The Disaster artist was about a real movie called "the room" which was so bad, it was comical. This was a decent flick though. It's funny how a movie about a really shitty movie, actually turns out better than the movie it's about. |
Room however is a good movie
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Originally Posted by aidandj
(Post 1478212)
Super troopera 2 was amazing.
Originally Posted by z31maniac
(Post 1478219)
That's good to hear, the previews I've seen made me not too interested in seeing it.
Originally Posted by aidandj
(Post 1478220)
Same. I was expecting the usual sequels failure. But it was just like to first one with a few call backs to the original, funny jokes and Canadian accents.
Originally Posted by RavePolice
(Post 1479236)
Super Troopers 2 on 4/20, seemed like a no brainer, so I went to the movies for the first time in 3 years... and fell asleep halfway through. A dark room with a comfy recliner and there isn't a chance I'll make it through. The first half gets a thumbs up tho. :doh:
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Historically, I have used The Hunt for Red October as a broad generalization for the whole "the book was better than the movie" trope.
That changed today. Ready Player One was a fantastic novel, and a messy, partial-birth abortion of a film. The kind where the fetus is still twitching when the abortionist rams the needle into the base of its skull. My best guess is that the screenwriter and director were briefly shown a picture of the front cover of the book, and then given several million dollars and a suitcase full of dead ferrets from which to create the movie. The usual advice in situations such as this is "Read the book first, then watch the film." Well, read the book, but do not watch the film. Life is too precious of a commodity to waste two hours of it in this manner. This film makes Faster & Furiouser-er look like Academy Award material by comparison. This is, without question, the worst translation of a good book into cinematic form which I have ever witnessed. |
For me, "Dune" exemplified that whole book vs movie "thing" (ie. book=>great, movie=>shite).
I watched the movie first when I was young because the Dune books are regarded as one of the best Sci-Fi series (Star Wars stole lots of stuff from it) but came out of the movie wondering WTF was that all about? I've now read the original trilogy (actually 6 books in the "trilogy", Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapter House Dune are worth reading several time because they're great), the two sets of prequel trilogies (3 books in each of these trilogies), and the last 2 disappointing sequels. I now understand why Dune was such a great Sci-Fi book series and the only reason to watch the movie is to learn how to pronounce some of the obscure names in the books. There's just not enough time in a movie to do most books justice or even make sense when watched on their own - the Lord of the Rings series came close, you can watch them on their own without reading the books (but you do miss a LOT). |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1486057)
Historically, I have used The Hunt for Red October as a broad generalization for the whole "the book was better than the movie" trope.
That changed today. Ready Player One was a fantastic novel, and a messy, partial-birth abortion of a film. The kind where the fetus is still twitching when the abortionist rams the needle into the base of its skull. My best guess is that the screenwriter and director were briefly shown a picture of the front cover of the book, and then given several million dollars and a suitcase full of dead ferrets from which to create the movie. The usual advice in situations such as this is "Read the book first, then watch the film." Well, read the book, but do not watch the film. Life is too precious of a commodity to waste two hours of it in this manner. This film makes Faster & Furiouser-er look like Academy Award material by comparison. This is, without question, the worst translation of a good book into cinematic form which I have ever witnessed. Joe, have you read armada yet? very "Last Starfighter" I watched SOLO with Y8s over the weekend. Was very good; probably best movie I've seen in a while. Also, I tried watching both Black Panther and Justice League on the plane -- had to turn both off talk about abortions. |
Netflix mailed me “Death Wish” last weekend. Not the original Charles Bronson bad ass one...the Bruce Willis remake. This was a joke. Typical dad’s at work...robbery happens while daughter and Mom are home movie...shit happens, Dad gets revenge on society. However, this was a prime example of the worst acting I’ve seen Bruce Willis in since the shitty Expendables franchise. Personally, I’d rather watch a season of Jersey Shore. That’s how bad I felt this movie was. |
Originally Posted by Braineack
(Post 1486105)
Joe, have you read armada yet? very "Last Starfighter"
But I shall check it out. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1486609)
I have not. Started reading Artemis again last night. An excellent second act from the author of The Martian.
But I shall check it out. |
Originally Posted by Gee Emm
(Post 1486610)
I'll disagree here - compared to 'Martian', I'd give it a 6, maybe 7 if I was feeling generous.
It's definitely a very different style of storytelling, but I felt like the characters were reasonably well-developed and the plot neither plodding not rushed. Granted, it's hard to follow-up something as huge as Martian, but I felt like it was a solid entry in what I hope will be a long bibliography. |
I though the first book was extremely well put together, very convincing in both characters and technology. This one did not suck me in the way the first did, and I thought the characters less convincing.
