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Posts 37 - 48 of 2,133
I noticed that when I've been taking public transportations lately... everyone's got a copy.
My girlfriend came down with the sickuser's cough it seems, so we took advantage of a long boring day off work to rent:
- 1984
- Lady Chatterlay's lover (I'm not sure about the exact title)
- The Day After
- Time Bandits
- The Time Machine
And two of these movies are based on novels that I've read, so let me just say that I'm in a perfect frame of mind to totally agree that the details are lost in adaptations. Fun viewing none the less.
My eyeballs are kind of stinging though, so I'm going to bed now.
My girlfriend came down with the sickuser's cough it seems, so we took advantage of a long boring day off work to rent:
- 1984
- Lady Chatterlay's lover (I'm not sure about the exact title)
- The Day After
- Time Bandits
- The Time Machine
And two of these movies are based on novels that I've read, so let me just say that I'm in a perfect frame of mind to totally agree that the details are lost in adaptations. Fun viewing none the less.
My eyeballs are kind of stinging though, so I'm going to bed now.
Lady Chatterly's Lovers is a not the sort of movie you could rent at Blockbuster.. unless there's more than one version. 
I honestly wouldnt mind a 10 hour movie that contained ALL the details and ALL the dialogue of books. I'd watch it in 1-2 hour installments, like a book. And though my eyeballs would eventually fall out, I'd enjoy it immensely.
I honestly wouldnt mind a 10 hour movie that contained ALL the details and ALL the dialogue of books. I'd watch it in 1-2 hour installments, like a book. And though my eyeballs would eventually fall out, I'd enjoy it immensely.
The only version of LCL I've seen is that goofy soft-porn version they used to show on Cinemax 
They used to make 9 and 10 hour movies. Von Strohiem's silent masterpiece "Greed", based on Frank Norris' excellent novel "McTeague", was inally 9 hours long, but years later when it was edited down to 2.5 hrs they burned the stock and lost it forever.
The short one tells the story very well, but it is a very detailed novel, so I can just imagine how many things were lost.
In early Hollywoood, they didn't have any concept of an "ideal movie length" and people didn't complain if a movie was 5 horus long.
They used to make 9 and 10 hour movies. Von Strohiem's silent masterpiece "Greed", based on Frank Norris' excellent novel "McTeague", was inally 9 hours long, but years later when it was edited down to 2.5 hrs they burned the stock and lost it forever.
The short one tells the story very well, but it is a very detailed novel, so I can just imagine how many things were lost.
In early Hollywoood, they didn't have any concept of an "ideal movie length" and people didn't complain if a movie was 5 horus long.
I heard, and I would love to believe, that Altman's director's cut of "Nashville" was 8 hours. I wou;dn't mind seeing that. In instalments, of course.
The LCL I saw couldnt be shown on Cinemax, either.
TV miniseries are often longer than 2 hours and they can hold your attention when split up into smaller segments. In fact, you have an audience captive for that much longer. I suppose that works better on TV/Cable/Satellite anyways because then you show more commercials. And I would hesitate to head to the movie theater every night for a week.
TV miniseries are often longer than 2 hours and they can hold your attention when split up into smaller segments. In fact, you have an audience captive for that much longer. I suppose that works better on TV/Cable/Satellite anyways because then you show more commercials. And I would hesitate to head to the movie theater every night for a week.
Wasn't expecting that much of a response to that LCL movie! It's really old you know. So there were a couple nipples in it... if someone was ever passing it as some kind of soft porn, I'm confused. The book is amongst the top 50 novels of all time, that's all I know. The movie was produced sometime in the 50's I think, so it would have had to have been pretty friggin' soft.
Well, it seems then that someone made ANOTHER movie about it, where there wasnt a scene without nipples in it. But enough on that!
Ooh ooh ooh! Super Troopers is coming out soon! Today maybe even! Has anyone seen the trailer with the "Pull Over" segment. I laughed so hard I cried. Though one trailer has a better version of it than another.
Ooh ooh ooh! Super Troopers is coming out soon! Today maybe even! Has anyone seen the trailer with the "Pull Over" segment. I laughed so hard I cried. Though one trailer has a better version of it than another.
Have you seen it?
I just saw Donnie Darko tonight. It was a fantastic movie. The only place in Atlanta you could see it was through the Peachtree Film Society. There was only one showing. I just dont get it. Anyways, it was dark and funny and sci-fi and very very original and cool. If you get the chance somehow to see it, I recommed it!
I just saw Donnie Darko tonight. It was a fantastic movie. The only place in Atlanta you could see it was through the Peachtree Film Society. There was only one showing. I just dont get it. Anyways, it was dark and funny and sci-fi and very very original and cool. If you get the chance somehow to see it, I recommed it!
We rented The Pledge this w/e. A good but quirky movie with Jack Nicholson in a character part instead of just bein' Jack. Directed by Sean Penn with Mrs. Penn in the other lead role. It gets stupid towards the end but is definitely worth a look.
I saw Hedwig and the Angry Inch last night. It was good, unique, original, with lots of interesting music and storytelling. But I couldnt identify personally with the sex-change problems.
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