Comments on: Terrible Yellow Eyes, With Apologies For Vitriol

By: kai

kai — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:30:00 +0000

My main thought about the movie is that I AM SO GLAD THEY ARE USING PUPPETS and COSTUMES!
PUPPETS RULE! PEOPLE in COSTUMES RULE!

CGI is NOT believable to me. I like it when it seamlessly enhances puppetry (see Coraline), but on it’s own it’s like watching a shadow. I don’t find it scary, moving, or whatever emotion the filmmaker is trying to convey.

By: Ross Rosenberg

Ross Rosenberg — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:46:29 +0000

Erin – You are indeed correct, it is not the casual reader’s place to decide on what gets bastardized; but as a licensed, professional reader it is my duty to write pithy blog posts about such matters. If I don’t, they’ll revoke my reader’s license and, well, there goes my private practice. Won’t even be able to read a goddamn menu after that.

By: Mer

Mer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:23:27 +0000

But getting butthurt about other people getting butthurt doesn't make much sense, either, does it? ;) It just creates a closed, rapidly cycling loop of indignant butthurtedness that WILL BURY US ALL ALIVE. A visual interpretation: BLAAAARGH!!!

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:40:27 +0000

Yes, it would be nice if Hollywood came up with more original concepts, more frequently, but this entitlement complex that a lot of readers seem to feel about the creative purity of their favorite works gets a bit tiring after awhile, as well. Congratulations, you’re literate. But just reading a massively popular book doesn’t make you any sort of authority on anything.

Most of my favorite books have been made into movies. I’ve liked some, disliked others, but I just cannot understand the intense indignity that some people seem to feel towards remakes or interpretations. Yes, it may be a bastardization, but I don’t think it’s the casual reader’s place to decide what does and doesn’t get bastardized – the work is there for everybody to enjoy, discuss, and build off of. It’s yours to protect, and keep sacred only in your own mind. The rest is fair game. If you don’t like the idea, don’t see the movie.

By: Nadya

Nadya — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:01:00 +0000

I never got to experience this book as a child. We didn’t have this book in Russia, and, though our teachers read us plenty of books in America, this one passed me by. I’ve seen artwork of this book throughout the years, and reading this post and all the comments, I really feel like I missed something special! Luckily, I have a nephew and a niece who will soon be the perfect age for this book, and I will discover it alongside with them! Or maybe I’ll just pick it up for myself before then…

By: Jerem Morrow

Jerem Morrow — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:17:45 +0000

I’ve watched the trailer, loads. I get misty/tardedly smiley EVERY time. I’m all the fuck for it.

p.s. Per the post, the link is GOLD. Pure, pure, pure gold. Thanks!

By: Mer

Mer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:44:02 +0000

And you, dear Scharlach, are a tremendously predictable commenter.

Feel free to say something kind or positive every once in a while.

By: Red Scharlach

Red Scharlach — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:29:18 +0000

Dave Eggers is a tremendously poor writer.

By: Mer

Mer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:01:04 +0000

Definitely curious about the new Dark Crystal movie. I’ve been hearing some fairly good things. We’ll see.

“Dave Eggers has bettered more people’s lives than all of us combined in this internet machine, so give him a break.”

Um. I like Eggers’ writing as much as the next disenfranchised-yet-hopful, quarterlife crisis-having, McSweeney’s-reading individual… but you’re high.

By: fortheloveofthestars

fortheloveofthestars — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:11:56 +0000

ashabeta Says:
June 19th, 2009 at 10:20 am

“@fortheloveofthestars
so sorry to generalize about the CGI– I guess I’m still bitter about Star Wars, but I don’t see how that really makes a difference.”

Dude, totally understandable, I’m just overly excited because they are using suits and stuff, and not CGI. Just like the new Dark Crystal which almost didn’t happen because the director refused to not use puppets.