I'd be happy to see more, and hopefully he can be increasingly successful in what is basically generic fictional story telling. But I'd be suggesting to him that he tell stories more 'Martian'-like, using more of the NASA knowledge base, like the first manned mission to Jupiter or Saturn or ... something out there, or some permutation of manned exploration. As you say, settler stories are different, and on the evidence not where his strengths lie (IMHO). |
I can see your point as to how Martian seemed more plausibly grounded in real-world technology. In that light, I read Artemis more in the way one might have read 2001 back in 1968. Clearly very futuristic, but a picture of a potentially real future, unlike, say, the fantasy world of Star Trek.
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I ripped through Ready Player One when it came out. So much fun.
Then I started reading Armada when it came out. Wow, was it bad. Honestly some of the worst prose I'd ever read. The dialogue was particularly painful. Bad enough that I went back to reread RPO out of curiosity. Got about 30 pages in and realized it's just about as bad. I just didn't realize it the first time because I was so caught up in the nostalgia and pace. I sold my signed Advanced Reader's Copy of RPO for $160 on eBay. Selling my signed first edition of Armada if anyone is interested. |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 1486710)
Then I started reading Armada when it came out. Wow, was it bad. Honestly some of the worst prose I'd ever read. The dialogue was particularly painful. Bad enough that I went back to reread RPO out of curiosity.
Armada is bad. It's not just the prose, it's the whole underlying concept. RPO was every bit as guilty of being a deliberate nostalgia-fest for kids who grew up as nerds in the 80s, but it was at least set in a plausibly dystopian future. The backdrop of Armada is just way too over-the-top. This is like the kind of adventure novels we used to read as kids, where some random teen discovers he's mankind's only hope, except we're not fucking kids anymore, Cline. I'm done. Going back to Clancy where I left off, which was right after Red Storm Rising. I will not be re-reading RPO, because I want to remember it as having been pretty good. |
RPO the movie stunk.
again, because 2018 -- they completely changed the story to create a heroine. because #waronmen. It didn't even make sense for Wade to win the game based on the movie. This should have been an amazing 2-3 part movie series. But Spielberg is a horrible human being and just in it for the money. Source: every one of his movies in recent history. I didn't think Armada the book was great or anything, i just thought it was a fun read. I've started reading the Mitch Rapp series. I've grown very tired of Grisham books of late, he just phones them in and they are very predictable. Same with Baldacci and Cussler. |
Originally Posted by Braineack
(Post 1489368)
Going back to Clancy where I left off, which was right after Red Storm Rising.
I've started reading the Mitch Rapp series. I've grown very tired of Grisham books of late, he just phones them in and they are very predictable. Same with Baldacci and Cussler. Cussler is 86 now... don't think he's actually doing much writing anymore. I'm a few books into Flynn's Mitch Rapp series. They're OK... entertaining, but nothing stupendous. If you like crime/murder mystery stuff, you might try John Sanford's Prey series. |
Originally Posted by Braineack
(Post 1489368)
RPO the movie stunk.
Originally Posted by Roda
(Post 1489378)
Red Storm Rising is still one of my favorite Clancy books. You still have some great reads to get to, but don't waste your time with anything published after he passed. Even the two with Jack Ryan's kid as the hero are a little on the weak side. Nobody did realistic and plausible as well as Clancy.
Funny thing that you mention Cussler. I used to devour his stuff as airplane reading but, again, lost interest right around the time he started putting his name on other peoples' novels. And, of course, I still have And Another Thing... sitting on the shelf mocking me. I'm afraid to read it because: A: Then it will officially be over, and B: I'm afraid it might suck. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1489395)
Funny thing that you mention Cussler. I used to devour his stuff as airplane reading but, again, lost interest right around the time he started putting his name on other peoples' novels.
I remember driving to update NY with my family back as a kid, when books on tape were a new thing. Parents listened to Inca Gold--was my first book-on-tape, and it's still stuck with me today. I've read his entire catalog up until the Issac Bell series -- they were just too blah and quit read him after the Gangster. Baldacci has been good reading, and I like that he's local and mentions places where I live often in his novels. When I first started the finisher, i was like wtf, did i get the wrong book? but im pretty sure he was trying to get a book to movie and make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ |
Originally Posted by Braineack
(Post 1489368)
I've started reading the Mitch Rapp series. I've grown very tired of Grisham books of late, he just phones them in and they are very predictable. Same with Baldacci and Cussler.
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