All hail Cthulhu! Del Toro & Cameron to make the Mountains of Madness

[Silent_Bob]

Re: All hail Cthulhu! Del Toro & Cameron to make the Mountains of Madn

No. Hellboy II did indeed suck. Felt like a direct to DVD with spiffy effects.

And 3D for longer than about 15-20 minutes sucks, done well or not. That shit gives me crazy-ass migraines.

I'm then left to watch the 2D version of a film the creator blew his wad on building everything around 3D shots.

So, for instance, without 3D to distract me, Avatar just had decent CGI and a lousy story to try and hold my interest for more than two hours. Something it failed miserably to do.

I'd rather they save the 3D-effects for a film I could give a shit about, like Spy Kids 6 or Avatar 2

Your ideas are intriguing to me and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

That said, unlike Paul W.S Anderson, if the movie does continue the 3D fad i don't think Del Toro will stoop to the standard 3D garbage of scenes being set up just to have stuff thrown towards the screen. And given the source material even in 2D it should be entertaining, unlike Avatar.

 

[FluffyUnbound]

Re: All hail Cthulhu! Del Toro & Cameron to make the Mountains of Madn

I can envisage a lot of rewriting will be necessary to bring ATMOM to the screen given what audiences expect to see nowadays. I'd much prefer that they combine it with Charles Stross' homage "A Colder War", which was intended as a sequel. The weaponisation of Eldritch technology is a great concept, and the literal mind-frak at the end of the novella is splendid -- it's even more chilling than the USSR using Shoggoths to wipe out the Mujaheddin.

I think the giant penguins are best left to the Monty Python sketch -- Scott of the Sahara.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Thank You!

I have been trying to remember the name/title of that one for a long time.

The perils of reading too many anthologies is that you forget where you read stuff, who wrote it, what the title was, etc. And then you have to annoy people with questions like, "So I read this short story about these guys that tried to use Lovecraft stuff in the Cold War, and they

Spoiler: Vague Spoiler

passed some kind of line and were in hell by the end, but they didn't realize it and were still fighting

...who wrote that?" and people give you blank stares.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Re: All hail Cthulhu! Del Toro & Cameron to make the Mountains of Madn

Stross has written a number of horror/espionage genre-crossover stories that might also make more interesting movies than what's currently being churned out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#The_.22Bob_Howard_.E2.80.94_Laundry.22_series

 

[Valin]

Re: All hail Cthulhu! Del Toro & Cameron to make the Mountains of Madn

I'm interested in seeing the movie, but do not have high hopes for it--Lovecraft is very difficult to translate into a film. We'll see.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Re: All hail Cthulhu! Del Toro & Cameron to make the Mountains of Madn

I'm interested in this...grew up on Lovecraft thanks to my parents. It will be interesting to see what we get from this and the type of 3D used. I loved both Hellboy's and Pan.