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Posted on 01/31/2004 9:52:08 AM PST by ecurbh
I have. I liked it.
Of course, I was 16 at the time.
Ha! So I was led to believe. Instead, it was overcast with threatening dark clouds. However, it was a terrific day on the slopes even without the sun, so I can't complain. Had a great time and walked away with no injuries...it's a good day when I can say that! ;)
I have been searching for any post-Oscar stuff and am finding much less attention than I anticipated. Perhaps I am looking on all the wrong channels, as is usually my problem!
I even taped Oprah, how sad is that! And with nothing to show for it!
TORN is really struggling, too. That poor website was not prepared for the Oscar onslought!
Oh, no. At this point I didn't think there was much hope, but...that's awful.
Not at all, well... OK... sometimes.
But this is not such a choice. PJ's presentation was hardly *evil*, in that it was somehow diametrically opposed to Tolkien's vision. One can quibble about some fine points of things included and excluded, or characters that were stronger or weaker. Some of those quibbles are reasonable. But the truth I think remains that in order to make a movie that was *only* nine hours long, certain license is not just appropriate, but inevitable.
Any of us that were in PJ's position would have had to make the same sorts of choices. We might have made different choices, but the criticisms would have been equal to or more than what can reasonably be levelled at PJ. It's for this reason that I think PJ pretty much nailed it. Not that somebody else couldn't have done it, but then it would have been merely different, not necessarily better.
my .03
ROFLOL I sense a new tagline here.
Did I say that out loud?
Today's New York Times has a column entitled "Post-Oscar Reflections, Before We Forget ". Notable is this quotation: "The director Peter Jackson and his collaborators, among the most unassuming and unpretentious people in the room, though at this point they had every right to be the opposite, accepted their coronation at the Kodak Theater graciously."
The movie Destination: Moon, made in 1950, was the screen version of Rocketship Galileo; for its day, it was keenly innovative. The great George Pal was the producer; the great, great Chesley Bonestell did the matts; Heinlein vetted the script, so the science was accurate. If you ever get a chance, watch it ... it's pretty cool!
The 1950s TV series Tom Corbett: Space Cadet was based on the novel Space Cadet. When you read about various members of the Stone family in The Rolling Stones being seduced by the easy money of serial TV, this is the basis. I remember seeing the tail end of the reruns of this series when I was an itty bitty li'l girl, and I never connected it with Heinlein until I was much older.
The 1953 movie Project Moonbase was written by Heinlein, but, although it is chock-full of Heinleinistic women, it kinda sucks ... I think the suits got ahold of it. However, I think this is the movie that they built the inverted set for. There are scenes where people are walking on the ceiling and the floor; it's also got Madam President, and Colonel Briteis.
Red Planet (1994) was an animated series based on the novel of the same name. I haven't seen all of it, so I have no opinion ... but I do know they did show skating along the canals, and the gun-rights fight.
I have. I liked it. Of course, I was 16 at the time.
I liked it, too, but I was also young when I saw it, plus I'm a cartoon nut :) I thought they did a good job on the part where Eowyn slays the ring-wraith. Roddy McDowell (Cornelius!) was good as usual as Sam, and some of the other character voices were also good--Otto Preminger, John Huston, Don Messick, Orson Bean, Hans Conried--actually pretty star-studded. But Casey Kasem as Pippin and Glenn Yarbrough singing "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"--okay, some of it was pretty bad :) But the orc song "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" rocked :)
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