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The Princess Bride is a too-drunk episode.
Really? I know you guys had had a bit too much that particular episode, but I don't recall it inhibiting the episode too much save for the occasional struggle to pronounce a word correctly.
That's no moon. That's an anamorphic lens flare.
Well, at least Episode III set a precedent for that.
Exterior: LENS FLARE.
Yahoo! News has also posted that Abrams will direct. Don't panic...right, guys? Right?
Right?
Morwenna (Welsh for "breaking waves") if she's a girl, or Stephen if he's a guy.
If you had to choose two of the DiFers to run for president and vice president respectively, whom would you choose? (I'm all for a Dorkman/Trey ticket).
I personally enjoyed TDKR while I was watching it, but I'm recognizing its flaws more and more, and Trey outlined them quite well. As for Les Mis...I recognize that it's incredibly flawed, but I still loved it. It was definitely the best of the films I saw in the theater this year—though then again, that's only four films. Of these four, from worst to best:
4. Brave (only saw it because Disney-loving best friend wanted to)
3. The Avengers (saw it twice, the latter time because said best friend wanted to)
2. The Dark Knight Rises
1. Les Mis
I move to nominate Trey Stokes as DIF's Nate Silver. Does anyone second the motion?
Seconded.
If there's any justice in this world, Hathaway will walk away with Best Supporting Actress.
Best Actor will probably go to Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Picture to Lincoln.
Haven't seen any of the noms for Best Animated Feature save Brave, which I didn't care for, but ParaNorman has been getting positive buzz from everyone I've heard talk about it, so why not that one.
I'm partial to Adele, so I'm hoping "Skyfall" will pick up best song; it's too bad nothing from Les Mis is eligible save "Suddenly", which was rather bland.
I'll bet on the potential upset for VFX and say Life of Pi will take the crown.
On a note unrelated to VFX, I'm surprised that Dark Knight Rises didn't get a Best Picture nom. Not because I think it deserves to win (though I did enjoy the film), but because the whole reason they expanded the nominees from five to ten was because of the fallout over The Dark Knight no being nominated.
Darth Praxus wrote:the songs are freaking amazing in German
They are not. German and singing do not mix.
One wouldn't think so, but I was surprised at how good it sounded on softer songs, and the dark, weighty songs like "Hellfire" sound even more dark and weighty.
To go along with the current trend of epic musicals based on the works of Victor Hugo, I thought Teague in particular might find this of interest. The only place a stage version of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame has been produced is in Berlin, and it is EPIC. It's far darker than the movie
Just saw it and loved loved LOVED it. Yes, there were flaws—the length of the ending was of Return of the King proportions, the director was very closeup happy, some plot points were very contrived, there was an excess of melodrama and emotional arcs occurred far too fast, particularly Fantine's fall from grace (those last few really can't be helped, though, considering the source material), and Jackman and Crowe were clearly struggling to hit some of those notes. Oh, and Marius should've had a Save the Cat moment of some kind. But these flaws were overcome by just how epic and moving and human the story was. Oh, and Anne Hathaway deserves every award imaginable for her performance—she has made me cry three times with "I Dreamed a Dream", twice with the soundtrack and once watching the film. This marks the first time a piece of entertainment has EVER made me cry. The only thing that I really disliked about the whole thing was Bonham Carter—who is also my only problem with my favorite movie musical ever, Sweeney Todd.
You'll actually learn a LOT by the way King's whole thing changed after his accident, so that's fair.
The extended Stand is in fact better because it was actually the novel he wanted to publish in the first place. The revised Gunslinger is worse because it's him coming back 17 years later, having come to an entirely different idea as to what the Dark Tower books were about, in such a different place he was practically rewriting someone else's book.
I own the Signet mass market paperback of Gunslinger from the late 90s/early 2000s; not sure which one that is. I distinctly recall not liking it as much as the others of the first four Dark Tower novels. Wizard and Glass is best, IMHO.
I'm surprised you prefer the expanded The Stand. I read the "uncut" edition first and was let down; I read the original several months later and loved it to death; after Misery and Christine, it's my favorite of his novels. The original just feels so much more like the American Lord of the Rings he was going for, and is so much tighter and more focued from an editing standpoint. Also, the absolutely horrible deus ex machina at the end actually felt...fitting in the original somehow. Don't get me wrong, I loves me some long-winded, rambling King (Under the Dome was the first book by him I read, if that's any indication), but in this instance the publishers were right.
