I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “adaptation” from The Cultural Gutter
Knock, Knock
Who's there? Why it's the trailer for Let Me In, the American remake of Let The Right One In.
Genre on TV: Fantasy, Zombies
HBO has a teaser up for George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones. Meanwhile, AMC has a clip up of actors learning to act like zombies for its upcoming The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman's comic.
Technotise
Technotise looks like Japanese anime, but it's Serbian. And it's getting a live action remake. Here's hoping Tecnhotise survives and we all get to see the animated version.
Elmore Leonard, Hats and Adaptations
Elmore Leonard talks hats and adaptations, sometimes both.
Science Determines the Best and Worst Genres
Science analyzes the best and worst types of genre movies. Results listed here.
In Two Cases, Better Than the Book
A common saying, and I've said it lots of times myself: "The book was better than the movie." It's short-hand for the way that material that's appealing at book length somehow loses its depth when adapted into a movie. But what about stories that improve in the conversion process?
Let's look at two recent cases: I Am Legend and The Da Vinci Code.
Continue reading...
The Necessary Elements for UFO to be a Hit
Purple wigs, gull-wing doors and lack of affect--Todd from 4DK provides "a list of some elements from the [1960s British] TV series [UFO] that, if they were to be
included in the movie, would lead me to forgive a multitude of sins."
Scarred by SuperFriends
Friends,
I wasn't always the superhero-loving comics reader you see before
you. I underwent a tribulation, a trial of faith, wandering in a
wilderness without capes. My resistance to superheros and the Justice
League of America in particular stemmed from one root: The
SuperFriends. I can't, in general, argue with the idea of
super-friendship, but The SuperFriends scarred the hell out of
me.
Continue reading...
MAURICE SENDAK! I'M WITH YOU IN ROCKLAND
Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is not, thank god, a film about growing up.
Continue reading...
"Good Dog"
Is there anything sadder than Laika? (Art by Nick Abadzis, music by Luca Tozzi).
"Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!"
You are interested in the future, because that is where you will live and you must decide what you will do to survive Plan 9. (Thanks, Eric, for the Plan 9 from Outer Space title quote).
Manga Hulk!
Manga Hulk smash and cry! Colin from Kung Fu Fridays has posted scans of a 1970s Hulk manga drawn by Kazuo Koike.
Indonesian James Bond
James Bond, 007 contra Komplotan Pistol Emas. That's right, scans of a 1967 Indonesian comic version of The Man with the Golden Gun by Ganes TH. You might like it more than Roger Moore.
Vampire, Or Maybe, Werewolf
When's a vampire really more of a werewolf? When it's Toppei from Osamu Tezuka's Vampire. Todd from 4DK writes about the mostly live-action television adaptation, starring Tezuka as himself, beret and all, and they remind him of both Kurosawa's High and Low and Fukasaku's Black Lizard.
"The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots"
Zhang Yimou is remaking the Coen Bros. Blood Simple, or as it will be known from now on, The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots. (It's going to star Sun Honglei from Mongol).
Guess who Blair Butler ran into?
Blair Butler ran into comics writer, Grant Morrison, at Meltdown Comics in L.A. Wanna look?
Alan Moore Knows The Score
“It's nice to hear all the old songs,
isn't it?”
--the Devil, The Black Rider
I was surprised to hear the old songs
in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen Century: 1910 (Top
Shelf, 2009). I probably shouldn't have been. The chapter title, “What Keeps Mankind Alive”
distracted me, but I kept
reading my water-damaged copy and ran smack into, “Mack
the Knife.” Like the chapter title, it's a song from Bertolt
Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera.
Continue reading...
Re-Taking Pelham 1 2 3
Linda Holmes and Andrew O'Hehir see some things in John Travolta's The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 villain: "the lamentably noisy bad guy" replacing a more chilling, bureaucratic evil and a far more awesome possible movie: "Freddie Mercury .... starring in some cracked Tony Scott movie where
he gets awesome wireless reception in a subway tunnel and shoots a
bunch of people in between verses of 'Bohemian Rhapsody[.]'"
Josh Brolin is Jonah Hex
Here's some pictures of Josh Brolin looking kinda pretty as everybody's favorite Weird Western bounty hunter, Jonah Hex. (See comics covers for less pretty). Cinematical is worried they'll be pulled down.
