWIRLYNOODLE TO SIGN CONTRACT WITH DREAMWORKS
Date: 2006-01-13 11:50 pm (UTC)BTW, you're absolutely right: I think Mr. Campbell is an absolute genious - tragically underused - but he's not right for EVERY role, obviously (he was miscast, although humorously so, as the dooomed boyfriend in "Congo")
---Mark
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Date: 2006-01-14 08:16 am (UTC)I am afraid.
Dreamworks
Date: 2006-01-17 09:37 pm (UTC)---DisneyBoy
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Date: 2006-01-14 02:41 am (UTC)But, yes, I wish they'd make Unfortunate Events 2 as well! Why did they stop? Grr!
Yes, that would be great if you worked for Dreamworks. But isn't Dreamworks now Paramount??? I thought they were bought out?
Jon
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Date: 2006-01-14 03:02 am (UTC)Unfortunate Events 2
Date: 2006-01-17 09:39 pm (UTC)---DisneyBoy
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Date: 2006-01-17 09:43 pm (UTC)casting
Date: 2006-01-18 04:43 am (UTC)---La-Z-Boy
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Date: 2006-01-18 04:58 pm (UTC)Billy Connolly was awesome. But he always is. Meryl Streep was an excellent Aunt Josephine. Timothy Spall was OK (Poe doens't really do much besides cough, and they seem to have cut the coughing), Olaf's troupe was rather disappointing, and I have no idea why Cedric the Entertainer was in there at all. Other than that, um... I wrote a review, once upon a time. Lemme see if I can find it.
TADAA! (http://www.nocturnalsoldier.org/Tealin/snicketreview.html) (Warning ... it's loooooooooooooooooong.)
Read the books! Read the books! They're fabulous and clever, and really quick reads, with wonderful illustrations!
THE Definitive Review of "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
Date: 2006-01-19 10:19 pm (UTC)The magnifying glass device probably didn't bother me as much as it should have, probably because Jim Carrey was so all over the place, I had no idea how smart or stupid he was supposed to be. (I'm too lazy to reaffirm all of your excellent pointss in the review, other than a thousand "AMENS" about Jim Carrey's performance and how he, once again, inexplicably, was stupidly being encouraged to run roughshod over the script and the character!) Which reminds me of one last nagging doubt: although Klaus assumes (correctly, I assume?), that Olaf has covered his ankle tattoo in makeup, nobody ever bothers to explain how he apparently gets a real peg leg in his captain costume! I realize this is a small point, and the film obviously isn't going for strict realism, and maybe it was intended to be random, wacky fun (like the rest of the film's Olaf) but this seemed a little sloppy to me. But like you, I really did mostly like the movie - there were times when I was surprisingly moved as well as entertained. And I thought the end credit sequence (I met a guy from SLC whose firm actually did that!) was worth the price of admission all by itself! And I really liked the music, too.
---DisneyBoy
P.S. although I generally agree with the idea that true heroes should refrain from resorting to the same tactics as their nemesi(?) - insert political rant here - it didn't bother me too much that Klaus was using the weapon to destroy a piece of paper, obtained through deception and blackmail (and nobody got hurt), and, hey, I think it looked cool on film. What I really hate is the tendency to make Batman resort to murder (both by commission and ommission) in several of the films, which he was utterly opposed to, even in the darker comic books - it was the biggest thing that set him apart from the villains.
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Date: 2006-01-20 12:18 am (UTC)---DisneyBoy
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Date: 2006-01-18 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-14 03:11 am (UTC)As for a second Snicket movie, I'm very glad they didn't ... the often goofy style they went with could squeak by with the first few books, but as they get darker it would be more and more out of place.
That said, they have to make The Vile Village in Christian Bale's lifetime because he has to play Jacques. ; )
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Date: 2006-01-14 03:35 am (UTC)However, I do hope they give Stephen Briggs a cameo role as a Nac Mac Feegle, although I know they probably won't. He reads the books so well!
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Date: 2006-01-14 08:04 pm (UTC)and hey, if they're really stuck, they can have sean connery as the gonnagle!
Spoke too soon about Unfortunate Events 2
Date: 2006-01-17 09:52 pm (UTC)---DisneyBoy
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Date: 2006-01-14 10:17 pm (UTC)Have you . . . ?
Date: 2006-01-14 11:48 pm (UTC)I suppose you have let them know you want a job there? A resume and portfolio whould be a good way of saying "Hello."
And yes, the animation part of Dreamworks was not included in the sale.
A2 (but you can can call me DA2)
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Date: 2006-01-15 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-16 10:02 pm (UTC)the young gonnagle wannabe who has a pretty good aim with throwing poetry. Except after LotR, I think Elijah Wood seems to be shying away from fantasy to avoid being typecast.
I am skeptical of most Discworld movies being translated well onto the big screen because so much of their brilliant humor is in the narraration and stuff that characters are thinking- plus, of course, the footnotes. I would be afraid it would come out as a flat comedy without those witty elements. Then again, I know there were Discworld animated made in England. I never saw them, so I don't know how good they were.
The "Young Readers" Discworld novels, though, seem easier to translate to the screen. I cannot put my finger on it exactly, but it seems like they might work better than other books. Having a girl hero appeals to the girls, but the Free Men would appeal to boys, and the humor and underlying messages of the story is such that people of all ages could find something in it to relate to.
Going Postal- That would be interesting as a movie, though even there I would not have faith in Hollywood. I myself picture Moist as looking a bit like a more European or Aussie version of Matthew McConaughey when he was in his late twenties (he has that kind of pleasant looking good old boy who seems like he is over his head and easy to take advantage of but really is manipulating you instead). I could not think of many actors, though in that age range who could pull it off. It would have to be an unknown who could toe the line between dry comedy and crime drama... oh, and who can ride nasty horses.