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Posted by: twig at August 9, 2010 4:30 PM
twig! I know how to fix that.
Russell Brand.
Posted by: A-schaef at August 9, 2010 4:31 PM
Is Russell Brand Caliban?
When isn't Russell Brand Caliban?
Posted by: Mrs. Julien at August 9, 2010 4:35 PM
Nope! Apparently he's Trinculo about whom I know nothing as the Caliban reference used up my store of Tempest knowledge.
Posted by: Mrs. Julien at August 9, 2010 4:36 PM
(sarcasm) You're right Dustin, Aniston should stay away from AD, we all know the terrible things that happened to the shows after she was on South Park and 30 Rock, total down the tubes, the both of them.
And the least we talk about how shit Office Space and the Good girl was, the better.(/sarcasm)
Seriously, is it really Jennifer's fault that post Friends all her commercial success has come from staring asinine Rom-coms?
She has done more, unfortunately choose to ignore that stuff.
Posted by: cockroach at August 9, 2010 4:38 PM
According to Wikipedia:
Trinculo, a natural satellite of Uranus.
sounds about right
Posted by: mswas at August 9, 2010 4:39 PM
A trilogy of movies for Green Lantern? By the third one he'll be reduced to looking for matching earrings for that joke of a power ring. Hey, I've got an idea-how about a superhero movie that will allow for male and female cast members in skimpy bathing suits, awesome underwater vistas and GOD DAMNED SHARKS! HUNDREDS OF SHARKS!!! It's like a damned money printing permit! Aquaman, sharks, boobs and abs. What more do you people need!
Posted by: Aqualad at August 9, 2010 4:47 PM
As usual, Helen Mirren looks freaking awesome. And despite the ridiculousness of Russell Brand, I'm definitely there for Helen, Alfred Molina and Ben Whishaw as Ariel
Posted by: Sefa at August 9, 2010 4:51 PM
Am I the only one who hears the name Russell Brand and immediately have no interest in seeing the movie? He's like the saltpeter of movies to me.
Posted by: BWeaves at August 9, 2010 4:53 PM
I saw the preview for the movie J.A. is in with Jason Bateman, and she looked good. The clip I saw was amusing and really I don't see why ya'll hate her so much. She does crap rom-coms - not having seen any of them, I'd still say the biggest problem with them is prolly the writing.
Posted by: Stella at August 9, 2010 4:55 PM
Wow! I totally want to see Julie Taymor's The Tempest SANS Russell Brand. Do you think they will offer that version? Like those DVD players that Super Christians use to sanitize movies that they fear will warp their fragile little minds.
Taymor's Titus was fan-frugging-tastic for anyone that hasn't seen it. Is it on Blu Ray? It needs to be on Blu Ray. I'm gonna run and check. BRB
Posted by: TylerDFC at August 9, 2010 4:56 PM
Back! Nope, not available. And I'm not going to buy the DVD because I will totally get burned. Like when I got all 3 seasons of Deadwood for my birthday and 2 days later received notice from Amazon that the goddamn Blu Rays were announced. Damn you awesome technology for making me want things I don't really need but still covet mightily! I heard the Blu Rays are so clear you can actually SEE the Syphilis on the whores. ILM worked on each frame of footage for 6 hours to really bring the disgustingness of Old West venereal diseases to the viewer. Take that Jimmy Cameron and your 3D make believe jungle planet!
Posted by: TylerDFC at August 9, 2010 5:02 PM
Helen Mirren is playing Prospera. As in, a play with a major plot of a young girl raised with no feminine influence in her life now has a single mother rather than a single father raising her with magic. Mirren will do well, but I think the tonal and thematic shift could be distracting. But who's actually read The Tempest, anyway?
Posted by: Robert at August 9, 2010 5:18 PM
I'll second TylerDFC on Taymor's Titus (so to speak). It's an astonishing adaptation and truly unforgettable.
On the other hand, I found her Across The Universe to be too bloated, though I'll admit it was visually striking. Best seen in small doses, as a series of awesome pop videos, as opposed to a saggy and over-stretched movie.
Posted by: Simon at August 9, 2010 5:20 PM
"Jennifer Aniston, ... possibility of having a role in the eventual, but probably never going to happen, Arrested Development movie."
Box-Office projections just went down 75%. For a movie that wasn't gonna bring all that much to begin with. And who the hell hires the guy that made THE. WORST. movie in the Potter series? That's like hiring the guy from Galactica 1980.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at August 9, 2010 5:29 PM
One time not too long ago (maybe 4 or 5 months) I was at Disneyland and some TWATWAFFLE held up the line on Space Mountain by getting to ride TWICE... My husband says to me "hey isn't that whats-his-face" and I'm like WHO? and he says that guy... the greasy english comic guy...
We eventually got on the ride and it was awesome (as usual) and then as we were leaving... there was a HUGE bottleneck at the exit... where good ol whats-his-face was laughing and taking pictures and what not with fans...
I was literally 3 feet from Russell Brand as he was mugging for some tourists camera and I said very loudly to our party... "GAWD I HATE that SKINNY ASSHAT" and he looked right at me and kinda make the "HUH" expression...
true story...
Posted by: SaucyWench at August 9, 2010 5:39 PM
Let's see, I utterly loathe Russel Brand now (though, I still love Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and I generally can't stand Julie Taymor's movies. Visually interesting, yes, but they add up to nothing. Arty spectacle is still just spectacle, damn it.
On the other hand, Hellen Mirren is pretty righteous. Oh, but she's playing ProsperA instead of ProsperO? Nevermind. I'll just see RED.
