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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather

Sky One.

17th and 18th of December 2006

Will anyone be watching it (or doing anything else with it )?

I'll be downloading it as soon as the torrent hits the tinterwebs.
B0ll0cks to sky!

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

I NEED to ken!

IZ.

d00mw0lf wrote:I'll be downloading it as soon as the torrent hits the tinterwebs.
B0ll0cks to sky!

That's what we like to hear...

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:

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

I NEED to ken!

IZ.

Made for TV two parter...apparently.

this Discworld rings a bell. did they ever made a gamer about it?

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...



IZ.

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

IZ.

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
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)

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?

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.

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.

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 (can't be bad when a certain mister Kristofferson did the voice-over )

IZ.

I found the game clicky


a good old point and click adventure

I don't have sky, but I am definatley going to watch it/have it taped for me.

i'll watch it coz the book was a good read...










a long time ago...

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.

Anybody seen this yet?

Opinions...?

I've only seen the intro, plus the first words from Miss Sto Helit, but it looked good.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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!

IZ.

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

Pratchett, I just don't get it

weebleswobble wrote:Pratchett, I just don't get it

No prob.

More books for US to buy then

@ Mark: thanks for the linky!

IZ.

markfiend wrote: The top two on this search...

Ah good. I've got the first, the second is being very slow (currently 2D18H)