Oh, oh! Old sci-fi and horror movies! Godzilla, and The Blob, and things like that! Roald Dahl. I ushered a brilliant outdoor staging of Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang, once. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?
That's interesting! My personal feeling is that adapting our own, public-domain stuff (hence Shakespeare and fairy tales) gives us better legal ground, but I guess we're not going to be big enough to be noticed and sued, for the most part. But we probably don't have the money to actually purchase performance rights, you know?
It's early days yet.
Those are good criteria. I didn't like the plot of the Ritchie film, and thought all the explosions and effects were ridiculous, but I did like watching RDJ and Jude Law together.
I liked that aspect, but RDJ, while good, wasn't given a reading of Holmes I found that interesting. Law's Watson was lovely, though. One of the most annoying aspects was the bones I felt they were throwing to the fans--hey, guys, look, we've read canon, can't you forgive us for everything else?
I could go on about some other peeves, but I don't want to harsh your squee. Especially if it gets Joy posting fiction. :o)
Oh no, I get it. So does she--we both have major problems with the thing (probably many of the sames ones as each other and as you) but it's rare that I like anything unequivocally anyway. So rare that the things I like are usually things I'm surprised into liking despite a bunch of stuff I don't.
Wow, that sounds crabby.
Point is, the level of button-pushing here trumps (for now, at least) the level of "oh god no," and that's a nice change.
Waaaatch Avataaaar. (The "Ender Wiggin as played by the Dalai Lama" version, not "Dances with Smurfs".)
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That's interesting! My personal feeling is that adapting our own, public-domain stuff (hence Shakespeare and fairy tales) gives us better legal ground, but I guess we're not going to be big enough to be noticed and sued, for the most part. But we probably don't have the money to actually purchase performance rights, you know?
It's early days yet.
Those are good criteria. I didn't like the plot of the Ritchie film, and thought all the explosions and effects were ridiculous, but I did like watching RDJ and Jude Law together.
I liked that aspect, but RDJ, while good, wasn't given a reading of Holmes I found that interesting. Law's Watson was lovely, though. One of the most annoying aspects was the bones I felt they were throwing to the fans--hey, guys, look, we've read canon, can't you forgive us for everything else?
I could go on about some other peeves, but I don't want to harsh your squee. Especially if it gets Joy posting fiction. :o)
Oh no, I get it. So does she--we both have major problems with the thing (probably many of the sames ones as each other and as you) but it's rare that I like anything unequivocally anyway. So rare that the things I like are usually things I'm surprised into liking despite a bunch of stuff I don't.
Wow, that sounds crabby.
Point is, the level of button-pushing here trumps (for now, at least) the level of "oh god no," and that's a nice change.
Waaaatch Avataaaar. (The "Ender Wiggin as played by the Dalai Lama" version, not "Dances with Smurfs".)
Ahahahahaha. Yes, we are.