Bwah! I surftubed and found this , remixed by DJ 2MuchTymeOnMyHandz. Watch it to the end if you want to see Cuba *really *teaching Mrs. Tingle.
I saw this in Barnes and Noble last month and stopped dead in my tracks. A novelization of a movie based on a book? WTF?
Lakai
February 5, 2010, 8:19am
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Wait, they didn’t come out with a book based on a movie that is based on the original book. Did they? What would that be called?
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire based on the Movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire?
Lakai:
Wait, they didn’t come out with a book based on a movie that is based on the original book. Did they? What would that be called?
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire based on the Movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire?
Nah, they went with Precious based on the novel Push by Saphire. seriously .
No, this is not a novelization; it’s just a reissue of the original novel under a new title. I’m sure there have been novelizations based on movies that were based on books in the first place, though I can’t think of one offhand. (2001 doesn’t count.)
I’m probably going to hell for this .
lissener:
No, it appears on the screen something like, “PRCS BAYZ BUK POS SFARE” or something.
It’s really stupid.
My theory, a bigger budget mainstream scifi film called ***Push ***came out last year, and they decided to change the title to avoid confusion.
My boss gets Oscar screeners, so I watched the DVD a couple weeks ago. All the acting praise has been earned, but the director needs to find another career. Precious was almost as hamhanded as his last movie that mindbogglingly bad in every possible sense Shadowboxer
In Shadowboxer , Cuba Gooding is fucking Helen Mirren, over and over again in some very TMI closeups. They are a team of assassins. Helen is dying of cancer. They go out on a hit, to waste drug kingpin Stephen Dorff’s woman. Helen, swathed in black, comes gunfirst around the corner into the moll’s bedroom, takes a bead, and stops: the moll is pregnant. Having cancer has given Helen a new appreciation for life, so rather than kill the woman, she rescues her. The baby drops. Helen, Cuba, mother, and son rent a big suburban home and spend several sweetly fuzzy montages watching the baby grow into a boy. All living together, in a house in the suburbs.
Then Daddy Dorff finds out his family is still alive, and act iii is all ridiculous faux-Woo gunfights, ending with the little boy picking up a gun and shooting his own father the end.
One of the most entertainingly atrocious movies I have ever seen. It’s available on Nutflakes streaming. Enjoy.
LOL and according to IMDB Mo’Nique is in it palying a character named “Precious” You can’t make this shit up.
Lakai:
Wait, they didn’t come out with a book based on a movie that is based on the original book. Did they? What would that be called?
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire based on the Movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire?
Sure. I saw that in a bookstore in Notlob once.
manx
February 6, 2010, 3:10pm
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Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew:
No, this is not a novelization; it’s just a reissue of the original novel under a new title. I’m sure there have been novelizations based on movies that were based on books in the first place, though I can’t think of one offhand. (2001 doesn’t count.)
There was a novelisation of the V for Vendetta movie, based on the graphic novel of the same name. Not quite the example you’re looking for, but close.
Looks like your words had the power of prophesy.
TWDuke
February 8, 2010, 4:52am
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Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew:
I’m sure there have been novelizations based on movies that were based on books in the first place, though I can’t think of one offhand. (2001 doesn’t count.)
There’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (if 96 pages including illustrations counts as a novel). The [1968 paperback](http://www.amazon.com/Chitty-Bang-John-Burke/dp/0330022075/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid= 1265603122&sr=1-8) follows the plot of the movie, which is very different from Ian Fleming’s original .
Bwaaak . . . bwuck-bwuck-bGAK!
Mr.Moto
February 13, 2010, 3:35am
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I can remember when you could watch a naked Helen Mirren in bad movies - and that was rather an appetizing notion.
Age of Consent Caligula
lawoot
February 13, 2010, 1:59pm
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You sure that’s not an outtake from Radio ?
lissener:
My boss gets Oscar screeners, so I watched the DVD a couple weeks ago. All the acting praise has been earned, but the director needs to find another career. Precious was almost as hamhanded as his last movie that mindbogglingly bad in every possible sense Shadowboxer
I thought the same thing. I was offended that he got an Oscar nod. It wasn’t just his emotional choices, but decisions he made with the camera. I was very AWARE that there was a director of the film I was watching. That’s never good.
Was it that famous of a book? I had never heard of it.
RickJay
February 18, 2010, 3:20am
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I have a job and a kid and stuff, it does keep me busy. I never got around to it and had to take it back to avoid “Restocking” fees. I’ll see about it this weekend.
What? Oh, sorry, looks like my chicken got a hold of my passwords. My bad, I thought I’d eaten him. Hmm . . . now I’m wondering what it was I DID eat. . . .
Bwahh! My new favorite movie reviewer reviews ***Shadowboxer ***this week.
One of the big motifs in the movie is ass. Gooding and Dorff both show their ass during sex scenes. Another guy bends over and presents his ass for Cuba-in-drag-pretending-to-be-a-prostitute. Three different heterosexual sex scenes are from behind. Ferlito fingers herself while staring at Gooding’s ass while he’s taking a shower. I guess this makes the movie stand out, it’s not a bad thing. It just loves asses.
