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[the_grynne]

Trailer for The Lucky Ones, a film by Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Interview with the Assassin) about three soldiers who return from Iraq after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S., with Collee (Rachel McAdams) on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to

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I'm planning an all-lolcat Beowulf retelling, by the way.

[orange_crushed]

Wow, "poetry, fantasty and comedy" are not three words I would associate with Batman in general.

"I read the book when I was a kid too!" Yes, dear, I'm sure you did- and that's why you think it'll be "a blast." Can somebody just pay Berg a lot of money to stop touching Dune ? I'm not sure the world needs another "kid becoming a leader" movie with chase scenes and a feel-good conclusion.

Aaaand PETA.

I can appreciate a lot of things about their ethics, but their habit of putting naked women in cages is never going to win any points with me.

Re: I'm planning an all-lolcat Beowulf retelling, by the way.

[the_grynne]

Can somebody just pay Berg a lot of money to stop touching Dune ?

I've never doubted that there are producers and studio execs who aren't concerned with making good films, but are just making cynical decisions to make as much money as possible. But it kills me to see this happen to Dune - how else to explain this unnecessary adaptation, or the choice of Peter Berg as director?

their habit of putting naked women in cages is never going to win any points with me.

Is that a common tactic for attention with them? I have no idea - the whole thing was a total surprise to me. Sydney isn't used to this sort of thing. :)

Re: I'm planning an all-lolcat Beowulf retelling, by the way.

[orange_crushed]

Is that a common tactic for attention with them?

God, yes. On Mother's Day in London, they put a naked pregnant woman in a cage with a sign above it that said "Unhappy Mother's Day For Pigs."

It is a very, very common tactic for them. (I'm also not a fan of their ad campaign that shows an unwaxed bikini line, with a label that says "FUR TRIM- UNATTRACTIVE." Like, thanks, women don't feel bad enough about the demands on their bodies already.) I understand shock protest- I understand shock art. But in a world where woman's rights and bodily autonomy are under daily attack, I feel like maybe they could find another metaphor.

[dorukai]

Ouch, re: the Dune director.

Just an adventure story?? Is he sure he read it? Maybe he was reading Eddings and thought it was Dune?

Not that there's anything wrong with the adventure bits of it, but yeesh.

[the_grynne]

It is "fanatical" to want an adaptation that captures what is actually unique about an award-winning novel, rather than appealing to the lowest denominator? I mean, if you want to direct an adventure story, you could just remake Conan the Barbarian.

You've lost me, Berg, for good.

[dorukai]

OMG! They should totally remake Conan! That was actually quite true to the books (with the exception that Arnie's Conan is pretty stupid, where the Howard Conan is very clever).

[the_grynne]

There's one in works, although there's no director attached yet.

[girl_wonder]

I think I lost all respect for Berg when I read an interview where he whined about how much he hated animation because of how little control it allowed him to have as a director because he wasn't tech savvy.

It was completely lost on him that it's a director's job to speak animation, not an animator's job to psychically understand what his director wants.

[the_grynne]

A good thing for animation. :)

[little_giddy]

Excuse me while I ... feel pain. Wow, when you aren't sure how to sound vaguely like you've read something, call it 'Shakespearean' like he never wrote about the little things. I'm really not loving the sound of this adaptation.

[the_grynne]

I'm sure he read Shakespeare last as a teenager, too.