Topic: THE BOGGLED BK (Read 50466 times)

Matt H. · « **Reply #120 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:25:26 PM »

BK, I'm still wondering if you ever got around to watching TALES OF HOFFMAN? I asked you this last week, and if you answered, I must have missed it. Interested to know if the transfer is as stunning as I would expect it to be.

Matt H. · « **Reply #121 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:28:26 PM »

Page 5 Emergency Brake Dance!!!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #122 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:33:16 PM »

Here it is: The Jack Randall Earles King Kong Report:

"Kong is climbing the Empire State Building. That is all."

I wish they had used that line from the original.

Okay....here goes.

Good performances by Jack Black, Naomi Watts, and Colin Hanks. The CGI is amazing.

Adrien Brody has a hellacious honker that is VERY distracting and he must play in film biographies of either Jimmy Durante or Danny Thomas or BOTH very soon now.

Other performances are also good.

The film is TOO long....just too long. Over three hours....three hours and fifteen minutes including the coming attractions that I was subjected to.

Once we get to New York everything works. Well worth seeing, but it's a long drink of water!

THE MUSIC OF THIS FILM IS A COMPLETE FAILURE. The best part musically are a few samples of Max Steiner's score. Kong doesn't have a BIG theme to match the 3-note descending theme that he had in '33 (it is sampled ONCE) - and the rest is pretty but doesn't seem to fit the film. Too bad.

This is a film to see once, and MAYBE buy the DVD on sale.....no need to see it more than once at the theatre.

The two other people in the theatre for the 1 pm showing seemed to enjoy it as much as I did.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #123 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:34:14 PM »

LOL....MATTH I love that picture.

Madame, did you stop this train by pulling that cord?

Well I didnt' do it by dragging my foot!!

Tomovoz · « **Reply #124 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:34:58 PM »

I've just caught up on yesterday's posts.
Thank you DR Jason.

Now for today.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #125 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:37:47 PM »

Quote from: Kerry on December 14, 2005, 05:01:29 AM

Happy Birthday, Tom!!!!! I thought your birthday was yesterday actually and was sorry I did not et a chance to post. Have wonderful cake and big hugs from Colin and Fosca and Magnus!

Maybe today IS yesterday come to think of it......

Thank you DR Kerry. Today is indeed yesterday.

Matt H. · « **Reply #126 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:46:20 PM »

Thanks, DR JRand, for the KING KONG report. I suspect I'll feel similarly if and when I see it.

Jennifer · « **Reply #127 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:48:42 PM »

Speaking of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN David Letterman has been making jokes about it all week.

Matt H. · « **Reply #128 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:49:48 PM »

Just read the VARIETY review of this Sunday's ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. As we suspected, a misfire all around.

I'm sure I'll watch since not many musicals make it to be big or small screen any more, but having done this show myself, I have a great fondness for it and am sad they wasted this golden opportunity to do it right.

Here's the VARIETY pic. Sorry for the quality; I tried resizing it larger and, of course, it loses resolution when you do that.

bk · « **Reply #129 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:50:12 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on December 14, 2005, 10:45:51 AM

BK when you write as screen play does it include "stage directions" or is that something that only a director adds?

Yes, I try to make it as visual as possible, so that the reader can "picture" the movie as they're reading it. Smart directors will just take what they like from the writer's stage directions if they're top-notch and really clever and visual. Dumb directors (most working directors today) will completely ignore them and do their own thing.

bk · « **Reply #130 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:52:39 PM »

Is the question which cast album would I like to have my name on that I didn't produce, because I think it's so great? Gypsy.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #131 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:53:12 PM »

Thank you all for the wishes, cards, music links etc.. I have had a lovely birthday - and still am!

vixmom · « **Reply #132 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:53:24 PM »

DR MattH... I just sent you an email

I wanted to post it here but couldn't figure our how to do it.

bk · « **Reply #133 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:54:40 PM »

I've been saving my King Kong music report for Friday, but here it is: Awful. Typical musical score of today - no themes, just droning, or thumping, or New Age, or thumping - total crap from start to finish (based on the CD - haven't seen the film yet). And yes, the obligatory for no reason choir and the obligatory for no reason boy soprano. Blechhh.

vixmom · « **Reply #134 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:55:00 PM »

BK are there any modern day "popular music" groups that you would like to produce for?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #135 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:55:21 PM »

I always read the stage directions...although they are sometimes not practical for a Thrust Stage....but they are usually great suggestions!

The New TV Guide article about ONCE UPON A MATTRESS seemed designed to discourage viewers from tuning in. This is the first and only copy I will buy of this "magazine" - it was on sale this week for 99 cents. I want my money back.

vixmom · « **Reply #136 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:56:02 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on December 14, 2005, 01:53:12 PM

Thank you all for the wishes, cards, music links etc.. I have had a lovely birthday - and still am!

