I finally bought this book earlier this year, it's beautiful and clever. I have recently discovered that there in an interactive e-book version, that sounds interesting too. Explore the space at your own pace, in whatever order you want, sure.
I was very curious to read how Zemeckis would make this. Some of my favorite movies are the ones that take on "unfilmable" books. Cloud Atlas. Perfume.
Oh, he filmed it as a sequential story? And it doesn't work at all? How about that.
Maybe next time he can make a chronological remake of Memento, or Pulp Fiction.
Somehwere on Al Gore's Internet me saw chronological re-cut of Pulp Fiction, and it still pretty great, if only because it open with Gold Watch speech and close with "Zed's dead, baby."
My opinion on Forrest Gump keeps wavering over time, but I totally get Nathan's objections to it. So, removing that Oscar-winner from the equation, what is Zemeckis' best film after 2000? (Conveniently that's when Cast Away was released.)
My vote would be The Walk, a film that nobody saw, but which had some masterful, Brian DePalma-esque camera work. Some people disparaged Joseph Gordon-Levitt's accent, but honestly I thought he sounded like the real-life man that he was portraying. It's not essential viewing if you've seen the documentary on the same subject, but it does manage to tell the same story in a way that builds a lot more suspense. (As well as severe anxiety, if you happen to suffer from acrophobia. My mother refuses to see it for this reason.)
But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
That was an incredible review, Nathan. Absolutely worth the price of subscription. Not sure about the Achrome bit (maybe could have been a footnote?), but for the rest of the review I felt like I was watching a private screening with a knowledgable friend. I am immediately doing two things: buying the book and avoiding the movie. Well done!
I just watched Death Becomes Her on Halloween. The much-lauded special effects haven't aged perfectly, but at least it has the campy chemistry of Streep and Hawn and a satirical heart to buoy it.
::Tom Hanks doesn’t look like an eighteen-year-old version of himself because of some fruity “de-aging” technology that makes actors look younger. No, Hanks looks like an eighteen-year-old because he is one of the world’s most notorious abusers of Adrenochrome, the drug released within the bodies of children being eaten by Hillary Clinton that’s famously 40 times as powerful as heroin but also has youth-restoring properties. ::
Seriously, Nabin?
I don't think right now is the time for a joke like this—not when far too many people are stupid enough to believe it!
Do you have any knee-slappers about Puerto Rican Garbage or Obama's Watermelon Patch to share with us while you're at it...?
I finally bought this book earlier this year, it's beautiful and clever. I have recently discovered that there in an interactive e-book version, that sounds interesting too. Explore the space at your own pace, in whatever order you want, sure.
I was very curious to read how Zemeckis would make this. Some of my favorite movies are the ones that take on "unfilmable" books. Cloud Atlas. Perfume.
Oh, he filmed it as a sequential story? And it doesn't work at all? How about that.
Maybe next time he can make a chronological remake of Memento, or Pulp Fiction.
Somehwere on Al Gore's Internet me saw chronological re-cut of Pulp Fiction, and it still pretty great, if only because it open with Gold Watch speech and close with "Zed's dead, baby."
It closes with Zed's dead? So it's alphabetical as well as chronological?
I appreciated how the movie drove you mad partway through the review. The revelation struck like when Mr Toad saw the motorcar.
My opinion on Forrest Gump keeps wavering over time, but I totally get Nathan's objections to it. So, removing that Oscar-winner from the equation, what is Zemeckis' best film after 2000? (Conveniently that's when Cast Away was released.)
My vote would be The Walk, a film that nobody saw, but which had some masterful, Brian DePalma-esque camera work. Some people disparaged Joseph Gordon-Levitt's accent, but honestly I thought he sounded like the real-life man that he was portraying. It's not essential viewing if you've seen the documentary on the same subject, but it does manage to tell the same story in a way that builds a lot more suspense. (As well as severe anxiety, if you happen to suffer from acrophobia. My mother refuses to see it for this reason.)
The original documentary is astounding, but I was especially eager to own the 3D version of the Zemeckis film.
But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
That was an incredible review, Nathan. Absolutely worth the price of subscription. Not sure about the Achrome bit (maybe could have been a footnote?), but for the rest of the review I felt like I was watching a private screening with a knowledgable friend. I am immediately doing two things: buying the book and avoiding the movie. Well done!
Come back Bob Gale, all is forgiven.
I just watched Death Becomes Her on Halloween. The much-lauded special effects haven't aged perfectly, but at least it has the campy chemistry of Streep and Hawn and a satirical heart to buoy it.
::Tom Hanks doesn’t look like an eighteen-year-old version of himself because of some fruity “de-aging” technology that makes actors look younger. No, Hanks looks like an eighteen-year-old because he is one of the world’s most notorious abusers of Adrenochrome, the drug released within the bodies of children being eaten by Hillary Clinton that’s famously 40 times as powerful as heroin but also has youth-restoring properties. ::
Seriously, Nabin?
I don't think right now is the time for a joke like this—not when far too many people are stupid enough to believe it!
Do you have any knee-slappers about Puerto Rican Garbage or Obama's Watermelon Patch to share with us while you're at it...?
SERIOUSLY?
WTF?
I am SICK of Bigoted, Misogynistic, Entitled White Men being smug.
WTF????? Are THIS many White American Men this...awful?