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Yeah, we do so love vampyres, xombies, and werewüves over here at Cuppacafe, but when we discovered this little "Shakespearean" gem, we very nearly wet ourselves...

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One of the richest areas for mining movie material has always been literature. It is probably a safe bet to say that more prose books have been translated into movies than any other previously-published source material. Still, perhaps the most (shall we say) "unusual" form of translation is when a writer takes a previously-published source and then spins it sideways to have it come out as something, well different than the original form.

A couple of prime examples of this are when Rogers & Hammerstein took Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, and turned it into West Side Story or when Amy Heckerling took Jane Austen's novel Emma and (re)made it into Clueless.

Anyways, very soon, there is yet another tome that will be added to these films, it is a epic fantasy adventure involving Dragons, and is based on one of the most seminal works in all of English literature.

Herman Melville's Moby Dick. No, really, I'm not kidding. check it out after the jump.

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So, just a short while ago, Walt posted a video trailer to the up-coming film Monsters, where a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border. Walt cited that the film was similar in nature to District 9. Only Monsters, takes place some six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe that was launched to collect samples, crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon afterwards, new life-form began to appear and half of Mexico was subsequently quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE.

Well, not quite the same thing, but I spotted another Earth invasion flick that seemed to play along some of the same themes. it is called Skyline. The film's trailer is after the jump.

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A short while back, Walt posted about the finest film that you'd ever be forced to watch at gunpoint. Here now is another take on the same subject.

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In the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Banky (Jason Lee) comments "That's what the Internet is for. Slandering others anonymously, and downloading porn." Well, in the upcoming film, The Middle Men, is the story of the guys who brought porn to the Net.

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Reviewers have every right to their opinion, every right to express it. They've paid (or not) to see a movie, read a book, watch a TV show. Even if they haven't paid, they've consumed the product and are entitled to express their feelings. The creators (and being one, I get this) have to suck it up and deal. But when reviewers 1) don't pay attention, or 2) pay attention and don't understand, the validity of their reviews suffer.

Case in point: David Edelstein's review of INCEPTION in New York Magazine.

But let me back up. Walt reads all reviews, all spoilers, before he ever sees a movie. I read nothing. I don't want to know anything. He likes to tease me, and I often slap him. This time, though, he told me to NOT read anything about what was happening, and to especially not read the NYMag review. So I didn't. Until this morning when he gave me permission. ;)

When talking about Joseph Gordon-Levitt's role as Arthur, Edelstein says in his review:

Gordon-Levitt doesn’t have much livelier material, but he does fight a bad guy in a zero-gravity corridor and tie together a group of sleeping people with cords, then float the human assemblage into an elevator. (I had no clue what he was doing, but it’s one of the few wittily irrational images.)

The problem with this is, Arthur SAID what he was doing right before he did it!

The rest of this post will contain spoilers, so don't read on if you don't want to be spoiled.

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