Topic: MY NEW LOVE AFFAIR (Read 30521 times)

Matt H. · « **Reply #210 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:13:44 PM »

I have the choice tomorrow of watching NIXON (all day since it's 3 1/2 hours long and has a commentary which will make that 7 hours with the movie alone)

or

beginning a Cartoon Network/Comedy Central cartoon show I can't even remember the name of. It's two discs worth of half hour episodes. I might just do it and save NIXON for maybe Tuesday. I'll see how I feel tomorrow.

MBarnum · « **Reply #211 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:14:50 PM »

And now I have started my Bollywood movie of the weekend, and it is a goodie...a nice Punjabi movie (so it is really a Punjabwood, rather then Bollywood film) from 2006 called WAGAH.

Plot is about a young Indian war widow (her husband was killed on their wedding night) who helps a young Pakistani women search for her husband who is being held as a prisoner of war in India.

Being as it is a Punjabi movie there are lots of guys in turbans.

Matt H. · « **Reply #212 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:17:04 PM »

Page Eight Scarecrow, Lion, and Tin Man Dance!!!

MBarnum · « **Reply #213 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:18:22 PM »

You know, to me it doesn't seem so much that it should matter where as show originates from...a book, TV show, movie or something written specifically for stage...what matters is that it is entertaining and meaningful to the audience who pays to go and see it.

I also never do understand the criticism of movies based on TV shows or that are remakes....all that matters is if it is a good, enjoyable movie...at least to me.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #214 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:23:25 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on August 09, 2008, 09:10:42 PM

See above post.

Noted and read. Thanks!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #215 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:24:24 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on August 09, 2008, 09:18:22 PM

You know, to me it doesn't seem so much that it should matter where as show originates from...a book, TV show, movie or something written specifically for stage...what matters is that it is entertaining and meaningful to the audience who pays to go and see it.

I also never do understand the criticism of movies based on TV shows or that are remakes....all that matters is if it is a good, enjoyable movie...at least to me.

Agreed! Totally!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #216 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:25:32 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on August 09, 2008, 09:09:57 PM

Sounds like you had fun tonight at the show, and afterwards, DR Jose! Again it makes me miss NYC.

And NYC misses you too, DR MBarnum. -Well, at least the Indian shops down in the East Village and out in Queens.

Cillaliz · « **Reply #217 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:32:19 PM »

Following a day of laundry, doing some house cleaning and grocery shopping, I had a very enjoyable evening watching the Olympics.

Cillaliz · « **Reply #218 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:34:03 PM »

Guess I'll get some sleep...night

George · « **Reply #219 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:36:11 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on August 09, 2008, 04:00:08 PM

I'm guessing that if I discuss any live Olympic results that i should put spoiler space (since NBC does not seem to show anything live).

So if i'm just discussing in general i won't put space. But if i'm discussing a result (that probably won't have aired in the US) i will.

I found out something interesting. CBC is showing all their events live on the internet (there are numerous channels but the events can only be watched live).

I'm curious if this works in the US.

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/

(the channels are on the right side for the events on at the time).

I got a "Sorry, this video is not available in your area" message on the screen for 20 seconds, and then it stopped. $:-\$

Matt H. · « **Reply #220 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:36:18 PM »

Wow! It's much later than usual for me. I'm heading down now for some sleep.

BTW, there's a nice, soft, lovely rain falling outside my office window. Of course, I have the house opened up and am enjoying the fresh air.

Good night!

George · « **Reply #221 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:38:24 PM »

Quote from: JMK on August 09, 2008, 09:12:35 PM

I love stories where Mormon missionaries are made into sex slaves.

TMI!

(What are trying to tell us, JMK??

)

JMK · « **Reply #222 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:55:29 PM »

Quote from: George on August 09, 2008, 09:38:24 PM

TMI!

(What are trying to tell us, JMK?? )

That I grew up in SLC where Mormons victimize everyone else.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #223 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:55:33 PM »

Quote from: JMK on August 09, 2008, 09:12:35 PM

Has anyone else read the hysterical story about that lady who had her dog cloned and how she turns out to be a nutcase who stalked a Mormon missionary and made him her sex slave decades ago? I love stories where Mormon missionaries are made into sex slaves.

Is that Betsey's story?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #224 on:** August 09, 2008, 09:57:52 PM »

Well, I guess I'm glad I didn't buy those hamburgers at Whole Foods earlier this week... $:-\$

Whole Foods recalls ground beef

bk · « **Reply #225 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:00:07 PM »

Finished viewing - I'd watch something else, but I'd fall asleep.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #226 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:00:47 PM »

Quote from: bk on August 09, 2008, 06:04:50 PM

Maybe the Olympics is playing havoc with people being on this here site.

