Known for his "gritty style"? Did the authors actually see the Bourne movie? I would say known for his "typical hollywood action faire", but that's just me. Just because you've directed a movie with the word bloody in the title doesn't mean you've got a gritty direction style.
This is bound to be a disaster. When I heard that Aronofsky was at the helm I at least had a little hope.. but guys, there's a reason guilliam decided not to do this in the first place. Watchman is the greatest comic book saga ever told, and I have little doubt that a movie adaptation will be a complete disaster.
I'm cool, and here's what I have been finding the most challenging to my ears for the past year:
Thursday - Full Collapse
Boy Hits Car - S/T
Tool - Lateralus
Cave In - Jupitor
Mogwai - Rock Action
Now go out and buy those albums. On a side note, coolness through listening is an interesting occurance. Once upon a time, I tried to run a weblog-style loud rock music news forum, but found that my idea was flawed on a number of levels.
Perhaps most disapointing of all was finding that the audience we were targeting wasn't nearly as intelligent or as communal as we expected them to be. Unfortunately, the largest number of submissions, comments, and personal emails we received were from teens hopping on the latest trends and spamming about their favorite flavor of the week. No intelligent discussion about the next mutation of Mike Patton's sounds or how the avante-garde stylings of Buckethead would change the direction of a latter day Guns N Roses. Nada.
It's too bad, really, that popularity matters so much to everyone's senses of taste. And sure, it's affected me as well to some degree or another. But personally I find the best music being made is being put together by relative unknowns who really feel what they're writing about. I have a hard time believing that anyone in Limp Bizkit is having a hard time getting laid these days (and yes, I like 3 Dollar Bill when it first came out but that band became lame long ago:-).
Very true. As a side-note regarding the Shining though, I think what Kubrick did to the film was what made it work. If you've read the original book and then viewed the film I think most can agree that this is one of those rare cases where the movie "version" far outshines the original literary work.
As much as I love Jackson's work (he's one of my favorite directors, right up there with Kubrick, Gilliam, Lynch, et al) I can't honestly say I expect the movie to live up to Tolkein's novels. I think it will be a beautiful movie, perhaps one of the best *ever* made, but I think to expect any film to accurately recreate every last tidbit of such a magnificient work is ridiculous and unreasonable. Regardless, I'm anxiously awaiting xmas time:-).
You're absolutely correct. I've been a fan of Peter Jackson since I first saw Bad Taste (the movie from which the exploding sheep reference is lifted) and have seen every flick he's directed since.
Quite simply, Jackson is an artist. Sure, maybe not the kind of artist the Kubrick or Lynch or Gilliam is, but an artist nonetheless. From the gruesome gibbiness of Dead Alive (some of which still makes me squirm) to the twisted puppetry of Meet The Feebles all the way to the beautiful cinematography and gifted storytelling seen in Beautiful Creatures, Jackson has been evolving towards this.
Think about it, an uncompromising director that has risen up from the ranks of 10 thousand dollar budget movies to play with the big boys, with experience with intricate puppetry (he now operates his own effects company that specializes in animatronics) and a knack for visual storytelling directing the epic LOTR. He's perfect.
For anyone that doubts based on his past in horror-comedies, please do yourself a favor and see Beautiful Creatures (a movie based on the real-life murder committed by two young girls in NZ in which Jackson not only portrays the actual events but also delves into their dream-world motivations -- it's brilliant). I don't think any of us will be disapointed with LOTR.
I've been naming mine after fictional species:). mogwai, wookie, hobbit, etc In the past I've used naming schemes from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
I'm usually a fan of hardcore and alt.metal stuff like One Minute Silence, Incubus, Tool, NIN, SOAD, VOD, Videodrone, Thumb, etc, etc. But I find lyrics to be a l'il distracting when I'm trying to code (there are a few exceptions). Death in Vegas is great, as is Crystal Method, Fatboy Slim, Wink, Aphex Twin, and Underworld (even though they have "real lyrics")
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Known for his "gritty style"? Did the authors actually see the Bourne movie? I would say known for his "typical hollywood action faire", but that's just me. Just because you've directed a movie with the word bloody in the title doesn't mean you've got a gritty direction style.