I am glad. I hope you were taken out for a lovely meal on yor natal day

Jrand73 · « **Reply #137 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:57:11 PM »

MR BK I remember that you mentioned these thoughts about the GNIK GNOK music before....and everything you say is TRUE.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #138 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:18:06 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on December 14, 2005, 01:16:16 PM

I assumed that's what he meant, 20 minutes for an electrician to install lighting!

Well, I'm sure I can't imagine for what else he'd be paying the electrician!

(Shocking, absolutely shocking!)

MBarnum · « **Reply #139 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:21:52 PM »

Thanks for the KING KONG review. I wonder how it compares to KING KONG ESCAPES?

Over 3 hours long! Boy, even this Bollywood Boy will have a difficult time with that!

The movie, for me, will depend a lot on how Ann Darrow is portrayed. If they give this 1930s gal a 21 Century attitude I will likely be disappointed.

MBarnum · « **Reply #140 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:26:28 PM »

MATTh...horse racing of course, but I must say it...how in tarnation could you sit through all those episodes of GOOD TIMES!

Everytime I come across the show on TV Land I stop and begin to watch....and I am always surprised at how much I can't stand the show! LOL.

Now GOOD TIMES was one of my favorite shows back when I was a kid, but I tell you what I cannot for the life of me figure out why...I LOVE Esther Rolle and I love some of the other actors in the show...but just not in THAT show.

On the other hand I still laugh out loud to MR. ED, so what do I know.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #141 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:28:10 PM »

She's a 30's gal, MBARNUM, Naomi Watts' performance is terrific. There is a nod here and there to something more modern, but it isn't too jarring.

Another thing about the music.....the tiddly wink music that is played for the introduction to the New York performance is awful. And of course the conductor and musicians seem to playing something completely different than what we're hearing. Maybe they have Howard Shore's music on their stands!

But this is the sequence that THEN cribs verbatim from Steiner - only goes to show how threadbare and WRONG this score is.

Matt H. · « **Reply #142 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:28:43 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on December 14, 2005, 01:53:24 PM

DR MattH... I just sent you an email

I wanted to post it here but couldn't figure our how to do it.

I didn't get it (the e-mail).

Tomovoz · « **Reply #143 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:32:09 PM »

I'm stil lcatching up:
- and thank you for the recipe DR SWoody. Pineapple upsidedown cake was a feature of 1950's cuisine here in OZ.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #144 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:32:31 PM »

Shakespeare Day on TCM. I am watching JULIUS CAESAR.

I always think of the story that director Joseph Manciewicz told that Marlon Brando sent him a recording of him doing some of Mark Antony's speeches, and that Joseph listened and thought the tapes were from June Allyson.

Matt H. · « **Reply #145 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:33:00 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on December 14, 2005, 02:26:28 PM

MATTh...horse racing of course, but I must say it...how in tarnation could you sit through all those episodes of GOOD TIMES!

Everytime I come across the show on TV Land I stop and begin to watch....and I am always surprised at how much I can't stand the show! LOL.

Now GOOD TIMES was one of my favorite shows back when I was a kid, but I tell you what I cannot for the life of me figure out why...I LOVE Esther Rolle and I love some of the other actors in the show...but just not in THAT show.

On the other hand I still laugh out loud to MR. ED, so what do I know.

Sometimes, it's hard to explain exactly why a person becomes fond of something that leaves another cold. I can't explain it either. I just know that it makes me laugh.

I suspect we all have TV shows and films that the world judges lame or lousy which we just love (for any number of reasons).

GOOD TIMES happens to be one of my guilty pleasures (along with MYRA BRECKINRIDGE, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, etc.)

Matt H. · « **Reply #146 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:34:31 PM »

Quote from: JRand55 on December 14, 2005, 02:32:31 PM

Shakespeare Day on TCM. I am watching JULIUS CAESAR.

I always think of the story that director Joseph Manciewicz told that Marlon Brando sent him a recording of him doing some of Mark Antony's speeches, and that Joseph listened and thought the tapes were from June Allyson.

LOL! I've never heard that story before, and it's hilarious!

I've always loved this version of JULIUS CAESAR. I wish Warners would bring it out on DVD. I have it on a commercial videotape.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #147 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:34:35 PM »

I'm still catching up.. Thanks DR SWoody for the Recipe ( a feature of 1950's Oz cuisine) and WFO for the "Hairspray".

Tomovoz · « **Reply #148 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:40:41 PM »

And more thanks: Very apt DtM!
Thank you DRs Vixmom ,Ann, RLP and DR's MBarnum and JRand.

I bet I've missed someone!!

Matt H. · « **Reply #149 on:** December 14, 2005, 02:43:47 PM »

Headed down now to clean the den and settle in for the evening. No clue yet what I'll be watching.

WBBL.

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