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shadowkat1. Finished watching movie trailers from electronic version of EW mag on my ipad. Some interesting movies coming this fall:
* The Hobbit - which is now going to be a trilogy or three films. Jackson has chosen to include bits from the Appendixes that Tolkien wrote later. The film is going to be the unabridged version of the books, as opposed to the abridged which most film adaptations are. Actually I can see three films...One would be the Journey for the Treasure, One the Journey back with it, and One the Dwarf war or the reason they wanted it. (I saw the Ralph Baksi animated film after I read the book in the 6th Grade.) The themes of the Hobbit are fitting - the book in many ways addressed the problems of the industrial age, technology, and warfare on rural life and the planet.
* Les Miserables - apparently everyone in this movie had to audition for it - three hour vocal auditions. Because they were going to have them sing the songs as they filmed the scenes live - not in a recording studio and lip-syncing like they usually do.
Fascinating. Surprised by Anne Hathaway's voice. Go here for the trailer:
http://youtu.be/xk5UStefYmE
* Zero Dark Thirty - this is Kathryn Bigelow's new film. It's a behind the scenes account of the hunt of Osama Bin Laden from the pov of CIA operatives and the people who did the hunting.
Here's the trailer:
* Argo - new Ben Affleck directed film which is about the Iran Hostage Crisis in the 1970s. This entails a little known subplot involving 6 American Hostages who escaped the Iranians and took refuge in the home of the head of the Canadian Embassy in Tehran.
The difficulty was how to get them out of Iran, without getting anyone killed or the Iranians noticing. So an exfiliteration CIA expert comes up with the idea of doing a fake sci-fi flick called Argo and take a trip to Iran to scout locations. They will just take the 6 refuges out as members of the film crew. (You really can't make this stuff up.)
This flick has a great supporting cast. John Goodman as a makeup artist, Alan Arkin as the Hollywood Producer, and Bryan Cranston as the CIA handler.
Here's the trailer:
* Django Unchained - the newest Quentin Tarantino flick. This one is a gonzo spaghetti revenge Western by way of hip-hop. It's about a slave who gets freed by a bounty hunter, who tells him that if he helps him track down a couple of villains, he'll reunite him with his wife and set him free. The wife was sold to a white plantation owner played Leonardo Di Caprio, who plays the villain. Christop Waltz and Jamie Fox play the heroes.
Here's the trailer:
Other notable films are Lincoln starring Danial Day Lewis and directed by Spielberg from a script based on Doris Kerns Goodwin's nonfiction book. Hyde Park on the Hudson starring Bill Murray of all people as Franklyn Delano Roosevelt about when the King of Great Britain visited the President of the US to request assistance.
And Life of Pi...which looks wickedly cool. It's by Ang Lee who is good at these sorts of films.
[They are also doing yet another remake of Wuthering Heights...I know, why? But Anna Karenia could be interesting, Jude Law is playing the hubby not the lover, and it's filmed entirely in an Opera House.]
2. Currently watching the Olympics Closing Ceremonies...which are interesting. I happen to adore classic British Rock so it's working for me. Wish they could have gotten David Bowie and Rodger Daltry to perform. But you can't have everything.
It's a celebration of classic British Rock Music, fashion, and weird recreations of famous album covers.
And apparently Recent British Pop Music...which I'm really really not a fan of. British Pop music is worse than American Pop music and that's saying something. Particularly when the best is The Spice Girls. (YMMV).
* The Hobbit - which is now going to be a trilogy or three films. Jackson has chosen to include bits from the Appendixes that Tolkien wrote later. The film is going to be the unabridged version of the books, as opposed to the abridged which most film adaptations are. Actually I can see three films...One would be the Journey for the Treasure, One the Journey back with it, and One the Dwarf war or the reason they wanted it. (I saw the Ralph Baksi animated film after I read the book in the 6th Grade.) The themes of the Hobbit are fitting - the book in many ways addressed the problems of the industrial age, technology, and warfare on rural life and the planet.
* Les Miserables - apparently everyone in this movie had to audition for it - three hour vocal auditions. Because they were going to have them sing the songs as they filmed the scenes live - not in a recording studio and lip-syncing like they usually do.
Fascinating. Surprised by Anne Hathaway's voice. Go here for the trailer:
http://youtu.be/xk5UStefYmE
* Zero Dark Thirty - this is Kathryn Bigelow's new film. It's a behind the scenes account of the hunt of Osama Bin Laden from the pov of CIA operatives and the people who did the hunting.
Here's the trailer:
* Argo - new Ben Affleck directed film which is about the Iran Hostage Crisis in the 1970s. This entails a little known subplot involving 6 American Hostages who escaped the Iranians and took refuge in the home of the head of the Canadian Embassy in Tehran.
The difficulty was how to get them out of Iran, without getting anyone killed or the Iranians noticing. So an exfiliteration CIA expert comes up with the idea of doing a fake sci-fi flick called Argo and take a trip to Iran to scout locations. They will just take the 6 refuges out as members of the film crew. (You really can't make this stuff up.)
This flick has a great supporting cast. John Goodman as a makeup artist, Alan Arkin as the Hollywood Producer, and Bryan Cranston as the CIA handler.
Here's the trailer:
* Django Unchained - the newest Quentin Tarantino flick. This one is a gonzo spaghetti revenge Western by way of hip-hop. It's about a slave who gets freed by a bounty hunter, who tells him that if he helps him track down a couple of villains, he'll reunite him with his wife and set him free. The wife was sold to a white plantation owner played Leonardo Di Caprio, who plays the villain. Christop Waltz and Jamie Fox play the heroes.
Here's the trailer:
Other notable films are Lincoln starring Danial Day Lewis and directed by Spielberg from a script based on Doris Kerns Goodwin's nonfiction book. Hyde Park on the Hudson starring Bill Murray of all people as Franklyn Delano Roosevelt about when the King of Great Britain visited the President of the US to request assistance.
And Life of Pi...which looks wickedly cool. It's by Ang Lee who is good at these sorts of films.
[They are also doing yet another remake of Wuthering Heights...I know, why? But Anna Karenia could be interesting, Jude Law is playing the hubby not the lover, and it's filmed entirely in an Opera House.]
2. Currently watching the Olympics Closing Ceremonies...which are interesting. I happen to adore classic British Rock so it's working for me. Wish they could have gotten David Bowie and Rodger Daltry to perform. But you can't have everything.
It's a celebration of classic British Rock Music, fashion, and weird recreations of famous album covers.
And apparently Recent British Pop Music...which I'm really really not a fan of. British Pop music is worse than American Pop music and that's saying something. Particularly when the best is The Spice Girls. (YMMV).
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Date: 2012-08-13 12:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-13 09:58 pm (UTC)The coverage of the closing ceremonies was admittedly lame and intercut with one too many commercials. But I'll give NBC credit for showing other countries around the world winning medals...which I'm not sure BBC and British television did? (This was according to the journalist in today's Metro...how true this is? I've no idea.)
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Date: 2012-08-14 11:57 am (UTC)I found a list of the songs at least here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/london-2012/9470803/Olympics-closing-ceremony-playlist.html).
I think every country's going to focus on their own athletes, it's only natural. It was just given my ability to flip back forth between Canadian and American coverage I was really surprised by NBC's decisions - like not showing some big events like track live during the day. Of course they're going to show them again in primetime, but how can they not be showing things like Usain Bolt's races as they're happening? And that one hour WWII documentary? That was bizarre.