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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.151.150 |
Any requests? What is missing from literature and cinema that you would love to see? Me; A new movie as strange and rich as an Innocents or Picnic at Hanging Rock. A modern equivalent of Highsmith, Shirley Jackson or Capote or Bowen or Aickman (but then I'd only be jealous). A movie that makes us feel like we're growing spiritually and psychically, a movie like an evolutionary step like 2001. An album that feels the same as the above. A long, generation-spanning saga or melodrama of a family or group of characters. If any of these have been done I apologise. I want a new Stephen King book (not necessarily by him) that has a real sense of place and person, not feel like some plastickish clone of an earlier model. I went to see Gulliver's Travels over Christmas you see and while I didn't hate it I really missed the full-blown fantasy it could have been. It really didn't aim very high at all. It just got me thinking. (I hope you all do better with this than you did my Zombie project...  ) | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 62.30.117.235 |
Sorry to take the thread off-topic already, but if you watched Gulliver's Travels you may well enjoy this as much as I did: The Gulliver's Travels Trailer, a Novelization by Jonathan Swift. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
A new movie as strange and rich as an Innocents or Picnic at Hanging Rock. Oooh, that would be nice...or just a new Nicholas Roeg or Peter Weird (as they were in the 1970s). | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Peter Weir, even...Freudian slip! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.89.141 |
A soap opera that gives us everything that we want from fantasy, horror and speculative fiction, rolling on forever like a screaming head down an infinite hill. And the adverts during it are performed by someone who first taps on your window, then performs them in your garden. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.89.141 |
An ALIEN film by Ridley Scott and H.R. Giger. Pity. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.89.141 |
Weetabix to print a oujia board inside their packaging in that navy coloured ink they used. I loved that. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
I'd love to see a solid true period-real film of any of the better Dashiell Hammett Continental Op stories. Starring... hmm... that's a toughie.... I'd also love for Gene Wolfe to write another Latro (Soldier in the Mist, etc.) novel. And for David Lynch to relent, and release all the rest of the footage from BLUE VELVET, if he has it. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.31.7.247 |
A terrestrial TV horror show run by someone who actually knows what horror is. Lots more Martin Amis novels. The discovery of a new symphony by Beethoven. Ricky Gervais to stop being a media whore and to get back with Merchant and write another classic sit-com. A new supernatural novel from the landlord (actually, this might be happening with Ghost Knows). | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.242.202 |
A reasonably priced compilation DVD boxed set of all the Road Runner cartoons. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.31.7.247 |
You can hunt, but you'll never catch one. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
New series of Being Human - oh hang on, that starts on Sunday!!! | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
among an infinite number fo other things... A proper remake of "A Night to Remember" A new Elric novel "Mad Men" to stay on BBC4 "The Tudors" to continue right to the death of Elizabeth I Alfred Bester to get the recognition he deserves The discovery of long lost and complete John Steinbeck, F Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Kuttner and Graham Greene novels. Cheers Terry | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>A terrestrial TV horror show run by someone who actually knows what horror is.<< Oh yes, I'll second that! Also, I'd like to see ALL the missing Doctor Who stories from those golden years (they were for me, anyway) re-found and released on DVD in their full glory. And I'd like to see a sudden resurgence in the horror anthology - readily available in all bookshops (just like the good old days of Pan and Fontana Horrors in my local WH Smiths) Come to that, I'd like to see more bookshops on every high street! Nice topic, Tony.  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