You can't get it without getting the vocals songs as well, but Alan Menken's music for The Hunchback of Notre Dame is spectacular. And really, the songs with words are incredible for the most part as well ("Hellfire", anyone?), so it's definitely worth the price.
Nightwish just released the score for the film adaptation of their symphonic metal album Imaginaerum. Not a big fan of metal, but the purely orchestral stuff on the album ("Taikatalvi", complete with shivers-down-your-back pan flute and gentle Finnish lullabies) is absolutely gorgeous, and the film score is pretty dang good as well.
Say what you will about C. S. Lewis (I love the man to death, personally), the soundtrack to the first Narnia movie is great, particularly "A Narnia Lullaby" and "The Battle".
That's the only book I've read where I had to flinch away from the pages repeatedly. And the worst part? It's very funny, as well.
You magnificent bastards.
I think my brain is just wired in this weird way where I specifically can't enjoy animated Disney files. Every single one I've tried to watch I mostly can't stand, except for maybe Aladdin. I'm certain it's me and not the movies, but I just cannot get past the kidiness and the songs. Not a new thing either, even as a 5 year old I'd prefer Alien/Predator or something to disney. I love Looney Tunes though, so it really is this weirdly specific thing. I suspect it's because Looney Tunes is more willing to play darker and more cynical, but I can't really articulate the difference.
Have you tried Hunchback? 'Cause in that one, the vilain's primary motivation is his uncontrollable urge to rape the female lead. Definitely not a kiddie movie, that film.
Oh, god. I'd love to do more animated movies. But if we did a Menken/Ashman Disney flick, we all know how insufferable I'd be.
Oh, I can take you being insufferable, as long as Dorkman still gets a chance to talk at some point. 
Are you guys ever gonna do another traditionally animated feature? I'd love to hear your comments on Beauty and the Beast or The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Also, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban would be great.
Saw this one on Reddit. I had not seen it before.
Frodo turning into a Gollum-like creature. This is a behind the scenes image from a deleted scene in LotR; it was intended to occur right after Frodo freaks out on Faramir, when Faramir is pushing him against the wall with his sword.
Good makeup, but I'm very glad they decided to cut that bit. Doing it with Bilbo was genuinely freaky; I have a feeling it would've been far less successful if they repeated it.
I just hate how they had to make the title a cheap pun. Really, guys?
Ooh, forgot this absolutely hilarious gem: Apathy and Other Small Victories, available at
http://www.amazon.com/Apathy-Other-Smal … +victories
Read it. You'll thank me.
Oh my god, Good Omens is amazing. My favorite book of all time, probably.
I didn't care for that one as much as I did for Gaiman's solo works, which are amazing. American Gods is in my Top Ten Novels of All Time list.
I cannot tell you how long I've been waiting for this episode. A couple of recommendations: ANYTHING by Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, and The October Country in particular), and most things by Stephen King (particularly Different Seasons [includes "The Shawshank Redemption", "Apt Pupil", and "Stand By Me"], Misery, Christine, and the original, edited 1978 The Stand). King loses steam towards the end of the nineties, though.
For me, one of the keys for something being well written is for the writer to know his limitations before he sits down to write. For instance, Ray Bradbury, when he was alive, could write beautiful, poetic descriptions like nobody's business. He could not, however, do dialogue that remotely resembles actual human speech. Because of this, he very rarely wrote comedic stories or other such pieces where dialogue is key; instead, he wrote novels like Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451, haunting and powerful works that require the characters to have rather portentous, poetic speech rather than matter-of-fact conversation. Stephen King, on the other hand, recognizes that while his prose is perfectly serviceable, he is no poet; he is quoted as saying "I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries." What he is good at is telling imaginative, suspenseful stories with characters the reader grows to love, and penning (for the most part) very believable dialogue while doing so. So he plays to his strengths, writing with realist, no-nonsense prose while he draws the reader into his story. For each of these authors, their biggest downfalls come when they try to be something they are not; Bradbury's novel A Graveyard for Lunatics, while it has nice moments here and there, tries too hard to be a realistic noir piece much of the time; many of King's more pretentious attempts at writing (Lisey's Story, among others) quickly become cloying. The good writer must first discover the things he cannot do (this, I have found, involves writing many short stories and submitting them to honest friends to get torn to shreds). Then, he must discover the things he can do, and focus on doing them well.
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