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Sky has a trailer up for Going Postal: http://sky1.sky.com/going-postal-about
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SaintFu posted:Sky has a trailer up for Going Postal: Man, that trailer is loving brilliant. Going Postal always had that 'grand caper' sensibility about it, and that trailer really (for me at least) captures the spirit of things.
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Apr 1, 2010 21:44
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And with a bit of luck the guy playing Vetinari won't be nearly as effete as Jeremy Irons was.
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Apr 1, 2010 21:46
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SaintFu posted:Sky has a trailer up for Going Postal: Awesome! I just finished reading Making Money, and am ready for more von Lipwick.
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Apr 1, 2010 22:04
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SaintFu posted:Sky has a trailer up for Going Postal: They've got Groat down perfectly.
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Apr 1, 2010 22:10
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Dead Alice posted:And with a bit of luck the guy playing Vetinari won't be nearly as effete as Jeremy Irons was. No worries, Charles Dance is the man. (Seriously, if you've ever seen the BBC adaptation of Bleak House you'll know just how well he can play a manipulative, scheming, terrifying bastard.)
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Apr 2, 2010 00:01
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the trailer looks good. BUt the golems look...weird. But im still hoping for Terry Gilliam's "Good Omens". Comedy option: "Small gods" by Mel gibson.I trully want this to happen. And i LOVE "small gods"
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Apr 2, 2010 00:37
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That is one awesome trailer. And holy poo poo it's Manuel from Fawlty Towers as Groat 
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Apr 3, 2010 21:50
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Dead Alice posted:And with a bit of luck the guy playing Vetinari won't be nearly as effete as Jeremy Irons was. I thought they had Vetinari down perfectly last time. He sounded exactly like Terry Pratchett himself.
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Apr 4, 2010 10:53
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Awesome! I just finished reading Making Money, and am ready for more von Lipwick. More what? 
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Apr 4, 2010 23:47
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SeanBeansShako posted:When is that coming out on SKY? The Johnny Maxwell books are amazing. Johnny and the Bomb might just be my favorite non-Discworld book he's written. They're very British, though. There's a lot of references to things that will be very familiar to brits but might be a bit esoterical to anyone else.
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Apr 6, 2010 14:27
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Masonity posted:I thought they had Vetinari down perfectly last time. He sounded exactly like Terry Pratchett himself. Agreed. I didn't like Colour of Magic that much. Partly because of the actors (why the hell cast Rincewind as an old dude? Paul Kidby's depiction of Rincewind being an almost Shaggy-like character fitted so much better with the image I had in my head:  ) and partly because the two first books just isn't that great, compared to his latter works. But Jeremy Irons was almost the best part of the movie. He even had Wuffles! I have big hopes for Going Postal. It was the Discworld book that reintroduced me to the universe, a couple of years ago, and I just like Moist. (I hope Sky is going to make Guards! Guards! next. Oh, to see Vimes on TV 
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Apr 6, 2010 16:22
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I want Guards! Guards! next too. And Men At Arms in a few years afterwards.
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Apr 6, 2010 16:31
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Moist von Lipwig posted:More what? Lipbig
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Apr 6, 2010 17:36
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Iacen posted:why the hell cast Rincewind as an old dude? Paul Kidby's depiction of Rincewind being an almost Shaggy-like character fitted so much better with the image I had in my head
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BELL END posted:Josh Kirby drew him as an old guy on the original covers but I know what you mean. I still imagine Rincewind as a young ginger haired bloke with the voice of Eric Idle because the first exposure I had to Discworld was with the PC game. Same here, Pratchett even intends him to be young as he is the magical version a community college drop out in his early twenties at the start of it all.
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SaintFu posted:Sky has a trailer up for Going Postal: That was a cracking trailer. The only problem now is, the trailer goes against how I've always imagined the Golems to look like, even though the books almost directly say it as such, I've always seen them in my own little way.  I've just finished re-reading Jingo for what feels like the seventh time at least. I love this book.
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Apr 7, 2010 00:00
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Jingo is one of my very favourite books and I don't know why.
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I love almost everything in Jingo except for Colon and Nobby and Vetinari doing their transvestite act in Klatch. That just felt so terribly by-the-numbers and cringeworthy.
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Apr 7, 2010 00:23
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Nilbop posted:Jingo is one of my very favourite books and I don't know why. It's one of my very favorite books as well and it's because Vetinari rules so hard through the entire thing while Vimes solves a decently complex mystery and gets told he is awesome at the end. Also the part where he is on the boat never fails to crack me up. "Okay, I think we're close enough. Stop here."
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Apr 7, 2010 00:43
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Jingo also has the only good appearances/use of the Dis-organizer in the several books it turns up in, with the alternate-timeline stuff being surprisingly powerful.
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Apr 7, 2010 01:01
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I always had a soft spot for the Dis-organizer. Probably mostly because I went through most of the Watch series on audiobook and Stephen Briggs is really good at capturing Vimes' exasperation at it. Bingely-bingely-beep!
