Ben Z.

Lawyer Nats fan Dog Lover

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@PlanetaRandomX Show Me a Hero
Deadwood
Sopranos

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@supermodi Most psyched going forward for: Bola Negra, Dune 3, and paper tiger…. and still haven’t seen digger.

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@supermodi -YMYMYM: haven’t seen, want to
-Pickpocket: same
-YCSE: saw it. Absolutely insane. Must see.
-primetime (wild that oppenheim also co-directed YCSE)…very good. Pattinson is fun.
-once upon a time and la gravida. Haven’t seen.
-odyssey. Fire but not perfect movi

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@dick_genital I enjoy it! (And am also by the way a die hard Tolkien nerd—-even more rare in my experience to love the show!)

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@DonaldClarke63 “It’s as simple as that. Make a copy of the work of art. In a totally different artistic medium and format.”

Would be like saying “all we ask is that your piece of music be the same as the original painting. With the same colors and brushstrokes. It’s as simple as that.”

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@JHWeissmann @NappNazworth It was already understood as consensus that he was artistically a genius. He just wasn’t as fully embedded in mainstream casual movie goers as a name as famous as a Spielberg etc. he actually didn’t become a “yes he gets hundreds of millions of $$$” guy until Leo.

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@JHWeissmann @NappNazworth read roger eberts review of color of money. He basically is like “even if this is a good movie, the material is beneath the greatest working American director of his generation.”

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@franzsherbert Ok

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@plainrunner2 I….would wait to see the movie. (I’m not a gigantic Lewis/Narnia fan by the way, although I enjoy the books, and this may well be a terrible film, but Gerwig is talented and has shown an ability to adapt beloved works of fiction compellingly—Little Women. So we’ll see).

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@TheOptimisticC3 I mean. This is a wild opinion I know. But I think it probably makes sense to wait to see the actual movie and not assume Led Zeppelin is the creation song…

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@WaashyV2 Yep. 100%. She should do whatever she wants of course but I definitely would personally prefer she not get sucked into the IP franchise CGI swirl

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@ChrisJPatty Maybe something got warped by X and social media, but literally nobody in the world thinks that movie is awesome or would compare it to the LOTR movies.

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@harryvek @cosmicbooknews I don’t think Netflix thought the magician’s nephew was going to win Oscars lol

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@TylerHuckabee I’m not a huge Narnia person but in general we should want creative adaptations not slavish ones (LOTR is neither slavish nor aggressive reimagining FWIW). bigger concern is CGI looks like garbage vs shooting on location with practical effects somewhere cool like New Zealand.

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@TerwillikerInst there’s a reason the magicians nephew has never been adapted for screen. Pretty tough story to film. Would be like adapting the beginning of the Silmarillion (PS the subsequent tales of the latter would be amazing!)

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@SeanFennessey @akdobbins @TheBigPic tighten up my homies. Unusual amount of errors in Affleck HOF. State of play=hes not the murder being investigated he’s villain. Sum of all fears=freeman isn’t the president (that’s deep impact) and Affleck doesn’t end up as sec of def/state.

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@ImNotOwned Feel like Julia Louis-Dreyfuss has the best 1-2 punch of separate TV show leading characters of all time. Although I guess one is network not cable

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@pugmane True but then there’s no Young Vito. And the delta between de niro as young vito and anybody else as him is bigger then de niro as sonny and caan as sonny.