A new movie as strange and rich as an Innocents or Picnic at Hanging Rock. That could well be Terrence Malick's new one 'The Tree Of Life'. A modern equivalent of Highsmith, Shirley Jackson or Capote or Bowen or Aickman (but then I'd only be jealous). My knowledge of modern authors isn't too up to scratch but Joel Lane at least aims for that company, not to mention your good self, Tony. A movie that makes us feel like we're growing spiritually and psychically, a movie like an evolutionary step like 2001. If we're talking specifically sci-fi then I believe 'Inception' has already done that but, again, 'The Tree Of Life' might be one to watch. An album that feels the same as the above. The only artists of the modern era who release proper albums I actually rank are; The Flaming Lips, Gorillaz & Radiohead. A long, generation-spanning saga or melodrama of a family or group of characters. 'Boardwalk Empire' looks like it could be just the ticket! I want a new Stephen King book (not necessarily by him) that has a real sense of place and person, not feel like some plastickish clone of an earlier model. Again, my knowledge of modern authors is severely limited, but I was particularly impressed by Gary McMahon's sense of place and character in 'Rain Dogs', which I just finished last night. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Oh, and I'll add to my 'wish list' the following: A new album by Jethro Tull (rather than reissues of old ones) - one which gives me the same thrill I first had when hearing Stand Up, Benefit, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses and Stormwatch for the first times. Hey, this is like writing a Christmas wish list for Santa! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.5.201 |
"Ricky Gervais to stop being a media whore and to get back with Merchant and write another classic sit-com." Tell me this isn't genuinely funny and refreshing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvHXzP2SpLA | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.5.201 |
God, I've just rewatched it; the unease in the audience is palpable. Complete bits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDh0z_ZeZ60 | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I saw Peter Weir's 'The Way Back' the other week and really enjoyed it at the time as an old-fashioned "survival in the wilderness" adventure yarn with committed performances and breathtaking location cinematography, extending from the snowy forests of Siberia across the bleak Mongolian Desert, over the Himalayan Mountains and into Northern India. I found it predictable and emotionally manipulative as hell (eight set out but we know from the start only three will make it, but which three...) but still pretty impressive as a cinematic spectacle, while being in no way one of his best works. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.151.150 |
You're welcome, Caroline! Proto; Ouijabix? I miss toys in cereal. I've not eaten any since they stopped. In fact I want toys in more things - petrol, washing powder, pet food, clothes. Maybe they could put novels in those brainy-people cereals by Dorset - or busts of key cultural figures (they used to do that in the seventies - I remember this Beethoven bust in cornflakes. Jeez - can you imagine them doing that now?). Stevie - I am DESPERATE to see Tree of Life. Have you seen Where the Wild things Are? That has Malick touches. I love Malick. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.151.150 |
Ha! I'm drunk. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>I miss toys in cereal. I've not eaten any since they stopped.<< D'you know, I don't think I've ever eaten a toy in cereal. Might try it for breakfast in the morning!  (sorry Tony) I do remember collecting a nice set of colourful plastic Thunderbirds spaceships out of cereal packets when I was a kid. I loved those! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.145.100.125 |
Despite my misgivings about any screen fiction, I'd like to see a full drama serial production (like they once did for the Forsyte Saga) of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. About 100 hour long episodes? Is the double entendre in the title of this thread intentional? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.152.147 |
Des, do you mean it can be read as 'I want to see, stroke, read...'? If so, what we want to stroke might be worth discussing. Even though it might take us back to the topic of intentional fallacies. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.145.100.125 |
I want to see red. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
I want to see red If that's not the title of some giallo or other, it really should be. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
I want to stroke a pussy. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
There endeth the thread. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
And I wasn't even drunk... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.49.220 |
I got one thing I wanted - a scary ghost story for Christmas. I just watched the BBC's new version of WHISTLE AND I'LL COME FOR YOU. It's a model of how to adapt from prose, I'd say. Change the story and themes to suit the medium but keep the soul of hte piece. It's genuinely scary in some places, touching in others. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.151.150 |
It's odd, but I was able to agree with everything said here on this board about that film, the reasons it was bad and good. And is it me, or were both the hotel and the home each character's limbo? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Stevie, your girlfriend has a lovely pussy. ginger and lovely and soft to stroke. A lack of imagination to call it Garfield though... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I'll have a look for the previous discussion. It wasn't perfect - too many narrow depth of field shots with a score whining like an earache, but the script was so strong I didn't mind. |