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Crimson Peak - Guillermo del Toro's return to horror
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Chukzombi
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5 out of 7 of its books is a great book series and wizard and glass is a good book on its own merit, it just doesnt belong in the timeline of this series. if they ever adapt DT for tv or film, it would have to be the first thing we see. not the middle.
Caliane
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ok, lets say for a second, it is. Lets take that and reverse the scenario.Because by all accounts, The Dark Tower series is a great book series?
Lets get Stephen King to write a Starwars novel! why would you want that? why take a strong creator, and ask for them to be tied to recreating someone elses work of that nature?
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Actually, that idea kinda intrigues me. It would definitely be a dark SW novel, to say the least. But I see what you are saying.
But why wouldn't you want a great director to work on a project that you love? I believe that was the point of my post lol.
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I think that it would be right up his alley. Good bit of dark and fantasy with some overarching horror and a universe that he could fine tune beyond King's blueprints for it. King's work always seems to really grow into its own and find its legs when someone else takes his stories and adds that visual element that he seems to lack. I was thinking along the lines of Kubrick's The Shining and Darbont's The Mist. Both good King stories and great prose but they became so much more when good screenwriters/directors got a hold of them.
Even in the films where Del Toro is just producing you get that feeling that everything around the story is fleshed out and expansive and I think that giving him the range to keep expanding out on a story that's almost built solely around continuously expanding itself out without bounds would allow his strengths to really shine. The Dark Tower is a great story but it does have a bit of GoT syndrome where it needs someone to shore things up and make it more concise if it were transferred over to a visual medium. Tons of detail good is for a book but you need a visual storyteller to truly make it shine on screen.
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Correction:
Chinese movie Infernal Affairs, with tony leung and andy lau, the last great movie to come out of HK cinema before it all went to shit.
"The Departed" was the most overrated movie to ever win a best picture Oscar. It was a good movie, but not Oscar worthy.
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bleh been a decade, and i automatically lumped in in with all the awesome stuff coming out of korea at the time.
I agree. A truly classic movie that was really overlooked by so many people. I think a lot of people thought it was a kid's movie by the previews. And of course being a foreign film didn't help it in the U.S. either.
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It really did not all went to shit. I mean Johnnie To / Milkyway Image by its lonesome gave us since 2002:
PTU
Breaking News
Election 1 + 2
Exiled
Eye in the Sky
Sparrow
Drug War
Going through some of my notes, I can also add:
The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
The Taking of Tiger Mountain
3D Naked Ambition (very funny comedy about a group of HK guys wanting to produce a porn film in Japan)
Saving General Yang
The Grandmaster
Fearless
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Warlords
More on topic, I still scratch my head when I see the seemingly universal praise Pan's Labyrinth get considering everyone in my group of friends thought it was somewhat bad. In the end I think my "favorite" Del Toro directed film is Blade 2, but I have not seen The Devil's Backbone (which is supposed to be good - strangely I saw everything else, even Cronos on VHS a couple decades ago).
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Reviews are starting to come in, so far seems like a pretty lukewarm reception.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crimson_peak/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crimson_peak/
This just looks really lame from the previews. I'm a big fan of GTD, but think I'll pass on this one.
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Caught a matinee this afternoon, and it's definitely worth passing on. Was absolutely boring. I understand he's trying to do gothic horror, but it's a boring fucking movie. The whole film just seemed like a vehicle to showcase a cool set and the occasional CGI ghost, which weren't all that impressive compaired to his normal creature design. If you choose to see it, I'll warn you, you'll walk out asking why the fuck he did this and Pacific Rimjob instead of At the Mountains of Madness, and you'll hate him for it.
If anyone want's spoilers just ask, be more then happy to save someone else some money...
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What is the plot of this snooze fest even? The trailers bored me to tears. And what rational woman (if such a thing were to exist, hypothetically) would marry a due who lives in a creepy ass mansion miles from everything with his sister and no one else?
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