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[Barry Matthew Ween]

And we need another new thread yet again...

[Paul F]

Brian Percival's directing a movie of Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief: http://www.empireonl...y.asp?NID=33291

I'm surprised it's taken this long to happen. I remember really liking the book.

[Christian U]

It's difficult fare though. And it's a big book to get right in the time provided by a movie. And the magic realism thing, with death telling the story, and the story itself being so deadly serious and sad... it's something we're more used to from books. Recent movies trying to do this kind of thing, like the adaptation of Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Heavenly Bones, got it wrong.

Uh... I guess I'm saying I'm pleasantly surprised it's getting made

Well, hopefully pleasantly. I don't know a lot of Percival's work, but it seems like this is a whole new level of challenge to him.

[steveuk]

I liked the live action original.

[stephanie familiar]

It's difficult fare though. And it's a big book to get right in the time provided by a movie. And the magic realism thing, with death telling the story, and the story itself being so deadly serious and sad... it's something we're more used to from books. Recent movies trying to do this kind of thing, like the adaptation of Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Heavenly Bones, got it wrong.

do you mean the Lovely Bones? i actually liked both of those movies. well, i disliked the Lovely Bones upon first viewing, but it grew on me.

[Johnny Henning]

Ack! THE LOVELY BONES really irked me.

Was The Heavenly Bones the Germanian title?

I imagine the Christian unconsciously mixed LOVELY BONES with Jackson's other "serious" movie, HEAVENLY CREATURES, right?

[stephanie familiar]

Piranha 3DD trailer.

http://www.moviesonl...ficial-trailer/


yowza.

[Chris D]

Piranha 3DD trailer.

http://www.moviesonl...ficial-trailer/


yowza.

Indeed.

[steveuk]

It looks worse than the first one. Is there really a big audience for Asylum/SyFy movies made on a much bigger budget?

At least you can say about the cheap pics, "Well, they had no time or money."

[Steve Sensible]

Also, if you like the minions, here's the complete bonus short from the first Despicable Me movie...

[stephanie familiar]

Also, if you like the minions, here's the complete bonus short from the first Despicable Me movie...

there's going to be a second one? huzzah! i thought the first one was adorable.

[Steve Sensible]

"It's so fluffy!!!!"

[Christian U]

Ack! THE LOVELY BONES really irked me.

Was The Heavenly Bones the Germanian title?

I imagine the Christian unconsciously mixed LOVELY BONES with Jackson's other "serious" movie, HEAVENLY CREATURES, right?

Yeah, that's what happened, cheers.

Steph, I haven't seen the movie adaptation, but it got pretty bad reviews. Hopefully, I'll still catch up with it at some point, but after having read the novel, I didn't want to spoil it by watching an adaptation that I might dislike.

[Rory Abel]

Yeah, that's what happened, cheers.

Steph, I haven't seen the movie adaptation, but it got pretty bad reviews. Hopefully, I'll still catch up with it at some point, but after having read the novel, I didn't want to spoil it by watching an adaptation that I might dislike.

The film is a mess but that may be more because the production was a disaster from the start (I have several friends who work on it) rather than an inability to adapt the material.

[brucegray666]

"Yay!" to more Despicable Me.

Not so much "Yay!" to more Piranha 3D.

[steveuk]

"Yay!" to more Despicable Me.

Not so much "Yay!" to more Piranha 3D.

I liked 'Megamind' a lot more, but 'Despicable Me' was still fun.

Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden Movie Sparks Protests in India

Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow and her project centering on the hunt for Osama bin Laden that is shooting in India are facing a flurry of local protests from Hindu radicals.

The movie is shooting in the Indian city of Chandigarh after Bigelow was denied permission to film in Pakistan. The Indian location is standing in for the Pakistani city of Lahore.

But according to reports, right-wing Hindus are protesting the use of India to ape its sworn enemy.

Bigelow’s film Zero Dark Thirty centers on the hunt for bin Laden before the al Qaeda leader was killed in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad.

Reports say that Hindus in the Indian city are up in arms after billboards with Urdu signs were put up on shops in a market and auto-rickshaws were running with Lahore number plates.

