movies

[Freed Roger]

NPR series On Location covering the Winter's Bone locale setup

[go birds]

I'm beginning to think that at this point, people are posting stuff about Winter's Bone only to piss me off.

[Richie Allen]

Just re-watched David Lean's version of Great Expectations. One of the most perfect films ever made!

[The Third Man]

Just re-watched David Lean's version of Great Expectations. One of the most perfect films ever made!

I really want to see that, but I haven't done so because I'd like to read the book first. But I'm not terribly interested in the book...[expletive], I dunno. I'm weird.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Great Expectations is The Happening of books.

[thrill]

Great Expectations is The Happening of books.

Interesting. Expound please.

[MrSaigon]

Great Expectations is The Happening of books.

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I love me some Dickens. (Please note the 'ens')

And Richie's suggestion is streaming. I'm all over it. Finished the book a month or so ago.

[Richie Allen]

Just re-watched David Lean's version of Great Expectations. One of the most perfect films ever made!

I really want to see that, but I haven't done so because I'd like to read the book first. But I'm not terribly interested in the book...[expletive], I dunno. I'm weird.

Not sure if anyone else has ever experienced this but the previous two books I read were of films I had recently seen and I really enjoyed the books. I know people like to read the books first but that almost always ends up with somewhat of a letdown when viewing the film. Try it the other way around some time and see if you like it as much as I did. The book always has more to offer so it's not at all boring.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Great Expectations is The Happening of books.

Interesting. Expound please.

Maybe The Happening is the wrong Shayamalan movie. Or maybe I should've said "Great Expectations is like if post-Signs Shyamalan wrote a book". The story builds to a reveal that makes me wonder why I bothered. Of course, why I bothered was "I don't want to fail this class", so maybe I'm not qualified to make such a comparison.

[cpebbles]

Why do people pretend Shyamalan suddenly became a lousy filmmaker after Signs? Signs and Unbreakable were garbage.