Posted by: RobP at August 9, 2010 5:43 PM
Damn. It's my freaking anniversary and the laughter died.
Well, that's a shit-ass gift.
Posted by: Pea@ at August 9, 2010 5:48 PM
I'm confused... if Prospero is now Prospera does that make my sixth-form essays on The Tempest (which focussed entirely on Freudian analysis - father/daughter, father/son, daughter/son, father/father, Caliban/everyone) completely right or completely wrong?
Posted by: squeeziee at August 9, 2010 6:18 PM
SaucyWench,
Did you feel the warm, comforting awesomeness of Love and Worship from the heavens cascading over your body after calling Russell Brand a "skinny asshat?" I bet you did & couldn't find words to describe it in your comment. Are you feeling something similar from the collective glow of admiration from this site your story is eliciting right now? I'm feelin' it. And me like.
But TylerDFC, lemme tell you my experience with Blu Ray, and I don't think you're missing a thing:
Got one from my brother last XMas, a Sony model.
I have a 48" HiDef TV; my dad has a 56" HiDef TV.
I got every Netflix Blu Ray DVD that I just knew would look absolutely incredible - the IMAX 'Under The Sea' movie, the last 'Terminator', the 3rd 'Matrix', 'The Bourne Identity', a doc on Yellowstone Park for Pete's sake, & too many more to remember, but mostly recent ones, which you'd expect to have the best picture.
There wasn't a single damn one that had any more visual sharpness and depth than (for two examples) any golf tournament on CBS HiDef or 'The Bourne Identity' on my pc. My Blu Ray player was used on six HiDef TVs besides mine, and NONE of the DVDs looked any better than the regular, old-fashioned ones we had before it was invented.
I'm thankful I never paid for the piece of shit myself.
Posted by: Bill (Formerly Bill) at August 9, 2010 6:28 PM
Trinculo is one of the two drunken comic relief characters who stumble upon Caliban mid-way through the film (if my memory serves me correctly) and remain with him until the whole group is reunited. Whacky hijinks ensue in an effort to keep the peasants laughing even if the rest of the play is sailing right over their heads. Basically, Russell Brand is going to be playing the same character he always plays. The role is oddly perfect for him.
I'm actually incredibly psyched to see this. Then again, The Tempest is my favorite Shakespeare play. I will pretty much see any version I come across. I even rented the horrible 1979 version with the out-of-nowhere surprisingly fantastic "Stormy Weather" ending musical number.
Posted by: thenchonto at August 9, 2010 6:32 PM
squeeziee, it means Julie Taymor is a batshit crazy artistic genius. I mean, she has a show running 10+ years on Broadway with half-naked people dressed as animals with horrible sight-lines so half the audience can't tell what's happening. I'm also not blaming her for Spiderman: Turn off the Dark losing funding multiple times, but she is trying to have Spiderman fly on multiple cables (switching in midair through some new kind of rig) suspended from the ceiling while he sings in a face-covering costume.
She's crazy. Yet, I somehow think Taymor will pull The Tempest off. Or fail miserably. Which, with Taymor, is still a step above most of the crap that comes out. I might hate Across the Universe with a burning passion, but I can at least appreciate what she was trying to do and respect her approach. That funeral scene is stunning.
It's also very worth noting that Djimin Hounsou is playing Caliban. He's why I'm excited to see this. That, and Ben Whishaw is Ariel, which is an interesting casting choice.
Posted by: Robert at August 9, 2010 6:58 PM
I may have my Pajiba comment card revoked for saying this, but that damn "Switch" Commercial makes me want to see the movie- even though I was morally opposed, card carrying conscientious objector up until I saw it. The writing looks good, Bateman makes me laugh and I do Like Jen.
Honestly I hope this one knocks people's socks off.
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Posted by: ashly at August 9, 2010 8:55 PM
Ryan Gosling is coming to television!?! (again).
I die.
Posted by: grace b at August 9, 2010 9:54 PM
Oops just actually read the link....I stand corrected. But I do love me some Ryan Gosling. Maybe he can join Sons of Anarchy??
Posted by: grace b at August 9, 2010 10:00 PM
In other news, laughter died today, August 9, 2010. R.I.P.
/commits suicide by alcohol poisoning
Posted by: Uriah Creep at August 9, 2010 11:02 PM
Damn, I'm excited. Did no one here see Titus? That thing was magnificently weird. Love the Taymor. Give me more.
Posted by: figgy at August 10, 2010 1:14 AM
i am a whore for shakespeare but hardly a purist as i think many modern adaptations have shifted aspects of the plays to show their continued relevance; i love taymor's titus and am looking forward to mirren as prospera; it is a bold choice to switch the gender of the protagonist; wonder in what interesting ways that will resonate throughout the play; can't wait to see it!
Posted by: splinter at August 10, 2010 8:10 AM
I was actually part of a test audience for Taymor's Tempest earlier this summer.
Unfortunately, no one seems to have told her that the lovers are always the least interesting part of any Shakespeare play, and that the clowns are only funny when you don't see them often.
The costumes are totally baller, however.
Posted by: That Girl at August 10, 2010 8:16 AM
Jenifer Aniston is the root cause of all evil in the universe but many women still feel the need to feel sorry for her and this allows her to make more terrible movies. In fact attacks like these just make the Jennifer defenders that much more determined. Tis a sad, vicious circle.
Posted by: logan at August 10, 2010 11:15 AM
But who's actually read The Tempest, anyway?
Not I, but I've seen "Forbidden Planet" and "Prospero's Books". Do those count?
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