My money is on Science Fiction. Even with the liberating invention of CGI how many great science fiction movies are there? 2001? Sure. Metropolis. Ok. Blade Runner? Ok. Star Wars/Empire/Jedi (Ok but barely "Sci-fi"). I suppose you could argue Fantasy but there's been far fewer attempts, you know?
― Endicot Peabody, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)
Star Wars is space opera, not sci-fi.
In the last 40 years, how about Broadway-style musical comedy, to expand beyond the literary? The last two to cause a fuss I found inept (Chicago) and unbearable (Moulin Rouge).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)
I agree. At least Chicago had decent music. I don't understand the affection for Moulin Rouge at all. None of the actors could really sing very well and who gave a shit about the plot? "All you need is love."
― endicot peabody, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)
I hated them both, but I'd much rather sit through Ewan and Nicole than Richard Gere and the rest of that awful cast.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, didn't ya just love Queen Latifah getting an oscar nomination because, basically, she was in the movie...
― endicot peabody, Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)
two months pass...
Its got to be comedy. I just saw 'Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy' and it was terrible compared to the book. I know you could argue that thisis also sci-fi, but my problem with it was that it missed out the best jokes such as what the question to the ultimate answer was and the whole rationalisation about God's existence v's the Babel fish.
― Shutruk Nahunte, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)
I was just going to suggest poetry.
Except now I'm not sure that it's true. Mostly because I can't think of many examples of poems that were turned into films that tried to appreciate them as poems (rather than as narratives). Hm, hm.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)
Sally Potter - a dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, composer, writer, poet and filmmaker - has a new movie, "Yes," opening on Friday. It follows "Orlando" (1993), "The Tango Lesson" (1997) and "The Man Who Cried" (2000) and several short films and documentaries. "Yes," stars Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian and Sam Neill. It is written in verse (iambic pentameter), one of the few films to use an unusual form of dialogue. (Two others are "Force of Evil," 1948, in blank verse, and "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," 1964, which is sung through.) "Yes" has two main characters, She (Ms. Allen), an Irish-American, and He (Mr. Abkarian), an Arab from Beirut, who begin an affair in London and end it in Havana. Mr. Neill plays She's husband. On a recent visit to New York, Ms. Potter talked to Annette Grant about making "Yes."
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)