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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Entertainment => Topic started by: T_Bone on July 20, 2004, 10:57:31 AM
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Sucked :-(
Where the hell were the moving sidewalks??? Replaced by normal ROADS! sheesh.
"Go forth and sin no more!" removed.
Even Will Smith couldn't save this abomination, and IMO this movie brought him down too.
The whole damned movie was watered down.
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For {bleep}'s sake, can't hollywood produce a good SF book-to-film adaption for once! :pissed:.
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Yet another turkey doing an injustice to a great book or concept. So far we have
1) Battlefield Earth - awful...
2) Rendezvous with Rama - just when is this going to be released?
3) Armageddon / Deep Impact - Why wasn't Niven & Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer dramatised instead?
4) War of the Worlds (1953) - Took a great novel and turned it into anti-communist paranoia
5) U571 - Doesn't strictly belong in this list but the film offended me so deeply it couldn't be ignored. Hollywood re-wrote history and snubbed the Royal Navy's recovery of the Enigma Machine for a slightly more "audience friendly" plot where the US Navy takes credit. An insult of the highest order.
6) The Matrix Reloaded / Revolutions - Should have stopped at the original, guys.
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I haven't seen a decent Sci-Fi movie get out of Hollywood since Final Fantasy. Seems that they (Hollywood) has decided to kill the genre with louse crap. :-x
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whabang wrote:
I haven't seen a decent Sci-Fi movie get out of Hollywood since Final Fantasy. Seems that they (Hollywood) has decided to kill the genre with louse crap. :-x
:-D
The last decent one before that was probably Event Horizon about 7 years ago...
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Hum,
a bit thin on the ground nowadays,
But i hear that Doom3 the movie is coming...
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PMC wrote:
Yet another turkey doing an injustice to a great book or concept. So far we have
5) U571 - Doesn't strictly belong in this list but the film offended me so deeply it couldn't be ignored. Hollywood re-wrote history and snubbed the Royal Navy's recovery of the Enigma Machine for a slightly more "audience friendly" plot where the US Navy takes credit. An insult of the highest order.
And what's often overlooked is that it was a Polish team that actually helped crack the code (IIRC). I bet that wasn't in the film either...
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PMC wrote:
5) U571 - Doesn't strictly belong in this list but the film offended me so deeply it couldn't be ignored. Hollywood re-wrote history and snubbed the Royal Navy's recovery of the Enigma Machine for a slightly more "audience friendly" plot where the US Navy takes credit. An insult of the highest order.
Don't you mean "American audience friendly"? :-P
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At the end of the day, its ignorant film making for an ignorant audience (I don't mean the Americans, I mean all the people who watch that kind of tripe)
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Vincent wrote:
Don't you mean "American audience friendly"? :-P
Exactly. It's easier to market to them that way, bugger history and all...
Tom Cruise is reputedly working on a dramatisation of a true story about an American serving with the RAF during the Battle of Britain.
All very good so far, until it transpires that the actual pilot in question didn't score a kill during the entire conflict. I wonder how much "artistic license" Hollywood will take with this one?
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And what's often overlooked is that it was a Polish team that actually helped crack the code (IIRC). I bet that wasn't in the film either...
Fun thing is that Swedish cryptographers ha dthe code during the entire war. I belive they tapped the allied transmissions aswell. :\
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Hum,
i believe the germans had the code too...
The only ppl not to have the code was the americans....
Anyway this is a link to Alan Turing (http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/) webpage...
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whabang wrote:
I haven't seen a decent Sci-Fi movie get out of Hollywood since Final Fantasy.
Yeah, Final Fantasy was excellent, except for the dialog, and the plot.
Aki is yummy. There are some test renders around somewhere of Aki nude.
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blobrana wrote:
Hum,
i believe the germans had the code too...
:roflmao:
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blobrana wrote:
Hum,
a bit thin on the ground nowadays,
But i hear that Doom3 the movie is coming...
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is shooting and scheduled for summer 2005.
link (http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/upgrade.html)
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blobrana wrote:
Hum,
i believe the germans had the code too...
The only ppl not to have the code was the americans....
Anyway this is a link to Alan Turing (http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/) webpage...
Bletchley Park... Cradle of computing as we know it!
Actually, I heard somewhere that a Pole was responsible for building a wooden replica of the Enigma Machine's internal gearing, but before it could be smuggled into allied hands the Royal Navy had captured a U Boat intact before it had the chance to transmit a distress signal and for all the codes to be changed. Even with the actual machine, breaking the code was half the story as the code books were needed.
Hence the development of electronic computers for code breaking purposes courtesy of Turing et al.
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FluffyMcDeath wrote:
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is shooting and scheduled for summer 2005.
link (http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/upgrade.html)
WAAAAAHOOOOOO!
:-D
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PMC wrote:
Hence the development of electronic computers for code breaking purposes courtesy of Turing et al.
Turing et al? I thought it was Mel Gibson who invented the computer? Oh, no, he was the one who defeated the English at Bannockburn.
It must have been Tom Cruise then, he invented the computer...
Oh, and didn't Tom Hanks single-handedly defeat the Nazis?
/sarky
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FluffyMcDeath wrote:
blobrana wrote:
Hum,
a bit thin on the ground nowadays,
But i hear that Doom3 the movie is coming...
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is shooting and scheduled for summer 2005.
link (http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/upgrade.html)
I'll shoot those {bleep}ers if they screw up that movie! :-x :lol:
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FluffyMcDeath wrote:
whabang wrote:
I haven't seen a decent Sci-Fi movie get out of Hollywood since Final Fantasy.
Yeah, Final Fantasy was excellent, except for the dialog, and the plot.
Aki is yummy. There are some test renders around somewhere of Aki nude.
Those were fake, unfortunately. They're just Aki's head and hands pasted onto a real body. Looks crap, BTW.
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Oh, and didn't Tom Hanks single-handedly defeat the Nazis?
Or was it John Wayne? Clint Eastwood? :lD
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I must admit, I think Clint Eastwood rocks.
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Cyberus wrote:
I must admit, I think Clint Eastwood rocks.
Well, he's old, it's probably parkinsons... :-(