Linky-linky 3: The Linkening

[cleolinda]

From quizzicalsphinx: Production stills from Pirates 3! Warning: obvious spoilers if you haven't seen the end of the second one. Possible spoilers if you're not aware of the general setting of the third. Also, from the last time I mentioned The Totally Awesome Picture (which is included at this link), I'm hearing that it may be an acknowledged photoshop. I'm not sure how (where did the costume come from?), but even I have to admit that it always looked a bit pastede on (boo). So now I am a sad panda. But then I see my favorite pirate (no, my other favorite pirate) and I get happy again.

(We sat at the table tonight, the three of us, eating a mix-and-match dinner of leftovers while my mother tried to sell my stepfather on the charms of Jack Sparrow. Somehow, I don't think "...and he's so sexy when he runs like a girl!" is gonna get an Army Reservist into a theater seat come Saturday afternoon.)

A brief first-hand account of Spider-Man filming in the comments of the entry before last.

Labyrinth: The Manga. Rendering David Bowie all bish must have taken... what, two seconds?

Less bishy: Se7en: The Graphic Novels.

Was the world really crying out for Da Vinci Code collectibles?

Ms. Scribe hits the mainstream media. It's just like reading a history of the CIA, only with less cross-dressing.

New trailers: Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men (mmmclive) and Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep (I love Charlotte Gainsbourg!).

An interesting review of Lady in the Water. I don't usually read AICN anymore, but Moriarty goes into a lot of the problem behaviors and attitudes that led Shyamalan up to this point. Such as "not having anyone to tell him no." Also, he makes the interesting point that there are "excuses" built into the movie: if you're a movie critic, you don't like the movie because there's an unflattering portrayal of one; if you think it's stupid, you're not open to your inner child; if you think it's rambling and unstructured, you're not open to the "bedtime story" conceit, and so on.

By the way, from what I understand, there's not really a twist per se. Not, like, a patented Shyamalan Turn Everything Upside Down twist; just the normal surprises and reversals you might have in any movie. This is, of course, assuming that the full-length writeup at The Movie Spoiler is correct, which it seems to be. NOTE: Link will spoil the everloving shit out of the movie, in case you haven't figured that out. And I know it's not quite doing justice to a movie to merely read a brief, factual recap, but even considering that, the plot is... well, kind of incoherent, what with the narfs and the scrunts that hunt the narfs and the monkeythings that hunt the scrunts that hunt the narfs, but only on certain narf-hunting days, if the narf breaks the rules and regulations observed by the narf-hunting scrunts, unless you're dealing with a queen narf, in which case all bets are just frickin' off, chief. I kind of want to say that "narf" doesn't even look like a word now, except that it NEVER DID IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Sadly, I kind of want to see the movie just because now. Only I don't want to pay for it, because I demand a certain level of coherence if you want me to pony up eight bucks.

Comments

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I kind of want to see the movie just because now.

I've been wanting to see it ever since Shyamalan showed up on The Daily Show and seemed very nice and normal.

I couldn't find the Ms.Scribe article in that link. Can you give me a hint as to where it is?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ah, I managed to screw up the link. It's here: http://www.metroactive.com/metro/07.19.06/work-0629.html

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

And Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/teenagemutantninjaturtles/). Again. YA RLY.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Man, I saw something about that in passing today, and just couldn't bring myself to post it. I never got the appeal, myself.

[majormeg7.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking of Pinky from "Pinky and the Brain" everytime I hear the word "narf."

[akthomps.livejournal.com]

HA! I was just about to say that. No way in hell would I be able to take that seriously.

I won't be seeing this movie anyway.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Cleo, where did you here it was a pastede job? Links????????

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

A few different people said so in comments to one of the entries--I went back and looked and I can't find it now. I'll try again in a bit.

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

Now I kind of want to watch Lady in the Water, in much the same way that I'm kind of hoping to be around when the bag lady starts shrieking at the cop.

The Worst Trailer In The History Of The World, however (even if it was replaced by a hipper, scarier trailer) has scared me off forever.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You mean that preview with nothing but music, fondly known around my house as The Spaghetti Sauce Commercial? I saw it so many times in theaters I wanted to stab someone.

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

Trying not to spoil anything for folks who don't want to look at the Pirates pics, that one guy has the worst case of athlete's... umm, head... that I've ever seen. [bemused squint] Definitely looks like some good stuff, though. :)

And the MsScribe related link just takes you to the index. :/ You pasted the link correctly but the site itself bumps you to its index or front page or whatever that is. [mutter] I hate when they do that. I mean, do they not want folks to read or rec their stuff? :/

Angie

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nah, I screwed up the link--I managed to put two separate links together. I've fixed it now.

And yeah, I know the picture you're talking about. Check out his ear, man.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

Re production stills: OMG, Jack's a ninja pirate! If only he was a zombie ninja pirate, the world would be complete!

Re Lady in the Water: Huh? No, really. What the hell? It's just as well I have no spare dosh, because I would be tempted to go just to try and dope it out.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, people kept telling me that that was a photoshop, but where did they get the costume with "ocean robber" written on it in Chinese, I ask you?

