The Colour of Magic - Pratchett

[Stebehil]

Has anybody seen these TV movies ? They encompass the Discworld novels The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. They were shown on German TV yesterday, at prime time. I love these movies, they capture the spirit of the novels quite good, and do a good job reflecting Terry Pratchetts very odd british humor. Great stuff!

Stefan

[feytharn]

I love them, too. The DVD is out since sometime in late summer '08 in Germany. If you liked the Colour of Magic Movie you should check out "Hogfather" (the german title of the novel it is based on is Schweinsgalopp. That Movie is even better. However STAY AWAYY FROM THE CARTOON MOVIES!

[Stebehil]

Hey, impersonating Death here with all that talking in capital letters?

j/k

Stefan

[feytharn]

I'm actually dead serious...if that counts;)

[Gavgoyle]

The cartoon is of Wyrd Sisters and it's... not great. I don't think it's unwatchable, but uneven animation and vocals to story.

Hogfather is great and I'm-a love me some Susan!! She's sexy!

[feytharn]

There is another Cartoon based on Soul Music that is worse than Wyrd Sisters. Both are not totally unbearable, but they feel pretty bad when you know and like the novels.

[Werthead]

I wasn't a huge fan of COLOUR OF MAGIC/LIGHT FANTASTIC David Jason is way too old to play Rincewind and it changes the story too much to have him as an old man. It was also a bit suspect that the Chinese-esque tourist in the books got changed into an American, but Sean Astin did a good job as Twoflower. I suppose they're not going to do INTERESTING TIMES (as it's one of the worst Discworld books), so that change doesn't matter.

I thought HOGFATHER was much better. The actors were stronger, the story more focused and David Jason in a much more appropriate role as Albert. I appreciate the fact that it was Jason's involvement (as a huge fan of the books) that got the TV adaptions made, but he really should have stayed as Albert. Since Death is in COLOUR OF MAGIC anyway, it wouldn't have been a huge change to have Albert show up a couple of times (and they had to change Death's role in the TV series to suit the later books better anyway).

They're now filming GOING POSTAL (Jason is sitting this one out) in Hungary and will be showing it in the UK over Easter 2010.