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Film Discussion => Digital Streams & Criterion Dreams => Topic started by: NEON MERCURY on May 16, 2003, 12:33:13 PM

Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: NEON MERCURY on May 16, 2003, 12:33:13 PM
-adaptation-
-25th hour-
-miller's crossing-
-barton fink-
...et al.
seems to put a huge dent in my wallet.:cry:
Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: godardian on May 16, 2003, 12:42:39 PM
My Coens have already shipped.

I can't wait to see 25th Hour. I missed it at the cinema. Ed Norton, Phil Hoffman, Anna Paquin... the cast alone makes you wanna watch.
Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: Redlum on May 16, 2003, 01:19:05 PM
Yeah I got my 25th Hour and Adaptation today too. And was annoyed to see that Adaptation used Wild Horses by the stones in a similar setting to a script im writing. damn it. Great movie though.
Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: godardian on May 16, 2003, 01:53:16 PM
Quote from: redlumYeah I got my 25th Hour and Adaptation today too. And was annoyed to see that Adaptation used Wild Horses by the stones in a similar setting to a script im writing. damn it. Great movie though.

I had the same experience when they used "White Rabbit" in The Game. Burned me up, especially 'cos I'm not a big fan of Fincher.
Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: Duck Sauce on May 16, 2003, 01:55:10 PM
Im goin for adaptation only... for now at least.
Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: SoNowThen on May 16, 2003, 02:01:23 PM
Yeah, well how's this for getting screwed:

I had just settled on Glad And Sorry by The Faces to be the last big song in a script I had been working on since high school, then I went to Blow, and they used it in the background of some small scene. And put it on the soundtrack. Aaargh. But my script sucked anyway, so I never finished it... I'm glad and sorry to say.
Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: children with angels on May 16, 2003, 02:10:15 PM
Since this thread has totally changed into a "Don't you just hate it when a filmmaker unconciously steals your great idea?" thread...

I'd been writing a play for a year an a half - put my absolute heart and soul into it - which was about a writer trying to write a play where the characters simply reflected his personality but he gets so unhappy with it that he has to write himself into the script and make it self-destruct in an orgy of postmodernism and self-loathing... Then I went to see Adaptation...

It's not that it was exactly the same, you know: but now - when I put it on - everyone's going to be, like "Yeah, yeah - it was great, man... (pause)... Have you seen Adaptation...?"
Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: Ernie on May 16, 2003, 02:42:52 PM
Can't wait for 25th Hour and Adaptation! Seriously, it's just damn painful now. I wanna use one of them for my final project in film study.
Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: ShanghaiOrange on May 16, 2003, 03:21:08 PM
Two surreal movies about hapless screenwriters coming out on the same day.  :shock: You win this round, God!
Title: May 20th, 2003
Post by: dufresne on May 16, 2003, 04:10:54 PM
don't forget Dances with Wolves: Special Edition!

hehe.  i actually might buy this.  i loved that movie as a kid.