Your #1 and 2 ALL time Hated Movies?
POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Friday, June 1, 2007 14:31
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:THANK YOU!!!
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There must be two Solaris movies with George clooney, because the one I watched was phenomenal.........Chrisisall
Bump...Chrisisall gave Kaneman a KISS!!! This world just may have a chance...........
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Let's turn this world upside down Chrisisall
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Well both adaptations diverge from the books but the SciFi mini series really watered down the feel of the books. The thing Frank Herbert really emphasized in the Dune Series (and a lot of his other books) was man adapting to his environment. The desert environment in the books was an formidable adversary that would kill within a few hours of exposure. Note the obvious contrast between the water of the Attreides home world and the desert planet Arakis. This environment and having to adapt to it is why the Freeman were such a force to contend with. The BeneGesseret (I know I'm misspelling here) Fear is the Mind Killer can be seen as a theme for the entire book. Man placed in the harshest environment possible and adapts to become more. Paul awakens in this arena. The entire culture of the Freeman centered around fighting off the very elements of the planet. In the mini series, the feel of the desert was like someone just stepped off the highway somewhere in New Mexico and didn't have a sports bottle handy.
Having a stillsuit in the desert was paramount to survival in the books and the movie. Water was life. The hideouts of the freman had sealed hatches to keep the moisture from evaporating from the harsh conditions outside. In the mini series none. They just wanted to keep the wind out.
In other words the mini series left out one of the biggest and meanest characters in the Books and the '84 Movie: the Planet itself. Without that relentless adversary full force pressing the characters, the Mini Series had no real teeth.
"I mean if the only thing you have against it is that it butchered the books shouldn't you hate the 1984 version (which, incidentally, I love) much more?"
Well the 1984 version I loved as well. I had read up to God Emperor of Dune by that time, and I couldn't wait to see the movie. I was dissapointed that so much was left on the cutting room floor but it still captured the feel of the books. It felt like a foreign world and culture that I was visiting. It felt as though thousands of years had passed. There were large swaths of the novel skipped over and Gene Hackman's narration just didn't satisfy, but I still loved it. I wish the movie had delved into the Bene Gessurit, Duncan Idaho and Gurnet Halleck's characters more. They were much more important in the books especially Duncan in the later books. But Dune is a pretty hard story to try to sum up in one movie and cutting an hour or more out of it didn't really help.
From the very first page of the novel you feel emersed in the world he creates. Frank Herbert was very good at that. The Movie did that for me as well. Lynch also used several of the designs Herbert had drawn for the costumes and sets. If you get a copy of the book EYE (might be Frank Herbert's Eye, I haven't looked through it for years) you can see a lot of the sketches Herbert had drawn for the books. Lynch kept the feel of those. Herbert was still alive then so maybe he had some input in the set design/flavor of the film. The mini series is like the producers only read the cliffnotes version, they heard desert planet and thought of the southwestern US. The desert just became a backdrop.
In both the Movie and Mini Series though one thing that still drives me nuts is when they showed the Freman eyes. Melange made the whites of the eyes turn blue but they never were supposed to glow blue! Limits of special effects I know but it still aggrivated me that it wasn't corrected in the mini series version.
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Quote:Agree; and Rambo three was such a cartoon, it made Rambo two look like a documentary.
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I liked Rambo 1, but the rest of the movies were pretty bad.
My war's over Chrisisall
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Speaking of really bad movies...where on the net could I purchase and download Rocky III?
-River
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Alexander *crap* (movie should have a warning)
Flags of Our Fathers *depressing crap*
Fan of battle that I am, those two movies disappointed me the most.
Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. ~ Psalm 144:1
Jayne Cobb: Shepherd Book once said to me, "If you can't do something smart, do something RIGHT."
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#2: Breathless. I know, it's totally a film-student-y answer, but I just absolutely hate everything about that movie. I hated it the first time they made us watch it, and I hated it even more the 4th time they made us watch it.
#1: Underworld. Most boring action movie I've ever seen in my life. "Like The Matrix, but better." Yeah, right.
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Speaking of really bad movies...where on the net could I purchase and download Rocky III?
-River
I checked iTunes. They've got Rocky II (and ONLY Rocky II). Don't know much else about downloading movies.
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Gene Hackman's narration just didn't satisfy,
Ummmm, don't you mean Virginia Madsen?
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well there's 2 movies that i can remember coming out of saying "wtf, i want those hours of my life back" and those were...
1. War of the Worlds
2. X3
and then also one i just refuse to see, napoleon dynamite, i just won't do it.
"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."
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Oh God! I'd totally blacked Event Horizon from my mind. I agree, it made my stomach turn. And not much does that.
I must confess though, I loved Sahara and Battlefield Earth. I've read all the Clive Cussler books, and yes there were major changes, but I think they did a good job with it ( apart from the budget, and the back and forth lawsuits). Battlefield, haven't read the book but I thought it was enjoyable.
I have no trouble separating book from the movie based on said book. Makes things a lot easier to enjoy.
Deb
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