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San Francisco, 3:15 PM
Mon Dec 7
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Ratings are meaningless for shows whose target audience is tech savvy. Surely there must be money to be had for releasing shows straight to DVD/Blue Ray, or through digital distribution. Watching TV is boring, but watching cool TV shows whenever you want to without commercials is the bomb.
11:07 AM
2 episodes are being filmed in Croatia. "vampires in venice" and "the doctor and vincent." both working titles of course. those pictures are from the vampires in venice one. apparently we probably won't see much of the van gogh episode being shot.
07:47 AM
The most recent episode was aimless. I kept falling asleep while I tried to watch it. My DVR messed up and didn't record the last five minutes and I really don't care. I am glad to see it go and sad to see that it didn't work out. I had high hopes for the show. I hope next time Joss puts a little more thought into the show. Maybe hire some writers that are not personal friends.
Eliza should take her money and put it in a trust fund to live off of while she transitions into some other industry. I had really hoped she had given up TV after Tru Calling.
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Tennant is and always will be the best Doctor that this long running series has ever had. Please dont let him go out on an anti-climax!!!!
I want a 'mini Michael Bay' Doctor Who episode!!!!! Just masse's of explosions and fire.....but with a script!
06:59 AM
I don't think that's a good thing.
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I also love how RTD has dropped hints throughout all the old Tennants series about the coming storm. 'Bad Wolf', The Doctor Donna', 'He will knock 4 times' and the Doctors ego getting the better of him in 'Waters of Mars' leading to his inevitable end. Oh RTD, how we will miss you.
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I gave it a second chance and still can't remember anyone's names - there's alcoholic FBI guy, alcoholic FBI guy's wife, retarded kid, retarded kid's dad who bangs alcoholic FBI guy's wife in the future, Harold of Harold & Kumar, Merriadoc Brandybuck, etc. so I'm done now. Maybe I'll read the book when I get a chance.
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cause there is a huge difference in emotion between a wedding and a funeral.
I feel like there's a joke in here somewhere...
03:02 AM
Speaking as a dyed-in-the-wool X-Files fan, I don't think so.There are a few similarities. An ongoing mythos does not a copy make.
Personally, I'm strting to like "Fringe" a bit more. Towards the end of "X-Files" it got too formulized.
Popularity is defined by the times we live in.
02:42 AM
With the current films in production (or ready to start in the near future). Things like Hellraiser, Robocop, Predators, Short Circuit, Flight of the Navigator and The Never Ending Story. It seems to me that we will look back again in a few years and ask the same question!
And TV's not safe either. The Prisoner, Day of the Triphids and the long awated V.
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- Gone with the Wind: Book.
- Godfather: Book.
- Wizard of Oz: Book.
- Raging Bull: Book.
- Vertigo: Book.
- To Kill a Mocking Bird: Book.
- 2001 A Space Odyssey: Book.
There is a very simple reason why we see so many adaptations of books and other media: they actually get sold. If you write a screenplay and you can't find someone willing to spend 100 million to make it happen then nobody will ever see or hear about it. Look at how many feature films are made every year. Now look at how many novels are published every year. If you're going to pour your heart and soul into a story which is more likely to get an audience? The book! Writing an original screenplay is a harrowing and extremely gutsy thing to do since it's at best probably just going to be purchased and filed away never to be seen again.
A book or comic book or play is a low investment way to experiment and try a lot of ideas to see what turns out well and resonates with people.
Which brings me to my next point. If people have a problem with films being remade then they should see the state of live theatrical plays. All across the nation theatrical directors are rewriting and adapting and presenting their own remakes of plays.
Directors aren't necessarily writers. They're story tellers. And it's natural that they want to retell the stories that they themselves have fallen in love with. From a director's point of view there is little difference between being handed an original screenplay and a remake. They are presented a story and they create a film. From a directorial perspective all films are remakes. You're remaking the film you fell in love with when reading the screenplay.
12/06/09
03:11 AM
Good point. As I was taking the subway the other day (NY), I saw a poster for "Hair" which is playing on Broadway, was first launched in 1967, now 43 years later it's making money again. Is it because aging Baby-Boomer ex-hippies are re-living their youth or a bunch of middle America tourists wanting to be titilated by a few moments of on stage nudity? Somehow I feel it's the former
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That's really it in a nutshell. The one thing they're constantly reminding us of at school is that it's all well and good for filmmakers to think of themselves as artists, and that creates better work. But in the end, it's a business above all else, and we have to be aware of that and play to that if we expect to be successful (in this case meaning have anybody see our work) or financially stable.
It's a shame, but in the end the people who are putting their money into the projects are thinking "what is going to give me a good return on my investment?" That's what drives Hollywood.
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They're certainly different but with RARE exception I would say they produced just as much drivel as is produce today.
It's unfair to take 90 years of movie making and compare it to 9. Although I would say that the last 19 years of film making have produced more great films than the previous 70.
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So, people are sitting there going "Things were so much *better* when I was a kid!" and movie makers are going "let's make stuff from when we were kids, only let's make them with modern special effects."
And there you have your reboots. Some of them were pretty cool, some of them were drivel, but the reason behind them was that the decade sucked.
12:01 AM
Then you have the other aspect which I think is the majority of remakes. The original actually wasn't very good. I don't care what context you put Santa Clause vs the Martians-- it's worse than just about any modern blockbuster.
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