kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
The book is just as you describe. The film is a reasonable interpretation of the book. I don't think I'd give the kudos to the film.
Underrated Classic Films
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I give ultimate kudos to the film - I must've seen it 100 times easily. It's dark as you like!
Yeah, that's the one. Just loads of quotable lines
"....he.....he's right....there are jews in asia"
Which, in context, is a very funny line indeed.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I take your point but it was done very well in the film.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
the Orson Welles version? Good choice. His Othello is well under-rated as well.
Oh yeah, I don't doubt it but we all know how easy it is for film adaptations to just cut out the dark stuff wholesale. WD was far and away my favourite film when I was a kid - and I mean a little kid - probably because the dark bits marked it out as something different from He-Man etc.
I also loved the LOTR animation for the gollum bit at the start.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
The book wasn't exactly an easy read when I was 5 or 6, when I saw the film
Scared the shit out of me - Piper's dream with the fields covered in blood and some of the darker stuff in the film is still pretty scary, terrifying if you're small and expecting an animated movie about some bunny rabbits.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Fiver. The small rabbit's name was FIVER.
I was obsessed with this book when I was in primary school. Absolutely fucking obsessed. I wrote essays about it and dreamed about it. Weird kid that i was.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Yes. Not seen his Othello.
Definitely another film I really like. Yeah, I think I just find chaos and absolute worst case scenarios very very funny indeed.
Even the Monty Python sketches? The classic springing to mind being the dirty fork in the restaurant with John Cleese as the chef.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i just ordered a bunch of troma movies from lovefilm - i thought i should give em a try
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Along with all Tromoville fims, not least of which is the venerable Toxic Avenger, although "Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator" and "Rabid Grannies" are also worth honorable mentions.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Sketches are not the same as full-fledged stories though.
As a kid I couldn't bare Fawlty Towers for the way in which Basil gets so utterly screwed.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i think i ordered surf nazis must dies, class of nuke 'em high, chopper chicks in zombietown and def by temptation. i would also like to check out fat guy goes nutzoid, sergeant kabukiman nypd, a nymphoid barbarian in dinosaur hell, poultrygeist: night of the chicken dead and they call me macho woman.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Not sure how this fits as in it's genre it's considered a classic, but outside in the wider film worlld it's not hugely popular, Big Silence.
I really rate Angel Heart too, this gets very mixed reactions, but I thinks it's a great film.
I really rate Angel Heart too, this gets very mixed reactions, but I thinks it's a great film.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Good one. One of those films that makes me feel very uneasy.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
stalker - the best sci fi ever that has no special effects
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
now there's one I'd really like to see, deffo fits in this list (he says, without having seen it - aah, Lovefilm call it 'The Great Silence' I see)
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
No way you can call it underrated though.
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