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Q2 said:And to derail ever so slightly, 10 Cloverfield Lane is being directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the guy who did the amazing Portal spec short film. (I also want to add the DP on the short is an old classmate of mine.)
njvc said:. . . Tom Hardy ... adds a slightly goofy/intentionally OTT element to his accents and inflections that border on camp. Major examples being DKR, MMFR, The Peaky Blinders and now Revenant. Fascinating.
Forgive the belated reply, and feel free to not debate/discuss if you don't want to, but my objection to adding zombies but retaining the general plot is that the entire heart of Austen drama is that her heroines have very little agency to no agency in their lives apart from who they agree to marry who wants to marry them (and sometimes barely even have that). Saying yes means a lifetime of very limited freedom; saying no presents a very real risk of lifelong singledom. So how can that drama be in any way retained when the young women are totally empowered badasses? The Bennet sisters have a particular need to marry well because, as women, they can't inherit any part of their parents' money; would the combat-trained (in China!) sisters possibly stand for that? Maybe the novel/movie all explains this somehow, but I just can't grok it myself.ThrowgnCpr said:Well, before you criticize [Pride and Prejudice and Zombies] too much, you might want to give it a read. I think one of the book's strengths is that it does haphazardly sprinkle zombie violence into an otherwise untouched plot.
Gaith said:Forgive the belated reply, and feel free to not debate/discuss if you don't want to,
Gaith said:Oh, and the movie flopped. ;-)
ssj said:interesting that went straight to home video, though going through netflix makes that route sound not as bad/cheap/shameful. it's likely that a netflix debut decreases distribution costs, compared to a wide theatrical release. (although there seems to be a limited imax release in the works.)
if the sequel's any good, i might have to mess with it.
bionicbob said:But as a sequel, it is a very pale shadow of the original. It lacks the beauty, depth, heart and poetry of the Ang Lee masterpiece.