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Wow, someone else who has seen Pi - there aren't many of usThe 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)
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.Rigel wrote:Wow, someone else who has seen Pi - there aren't many of usThe 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)
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).
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?Lord Foul wrote:Because they're not Shakespeare?
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?
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.Rigel wrote: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?Lord Foul wrote:Because they're not Shakespeare?
Good point!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.
I want to play the horse.Cagliostro wrote:Damn...you're right. Well, I'm off to make a remake of the Godfather. Anyone want to be in this?
I don't know. If Downey can play a British actor portraying a black man, wouldn't just British be less of a stretch?wayfriend wrote:Not objecting to a remake per se.
But this is just so wrong.
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.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?
Yea, Downey's done a very wide range of parts, from the really dramatic to the really funny, and all places in between.Cail wrote: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.
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.jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:I've never even heard of a Holmes film before this one...
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?