Movie Stuff You Only Now Just Realized - Part 3

[Drizzle]

It was part of Hollywood's mid 90's to early 00's let's turn literature classics into teen movies boom.

Clueless - Jane Austen's Emma
10 Things I Hate About You - The Taming of the Shrew
O - Othello
She's The Man - Twelfth Night
Easy A - The Scarlet Letter
Never Been Kissed - As You Like It
Get Over It - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Wasn't there also a Macbeth adaptation as well?

 

[redhawk23]

Seems pretty obvious now, but back then when I was 10, 11, I didn't realize that everything that happens during Jumanji, all the game-related scenarios and consequences, were jungle-related and that's where Robin Williams' character was stuck for 26 years. I thought anything could happen, but after a few years I realized everything was coming from this 'jungle' in the game.

Have you seen Zathura?

For years I refused to see the movie because it just seemed like a space themed Jumanji rip off...

The movie is actually based on Chris van Allsburg's space themed sequel to the book of Jumanji.

Add in the fact that Zathura is a pretty awesome movie and I felt like a complete idiot when I found this out and finally watched the movie.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Watched Memento for the first time in years the other night. I had no idea that Thomas Lennon (Dangle from Reno 911) played the doctor in the Sammy Jankis scenes.

 

[redhawk23]

He's also the doctor in the Dark Knight Rises!

 

[DyeLorean]

Have you seen Zathura?

For years I refused to see the movie because it just seemed like a space themed Jumanji rip off...

The movie is actually based on Chris van Allsburg's space themed sequel to the book of Jumanji.

Add in the fact that Zathura is a pretty awesome movie and I felt like a complete idiot when I found this out and finally watched the movie.

Yeah, yeah, with Zathura I totally got it. But with Jumanji, I didn't really realize it was all jungle-related. Maybe the earthquake was the thing that threw me off. But it was all there, the animals, the plants, the hunter -which was played by his father, nice touch-, the storm. It's so obvious now. I really really like that movie.

 

[Sawyer]

I only just realized that it wasn't Geena Davis in old-age make-up at the end of A League Of Their Own. It was actually an older actress.

 

[Immortalfire]

It was part of Hollywood's mid 90's to early 00's let's turn literature classics into teen movies boom.

Clueless - Jane Austen's Emma
10 Things I Hate About You - The Taming of the Shrew
O - Othello
She's The Man - Twelfth Night
Easy A - The Scarlet Letter
Never Been Kissed - As You Like It
Get Over It - A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Lion King - Hamlet

 

[Donnie Darko]

I only just realized that it wasn't Geena Davis in old-age make-up at the end of A League Of Their Own. It was actually an older actress.

They did dub her voice over, though.

 

[redhawk23]

While I certainly got Kubrick vibes from David Slade's Hannibal pilot, I didn't realize it was so blatant.

 

[antsman41]

There are more, they recreate the bathroom from room 237 and a few others I don't have on the tip of my tongue.

 

[MrMaooz]

In movies, you need to a laser beam shooting up the sky to destroy Earth.

 

[Sawyer]

They did dub her voice over, though.

Yep. But looks-wise, I was always so sure it was her.

 

[Dave McFly]

I just saw BTTF last week on the big screen I cannot BELIEVE that a before he was Wayne Arnold on Wonder Years Jason Hervey was one of Marty's future uncles when he was in 1955 (he is the one that asks 'what's a rerun?').

 

[Sundancer]

It was part of Hollywood's mid 90's to early 00's let's turn literature classics into teen movies boom.

Clueless - Jane Austen's Emma
10 Things I Hate About You - The Taming of the Shrew
O - Othello
She's The Man - Twelfth Night
Easy A - The Scarlet Letter
Never Been Kissed - As You Like It
Get Over It - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jet Li's Romeo Must Die


I became a Heath Ledger fan after "10 Things", pre-Joker. He and Julia Stiles gave great performances. However, didn't become a JGL fan until "500 Days of Summer."

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I finally got around to reading The Golden Compass. I really disliked the movie back in 07, it felt like it didn't have an ending. It was like a to be continued episode of TV....and that's because the movie ends with about a quarter to a third of the book left out. A ridiculous choice. They gutted that material to a degree that I really have to wonder what the point was, even if they did want some of that Narnia money.


Also, the actual name of the first book, that the movie is based on is Northern Lights, not The Golden Compass. Apparently at some point in time Pullman was referring to the whole series as "The Golden Compasses" later His Dark Materials, but the American publisher had already latched onto the earlier title. The publisher thought the title was referring to the alethiometer, the compass like device that figures heavily in the plot of the first book. This was a complete misunderstanding however in that "The Golden Compasses" was a further reference to Paradise Lost, referring to the tools God used as the architect of creation.

Another sidenote, it is criminal that the Golden Compass beat out the first Transformers for the effects Oscar.

I really hate how the Academy will quite often nudge the effects awards to more "respectable" standarly Oscar like movies even when they are clearly less deserving and don't recieve similar accolades in any of the effects industry award shows. Similarly, Hugo winning over Rise of the Planet of the Apes is nonsense.

the golden compass didn't tell all that was in the first book because they had hoped to of made a franchise out of the movie like Harry Potter. But the Christian right's boycott scared alot of viewers off. I didn't think the movie was bad, just felt like we've seen it before between HP and Narnia

 

[Dave McFly]

I BTTF 3 when Doc sends Marty off into 1885 he fires the same gun he tries to shoot the terroists in 1985.

 

[redhawk23]

the golden compass didn't tell all that was in the first book because they had hoped to of made a franchise out of the movie like Harry Potter. But the Christian right's boycott scared alot of viewers off. I didn't think the movie was bad, just felt like we've seen it before between HP and Narnia

There are two more books, you don't have to skip the ending of the first to have more films.

 

[Mace Dolex]

James Earl Jones has played fathers in voice and/or live action to Luke Skywalker, Simba and Prince Hakim.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

There are two more books, you don't have to skip the ending of the first to have more films.

it does if your goal was to do more films than the number of books...

like Harry Potter, Twilight, and possibly Hunger Games is doing. Basically stretching out the story

 

[gohei_]

James Earl Jones has played fathers in voice and/or live action to Luke Skywalker, Simba and Prince Hakim.

I remember as a kid I thought it was so cool to see the real Darth Vader in that Eddie Murphy flick.

 

[3rdstone]

When recently watching AI - Artificial Intelligence for the first time since back then, I reckognized Adrian Grenier (the lead in Entourage) in the scene in which the robot kid and John Doe gets a lift into town with a car full of young dudes. Adrian Grenier was the driver.

 

[Majik1387]

Yep, also has the guy who played D.J. on Roseanne.

 

[James]

The 15 year old son in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) is Henry Cavill.

 

[redhawk23]

it does if your goal was to do more films than the number of books...

like Harry Potter, Twilight, and possibly Hunger Games is doing. Basically stretching out the story

All of which did with the last books after being established franchises.

Regardless of their intent it still amounts to an almost pointless film.

 

[Dave McFly]

Also Madge Sinclair played the wife of James Earl Jones character in Lion King AND Coming To America