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Post by tommyrockarolla on Jan 31, 2019 13:28:01 GMT
O Brother, Where Art Thou That's funny! You ever see this 'pretty groovy' version of "MacBeth"? Done as a comedy. A little known indie gem from the 1990's, I think.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 31, 2019 14:56:57 GMT
ON THE "ETC" side
The Greatest Showman might as well have been written about a totally fictional man ... very little to do with the REAL Barnum and / or Jenny Lind or the historical facts of his incredibly interesting life .
Even by Film Biography standards of accuracy, this one was the pits .. veracity-wise.
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Post by drystyx on Jan 31, 2019 20:02:45 GMT
Until DESYAT NEGRITYAT came out in the eighties, none of the "Ten Little Indians" movies were remotely close to the original.
I've always wondered why it was so different from everything else Agatha Christie ever wrote. She never wrote anything else in her life that "flowed" so naturally and went so much in depth, despite what apologists say. And Agatha even liked the idea of changing her book around when set to stage and film.
I'd be very surprised if she really wrote it. It's easy for elite people to steal entire books and scripts from "Nobodies".
But DESYAT NEGRITYAT is an awesome film, almost word for word to the book. Of the fake films, the first one is the best, made in the forties I think. After that, it was downhill all the way, with Hollywood preaching their usual formula. The worst one starred Hugh O'Brien and Wilfrid Hyde-Whyte in what was probably their most humiliating experience ever in movies.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 6:13:04 GMT
Catwoman The Dark Knight Trilogy Man of Steel
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Feb 1, 2019 9:00:22 GMT
O Brother, Where Art Thou That's funny! You ever see this 'pretty groovy' version of "MacBeth"? Done as a comedy. A little known indie gem from the 1990's, I think. I had not even heard of that. Looks pretty good, cool cast.
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Post by tommyrockarolla on Feb 1, 2019 13:06:39 GMT
That's funny! You ever see this 'pretty groovy' version of "MacBeth"? Done as a comedy. A little known indie gem from the 1990's, I think. I had not even heard of that. Looks pretty good, cool cast. It's cute and quirky. It's a little film, and I haven't seen it in 'forever', but? I immediately thought of it when you gave me a chuckle with "O, Brother!". So? I guess I found it memorable, LOL. Looking for access to it, I found I'm not alone. Mostly good reviews on Amazon, etc. Although it might be hard to find.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Feb 1, 2019 13:29:35 GMT
Along Came a Spider- this was Morgan Freeman's second movie as Alex Cross. Like the first movie Kiss the Girls, it pretends that Cross has no family of his own. Along Came a Spider was the first book of Alex Cross novels. The main villian in the book series is killed by a supporting character in the movie.
Rent- with the recent "Live" television production still in my mind, the movie made significant changes, the main one was moving the song which begins the second act, "Seasons of Love" to the opening credits.
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Post by Sulla on Feb 1, 2019 14:16:55 GMT
Simon Birch is based on John Irving's most popular novel, A Prayer For Owen Meany. The movie is so far removed from the novel that Irving withdrew permission to use his title. If you haven't read the novel, the movie is just another mediocre work. For those of us who are Irving fans, it's a desecration.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 2, 2019 1:45:03 GMT
World War Z Also The Mist, which totally fucked up the ending.
And then sometimes you get Blade Runner. Stephen King likes the movie's ending better than the book's. For me, it's World War Z.
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