The Greatest Movie Ever Prelims: Pool D

[esoobaC .T bocaJ]

But Star Wars is a film. Films have a significantly less fluid nature than theatre.

Everytime a production is put on it's different that the last. And really Thees and Thous are really found more in The Bible than Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre.  The thing that distinguishes the English of those plays tends to be more noun and verb based than pronouns though obviously general flow of speech is different but it's stylised which as a classicist you have to come across all the time.

They are from the same period of English but they're not terribly similar when you really look at them

whoa, I have my own theatre...............awesome

[Tripe]

Is Thing from Another World the original, or the Jon Carpenter remake?

If its title is The Thing From Another World it should be the original, Carpenters was just The Thing

whoa, I have my own theatre...............awesome

Kinda though if that is true you should really be a Jimmy or Jemmy

[esoobaC .T bocaJ]

I never liked Romeo and Juliet much. I feel like it's one of those things they make you learn in high school because "oh, you'll understand it, you're like them."  Don't be insulting.  Hamlet is MUCH better, as is MacBeth, as is Julius Caesar.  That's all the Shakespeare I've read, so I can't say for the rest.

As far as "modern dress" goes, I really hate it too.  I understand what you're trying to do, I just think it's kind of stupid and don't like it.

If you want to make it modern, don't keep the "thees" and "thous" and archaic language. Keep the story, modernize everything, not just the costumes, because that's really artificially stupid.  Some good examples of -actual- modern Shakespeare include The Dead Father's Club and Scotland, PA.  And Lion King is not good modernized Shakespeare, by the way.  Musical numbers do not belong in Shakespeare, especially when they feature a) Elton John's writing/singing, and especially b) Jeremy Irons singing.  *shudder*

I didn't like Romeo + Juliet for that reason, to me it just seemed stupid to modernize everything but the dialogue.

my favorite version of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream


and Jeremy Irons was in The Lion King, who was he?

[Tripe]

Jeremy Irons was Scar.

That's the name of the Evil Uncle lion right?

Edit: Oooh Snap

[esoobaC .T bocaJ]

really, he was awesome

[Tripe]

He's generally good in many things, though I'd avoid Damage if I were you

[esoobaC .T bocaJ]

He's generally good in many things, though I'd avoid Damage if I were you

the Glenn Close show?

[Tripe]

no that would be Damages I think, hang about


You may find the plot and his co star tempting but heed my warning, avoid.

[bratpop]

Am I the only one who thinks it's stupid to watch a movie in READING class? We had to watch Wuthering Heights in summer school, and even with Timothy Dalton it was still pretty crap. It was more interesting hearing about the teacher who got fired for showing The Last American Virgin. Just hearing about it, mind you.

[anais.jude]

He's generally good in many things, though I'd avoid Damage if I were you

Damage was his penis's best role

[Tripe]

but his scenes with Juliette are about as hot as bubbling liquid nitrogen.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

He's generally good in many things, though I'd avoid Damage if I were you

And the remake of The Time Machine (if it's not too late to save you from that).

[esoobaC .T bocaJ]

He's generally good in many things, though I'd avoid Damage if I were you

And the remake of The Time Machine (if it's not too late to save you from that).

I think I saw it on an airplane, I also think I blocked it from my memory, so I'm not sure

He's generally good in many things, though I'd avoid Damage if I were you

And the remake of The Time Machine (if it's not too late to save you from that).

And Eragon.  And Dungeons and Dragons.

Actually, both those are hammily delicious. Not "meat cake" delicious, but not bad on their own.

I own Eragon, I thought it was pretty funny

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

He's generally good in many things, though I'd avoid Damage if I were you

And the remake of The Time Machine (if it's not too late to save you from that).

I think I saw it on an airplane, I also think I blocked it from my memory, so I'm not sure

Wow....are you lucky.

[MontyServo]

Thanks to the folks who voted for Murder By Death and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Two great movies that don't get the credit they deserve (although Liberty is in the IMDB Top 250).