Film

[Carnage]

He's the emperor alright. Odd choice. Seydoux is the wife of the head of a minor house allied with the emperor, I forget the character's name.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Lady Margot. Yeah, it'll be more of an "appearance" than anything else from Seydoux. Guessing Florence Pugh will be Princess Irulan, which is very good casting imo. Even though, Virginia Madsen appearing on screen as Irulan still gets the aul heart fluttering. She makes it such a stunning opening.

[Eoin McLove]

I made it almost halfway through Dune (the book) and couldn't take any more. My God it's boring shite. I watched a few minutes of the original film on telly a few weeks ago too... muck. Complete fucking muck. I don't get it at all. In fact, I'm going to remove the book from the beside table and admit defeat. I hate doing that, but it has been gathering dust there now for a couple of months.

[Ollkiller]

I made it almost halfway through Dune (the book) and couldn't take any more. My God it's boring shite. I watched a few minutes of the original film on telly a few weeks ago too... muck. Complete fucking muck. I don't get it at all. In fact, I'm going to remove the book from the beside table and admit defeat. I hate doing that, but it has been gathering dust there now for a couple of months.

Fair enough. I found it absolutely riveting all the way through. Especially the psychology parts.

[Carnage]

Yeah, but I can see how it'd get a bit much. The plotting is unrelenting, to the point where I've taken a break from it all after Children Of Dune. Hard to keep track of who's on what side after a while, and even after two reads and multiple watches of both films (and the TV series years ago), I still get Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho mixed up.

Virginia Madsen appearing on screen as Irulan still gets the aul heart fluttering. She makes it such a stunning opening.

Indeed. Brings a touch of class to it, despite being such a minor character in the story (in the first book, anyway).

[astfgyl]

I don't know how anyone would enjoy the movie without having first read the book and while I loved the 3 books I've read, I found the first one very hard to get into and nearly gave up on it more than once. I actually preferred the second and third but that might have been purely from getting the hang of it after suffering a bit with the first.

[Caomhaoin]

I was reading The Van the last few days and I was pleasantly surprised to see it was up on YouTube in film version. Ah good auld laugh

The film of "The Van" doesn't come close to capturing the spirit of the book - in my opinion. Doyle's novel has magic in it.

I must have read it 10 times or more. The passage detailing Jimmy Snr. and Bimbo getting the van sans engine from where they bought it to Bimbo's garden is spectacular.

"That's a big pram Jimmy's pushin' wha'?"

Agree there. I feel the same way about the Trainspotting book v the film. It's usually the way though.

[StoutAndAle]

Agree there. I feel the same way about the Trainspotting book v the film. It's usually the way though.

I can think of only three books (off the top of my head) where the film is better -

"Goodfellas"
"Private Parts"
"The Godfather" 


I preferred the film of "The DaVinci Code" to the book too but both of them were shite on ice.

[Carnage]

Jaysus that's a thread in itself, but just to name two from Ridley Scott alone: The Duellists (short story, I know but still) and Blade Runner.

[Eoin McLove]

I put on Deadlock this evening as a bit of Friday evening braindead entertainment. I got more than I bargained for! It's one of the worst films I've seen in a long time. Apparently Bruce Willis has speech ataxia or apraxia- did he have a stroke?- but it seemed like he spent all of his focus and attention on getting his lines out and had no more brain power left for actual acting. And he wasn't even the worst.  The lead actor, Patrick Muldoon,was just so awful that his performance started to get a bit mesmerising. He is the world's worst actor since I played Biddie's stunt double on Glenroe for fifteen years.

I would recommend watching it for the laugh. The whole thing seemed as if it was written over a few pints.

[Trev]

I watched that the other week too, hilariously awful. Didn't realise that about Bruce Willis though, I just figured he was desperate for money and accepting any sort of shit script that was given to him

[Eoin McLove]

Apparently he has retired from acting. It would be a crime if that's the film he ends on 

[astfgyl]

I saw that a while ago and fuck it was terrible. I also thought Willis was just at the stage of accepting any old shit

[StoutAndAle]

Odd. I just read a thing on Bruce Willis the other day after listening to the "Comfort Blanket" podcast's discussion about "Die Hard".

Supposedly there's "grave concern" in Hollywood over his well-being and the care that he's getting from his current wife/management team. Much like Groucho Marx in his later years where his secretary/manager Erin Fleming forced him into the pubic eye to make appearances to line her own pockets even though Groucho was frail and nowhere near as sharp as he used to be. She herself was later diagnosed as being mentally ill. 

Willis has been doing these direct-to-video gigs for over a decade at $2 million a pop for less than a week's work. There's a rumour that he may have been suffering from that condition for a long time - and was making the movies at the behest of his agent or whatever. On one of the last movies he made, he was fed all his lines through an earpiece because he couldn't remember them - that would go to what McLove said about his acting skills in the movie that he watched.  Apparently Willis seemed confused as to where he was and what he was doing there too.

If that's all true you'd really feel sorry for the poor bastard. He made some great movies and seemed like a bit of craic too. 

[astfgyl]

Jesus that's a pretty sad end for him if that's the case