Mohammed Hussain's Dirty Harry
"Where Hollywood’s films were full of urban grit and cinema verité
style, Bollywood’s were full of blinding color and outlandish levels of
artifice. This did not, however, deter Indian B movie king Mohammed
Hussain from forging ahead with a remake of Don Segal’s Dirty Harry -- one in which he attempted to meld those two very different sensibilities[.]" More at Teleport City. (via 4DK)
Knock, Knock
Who's there? Why it's the trailer for Let Me In, the American remake of Let The Right One In.Genre on TV: Fantasy, Zombies
HBO has a teaser up for George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones. Meanwhile, AMC has a clip up of actors learning to act like zombies for its upcoming The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman's comic.Technotise
Technotise looks like Japanese anime, but it's Serbian. And it's getting a live action remake. Here's hoping Tecnhotise survives and we all get to see the animated version.Elmore Leonard, Hats and Adaptations
Elmore Leonard talks hats and adaptations, sometimes both.Science Determines the Best and Worst Genres
Science analyzes the best and worst types of genre movies. Results listed here.In Two Cases, Better Than the Book
A common saying, and I've said it lots of times myself: "The book was better than the movie." It's short-hand for the way that material that's appealing at book length somehow loses its depth when adapted into a movie. But what about stories that improve in the conversion process?Let's look at two recent cases: I Am Legend and The Da Vinci Code.
Continue reading...
The Necessary Elements for UFO to be a Hit
Purple wigs, gull-wing doors and lack of affect--Todd from 4DK provides "a list of some elements from the [1960s British] TV series [UFO] that, if they were to be
included in the movie, would lead me to forgive a multitude of sins."
Scarred by SuperFriends
Friends,
I wasn't always the superhero-loving comics reader you see before
you. I underwent a tribulation, a trial of faith, wandering in a
wilderness without capes. My resistance to superheros and the Justice
League of America in particular stemmed from one root: The
SuperFriends. I can't, in general, argue with the idea of
super-friendship, but The SuperFriends scarred the hell out of
me.
MAURICE SENDAK! I'M WITH YOU IN ROCKLAND
Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is not, thank god, a film about growing up.Continue reading...
"Good Dog"
Is there anything sadder than Laika? (Art by Nick Abadzis, music by Luca Tozzi)."Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!"
You are interested in the future, because that is where you will live and you must decide what you will do to survive Plan 9. (Thanks, Eric, for the Plan 9 from Outer Space title quote).
Manga Hulk!
Manga Hulk smash and cry! Colin from Kung Fu Fridays has posted scans of a 1970s Hulk manga drawn by Kazuo Koike.Indonesian James Bond
James Bond, 007 contra Komplotan Pistol Emas. That's right, scans of a 1967 Indonesian comic version of The Man with the Golden Gun by Ganes TH. You might like it more than Roger Moore.Vampire, Or Maybe, Werewolf
When's a vampire really more of a werewolf? When it's Toppei from Osamu Tezuka's Vampire. Todd from 4DK writes about the mostly live-action television adaptation, starring Tezuka as himself, beret and all, and they remind him of both Kurosawa's High and Low and Fukasaku's Black Lizard."The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots"
Zhang Yimou is remaking the Coen Bros. Blood Simple, or as it will be known from now on, The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots. (It's going to star Sun Honglei from Mongol).Guess who Blair Butler ran into?
Blair Butler ran into comics writer, Grant Morrison, at Meltdown Comics in L.A. Wanna look?Alan Moore Knows The Score
“It's nice to hear all the old songs,
isn't it?”
--the Devil, The Black Rider
I was surprised to hear the old songs in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1910 (Top Shelf, 2009). I probably shouldn't have been. The chapter title, “What Keeps Mankind Alive” distracted me, but I kept reading my water-damaged copy and ran smack into, “Mack the Knife.” Like the chapter title, it's a song from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera.
Continue reading...Re-Taking Pelham 1 2 3
Linda Holmes and Andrew O'Hehir see some things in John Travolta's The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 villain: "the lamentably noisy bad guy" replacing a more chilling, bureaucratic evil and a far more awesome possible movie: "Freddie Mercury .... starring in some cracked Tony Scott movie where he gets awesome wireless reception in a subway tunnel and shoots a bunch of people in between verses of 'Bohemian Rhapsody[.]'"Josh Brolin is Jonah Hex
Here's some pictures of Josh Brolin looking kinda pretty as everybody's favorite Weird Western bounty hunter, Jonah Hex. (See comics covers for less pretty). Cinematical is worried they'll be pulled down.Mohammed Hussain's Dirty Harry
"Where Hollywood’s films were full of urban grit and cinema verité
style, Bollywood’s were full of blinding color and outlandish levels of
artifice. This did not, however, deter Indian B movie king Mohammed
Hussain from forging ahead with a remake of Don Segal’s Dirty Harry -- one in which he attempted to meld those two very different sensibilities[.]" More at Teleport City. (via 4DK)