This is bound to be a disaster. When I heard that Aronofsky was at the helm I at least had a little hope.. but guys, there's a reason guilliam decided not to do this in the first place. Watchman is the greatest comic book saga ever told, and I have little doubt that a movie adaptation will be a complete disaster.
- Thursday - Full Collapse
- Boy Hits Car - S/T
- Tool - Lateralus
- Cave In - Jupitor
- Mogwai - Rock Action
Now go out and buy those albums. On a side note, coolness through listening is an interesting occurance. Once upon a time, I tried to run a weblog-style loud rock music news forum, but found that my idea was flawed on a number of levels.Perhaps most disapointing of all was finding that the audience we were targeting wasn't nearly as intelligent or as communal as we expected them to be. Unfortunately, the largest number of submissions, comments, and personal emails we received were from teens hopping on the latest trends and spamming about their favorite flavor of the week. No intelligent discussion about the next mutation of Mike Patton's sounds or how the avante-garde stylings of Buckethead would change the direction of a latter day Guns N Roses. Nada.
It's too bad, really, that popularity matters so much to everyone's senses of taste. And sure, it's affected me as well to some degree or another. But personally I find the best music being made is being put together by relative unknowns who really feel what they're writing about. I have a hard time believing that anyone in Limp Bizkit is having a hard time getting laid these days (and yes, I like 3 Dollar Bill when it first came out but that band became lame long ago
you're quite right. my bad... too much caffeine fried my brain.
Very true. As a side-note regarding the Shining though, I think what Kubrick did to the film was what made it work. If you've read the original book and then viewed the film I think most can agree that this is one of those rare cases where the movie "version" far outshines the original literary work.
:-).
As much as I love Jackson's work (he's one of my favorite directors, right up there with Kubrick, Gilliam, Lynch, et al) I can't honestly say I expect the movie to live up to Tolkein's novels. I think it will be a beautiful movie, perhaps one of the best *ever* made, but I think to expect any film to accurately recreate every last tidbit of such a magnificient work is ridiculous and unreasonable. Regardless, I'm anxiously awaiting xmas time
You're absolutely correct. I've been a fan of Peter Jackson since I first saw Bad Taste (the movie from which the exploding sheep reference is lifted) and have seen every flick he's directed since.
Quite simply, Jackson is an artist. Sure, maybe not the kind of artist the Kubrick or Lynch or Gilliam is, but an artist nonetheless. From the gruesome gibbiness of Dead Alive (some of which still makes me squirm) to the twisted puppetry of Meet The Feebles all the way to the beautiful cinematography and gifted storytelling seen in Beautiful Creatures, Jackson has been evolving towards this.
Think about it, an uncompromising director that has risen up from the ranks of 10 thousand dollar budget movies to play with the big boys, with experience with intricate puppetry (he now operates his own effects company that specializes in animatronics) and a knack for visual storytelling directing the epic LOTR. He's perfect.
For anyone that doubts based on his past in horror-comedies, please do yourself a favor and see Beautiful Creatures (a movie based on the real-life murder committed by two young girls in NZ in which Jackson not only portrays the actual events but also delves into their dream-world motivations -- it's brilliant). I don't think any of us will be disapointed with LOTR.
I've been naming mine after fictional species :). mogwai, wookie, hobbit, etc
In the past I've used naming schemes from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
I'm usually a fan of hardcore and alt.metal stuff like One Minute Silence, Incubus, Tool, NIN, SOAD, VOD, Videodrone, Thumb, etc, etc. But I find lyrics to be a l'il distracting when I'm trying to code (there are a few exceptions). Death in Vegas is great, as is Crystal Method, Fatboy Slim, Wink, Aphex Twin, and Underworld (even though they have "real lyrics")