Movie trailers!!

[fenchurch]

I forgot to mention the best part of last night's movie-going experience: the trailers! In particular, one for a movie I'd heard rumors about but hadn't known was actually getting filmed and the other for a movie I'd had no clue was being made.

The first is "Live Free or Die Hard" -- I absolutely love the Die Hard movies... in fact, the first one is in my top ten favorite Christmas movies. The new one looks like they're taking everything bigger and badder and I'm really hoping they're not going to overdo it, but I can't help being excited about it!

The second one was quite a surprise... shortly after the trailer started, I had a niggle in the back of my brain telling me there was something familiar about it. And then it hit me... they've made a movie based on the classic SF story "Mimsy Were the Borogroves"!!!!!! Squee!!!!! It's one of my all-time favorites (written by classic SF&F writers (and husband and wife) Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore under the name Lewis Padgett) and, yeah, it looks like they're changing some things (they'd almost have to, since the original short story was just that... short), but the bits in the trailer looked REALLY good. I'm guessing there's some sort of copyright issue involved with the word "Mimsy" though, since the movie title is "The Last Mimzy" (click on the link to see the trailer).

You know, I'm actually a bit surprised no one has ever made Moore's Jirel of Joiry into a movie... they'd absolutely massacre it (because, unlike "Mimsy Were the Borogroves," there's a lot more room to screw it up), but it seems like exactly the sort of thing certain filmmakers would drool over.

Comments

[pmgoose.livejournal.com]

*bounces* Die Hard Love!!!! :)

I can't wait!!!!

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll have to wait for your review of the new Die Hard movie. They lost me with the 3rd one.

I love the first one, though. It's rapidly becoming a Christmas tradition to watch it.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Yup, Die Hard 1 is definitely in my top ten and the other two were lots of fun as well. I can't wait to see what else they can torture John McC with. Yippee-ki-yay!

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

The Die Hard films were certainly fun, however unbelievable. My favorite is still the first one, at least as much for Alan Rickman and Alexander Godunov being a wonderful villains as anything else.

It says something bad for poor Eragon that the best part of time at the theatre was the trailers. I usually sit in the theater and grit my teeth waiting for the silly trailers to be finished, mentally checking off a list ... don't need to see that one, or that one, etc.

[jerusha]

I had heard they were doing another Die Hard movie, and I'm really excited about it. I loved those movies, too.

[bubonicplague.livejournal.com]

I was always fond of "A Vintage Season", but they only made a really crapppy T.V. movie out of that. Dammit.

[rahirah]

A Jirel of Joiry movie would freakin' ROCK. Though ten to one people would say it was a ripoff of Xena. :P

[knitress.livejournal.com]

I adore Die Hard. And dang, Mimsy Were The Borogroves? Hooray!

[taradaktyl.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the "Mimsy" story for years! Cool! (Do you guys have a copy? I should re-read).

Glad you made it out there without incident! Thanks for being delivery-guys for me!

[onetwomany.livejournal.com]

There's a new Die Hard movie? Wohoo! ::dances wildly:: How did I not know that...