Foolz said:What non-fantasy ones do they have apart from Grave of the Fireflies?
The new Goro Miyazaki one. Ocean Waves, Only Yesterday. I'd have to look into it more but those are the ones I remember. Whisper of the Heart was conventional boredom interceded with brief moments of fantasy.
Country rooooooooadssssss. Shut-a your face.
I haaaaaaaaaate the Country Road song. It's so unbelievably lame and so annoying that the whole film is in Japanese yet they sing that damned song with an English title.
Do you hate Grave of the Fireflies as well?
GOTF is good stuff. Woefully depressing and it makes a grown man cry. But it's excellent.
I remember Steelo watching it and blubbing, he has a daughter though. 
gamingeek said:GOTF is good stuff. Woefully depressing and it makes a grown man cry. But it's excellent.
I remember Steelo watching it and blubbing, he has a daughter though.
That made even the likes of Heavy Rain affect him, no? Steel balls my arse. Maybe pre-conception....
Trailer for new Ang Lee film about a dude trapped on a boat with a Tiger
Ang Lee's Life of Pi has been an intriguing question mark up until now. Due out on November 21, it's based on the critically-acclaimed, best-selling novel by Yann Martel, which tells the tale of a boy who survives a shipwreck in the company of a Bengal tiger.
The novel has been described as a fantasy adventure about spirituality, and the first trailer certainly conveys the idea that the film, Lee's first in 3D, will be an other-worldly experience. The cast includes Suraj Sharma, Shravanthi Sainath, Tabu, Adil Hussain, Irrfan Khan, Gérard Depardieu, and Tobey Maguire.
The Life of Pi. Not to be confused with Mr Poo goes to Pooland
They are seriously concidering turning The Hobbit into a trilogy.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/57247
The Hobbit is one childrens book shorter than any LOTR books and it may get three movies... uhhhhhh. Plus the script is already made for two movies, stretching it out to three will clearly be just for money. It seems like Jackson wants to tell a bunch of different storys from the epilogues and other Middle Earth books but you can't just include that under The Hobbit title. This seems like a bad idea.
Dvader said:They are seriously concidering turning The Hobbit into a trilogy.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/57247
The Hobbit is one childrens book shorter than any LOTR books and it may get three movies... uhhhhhh. Plus the script is already made for two movies, stretching it out to three will clearly be just for money. It seems like Jackson wants to tell a bunch of different storys from the epilogues and other Middle Earth books but you can just include that under The Hobbit title. This seems like a bad idea.
Lolwat.
Foolz said:Lolwat.
That should have said you cant put that under the hobbit title.
Dvader said:That should have said you cant put that under the hobbit title.
Yeah, I still got what you meant. The lolwat was mainly aimed at Jackson's plan. It's a major WTF.
Foolz said:
Yeah, I still got what you meant. The lolwat was mainly aimed at Jackson's plan. It's a major WTF.
Yeah. You know I am a huge LOTR movie fan. I will be there for 20 of these movies but The Hobbit was planned as two movies and that is stretching it already. This just screams of money grab.
Dvader said:Yeah. You know I am a huge LOTR movie fan. I will be there for 20 of these movies but The Hobbit was planned as two movies and that is stretching it already. This just screams of money grab.
And you can't really shove in random, unrelated crap to a Hobbit adaptation. It's a lot more succinct, and less sprawling than LOTR.
They should not have done the hobbit until they made a Silmarillion film
The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay,[1] who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place.
After the success of The Hobbit, and prior to the publication of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel to The Hobbit, and Tolkien sent them an early draft of The Silmarillion. But through a misunderstanding, the publisher rejected the draft without fully reading it, with the result that Tolkien began work on "A Long Expected Party", the first chapter of what he described at the time as "a new story about Hobbits", which became The Lord of the Rings.[2]
The Silmarillion comprises five parts. The first part, Ainulindalë, tells of the creation of Eä, the "world that is". Valaquenta, the second part, gives a description of the Valar and Maiar, the supernatural powers in Eä. The next section, Quenta Silmarillion, which forms the bulk of the collection, chronicles the history of the events before and during the First Age, including the wars over the Silmarils which gave the book its title. The fourth part, Akallabêth, relates the history of the Downfall of Númenor and its people, which takes place in the Second Age. The final part, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, is a brief account of the circumstances which led to and were presented in The Lord of the Rings.
The five parts were initially separate works, but it was the elder Tolkien's express wish that they be published together
The CW is Considering a Battle Royale TV Series. No, Really.
BATTLE ROYALE May Head to US TV. (Seriously.)
Have any of the executives who talk about Battle Royale actually seen Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale or read the original novel by Koushun Takami? Or have their assistants just described it to them?
The latest bit of news makes me wonder. According to Los Angeles Times, the CW television network -- the fifth network in the U.S., home of The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, and Gossip Girl -- has had preliminary "talks with the project's Hollywood representatives about the possibility of turning the property into an English-language show."
Rather than remake the movie, they would acquire rights to the novel and work from there. Takami can say no, which would quash any potential deal.
Evidently, the network already has one "teen-centered post-apocalyptic" show in development, so it might put both into development and let them fight it out.
You know, like in The Hunger Games.
And that seems to be the driving force behind the interest in Battle Royale. Everyone who'd seen (or heard about) Battle Royale suddenly perked up and pointed out that The Hunger Games sounded an awful lot like the movie -- that is to say, a less violent, somewhat neutered, and politically confused version -- and that caught the ears and eyes of Hollywood entertainment executives.
Roy Lee, the producer behind most of the Hollywood remakes of Asian films, and Neal Moretz managed to get a remake of Battle Royale set up at New Line years ago, but that never came to pass.
At some point, though, you'd think someone will need to explain to key CW execs that, uh, Battle Royale is all about, er, kids killing kids with all manner of nasty weapons at the behest of a government that, oh, never mind.
I'm sure it will sell a lot of soap and shampoo to the kids.
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gamingeek said:The CW is Considering a Battle Royale TV Series. No, Really.
BATTLE ROYALE May Head to US TV. (Seriously.)
What's next? A PG-13 TV version of The Human Centipede II?
What non-fantasy ones do they have apart from Grave of the Fireflies?