And yeah--I did hear that the cinematography and score are beautiful, and I'd say it'd be worth it just to stare at Bryce Dallas Howard except that her bangs in this one bug me. But... I just can't put down $8 to sit in a theater for two hours and go, "The hell? What the--? No, seriously--?"

[coconut-zebra.livejournal.com]

I had only heard my friend say it so now I'm curious...how do you know sad panda?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think I picked up "sad panda" from Fandom Wank/JournalFen, actually. Basically, other journalers/commenters.

[celli]

chaodai has a post on how being told to be childlike when approaching a movie is all too often code for "look! over there! no, past the plot hole!" (only he says it much more eloquently. He points out that fairy tales are actually usually very well structured and logical, and a film that has to tell you it's a fairy tale is usually neither of those things.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I think Moriarty makes that point as well, by comparing Lady in the Water to The Fisher King.

[outinthestorm.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that when I looked at the production stills for PotC3, I went "whee! Asian Pirate Wenches!" *grin*

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

No worse than all of us shrieking "Whee! Twin Asian pirate wenches!"

[girlbyjuly.livejournal.com]

I presented the idea of that picture being a photoshop to my friend, and she kindly linked me to a buttload (http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7201/jackasianmore6fc.jpg) of pictures (http://www.ohjohnny.net/potc2/potc3002.jpg) of him (http://www.ohjohnny.net/potc2/potc3003.jpg) in that VERY (http://www.ohjohnny.net/potc2/potc3004.jpg) SAME outfit (http://www.ohjohnny.net/potc2/potc3005.jpg).

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I love how the hat looks even more hilarious in profile.

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

You might be interested in posting this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn2siiKWzfg

I can't decided if it's sheer hilarity or just plain stupid. Either way, it's pretty funny.
Haven't been a fan of SNL in awhile, but this was decent.

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

"...and he's so sexy when he runs like a girl!"

You're mom and I are totally on the same page.

[kpachayagolobka.livejournal.com]

I'll third that one!

[kpachayagolobka.livejournal.com]

we were watching a preview on TV for Lady in the Water at work tonight and everyone threw fries at the TV. everyone's super sick of him now... and we want to know why nobody has said no to him yet because it HAS GOT to be done

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

The teaser for Lady in the Water looked so beautiful. The trailer, however, was a huge bucketload of disappointment. So... the movie's something in between?

[linake.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, Jareth's hair seems more tame as Manga than in reality. And Bowie is sexier.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

This is true.

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

I always sort of think that Shymalan's gonna be stuck in the "thriller" genre. And since EVERYONE goes into his movies expecting some big superduper twist (spoiled on The Sixth Sense, they were), I sort of wonder what the point is. I sort of want to see him tackle a comedy, or a traditional adventure movie, just to see if he can.

And are they really just gonna call it "Pirates of the Caribbean 3"? Lame.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nah, the name I've heard is "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I WANT Shroom Boy's face makeup.

I would wear it EVERYWHERE.

[themadfish.livejournal.com]

If you have a $1.50 theatre near you, wait till it comes out there?

[la-sonnambula.livejournal.com]

OMG, what is with Chow Yun-Fat's "Evil Chinaman" Fu Manchu moustache. The Chinese women look like they are taking a break from making a movie that'd be shelved under "Asian" in a porn shop. And I suppose there wasn't money left in PotC's budget to research and create Chinese costumes that'd approach a minimum degree of authenticity.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was a little surprised by how chintzy the Chinese costumes look compared to the other two movies'.

[shebit.livejournal.com]

Heh, it took me a moment to recognise Chow Yun Fat with the Ming the Merciless facial hair going on.

Bishy Jareth is too pretty for words.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

He really, really is.

[wumbawoman.livejournal.com]

RE: the whole msscribe thing. When I was telling hubby about it we were commenting that it was surreal that this thing was all over the internet but nobody we knew in real life had any idea what was going on. We were truly getting the affect of an alternate universe. And naturally we started seeing conspiracy theories (we stumbled across the TLC connection) and that just took it to awhole nother level. Course the stories that we ourselves created just added to the hysterical-ness of it all.

Now I may have to find that website again to see if that shirt is still available.

PS: I quickley scanned the article and noticed that she didn't mention names. DAMN! I was kinda hoping you would get mentioned so that the importance of my book would go up ;)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm only very tangentially involved, thankfully.

[this-quiet.livejournal.com]

That, or they're afraid that the combination of Keira/Natalie on the same screen might warp our dimension as we know it, or just cause the film reels to spontaneously combust. Either way, not good for the film studios.

[clodia-risa.livejournal.com]

You know, I loved Se7en, and I love comic books, but I'm not sold on the theory. Especially after I read this:

Comics are films on paper. There is no translation. They are one in the same. We are storytellers. Whether it is on paper or on film, we bring you somewhere and show you that world.

While I agree with the last two sentences, I completely and utterly disagree with the first three. And that makes me nervous for the project.

[quenbolyn.livejournal.com]

I swear I just read somewhere that M. Night was offered the first Harry Potter film, and that he would consider directing one of the last two.

*looks for that link*

[quenbolyn.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

Here:
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/pottercast/?mode=blogarchive&eid=47

And here:
http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15294