Hogfather...

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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather

Sky One. :twisted:

17th and 18th of December 2006

Will anyone be watching it (or doing anything else with it :innocent: )?
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I'll be downloading it as soon as the torrent hits the tinterwebs.
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:eek:

Is this a REAL movie? A spoof, a series, a what?

I NEED to ken!

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d00mw0lf wrote:I'll be downloading it as soon as the torrent hits the tinterwebs.
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote::eek:

Is this a REAL movie? A spoof, a series, a what?

I NEED to ken!

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this Discworld rings a bell. did they ever made a gamer about it?
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It's a start... "for the small screen", it states... good enough fer now!

After some really bad-drawn cartoon adaptations ("Wyrd Sisters" and "Soul Music"), a two-part series ("Hogfather")....

.... I can see it right before me now:

SOON COMING TO A CINEMA NEAR YOU:

Terry Pratchett's

"Witches Abroad"

By Peter Jackson, in DTS where available...

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christophe wrote:this Discworld rings a bell. did they ever made a gamer about it?
We're always ranting on about Terry Pratchett in the "currently reading" thread on GothWeb, Christophe ;)

And they prolly made some silly game about it, yes...

Even a "THUD!" board game ;D

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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
christophe wrote:this Discworld rings a bell. did they ever made a gamer about it?
We're always ranting on about Terry Pratchett in the "currently reading" thread on GothWeb, Christophe ;)
yes I know :P
but after looking at this I remember a game what was called discworld so I figured it maybe was the same (I never played it myself)
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christophe wrote:but after looking at this I remember a game what was called discworld so I figured it maybe was the same (I never played it myself)
Was it this you were thinking of?
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christophe wrote:I remember a game what was called discworld so I figured it maybe was the same
Probably the same, yes. Discworld is a registered trademark.
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I quite liked the cartoons... Watched "Soul Music" the other night and it's sill quite a nice way of spending a few hours...
Definatly need to see more of the witches though. And Rincewind.
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d00mw0lf wrote:I quite liked the cartoons... Watched "Soul Music" the other night and it's sill quite a nice way of spending a few hours...
The music is cool, the drawings are crap... and so are the voices... But Death is soooo cool ;D (can't be bad when a certain mister Kristofferson did the voice-over ;D)

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I found the game clicky


a good old point and click adventure :notworthy:
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I don't have sky, but I am definatley going to watch it/have it taped for me.
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i'll watch it coz the book was a good read...










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I had a flick through the book accompaniment in Waterstones t'other day. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; if I could date any fictional character, I'd GLADLY ask Susan Sto Helit out for a drink.

Assuming she didn't vapourise me with her icy demeanour first.

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Anybody seen this yet?

Opinions...?

I've only seen the intro, plus the first words from Miss Sto Helit, but it looked good.
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I watched a bit of it last night, didn't set my world alight, sadly. It may've been the quality of the rip though and I hope to get the HDTV rip soonish.
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i watched the 1st espisode and didnt feel the need to watch any more :|

it all felt very much like a BBC christmas panto - poorly scripted, hastily produced and full of in-jokes... :roll:

i'm not convinced that pratchett's self-referential "world" and all its in-jokes actually work on-screen as well as they do on paper.

i've read a few discworld books (and some of his other stuff) and enjoyed them very much, but i found the 1st espisode of the hogfather very average, and didnt bother watching any more.
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Whereas I thoroughly enjoyed part one. (I downloaded both parts this week and watched the first last night.) Maybe because I already "get" the discworld in-jokes.

I think perhaps the adaptation is more with the "younger viewer" in mind.

I did like that they had Ian Richardson (as Death's voice) say YOU MIGHT THINK THAT BUT I COULDN'T POSSIBLY COMMENT.
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Still, if anyone can provide me with a link or something to a decent rip, lemme know.

Time to make a movie, as I said, but PLEASE let mister LotR do it!

He's the only one that made a classic fantasy book WORK on the big screen, IMO.

'Narnia' was utter pish, 'Harry Potter' was fairly decent but still mostly pish, and I don't even wanna START about HHGTTG :evil:

On the other hand, the Dark Comic stuff seems to be easier to capture on the silver screen.

I really like the first 'The Crow', 'Sin City' was bloody brilliant, 'Spiderman' was also very good, and I really digged the atmo of 'Spawn', to give a few examples.

'Aeon Flux' was unadaptable for the big screen, IMO, but seeing Charlize Théron hop around with her uber-sexy black hairdo and that SIZZLING leather catsuit was enough to keep me glued to the screen! Image

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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Still, if anyone can provide me with a link or something to a decent rip, lemme know.
The top two on this search are the ones I got. Pretty good quality.*

http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=hogfather&=on

*720x416 video, 128kb/s 48kHz audio
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Pratchett, I just don't get it :urff:
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weebleswobble wrote:Pratchett, I just don't get it :urff:
No prob.

More books for US to buy then :twisted:

@ Mark: thanks for the linky! :notworthy:

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markfiend wrote: The top two on this search...
Ah good. I've got the first, the second is being very slow (currently 2D18H) :eek: :cry:
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