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Apr 7, 2010 01:55
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John Charity Spring posted:I love almost everything in Jingo except for Colon and Nobby and Vetinari doing their transvestite act in Klatch. That just felt so terribly by-the-numbers and cringeworthy. The rest of their shenanigans are quite good, though, especially Leonard. Jingo's really the book that made his character. SeanBeansShako posted:Same here, Pratchett even intends him to be young as he is the magical version a community college drop out in his early twenties at the start of it all.
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Apr 7, 2010 02:15
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Even though I love the covers Josh Kirby did, Paul Kidby's drawings really captures the characters I've got in my head. Speaking of which; have any of you read The Art of Discworld? Lots of illustrations and sketches from Kidby, some of them commented by Pratchett himself. You should get it, it's great!
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Apr 7, 2010 08:03
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Art of Discworld is incredible. It really captures the imagery of DW and even fleshes out some of the characters. For example, Nanny and a certain wandering young genius artist had a fling many, many years ago...
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Apr 7, 2010 08:13
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Mister Roboto posted:Art of Discworld is incredible. It really captures the imagery of DW and even fleshes out some of the characters. For example, Nanny and a certain wandering young genius artist had a fling many, many years ago... Wow, that bit from Carpe Jugulum never really clicked with me until you mentioned it there, despite the fact in one of the books they mention a painting he did called the Mona Ogg.
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Vengeance of Pandas posted:Wow, that bit from Carpe Jugulum never really clicked with me until you mentioned it there, despite the fact in one of the books they mention a painting he did called the Mona Ogg. If I recall correctly the Mona Ogg is in the Art of Discworld. I believe there's a hedgehog in it.
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John Charity Spring posted:I love almost everything in Jingo except for Colon and Nobby and Vetinari doing their transvestite act in Klatch. That just felt so terribly by-the-numbers and cringeworthy. I liked that part because it felt like Vetinari was really enjoying himself there. It seems to me that before they went to Leshp he was quite troubled that this time he might not actually be able to solve the situation "Ventinari Style" and I'd come to bloodshed, and after Leshp some weight was lifted off of him. Edit: 'Donkey, minaret,' said Lord Vetinari. 'Minaret, donkey.' GhostDog fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Apr 7, 2010 |
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I quite believe it is in character for him as he simply fixes a problem with what sees as an obvious solution. I also love it when Vimes tears Rust a new one.
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GhostDog posted:I liked that part because it felt like Vetinari was really enjoying himself there. It seems to me that before they went to Leshp he was quite troubled that this time he might not actually be able to solve the situation "Ventinari Style" and I'd come to bloodshed, and after Leshp some weight was lifted off of him. It's a pity that poster from earlier in the thread with the Vet username was banned, he would've had a chance for some comedy right now. You're spot on about Vetinari being troubled in Jingo--the conversations with Leonard indicate he is considering using bombs to stop Klatch, which is why he's going through the inventor's notes.
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Apr 7, 2010 23:11
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SeanBeansShako posted:I want Guards! Guards! next too. And Men At Arms in a few years afterwards. Me too. Who would make a good Vimes? Is Tony Robinson too old to play Nobby?
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bitterandtwisted posted:Me too. Who would make a good Vimes? Is Tony Robinson too old to play Nobby? Alas, he is. Who voiced him in Discworld Noir, he was pretty much my version of Nobby these days.
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ibroxmassive posted:Vimes will always be Philip Glenister to me.
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I would love to see Stephen Briggs as Vimes, but it's a good role for a big name to draw in more watchers. However Briggs has the character nailed, and if you are ever in a position to go to his Discworld play then it's worth it just to see him in that role. I was looking at my discworld shelf the other night and wondering if the book releases in the US are accompanied as they normally are in the UK with random additional discworld items? Such as the maps, Nanny Oggs cook book (which I am going to cook dinner from on Saturday), I seem to have nearly as much discworld related chaff as I do actual novels.
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This thread just inspired me to get the five witches novels that I missed. Wyrd sisters, Witches Abroad, Mascarade, Lords and Ladies and Carpe Jugulum. Hopefully they are better than Sourcery, which I think was a bit weak. The danish translation was in any case a bit weak.
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Sourcery was pretty terrible. Witches Abroad was the second Terry Pratchett book I ever read. The first was Jingo, and I thought that one was meh, but Witches Abroad is one of my favourite books of all time. I think you'll either love it or hate it, but to me it's the archetypical Witches book, and very sharply written to boot. If you're not too well-versed in Anglo culture and history some of the jokes might not work, but the story is still pretty good.
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Cacto posted:Sourcery was pretty terrible. Sourcery was half a book, much like the first 2 books were as well. It wasn't until Mort that Pratchett was able to craft a full narrative.
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Mister Roboto posted:Sourcery was half a book, much like the first 2 books were as well. It wasn't until Mort that Pratchett was able to craft a full narrative. He still has trouble with it and a tendency to throw in subplots that do nothing for the overall narrative and just fizzle out, see: Going Postal > Making Money.
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GhostDog posted:He still has trouble with it and a tendency to throw in subplots that do nothing for the overall narrative and just fizzle out, see: Going Postal > Making Money. I still don't get Anghammarad's plot at all. It seemed a complete waste.
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