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@Mummabear @carolen I wonder what the point of no return is? How often do cameras have to be cut down for them to be seen as unsustainable.

@DaddyO @leyonhjelm No, I'll have to look that up. The cover is enticing. I like the Burton/Taylor Shrew. It's of it's time. Olivier is good in anything, even playing a Nazi in a cage in a popcorn movie. I like his Othello and Hamlet. There's nothing wrong with basically filming a stage play imo. If anything it's more authentic. The best filmed versions of Death of a Salesman I've seen Hoffman/Malcovich was basically that. It's different from watching a live production but it works.

@leyonhjelm @DaddyO My favorite Shakespeare is Jarman's version of The Tempest but I have a soft spot for Jarman. I try to see every film adaption I come across. I don't think it fits in to the casting mentioned. There are so many bad adaptions. I actually like Wheedon's Much Ado About Nothing. Why is it when a stage actor comes to the screen they are still so well liked? Stewart in STNG, Malcovich in Dangerous Liasons. They act like the actors in 40s-60s movies.

@DaddyO Good point. I hadn't thought of it in those terms. My Favorite Wife was an adaption of a stage play and there was a lot of that too. I think the reasons today are basically the same though: it worked before, so it'll work again. Also people refuse to watch movies that are too old for some reason.

@DaddyO Move Over Darling is quite sweet. It's James Garner and Doris Day and they have good chemistry. I'll definitely watch My Favorite Wife. Anything with Cary Grant is worth watching.

@DaddyO I looked up the plot and it seemed very familiar. I realized I'd seen the 1963 remake Move Over Darling. I guess Hollywood has always recycled stuff they know works rather than creating anew.

@CSB At least with things like Buffy, she's purposely exceptional. Echo is a deaf cripple with no super powers - if I remember correctly from the arrow shooty thing. Can't they at least do a backstory with super powers? I wonder about the effect on young women. Are they more likely to enter fights with men because they've been propagandized their entire life that it will work out great?

@CSB Hmm at 20% of the population that doesn't seem like as great an advantage as coming from Krypton.

@Sophistifunk 100% agree. It's really annoying.

@eriner Funding what became Al-Qeda. No fault divorce. Changing the demographics of California. These are the things I normally hear about Reagan. Is there other stuff?

@eriner The asylums thing I'd heard. Yeah, he screwed California. Didn't know about the corruption but that's standard politics. They're all doing that.