ha i was gonna say alan rick is too goth for game of thrones
― max, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
maybe he could play a braavosi banker or something
― max, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
has he ever been in anything actually good
― thomp, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
yes.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
die hard
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
you feeb!
yes, but has he ever been in anything .. actually good
― thomp, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
Quigley Down Under
Galaxy Quest
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
die hard is legit a really good movie. have you seen it man
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
he was the only good thing about the last HP movie. he has one line-reading in it that's so juicy you basically have to laugh
He was also in Smiley's People.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
i've seen die hard but i was fourteen and it's all bound up with the sequels and the psone game for me, so maybe it is better than i am giving it credit for
i am entirely willing to believe that he is A Good Thing in the middle of harry potter eight or galaxy quest or whatever! that wasn't my question tho really
― thomp, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
he was in rasputin: dark servant of destiny
― max, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
galaxy quest 2nded
― remy bean, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
lolol rasputin:
http://content7.flixster.com/photo/85/71/66/8571665_gal.jpg
― remy bean, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i admit outside of die hard i dont have much to say about his filmography. i havent seen ang lee's sense & sensibility, he's in that and it has a veneer of respectability
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
He would be a terrible Stannis tho. Quite apart from his age
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
he's more of a lannister senior type
― thomp, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, he'd be okay as pretty much anyone in the books in the right age bracket except stannis tbh
yall pretending u dont luv harry potter is p cute
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
walked past some americans in oxford the other day, in gryffindor scarves, complaining about how they didn't show some character repairing his wand, because it was An Important Moment. we need some kind of south africa style cultural embargo imo
― thomp, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
Alan Rickman was also one of the few things that doesn't make me want to shoot myself when my wife wants to watch Love Actually for the 2.4 billionth time.
Also, I loved him as Metatron in Dogma.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
bill nighy vs. allan rickman
― remy bean, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
Fair enough, as Bill Nighy helps save Love Actually a little too.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
Tea-leaf reading on a practical level:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/07/29/138807511/hbo-grapples-with-the-future-of-game-of-thrones
Asked why many HBO shows get 13 episodes a season and GOT has been getting 10, Lombardo said it simply wasn't possible to physically execute more than 10 episodes a year of the quality they want to produce. He and Plepler also tried to clarify that it wasn't a strict requirement from the network that the producers cover an entire book in each 10-episode season. Would that answer the question?Of course not. Later in the session, we once again returned to the possibility that the entire story of GOT will somehow not wind up being told. "This is a story that sort of has to finish at some point," said the next questioner. "And it can't finish in the middle." (Of course, TV stories finish in the middle all the time, but the assumption buried in the question was clear: You do not want to deal with what will happen if you stop telling this story to this particular audience before the end of whatever winds up being written by Martin.)What the critic wanted, though — a guarantee that HBO would finish exhaustively covering the story as it's told in the books, was not forthcoming. Already running short on time, largely as a result of answering this very question in a number of different incarnations, Lombardo said, "I don't know where the show for us ends as opposed to the books. It maybe would be fantastic to be able to say, this show will go on for ten years and do every aspect of the books. I don't know that that will be the case."
Of course not. Later in the session, we once again returned to the possibility that the entire story of GOT will somehow not wind up being told. "This is a story that sort of has to finish at some point," said the next questioner. "And it can't finish in the middle." (Of course, TV stories finish in the middle all the time, but the assumption buried in the question was clear: You do not want to deal with what will happen if you stop telling this story to this particular audience before the end of whatever winds up being written by Martin.)
What the critic wanted, though — a guarantee that HBO would finish exhaustively covering the story as it's told in the books, was not forthcoming. Already running short on time, largely as a result of answering this very question in a number of different incarnations, Lombardo said, "I don't know where the show for us ends as opposed to the books. It maybe would be fantastic to be able to say, this show will go on for ten years and do every aspect of the books. I don't know that that will be the case."
And so on, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
they could totally collapse the next three books into two seasons imo
― g++ (gbx), Friday, 29 July 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
I heard after the next book they're breaking with the structure
― Gukbe, Friday, 29 July 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Well they're going to have to mix it up if they make it to books 4 and 5
― Number None, Friday, 29 July 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
Ok I'm going to consult the this thread--having come into the series cold and loved it, I followed it up by reading the book and loving it as well. Now I'm torn between waiting until next spring and being delighted by the surprise of each episode or reading ahead and not having to wait 4-5 years to see where this story goes. What say you all?
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
general consensus has been to just go ahead and read them
― g++ (gbx), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, that's what max and i did
and we the best, so
still in the exact same boat as you, Sparkle, and it's been months of deliberation. I'm not really convinced of his skills as an actual writer, which is what gives me pause. That and seeing ep. 9 and not knowing that was coming at all was so amazing I'd hate to lose that for the next seasons.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
What say you all?
I'm reading book 2. Will not read book 3 before the show catches up to me.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
read the fukken books.the surprises and twists are just as jaw-dropping in the written form. and he's not a "great writer", but his characterization & (to a lesser extent) his plotting are leagues beyond most sf writers..
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the books are worth reading
― max, Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
and ian is right about the twists being better written than filmed
also i find it helps my reading if i listen to shit like this --->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ophrjwLl4kk
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
also learning to ignore the 'songs' in the book, something we learned from tolkien...
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
so fucken sick of the bear & the maiden fair
heheh i was listening to a lot of the wicker man soundtrack when i was reading the books a few months ago
― max, Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
the theme song to the hbo show is pretty sick too
― max, Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_VSbNEEko8
― max, Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsjMcEqjZ-c
― max, Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWFBbXmRUiY
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
i want to make a mix tape with this theme tbh
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gonKhSIBP54
For many years I have loved this track and always imagined myself walking down the aisle to the man of my dreams, I have waited 37 years and the time has now arrived! =)
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― max, Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
the mission soundtrack is a better soundtrack for playing settlers of catan than it is for reading asoiaf but it still rules
― max, Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1aLjltkgV8
xpost that is a beautiful comment!!!
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 30 July 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link