I know, trailers are supposed to look ace, but still...look at the cast they've got there, look at the production values and period stylings. And it's directed by Tomas Alfredson, who did the fantastic vampire flick Let the Right One In too. Myself, I'm a big John le Carre fan, especially the Smiley books - I have no idea how they'll fit the labyrinthine plotting and counter-plotting and flashbacks and flashbacks-within-flashbacks from the novel into a two-hour film, so it'll probably be a loose adaptation, I would think. Looks like they're taking a very different tack from the seven-hour 1979 television series starring Alec Guinness, which is also fantastic by the way (recently got it on DVD - I'd only ever seen it before when it was repeated on telly one Xmas about ten years ago, so it was like seeing it properly for the first time - it's classy stuff. Don't make 'em like that any more). That seems like the only sane approach to be honest. But yep - I might have to go and see this one. I'm sure the queue in front of me will be mainly made of Sherlock fans wanting to see Benny whatshisface getting dangerous, Cold War style... ;D
I know, trailers are supposed to look ace, but still...look at the cast they've got there, look at the production values and period stylings. And it's directed by Tomas Alfredson, who did the fantastic vampire flick Let the Right One In too. Myself, I'm a big John le Carre fan, especially the Smiley books - I have no idea how they'll fit the labyrinthine plotting and counter-plotting and flashbacks and flashbacks-within-flashbacks from the novel into a two-hour film, so it'll probably be a loose adaptation, I would think. Looks like they're taking a very different tack from the seven-hour 1979 television series starring Alec Guinness, which is also fantastic by the way (recently got it on DVD - I'd only ever seen it before when it was repeated on telly one Xmas about ten years ago, so it was like seeing it properly for the first time - it's classy stuff. Don't make 'em like that any more). That seems like the only sane approach to be honest. But yep - I might have to go and see this one. I'm sure the queue in front of me will be mainly made of Sherlock fans wanting to see Benny whatshisface getting dangerous, Cold War style... ;D
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Go to Wikipedia and paste all the films released in the year you were twelve. Put in Italics the ones you've seen. (If you can't remember, you haven't seen them). Any you own, in bold.
( Movie Madness!! )
A MEME from lost_spook :
Go to Wikipedia and paste all the films released in the year you were twelve. Put in Italics the ones you've seen. (If you can't remember, you haven't seen them). Any you own, in bold.
( Movie Madness!! )
Well, I thought I'd reveal the answers to the movie quotes people didn't guess. And I know everyone will be going "huh?" because that meme was, like, about three years ago, but still. And I wasn't deliberately picking anything obscure to stump people, because with maybe one exception, I don't think these are wilfully obscure. Just a bit elderly maybe, or possibly (without wanting to stereotype), "guy films", some of them. XD
( Answers Revealed... )
Well, I thought I'd reveal the answers to the movie quotes people didn't guess. And I know everyone will be going "huh?" because that meme was, like, about three years ago, but still. And I wasn't deliberately picking anything obscure to stump people, because with maybe one exception, I don't think these are wilfully obscure. Just a bit elderly maybe, or possibly (without wanting to stereotype), "guy films", some of them. XD
( Answers Revealed... ) biichan and jigglykat 
biichan and jigglykat I laughed so hard at this that I think I've burst something:
www.cracked.com/article_17131_how-studios-would-have-ended-watchmen-storyboard.html
Still haven't managed to see the movie, but I've heard about the changed ending, and on the whole, while it sounds like a worthy alteration, I think they should have used this one!
"Riiiggghht...noooowww...."
I laughed so hard at this that I think I've burst something:
www.cracked.com/article_17131_how-studios-would-have-ended-watchmen-storyboard.html
Still haven't managed to see the movie, but I've heard about the changed ending, and on the whole, while it sounds like a worthy alteration, I think they should have used this one!
"Riiiggghht...noooowww...."
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