The Dreaming wrote:You didn't happen to see that the director attached to the project is Darren Aronofski? I think he is a genius filmmaker. (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain)
Wow, someone else who has seen Pi - there aren't many of us
Though honestly, I wish there were one fewer. That movie was a farce that toyed with my emotions (I got all excited to see a movie about math, and instead had to suffer through some melodramatic numerology).
The Dreaming wrote:You didn't happen to see that the director attached to the project is Darren Aronofski? I think he is a genius filmmaker. (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain)
Wow, someone else who has seen Pi - there aren't many of us
Though honestly, I wish there were one fewer. That movie was a farce that toyed with my emotions (I got all excited to see a movie about math, and instead had to suffer through some melodramatic numerology).
I liked it. It's not anywhere near as good as his Requiem for a Dream, though. It's funny, a maths genius I knew despised Pi because he said they got the maths so wrong. I liked it anyway.
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
"Yes," I said, "for the love of God!" - Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado.
Hollywood Reporter wrote:May 20, 2008 Summit Entertainment is bringing back to the big screen the 1986 sci-fi cult hit "Highlander," with "Iron Man" co-writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway on board to write the script. The original "Highlander" starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings battling humans, hunting down one another and collecting more power. The film -- with its "There can be only one" catch phrase -- spawned four sequels and three television series.
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Rotten Tomatoes wrote:THERE CAN BE ONLY (ANOTHER) ONE
Hollywood's junkie-like addiction to raiding its back catalogue for remake material continues this week with a really great fantasy sword-and-sorcery adventure which inspired several sequels, and more than one TV show: Highlander. In the original, Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert starred as immortals locked in a centuries-long struggle against others of their kind who seek to kill them off. This time around, the project's new producers are promising a more "romantic" Highlander that will stress Connor MacLeod's love for a non-immortal woman, with a script to be written by the writers of Iron Man (Art Marcum and Matt Holloway). This project, then, proposes the question I bet you didn't think you'd have to ask yourself today: who is the 21st century equivalent of Christopher Lambert?
He has the added benefit of actually being a Scot.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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So are you saying I shouldn't paint if I'm not as good as Michaelangelo, or I shouldn't sing if I'm not Pavarotti?
No, it's quite clear that I meant people shouldn't remake what's perfect. Like The Godfather. Most of the time it's not masters of film doing remakes but mediocrities.
Lord Foul wrote:
No, it's quite clear that I meant people shouldn't remake what's perfect. Like The Godfather. Most of the time it's not masters of film doing remakes but mediocrities.
ItisWritten wrote:I don't know. If Downey can play a British actor portraying a black man, wouldn't just British be less of a stretch?
Well, just for starters ... does he look Victorian to you? Did Sherlock wear shades? Or a fedora? This looks like Holmes from the 1940s. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Maltese Falcon.
Meh, Downey's the best actor of my generation by far. The Holmes story is so oft told, I don't see the big deal.
Unless it sucks as badly as Bram Stoker's Dracula, which really isn't possible since Ted "Theodore" Logan isn't in it.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:I've never even heard of a Holmes film before this one...
Are you serious? No other character has been portryed anywhere near as many times on film as Sherlock Holmes. And that's not even counting the numerous TV versions of the detective.
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
"Yes," I said, "for the love of God!" - Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado.
Xar wrote:This project, then, proposes the question I bet you didn't think you'd have to ask yourself today: who is the 21st century equivalent of Christopher Lambert?
Thomas Jane?
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
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