Burqa-clad women and men dressed in traditional Pakistani clothes also were dispatched onto the streets for filming.

Reports say a small group of protesters shouted slogans and some of them were seen arguing with cast and crew members as police tried to intervene.

The protesters claim the government should have denied permission to make the film on Indian soil.

Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan have fought three wars since winning their independence from Britain in 1947. Suspicion between the nuclear-armed rivals lingers.

Bin Laden masterminded the 9/11 attacks on the United States and was killed in May by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan.

http://www.hollywood...protests-296514

[Paul F]

The third Dan Brown/Da Vinci Code movie will be written by Danny Strong, and directed by Mark Romanek: http://www.deadline....-sony-pictures/

Odd choices. Strong's previous movies were both fictionalized versions of events surrounding American elections, and I really like Romanek's One Hour Photo and Never Let Me Go, they don't exactly have much in common with the Dan Brown movies.

[stephanie familiar]

Yeah, that's what happened, cheers.

Steph, I haven't seen the movie adaptation, but it got pretty bad reviews. Hopefully, I'll still catch up with it at some point, but after having read the novel, I didn't want to spoil it by watching an adaptation that I might dislike.

i read the novel as well and really loved the story (not so much the author's writing style), which is precisely why i didn't care for the movie at first viewing. the people who wrote the negative reviews are probably right, there are a lot of flaws in the movie (i.e. the guy who played susie's love interest was seriously miscast, he looked way too old for her). that said, there were a lot of great moments in it (i.e. susie's dad seeing the flame move) that made it worth watching for me, and i've read so many forensic cases for my degree about girls and young women going missing and being raped and getting murdered that many aspects of the movie (i.e. susie seeing all the murdered girls in the in-between) were profoundly moving for me.

but i can definitely see how people don't like that film.

[Steve Sensible]

The third Dan Brown/Da Vinci Code movie will be written by Danny Strong, and directed by Mark Romanek: http://www.deadline....-sony-pictures/

Wow. The same Mark Romanek who quit The Wolfman over "creative differences"? Good luck with this one, Romanek...

[Otso]

Chronicle film review

Rough Neighborhood. Abusive father. Dying mother. Telekinetic powers. Superman?

This is the story of three teenagers who gain telekinetic super powers with a good chunk of American teenage drama and friendship, told mostly by the perspective of the troubled character Andrew Detmer (Played by Dane DeHaan), who in his lonely and troubled live gets obsessed with recording /documenting everything about his life in a psychological way of dealing with his troubled life. He is the star of the show, he is really reminds me of your typical “what if Superman was Dr. Doom?” with a teenager angle, so if you’re a fan of say Mark Waid’s Irredeemable or alternate universe stories where Superman isn’t the champion of people, you will be greatly pleased. Josh Trank’s directional debut (also co-story writer) delivers tension, drama, joy and action.

The two other leads are Steve Montgomery (Michael B. Jordan) who is the star pupil and the most liked guy around their high school and Matt Garetty (Alex Russell) who is Andrew’s cousin & Steve’s friends, these 3 youngsters become the best of friends and the two even help Andrew become more sociable and liked around the school, but alas the violent nature and roughness Andrew has already endured added with the teenage hormones we all go thru when we’re on our 14-17s really sets up for Andrew to truly become a menace. That’s the highlight of the movie, these youngsters’s friendship, them learning to utilize their powers for pranks and other outrageous feats makes them all very cared characters and even though I found Andrew incredibly whiny from time to time, it is because the actor Dane does such an tremendous job as portraying him.

I also love the final scenes in Seattle city where the scenes jump from different cameras to other cameras; I found that an incredible unique way of portraying the powers these people could do. I don’t wanna get into specifics, but let’s just say some arguments can’t be ended with mere talks.

So like I said, if you’re a comic fan who enjoys stories like the Irredeemable or Superman-alike characters as teenagers becoming messed up due to drama, this is exactly for you. If you don’t really care for superheroes, it’s still worth seeing for the family and friendship relations and drama the movie gives.