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[usernamenumber]

From the why-the-hell-was-I-not-told? department...

A V for Vendetta movie? With Hugo Weaving Natalie Portman (and, in a lesser role, Stephen Fry)?? And with a trailer that makes it look like it stands a chance of not sucking???

...wow.

I'd heard about the Watchmen movie, which was also reported to maybe not suck, but it's since dissapeared from imdb whereas this one got completely under my radar.

/me needs to go re-read V now.

Other movie-type things that I missed.

DOOM! Wow, that one got me excited... until it turned out to be a movie version of Doom3 starring The Rock. Hello? Hollywood?? If it doesn't involve funky helmets and green spandex it aint Doom!

...and apparently there is now a Global Frequency TV series with Warren Ellis listed for writing credits. I'm not surprised I missed this one since I never followed the comics, but if the show's any good perhaps I should put GF higher on my to-read list. Anyone seen it (heiligekuh and jodisays, I'm looking at you)?

Sorry for the complete lack of meaningful postings lately, I'm doing a bunch of stuff with Red Hat right now and am currently in deadline-hell. That plus the move and all has really kept me busy since I left CA. Special appologies to those of you I said I'd get back in touch with but never did. =:\

Oh, and I made a new icon. It makes me happy. I anticipate maybe three people getting it, but I hope it cases them pain. =:)

Comments

[aerynvale.livejournal.com]

I got the icon. It is awesome, especially with the caption.

Yeah, I heard that the Doom movie has pretty much nothing to do with Doom. Bummer.

[rhosyn-du.livejournal.com]

I have no particular comment on the content of your post, but oh, good gods, your icon makes me so happy.

[andmydog.livejournal.com]

V for Vendetta movie. And it looks good. Oh my god yes. ::happy dance::

[heiligekuh.livejournal.com]

Actually, everything I've read about V has made me expect utter crap. But, then, I expect utter crap from most things.

There's not actually a GF series. There was a half-produced, unaired, torrented pilot. It's decent. The series has better moments, but also a fair number of Ellis plots that revolve around bloody kneecaps. Which I've seen too many times before. But the issue with the Parakour runner is freaking amazing.

And the Doom movie has at least one extend FPS sequence, which may be worth matine admission.

[manana.livejournal.com]

. . . is there something to get about your new icon beyond the idea of playing [ultimate] frisbee with dangerous objects . . . ? Or do you just mean that you don't think most people know what "ultimate frisbee" is?

Either way, I do like it, even just on those merits. And hopefully V will be good, but I'm gonna go ahead and keep my expectations low for now. <:}

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

. . . is there something to get about your new icon beyond the idea of playing [ultimate] frisbee with dangerous objects . . . ? Or do you just mean that you don't think most people know what "ultimate frisbee" is?

No, I expect very few people to recognize that particular dangerous object: The Glave from Krull.

Lizbeth and I re-watched it last week and, wow, so many childhood traumas memories.

Plus, it was one of the first film appearances of both Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltane, which of course I had no idea of at the time.

Take the fire from my hand.

[choose-again.livejournal.com]

so did the widow seem familiar to you? b/c if not, I get a geek point.

she played jessica in the dune movie. :P

and there is apparently a 3 hour version that does more origional book stuff. wanna see it?

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

I've heard rumors of up to an 8-hour version. I'd be interested in giving the 3-hour one a go... I guess. I doub't we're going to find it at the local rental place and I don't think I'd want to buy it.

[manana.livejournal.com]

The 3-hour version is really only a marginal improvement; it's basically the same thing, but with more of the details being screwed up in the same style. Dunno about the 8-hour version; I've heard of it, but I question whether it actually exists.

What you really want to get your hands on is the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries. It's about 5 hours long all told (plus 30 minutes for the director's cut version, plus another 4.5 hours for the subsequent "Children of Dune" miniseries, so that actually bumps it up to a 10-hour Dunestravaganza), but it's done quite well, considering how impossible it would be to actually be 100% faithful to the books. At the very least, they don't pull any of the really weird crap that the movie did, like those asstacular "Weirding guns" (or whatever they were called). On the down side, no Patrick Stewart. On the up side, no Sting-in-a-cod-piece.