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bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2013-12-14 05:09 pm
bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2013-12-14 05:09 pm
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So Please Stop With The Trailers
I think I have managed to achieve exact calibration on What Kind Of Hollywood Bullshit I Will Put Up With!
Evidently ...
... I will gush for weeks about a movie so loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" that the only things it really has in common with the original story is that it has snow and a queen in it ...
... And I prefer the Disney version of his other story, too, because what the hell was UP with the end of the original Little Mermaid?! ...
... And I can sit back and enjoy all the ridiculous padding Peter Jackson stuffed into a movie trilogy version of The Hobbit while still knowing that the book is INFINITELY more wonderful ...
... And I'll even contend that the LotR movies in a lot of ways are better than the books ...
... but I draw the line at Walter Mitty.
I could go on about all the reasons why, but basically what it comes down to is that making a movie about Walter Mitty is exactly, completely, 100% antithetical to the whole POINT of Walter Mitty.
Things you learn about yourself while groaning at movie trailers. Everything is opportunity for self-discovery! It's fun!
Evidently ...
... I will gush for weeks about a movie so loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" that the only things it really has in common with the original story is that it has snow and a queen in it ...
... And I prefer the Disney version of his other story, too, because what the hell was UP with the end of the original Little Mermaid?! ...
... And I can sit back and enjoy all the ridiculous padding Peter Jackson stuffed into a movie trilogy version of The Hobbit while still knowing that the book is INFINITELY more wonderful ...
... And I'll even contend that the LotR movies in a lot of ways are better than the books ...
... but I draw the line at Walter Mitty.
I could go on about all the reasons why, but basically what it comes down to is that making a movie about Walter Mitty is exactly, completely, 100% antithetical to the whole POINT of Walter Mitty.
Things you learn about yourself while groaning at movie trailers. Everything is opportunity for self-discovery! It's fun!
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Wow, I never fully realized what a huge part that was of that story I was trying to write all that time ago, and where so much of its water-based imagery had come from. It's a topic that was on my mind a lot back then... and still is, for some reasons which are the same, and some not.