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Weirder and Wilder Things
21 October 2009 3:12 PM, PDT
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by Vadim Rizov
Visiting a friend in Omaha this past weekend, I saw The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. at the lovely Film Streams theater. I'd never seen the one-and-only Dr. Seuss-scripted 1953 classic, and the spangly print certainly didn't disappoint. Mostly, though, it got me thinking about everything that's wrong with Where the Wild Things Are. Both are sui generis translations of maverick beloved children's authors to the screen in ways that could be "scary" or "inappropriate" for children. And there the similarities end.
Even among surreal, culty kid's films (Return to Oz is my favorite, but Babe: Pig in the City and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure come to mind as well), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. is singular. A source of dismay for Dr. Seuss (who compared the reviews to an on-set accident where all the children vomited at once) and a financial calamity (losing over $1 million), this weirdest of
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Miyamoto's First Video Game Experience Was Violent
15 October 2009 2:15 PM, PDT
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For many people, "Super Mario Bros." was their first video game experience. But what about Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of "Mario"? You may be surprised to learn that it was a game featuring guns! In my interview with the legendary game designer, he revealed the first game he remembered playing:
"My first experience was in a Game Center in Japan where there was some kind of arcade game that had the little stick figure gunmen, who would shoot back and forth. And that was even before the days of those block breaking games that were popular back then came out. But of course at that point in time I had no idea that I would go on to make games. I just liked to play them."
I mentioned that it was pretty surprising that someone so well-known for creating family-friendly titles would get his start with a game featuring gunmen,
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- Russ Frushtick
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Mad Max Minus Mel Gibson
7 March 2009 6:19 AM, PST
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Sometimes directors just lose something. It’s sad but true. Maybe they get too carried away with business (George Lucas) or technology (James Cameron) and this leads to them loosing their magic touch.
George Miller was once a hard hitting director who delivered such R rated fair as the Mad Max trilogy and The Witches of Eastwick. Now the Australian director is content to helm family fare such as Babe: Pig In The City and the animated film Happy Feet.
He had promised to deliver a fourth Mad Max film titled Fury Road, and the film was close to shooting in 2002 when the war in Iraq led to the film falling apart. Now it looks like Miller is ready to bring Mad Max back to the screen. There are just two problems:
Mel Gibson will not be involved
It will be an animated feature.
Miller recently said spoke to MTV
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- Niall Browne
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