Comments on: Trailers: Medicine For Melancholy, Gomorrah

By: Alexander Coleman

Alexander Coleman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:02:47 +0000

“We’re staying true to the spirit of Shakespeare’s work, it’s just that Othello goes to anger management classes and only hurts people who truly deserve it.”

Those are two very good trailers. ‘Bout time San Francisco was given a cinematic love/hate letter.

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:34:28 +0000

No worries Alexander, your sarcasm came through loud and clear.

seriously alynch. “Hamlet is so depressing, can we give him a comic sidekick?”

By: Alexander Coleman

Alexander Coleman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:01:02 +0000

Melville's masterpiece is at its core an action-adventure story. Make Ahab less obsessive? So I take it Ahab will be the "good guy" vs. that big bad whale? Brilliant! (EDIT 5 minutes later: I usually let sarcasm and dumbfounded indignation speak for itself, but in this particular case, let me just say to anyone who may think I'm agreeing with Cooper about Moby Dick, my first line was just shocked dismay at such idiocy. Sorry, I had to clear that up preemptively just in case. The fool! Oh, and having the hack who made Wanted make any version of Moby Dick is enough for me to want to quit the human race for at least a day.)

By: alynch

alynch — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:54:27 +0000

My other favorite quote is about how they intend to stay true to the novel and only make small structural changes … like making Ahab less obsessive. That’s like saying, “Is there any way we can make Hamlet more sure of himself?” That article is just one howler after another.

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:20:44 +0000

alynch, that Variety piece reads like an Onion article.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:06:52 +0000

I’ve been dying to see this since first mention of them…

By: alynch

alynch — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:13:00 +0000

Sorry for being off topic, but don’t you just love it when idiots try to sound smart? Case in point:

Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s ‘Moby Dick,’ ” Cooper said. “This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story.”

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992634.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

It seems like this fella has the definition for the phrase “at its core” completely backwards.

By: Nick Plowman

Nick Plowman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:37:59 +0000

Yup, I wanna see both of those