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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-02-17 01:42 am
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Seth, drain the well. There's a neighbor missing

It is a good thing Ian McKellen followed up his turn in Cold Comfort Farm (1995) with roles as monumentally pop-cultural as Gandalf or Magneto, because otherwise I suspect people would still be accosting him in the street and shouting, "THERE'LL BE NO BUTTER IN HELL!"

. . . Actually, I really hope they still do.
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[identity profile] csecooney.livejournal.com 2012-02-17 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that movie. After I watched it the first three times (in a week), I'd invite bunches of friends over to see it too, just to have an excuse to watch it again. And to spread the good news. It's one of those rarer movies that stands up to the book and trades blow for blow. They both survive with honors at the end.
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[personal profile] sovay 2012-02-18 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
It's one of those rarer movies that stands up to the book and trades blow for blow. They both survive with honors at the end.

I haven't read the book in years! I don't even own a copy. Fortunately, I suspect I know people I can hit up for one.

What other films do you like as well as their books?

[identity profile] csecooney.livejournal.com 2012-02-18 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmn. The 1995 Persuasion, but not the 2007. The 1999 Wives and Daughters.

Atonement and Perfume came close, mostly because they succeeded in conveying a particularly strong artificial synæsthesia so beautifully. Atonement recreated migraine conditions through its soundtrack, the smallest sounds -- like the typewriter and the squeak of shoes -- being heightened. And Perfume doing with color what the author did with scent, which was, I thought, extremely important.

Forrest Gump the film was better than the book. Likewise the fifth Harry Potter movie.

Dang. I wanted to give you more, but it's 7:30 in the morning and my brain's not working. I'll think about it. I don't actually watch a lot of movies, although more now that I don't have a job and my mom's living with me. (I stopped watching movies alone a few years ago mostly. It had lost a lot of its flavor. I still do it occasionally but mostly only with guilty pleasure movies.)

Do you have movies you prefer to their bookish counterparts?
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