If Scotland Did Star Wars…
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Interesting preview of the new Snow White film in the Guardian. Apparently, it is “nightmare fuel”:
I think what that reviewer forgets is that, although the 1937 film is a classic and landmark of cinema, it’s use of rotoscoping was damn creepy. What they have appeared to have done here is the opposite. The rotoscoped characters look realistic and the ones that were originally drawn (e.g. dwarves) look like cartoon characters brought to life. Totally uncanny valley and damn creepy.
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I think the fact the dwarfs look like a living nightmare (thanks Peter Dinklage you utter bastard) and the lead is thoroughly obnoxious might start to explain why this will be an utterly epic fail.
Everything I’ve ever seen Darby do since Murray has been cringeworthy.
I actually avoided the pirate thing just for that reason.
Are you pro or anti AIDS? Is one of the funniest things ever broadcast though.
Games Workshop have just announced a deal with Amazon to adapt its 40k universe into Movies and TV shows!
Amazon have also an option on the Warhammer fantasy material too
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I actually quite liked him as Stede Bonnet, his style seemed to suit the intrinsic oddness of the man.
He was also funny in the What We Do In The Shadows movie, “We’re werewolves, not swearwolves” has entered itself into our regular phrases…
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I dont know how I missed this, but a new LOTR film is coming out over Christmas. Dont get your hopes up though, it is a generic “man with swords fights other people with swords” animated film, whose only connection to the Tolkeinverse is that it is an adaption of a single paragraph of Appendix A about Helm (of Helm’s deep) going to war with the Dunlendings, and is being made only to keep New Line’s ownership of the film IP in good standing.
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Tolkien fans send their condolences.
Interestingly Games Workshop owns the rights to the LoTR board/ tabletop games.
I think Amazon having the LoTR rights already are probably why the Warhammer stuff has only been optioned (that and they want to test the 40k stuff first). However, there is plenty of scope for them to add this to their library if they wish - the range of existing material available for Warhammer is immense.
I’ve been listening to a podcast called Empire City about the throughline of corruption and criminality through the history of the NYPD. A lot of the material takes place in the mid 19th century and that piqued my interest in rewatching Gangs of New York. What is interesting is Marty incorporates a LOT of this as framing in his plot - outright fighting in the streets between City police and a state run police sent into the city by politicians in Albany (who opposed the Democrats in Tammany Hall), the racist undertones of the Draft Riot and the absence of the police in doing anything about it (in the film it was the Army who stepped in to quell the conflict).
It is fascinating to me that the podcast series is being received so well for pulling in all of this stuff that is absent in the official story of the NYPD into a coherent narrative, but the individual incidents the narrative is based on are well enough known that Marty knew enough about them 25 years ago to incorporate them into his film. That probably says something about what our brains does with information that runs against the narrative we have already accepted
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I say it every time he is mentioned in anything, but he is part of that group of “new” male leads I just cannot take seriously. He is in mid mid 30s now but he still cannot shake off the vibe of being a child wearing his dad’s suit. Him, Miles Teller, and Ansel Elgort - they are all just children cosplaying what they think adult men do.
It’s not an issue of my age as I look at contemporaries of their like Austin Butler, Paul Mezcal, Glen Powell and dont have the issue.
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itll probably be the best bit of LOTR universe made for years…
sometimes pure fan fic is better than a bastardisation of the original
You missed the fact that it’s actually all about the girl boss.