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(Marco Duran) 10/24/2009 11:16 AM EDT It's a difficult tightrope to walk doing a film adaptation of a book, especially if the book is well loved. On one hand, if you change the book's content too much, you run the risk of angering the fans who will turn on you for all the differences between the story in their heads and the one you've committed to film. On the other hand, if ... Read More |
 
(Marco Chacon) 10/18/2009 12:10 PM EDT The 1963 book is 10 sentences long, and it is a classic. The story is about the island where the child, Max, goes after being sent to bed without supper because he was out of control in the household that was originally populated with horses. When the editor determined that author, Maurice Sendak, couldn't draw horses, she suggested mon... Read More |
 
(Marco Duran) 09/29/2009 9:31 PM EDT First of all, it's cards on the table time. Zombieland is only the second zombie flick I've ever seen. I know. I know. I'm sorry. 28 days later is the other one. Not even one of the "Dead" series. They're on my Netflix cue and have been for quite some time. I just haven't gotten around to them. ... Read More |
(Marco Duran) 09/20/2009 8:53 PM EDT I have not lost anybody significant in my life, not lately anyways. The last close relative of mine who died was my grandfather in '91 so I have not had to go through the healing process of grief in a very long time (knock on wood). My wife, however, has not been so fortunate. Her mother died just last year and I've seen the pain she... Read More |
(Marco Duran) 09/16/2009 8:39 PM EDT The Fix is in. That is the title of episode 168 of "This American Life" where the story of Mark Whitacre was first heard by screenwriter Scott Burns and eventually made into a movie. Such is Hollywood. After seeing the film yesterday, I looked up the Chicago Public Radio program and listened to it this morning. I would... Read More |
 
(Marco Duran) 09/14/2009 8:00 PM EDT One of the biggest problems facing moviemakers, or really, any working artist seeing a project through, is being too close to your project. Often times it takes an objective eye and a kind word to show you that you've gone off the rails and need to correct your trajectory. Once you're in production, things really start humming and you're ... Read More |
(Marco Duran) 09/14/2009 7:58 PM EDT I am a huge fan of Office Space, the 1999 film about how it sucks to work for "The Man." Now, 10 years later Mike Judge is back with another film about how it sucks to be "The Man." Mike Judge, known also for bringing us Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Idiocracy and a whole slew of other morons for us to laugh at, does no... Read More |
(Marco Chacon) 09/14/2009 1:53 PM EDT Some day we are going to run out of number-names for movies. We have recently seen 300. I remember Ten. If you accept articles, the "The One" probably counts. If we let in dates, then Ridley Scott's 1492 might count (although they added 'Conquest of Paradise'). We all saw Seven. There was a movie named Thirteen.&n... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 09/07/2009 8:17 PM EDT Gamer is one of those movies that you either love or hate. Online gaming takes on new meaning in a futuristic world. In that world, players at home can direct convicts to do their bidding in a wickedly violent, multiplayer competition, and death-row inmate Kable (Gerard Butler) has no choice but to play. As millions satisfy their ... Read More |
(Marco Chacon) 08/24/2009 8:09 PM EDT Quentin Tarantino may be the only guy I can think of to have created his own genre. When you say it is a Quentin Tarantino movie, people pretty much know what you are talking about. That, by itself, is a hell of an achievement. Of course, his achievements in film, the influential Reservoir Dogs, the even more influential, Pulp Fic... Read More |