# Movies that should be made 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2001, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-should-be-made-2/62660 "2001-04-20T10:59:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-should-be-made-2/62660/41 "2001-04-23T05:57:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saepiroth \* > \*\* > > but hey, a Homeworld movie would be REALLY rockin’! mmm… Homeworld… ohhhhh… > > \*\* Would the pilot for ‘Battlestar Galactica’ count? 8^) ---
**Author:** ![G.Nome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@G.Nome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Nome)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-should-be-made-2/62660/42 "2001-04-23T12:04:06Z")
Two interesting sequels: Beautiful Girls and Lawn Dogs. What happens when it’s not paedophilia anymore? Remakes with improvements: Pushing Tin and Rounders. This time for God’s sake let people learn something about air traffic control and how to play cards. I cannot remember a film in which I was allowed to increase my general knowledge. Why couldn’t John Cusack have taken a few minutes to explain how his radar screen worked? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-should-be-made-2/62660/43 "2001-04-23T12:08:06Z")
For some reason I think there is a bad British version of the Hitchhikers Guide. Something a la Dr. Who. Could be wrong though Authors to take books from to be made into movies are an unending list. Piers Anthony (Ox, Bio of a Space Tyrant), Philip Jose Farmer (Riverworld), Katherine Kurtz (the Deryni series), but that’s all too easy. I’d love to see a good disaster movie which is realistic. And not filled with schmaltzy stereotypical scenes. Something that is not ‘safe.’ And it should start well before the disaster and end well after. I don’t think we’ve had one of those yet. They either climax with the disaster or start years after. The Chinese aren’t quite what the Soviets were yet but I’d really enjoy a good spy movie like those old ones. I’d like to see a really good historical romance. Maybe a Roman soldier courts a Pictish lady while on station at Hadrian’s wall. I enjoy romance but to really be enthralled I really need to be taken somewhere. They could set an action adventure movie far in the future. Say the year 10,000. Set in a time when lawlessness has broken out. Pirates about. Money works the cogs. And we’d have a young man with a map to a treasure. ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-should-be-made-2/62660/44 "2001-04-23T12:28:55Z")
This is going to sound retarded mixed in with all the serious sci-fi, but I’ve always wanted to see Mary Renault onscreen. **The Persian Boy** is an epic just waiting to happen, **The Last of the Wine** would make a fantastic drama, and **The King Must Die/The Bull From the Sea** deserves a six-part miniseries on _Masterpiece Theater_. Great writing, and can only be translated to screen properly if you leave in all the nudity. 😃 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > \*_Redo **This Island Earth** the way Raymond F. Jones wrote \* it, without the silly stuff they threw in for the movie (lobster-clawed bare-brained “mutants”, paranoid aliens, Metalune “turning into a sun”)._ But, please, use only genuine Interocitor parts! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-should-be-made-2/62660.md?page=2)