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| Shane |
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| Why is 3-D so difficult and yet in vogue, I find it more of an interference and nuisance than enhancement to most films I've watched...both ways I might add. A friend mentioned she had watched 'Gatsby' that way and couldn't stand it, said it kept her from enjoying the acting...this one I won't experiment with. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:21 am |
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Shane wrote: marantzo wrote: Good to see you Shane. I spend so much time calling out, "Shane, come back. Come back Shane!"
Which I will point out is NOT in the movie or the book. Glad to see you too Marantz!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtoCw2iOTSc
At 2:02 minutes into the clip.... |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:54 am |
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bartist wrote: Shane wrote: marantzo wrote: Good to see you Shane. I spend so much time calling out, "Shane, come back. Come back Shane!"
Which I will point out is NOT in the movie or the book. Glad to see you too Marantz!!!
At 2:02 minutes into the clip....
Thanks for this. Somehow I knew our Shane was wrong, but a video speaks louder than an argument.
However, "Play it again, Sam" is NOT in Casablanca. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:55 am |
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Shane wrote: Why is 3-D so difficult and yet in vogue, I find it more of an interference and nuisance than enhancement to most films I've watched...both ways I might add. A friend mentioned she had watched 'Gatsby' that way and couldn't stand it, said it kept her from enjoying the acting...this one I won't experiment with.
Gatsby, as I've noted already, has IMO the best use of 3-D since House of Wax (the 1953 version). Granted, there's not much competition other than Dial M for Murder. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 12:31 pm |
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Shane wrote: Why is 3-D so difficult and yet in vogue, I find it more of an interference and nuisance than enhancement to most films I've watched...both ways I might add. A friend mentioned she had watched 'Gatsby' that way and couldn't stand it, said it kept her from enjoying the acting...this one I won't experiment with.
I get that, but I think now that television sets and Blu-Rays have 3D capability, it's here to stay. I think as a gimmick to keep people from television 3-D had a strong, but limited, appeal. Because as neat as it was to see, you'd never see the movie that way again once it left the theaters. Now that they can be sure the can always see it as it was meant to be seen, audiences are more willing to take a chance on movies made to be seen that way. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 12:49 pm |
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| Looking forward to Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing," which has a rave review in New York magazine. It sounds like something I'm going to need for my DVD library, and not just because of the Buffyverse cast. (Although Nathan Fillion as Dogberry sounds irresistible.) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 1:25 pm |
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| Must say I am congenitally averse to modern-dress Shakespeare adaptations, and Much Ado being by far my favorite of Will's comedies makes me a tough house. But that review makes it sound terrific. I'd be there anyway--I've seen Much Ado more times than I can count and am always up for another go--but now I'm really looking forward to it. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 4:15 pm |
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It's not only Whedon, but much of his beloved stock company. (The people we sigh and smile when they turn up unexpectedly in anything.) So I'll be there. But honestly not expecting much.
No problem with modern dress Much Ado. I was in one and the Houston Post drama critic, an impossible to please guy, praised my wired energy. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:20 pm |
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My wife and I have now seen about twenty-five Shakespeare productions in a row, with about a dozen to go. The high tragedies, of course, have to be given top place, but we didn't enjoy anything as much as the Brannagh / Thompson "Much Ado".
As for modern dress, Patrick Stewart's "MacBeth" gained mightily from it. The three weird sisters appeared as demure warfront nurses, until they revealed themselves.
MacBeth, in his meeting with the two hired killers, makes himself a ham sandwich as he gives them instructions.
BTW, I will never again watch Shakespeare without first consulting "Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human" by Harold Bloom. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:54 pm |
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For what it is worth, the absolute best of all time Shakespeare film adaptation is without question, positively Chimes at Midnight. In my humble opinion.
As for modern dress Shakespeare, I rather liked Ralph Fiennes's version of Coriolanus. Not exactly "modern" but closer to it than the original, I also liked the fascist Britain era Richard III.
I look forward to the Whedon version of Much Ado, but that play always lives and dies by Beatrice and Benedick, and I do not know the work of Acker and Denisof enough to know how excited I should be. Branagh and Thompson were great, even made me forget about the idiocy of casting Keanu Reeves in... well, anything, but this especially. I mean, I would watch Emma Thompson in anything at all, except for movies where people promise to dance her socks off, but she was soooo... sunny and delicious in Much Ado. |
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 10:28 pm |
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I saw "Much Ado" with Alan Bates and Felicity Kendal in London, which was a joy and delight. I'd never seen it before (or since), but I saw that production four times in three days.
The only Shakespeare play I've seen several times is "Richard III," with Michael Moriarty on Broadway, John Wood in London, and Ian McKellen in Brooklyn (the Fascist 1930s version--great costumes, but I prefer the traditional setting). Something about Richard intrigues me. I wish Al Pacino had done his Broadway version, but "Looking for Richard" is an excellent movie about his efforts. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 10:51 pm |
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I think I've seen Much Ado About Nothing four times (twice stage, Branagh's movie, and BBC) and have never seen a bad one. My favorite was a college production with my roommate/landlord as Benedick.
I've also seen four Hamlets, three Romeos & Juliets, two As You Like Its, two Tamings of the Shrew, two Tempests, two Midsummer's Night's Dreams and two Henry V's. I'm not counting things like "Throne of Blood" and "Kiss Me Kate," which are adaptations more than productions. |
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 10:57 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: It's not only Whedon, but much of his beloved stock company. (The people we sigh and smile when they turn up unexpectedly in anything.) So I'll be there. But honestly not expecting much.
No problem with modern dress Much Ado. I was in one and the Houston Post drama critic, an impossible to please guy, praised my wired energy.
What part did you play? I've been in two productions, one in prep school where I was Second Watch, and one a few years ago in NYC where I played Leonato. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:00 pm |
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| Much Ado is the only Shakespearean comedy that actually makes me laugh out loud. It has the wit of Shakespeare coupled with the comic sensibility of I Love Lucy. Benedick and Beatrice are the foreparents of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and in fact I saw Kate as Beatrice on stage in Boston. My favorites were John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton, but Branagh and Thompson were a mighty close second. |
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:56 pm |
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| I was totally cracking up during the duel in Twelfth Night. |
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