Well, it keeps me busy from 8-12

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #227 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:03:16 PM »

Quote from: Cillaliz on August 09, 2008, 05:49:05 PM

I'm enjoying watching the Olympics. I know it's delayed, but as long as I don't know what the results are, it's fun to watch.

Much of what you watched tonight was live - remember we (on the East Coats) are 12 hours away from China, so tonight we were watching Saturday morning's events.

der Brucer

FJL · « **Reply #228 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:03:43 PM »

I recall some ground beef I had when I was at a London pub (and no euphemisms, really!). But that's a whole different kind of recollection - it was just smelly and gross.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #229 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:09:14 PM »

Quote from: TCB on August 09, 2008, 07:00:50 PM

Ahhhhhhhh, no.

RACIST!

der Brucer

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #230 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:34:12 PM »

Jose,

I ain't getting a dough from that FLY opera. Let's see, Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and The Wedding Singer, hmmm? Classic drama; Adam Sandler comedy...How does that stack up? It used to be Broadway plays were adapted into movies, not the other way around.

bk · « **Reply #231 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:37:37 PM »

The thing about The Fly opera is, how can they get away with NO credit? Unless it's because this time they don't have to worry about the pesky WGA defending the rights of the original screenwriter.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #232 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:43:36 PM »

Quote from: JMK on August 09, 2008, 09:12:35 PM

Has anyone else read the hysterical story about that lady who had her dog cloned and how she turns out to be a nutcase who stalked a Mormon missionary and made him her sex slave decades ago? I love stories where Mormon missionaries are made into sex slaves.

Well, since you brought it up....

JOYCE MCKINNEY AND THE MANACLED MORMON

and, for the adult lovers of steamy cover art:

DIRTY PICTURE

And, she is such a lovely today :

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #233 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:45:38 PM »

Quote from: FJL on August 09, 2008, 10:03:43 PM

I recall some ground beef I had when I was at a London pub (and no euphemisms, really!). But that's a whole different kind of recollection - it was just smelly and gross.

Like many a London Pub!

der Brucer

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #234 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:45:48 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on August 09, 2008, 10:34:12 PM

Jose,

I ain't getting a dough from that FLY opera. Let's see, Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and The Wedding Singer, hmmm? Classic drama; Adam Sandler comedy...How does that stack up? It used to be Broadway plays were adapted into movies, not the other way around.

I wasn't comparing "Romeo & Juliet" and "The Wedding Singer"... Trust me on that one. However, there are some wonderful films out there that probably would make wonderful musicals if the proper writers and production team were in place. Dramas and comedies.

And as for "The Fly" - regardless of whether you're getting any dough or not - it was an adaptation of a film. As was the recent Jake Heggie opera, "Dead Man Walking" - which was inspired and adapted from a book/memoir and its film adaptation.

A good story is a good story. Source material is source material. Now as to whether or not that good story remains well-told and well-sung, well... that's the challenge.

Would you also declare a ban on all further Shakespearean adaptations and re-imaginings? -As other plays, musicals, movies, tv shows... ?

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #235 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:47:01 PM »

There is no separation of rights here is the problem. It is not looked at as an original screenplay, but as a remake of the old 58' film. Therefore I have no subsidiary rights here. It does seem to me it should say something along the lines of based on the screenplays by David Cronenberg & Charles Edward Pogue and by James Clavell and the original short story by whatever his name was.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #236 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:50:36 PM »

Quote from: bk on August 09, 2008, 10:37:37 PM

The thing about The Fly opera is, how can they get away with NO credit? Unless it's because this time they don't have to worry about the pesky WGA defending the rights of the original screenwriter.

If they didn't lift specific dialog or unique situations from the film, wouldn't the story credit go to George Langelaan who wrote the original Playboy story?

der Brucer

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #237 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:54:26 PM »

*Now the one "adaptation" that does puzzle me are the novelizations of movies. I mean, did we really need the story of "Dreamgirls" in paperback?

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #238 on:** August 09, 2008, 10:58:47 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on August 09, 2008, 10:45:48 PM

Would you also declare a ban on all further Shakespearean adaptations and re-imaginings? -As other plays, musicals, movies, tv shows... ?

Actually, most of Shakespeare's plots were not original; so, who should get credit for West Side Story?

der Brucer

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #239 on:** August 09, 2008, 11:00:04 PM »

And speaking of musicals being turned into movies...

The Lessons of 'Mamma Mia!' - Singing! Dancing! Adapting! Stumbling!

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