I can't be the only one excited about this! Hopefully the twisted creative genius of del Toro will help erase that horrendous Eddie Murphy version out of my mind. The ride deserves a great adaptation.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
At last a project worthy of del Toro's alleged talents. After PAN'S LABYRINTH I won't bother with his crap anymore.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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Preach it, Namo! When will the willful dumbing down of one's own taste and intelligence end?
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Yes, because the film adaptation is a trend that has only recently begun. The Wizard of Oz was a remake/reboot, Hitchcock remade his OWN film, The African Queen, Gone With the Wind and countless others were all adapted from a book- I don't see how anything has changed.
An "original" movie not based on any other form of art is currently the number one film in the country. What is "sad" about that? The masses flocking to see a movie they know next to nothing about doesn't seem that way at all.
So a theme-park attraction as opposed to a book, poem, play, musical-any of the art that has been adapted for years-is getting adapted into a film. How is this sort of adaptation any different? As a fan I'm sure you know how rich the storytelling of the ride is. The material is there. The ride developed out of a backstory which developed out of a painting. So at its base this film is REALLY adapted from a painting, what does THAT say about the state of arts? We've never seen any art based on a PAINTING before, that sort of thing would be a colossal failure...
Perhaps it's a different perspective, but I just don't see the nausea you feel over modern arts. Sure things have changed, but this adapting & remaking business has been around for ages.
