Daily Entertainment.

[muji]

Give us a sample of either your or one of your pup's to-do lists.

OR: How was everyone's weekend? I spent most of mine cleaning...and painting the upstairs bathroom...and cleaning. There was cleaning involved. -________________-;; *still sleepy*

Comments

[muji]

LOL DW or Pan?

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who.

...I kinda love 'Pan's Labyrinth'. Mainly for the art direction.

[muji]

So are you going to go see Hellboy 2?

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! I'm also an admitted fan of Guillermo. I even enjoyed the first Hellboy film. I own the director's cut DVD.

[sdelmonte]

The art direction was great. Del Toro makes movies you want to watch.

But the Spanish Civil War story (and the two-dimensional heroes and villain) didn't really do it for me. I wanted a lot more of the fantasy instead.

OTOH, I love Hellboy, will pay to see the sequel, think del Toro is a great choice for The Hobbit, and wish he would have followed his countryman and friend in directing a Harry Potter film.

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Was he offered to do so?

...I'm still the crazy Gilliam fan who wishes he'd gotten the chance to do Potter like Rowling wanted.

[sdelmonte]

No. I just think that the language of magical realism that Curaon and del Toro share would have made the latter a much better choice to follow the former than Mike Leigh or anyone else on the films.

Gilliam would have made a very interesting choice, but he never seems to do that well with straightforward narrative. Though the list of films he DIDN'T make - including Watchmen and Don Quixote - is more interesting that some of what he did do.

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Well, he elected to not do Watchmen, deeming it unfilmable. And Quixote was doomed, seriously. You've seen "Lost in La Mancha", yes?

[sdelmonte]

Lost in La Mancha is one of about 9,000 films I haven't seen that I need to. But its very existence is why I know of the doom of Don Quixote.

And Watchmen probably is unfilmable, but that's another discussion (that we were having last week in Kali's LJ).

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Very true. Gilliam's one of those guys that, well... with the exception of 'Jabberwocky', even his "flops" are still visually compelling. See: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brothers Grimm.

I have yet to see Tideland, though.