and that's why i had to kill them all

[rone]

In a contemporary re-imagining of the classic tale, Gulliver is a big-talking mailroom clerk who, after he's mistakenly assigned a travel piece on the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of very tiny people.  At first enslaved by the Lilliputians, and later declared their hero, Gulliver learns that it's how big you are on the inside that counts.

Comments

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell. If it were how big you are on the inside that counts, I never would have been able to coerce all of those shrimps out of their lunch money.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

...have the filmmakers read Swift?

[waider.livejournal.com]

I believe the usual answer to such questions is "I wanted to do a fresh reimagining without any influences of the original". Or, "tl;dr".

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

Saw a little interview clip of Jack Black, and he claimed he *had*. Said that the humor actually holds up centuries later, compared to original films from 10-20 years ago that are now forgotten pieces of crap.

And yet, for some reason, this movie, like I think all Gulliver adaptations, won't have anything other than Lilliputians.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I can believe that, actually. He gives me the impression of being smarter than most of the movies he's in, if that makes sense.

[mdyesowitch.livejournal.com]

I thought most did Lilliputians and Brobdingnag and dumped the rest. Although the Ted Danson version also did Houyhnhnms.

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

Now rage at "The Wizard of Oz" for not spending enough time on the bimetallic standard.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Why is it that the rest of the series gets no respect from Hollywood?

[haineux.livejournal.com]

You certainly can claim that "Return To Oz" got no respect from Hollywood, but it contains much more of the original books than its predecessor, and is weird enough to scare the bodily fluids right out of an impressionable child, so it at least should have YOUR respect.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It got quite a lot, actually, *before* the MGM movie.

Oz is such a weird case; Baum was personally involved in all the early stage and screen adaptations and most of them sound really screwy, bearing little resemblance to the books, though some elements of them got folded back into the later books.

By the time the Judy Garland movie was made, many people considered the franchise long beaten to death. Given everything, it's remarkable that that is even as faithful an adaptation of the first book as it is.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

If Swift were alive today, he'd substitute Hollywood execs for children in "A Modest Proposal".

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

…oh wait. This isn't you making things up to be funny. This is SOMETHING THEY ARE ACTUALLY DOING. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Here, watch this instead

[notr.livejournal.com]

Shining! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA)