I think you mean “Duly noted for future reference, O Dork King!”
If somebody makes an adaptation you hate, what’s the point of melodramatically declaring that it didn’t happen? Silly and childish.
I wish the Sci-Fi Channel hadn’t done their abysmal movie (or mini-series, I forget which) loosely based on Phil Farmer’s great “Riverworld” series of books. But they did.
It’s a joke, dear. We ape descended life forms like them sometimes.
It’s a joke. Have you heard of jokes? We use them to keep from slitting our wrists while watching the nightly news.
WhyNot, I really resent it when you copy my posts, then use your time machine to skip back 60 seconds so that you can post first. Not only is doing so dangerous to the space-time continuum and DIRECTLY responsible not merely for the current credit crisis and also the disappearance of the all-musical, all-nude episode of Firefly that aired only on Showtime, but it makes me look silly.
I’m sorry. I’ll try to have done better last time.
Sure you will. That’s what you said, or rather will say, the last (next) 10 times. You polyamorists NEVER stop until the Big Bang starts undoing itself and I have to drop EVERY DAMN THING I’M DOING to stop it from not happening.
1999’s remake of The Haunting by Jan de Bont was brain-scrapingly wretched in comparison to both Shirley Jackson’s novel and Robert Wise’s 1963 film. I wish someone would go back in time and stop de Bont’s movie from happening, or at least keep me from paying to see it.
Did that really annoy you, though? True, they just stuck the book title on the movie, but would the book have made a good movie?
By your criterion, I would have to vote for To Live and Die in L.A. Great movie, but how they got there is a mystery to me.
I hated the Earthsea adaptation; they didn’t miss the basic themes, they completely perverted them.
I’ve never seen Starship Troopers so I wouldn’t know, but Blade Runner doesn’t seem any further from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to me than most screen adaptations of novels. It’s certainly not the most true-to-the-book movie ever, but it’s far from the least. A lot of things are left out or simplified and the Rachel character is quite different, but there’s a clear relationship between the broad plot and themes of the movie and those of the book.
Everyone is a citizen in the world of Starship Troopers. Everyone has the right to free speech, to own property, to start a business, etc. What you have to earn is the right to vote. To earn that right you have to spend two years of your life in federal service. If you choose to do so they, the government, has to allow you to serve and find a place where you can. It isn’t easy, though. If you are not willing to serve then why should you be allowed to vote? A debatable point, to be sure.
Thank you for the cite, silenus (all my 3-law short stories are hidden away in a box), but
Harlan Ellison? :dubious:
Harlan Ellison. He wrote a script, with Asimov’s approval, for a movie of “I, Robot”. He wrote a great script which was, therefore, never used. (Okay, Ellison telling a studio mogul that he had the brains of an artichoke might have had something to do with the decision.)
But the script has been published in book format, so you can see how good it would have been.
Harlan wrote the screenplay of the book, with Isaac’s blessing. (He modeled it after Citizen Kane.) The cinematic abortion we got was, apparently, a script that someone had written when folks realized that there could be legal issues with Asimov’s estate, rather than changing the script, or optioning Harlan’s they simply bought the rights to the name, did an “auto replace” on the names in the script and filmed it.
Harlan’s script has been published, both as a serial in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and as a standalone book. Well worth picking up if you can find it.
I did not know that. But to know what Ms. Calvin looked like, we of course should go back to Isaac Asimov’s words. If I have time this week-end I’ll dig out my Asimov collection.
I liked the book,my mates liked the book we all of us totally loathed the movie.
you are to date, the only person I have ever come across who thought that the movie was good.
Every adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde ever (except the one movie not named after it to preserve the twist. I, Monster).
What – you didn’t like the Rouben Mamoulian/Fredric March version? That was a heckuva movie, and pretty faithful to the book.
I suspect you’ll find there aren’t many. Well, wait, of course there are lots of words, but few of them describe Ms. Calvin. Good ol’ Uncle Isaac wasn’t really one for the detailed characterizations. I’ve been digging through my collection, and coming up pretty short. Nothing that contradicts Ellison’s vision, anyhow.
The Wizard of Oz
It wasn’t a dream.