Posts by giovanni tiso
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Nah, I don't think I could even mime what he did without the actual instrument. He appeared to have eight fingers in each hand to go with the 12 strings on the damn thing. However, all that virtuosism was not to my taste, and I would have much rather heard more of Mr Metzger.
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Yes, what impressed me wasn't that he looked younger than 76 - he doesn't. It's that he managed to mature as a performer even in the years of physical decline.
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I thought he was great, and the tenor sax was used what, three times in the whole set? I would have much sooner lost 12 String Javier.
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Is this still the thread where one gets to gush on how great Leonard Cohen was? That was... brilliant. And a masterclass (not just by Cohen himself, it should be said) on how to age gracefully, nay, gloriously.
That said: did somebody really disrespect Dino Soldo on my Internet?
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And in a scene more reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino than Peter Jackson, Warner Bros turned up with an even bigger gun and put it to New Zealand's head.
Seems more Crocodile Dundee to me. You call that a gun? This is a gun.
__"There's floors in a lot of great art"__
Sistine Chapel?
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it's always a siege - the haters have no base to defend.
If you choose to see it that way. I think the haters would counter that they sometimes feel besieged by crap. And how films like the Lord of the Rings come to define New Zealand culturally is not entirely untroubling I think. Meanwhile, the lovers' citadel is several million-strong, and the assailants have pea-shooters, so why even care?
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If there's any novel begging to be adapted to film, it'd have to be Jeff Noon's Vurt. Last I heard, film rights were sold but no one actually got it beyond pre-production.
Or is it really that unfilmable?
:- )Last news of Noon was that Noon was writing a script for Falling Out of Cars. This was some years ago, so clearly he's decided not to make me a happy man after all.
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King Kong definitely did something to me.
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Interesting-but-unreliable filmakers like Burton will get squeezed out of the game
If only!
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All the same, you've got to wonder if MGM or Warners would touch a weirdo like Stanley Kubirck with the proverbial barge pole if he was starting out today.
I doubt it. The only reason why they took the risk back then is that there wasn't a road for commercial guaranted success. Now there is, so they're going to go with that. It would take something like the spectacular failure of a mega-expensive production (say, 600 mil?) done with colour-in book approach by what has sadly become a truly pedestrian director to scare studios into doing something new.