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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dichotomy on July 18, 2008, 03:12:28 PM
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If they'd do it right and stick to the book.
Pick your cast and director
Without Remorse - Directed by Ridley Scott
John Kelly / Clark – Eric Bana
Patricia Kelly – Kate Beckinsale
Pam – Keri Russell
Robin Zacharias – Chris Klein
Colonel Nikolai Yevgenievich Grishanov – Nicholas Cage
Henry Tucker – Denzel Washington
Tony Piaggi – Michael Imperioli
Major Vinh – Duong Don
Sandy O’Toole – Monica Potter
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If they'd do it right and stick to the book.
Pick your cast and director
Without Remorse - Directed by Ridley Scott
John Kelly / Clark – Eric Bana
Patricia Kelly – Kate Beckinsale
Pam – Keri Russell
Robin Zacharias – Chris Klein
Colonel Nikolai Yevgenievich Grishanov – Nicholas Cage
Henry Tucker – Denzel Washington
Tony Piaggi – Michael Imperioli
Major Vinh – Duong Don
Sandy O’Toole – Monica Potter
I always thought Tom Berenger would be the quintessential John Clark. Far better than Willem Defoe in Clear and Present Danger. Sadly, too old to play a younger John Kelly. :(
Good call on Monica Potter :aok
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I'll bet you're all praying for me to get busy at work again aren't you? :t
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I'll bet you're all praying for me to get busy at work again aren't you? :t
You?? What about me?
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series (hot scantily clad martian woman!)
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You?? What about me?
Steel industry?
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Steel industry?
Lockheed Martin. Just feeling very non-productive. :D
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Used to work at General Dynamics so I understand
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series (hot scantily clad martian woman!)
Only if they could make the whole movie look like Frazetta did it. :aok
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Used to work at General Dynamics so I understand
Can't say I actually worked :D, but I was employed by GD for several years.
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I remember getting paid an absurd amount of money to put airplane parts in plastic bags before I joined the white collar ranks. Ahhh the good old days :)
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I remember getting paid an absurd amount of money to put airplane parts in plastic bags before I joined the white collar ranks. Ahhh the good old days :)
Been white collar from Day One. Never made absurd money. :(
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can comics count? :)
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can comics count? :)
Sure seem to lately.
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can comics count? :)
of course
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Been white collar from Day One. Never made absurd money. :(
Nothing quite like coming in over the Christmas Holidays on a Saturday making triple time and having maybe 2 hours of work to do on an 8 hour shift. Back then I thought that was the cats rear end. Now I'm thinking 'gee no wonder that plane costs 18 bazillion dollars a copy'
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Foundation trilogy
Hyperion series (which are actually rumored to be prepared)
But i seriously doubt that anyone can ever be satisfied with a movie after reading a book.
Ahh great, now i have to read the books again. :lol
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series (hot scantily clad martian woman!)
Agreed.
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The Garden of Rama
Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke :aok
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come on you have to set up the cast and the director moeron...
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I'd like to see the rest of the Dune series be turned into a MINI SERIES.
However, I've just recently heard that they are remaking the original Dune on regular movie.
Listen up hollywood. Listen up good. They pretty much nailed the Dune Miniseries (especially the directors cut). The original dune from 1984 was so bad that it has become a classic among humor enthusiasts.
You can't possibly make it better, or worse than what has already been made.
I'll probably go see it anyway.
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Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger. Dont ask why I just like the book and think it could make a great movie.
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can comics count? :)
of course
How's this?
Gunslinger Girl
Set in modern-day Italy, Gunslinger Girl follows the exploits of the Social Welfare Agency (often referred to as simply The Agency), ostensibly a charitable institution sponsored by the Italian government. While the Agency professes to aid the rehabilitation of the physically injured, it is actually a military organization specializing in counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.
It comprises two independent branches, Public Safety and Special Ops, with Public Safety being its surveillance and intelligence-gathering arm and Special Ops its anti-terrorist division. Special Ops is itself divided into Sections 1 and 2, the latter of which employs young girls fitted with cybernetic implants as agents. The implants, which consist of synthesized muscles and carbon fiber frames, result in heightened strength and reflexes as well as high resilience to damage and pain.
Each girl is paired with a male trainer, or handler, and together they are referred to as a fratello (Italian for brother). The handler is responsible for the training, welfare and field performance of his charge, and is free to use whatever methods he considers suitable. While these methods vary according to the handler, a common part of each girl's regimen is brainwashing called conditioning, which produces a deadly assassin with unquestioning loyalty to her handler.
Black Lagoon
The story follows a team of mercenaries known as Lagoon Company, who smuggle goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional city of Roanapur in Thailand, and they transport goods in the PT boat Black Lagoon. When on land, they move around and conduct business using Benny's 1969 Dodge Coronet R/T (with a '69 Plymouth Roadrunner side-scoop induction hood). Lagoon Company does business with various clients, but has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations and when not doing much, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur.
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Books I'd like to see made into movies.
Jurassic Park (No it hasnt. If you read the book you know very well that the book. And the movie are entirely different stories)
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea: Steven Callahan
Whip - Martin Caidin (the purists here would probably hate it but it was a fun story)
(http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n8/n42112.jpg)
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Books I'd like to see made into movies.
Jurassic Park (No it hasnt. If you read the book you know very well that the book. And the movie are entirely different stories)
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea: Steven Callahan
Whip - Martin Caidin (the purists here would probably hate it but it was a fun story)
(http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n8/n42112.jpg)
I completely agree with the Jurassic Park thing, I've read most of his books and all of them would make great movies. But damn them to hell if they stray from the plot, the book makes it interesting enough as it is.
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hmmmm....has jenna jameson written any books?
:cool:
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Ender's Game
Tiger's in the Mud
Red Storm Rising
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I completely agree with the Jurassic Park thing, I've read most of his books and all of them would make great movies. But damn them to hell if they stray from the plot, the book makes it interesting enough as it is.
Thats the thing.
They didnt need to stray from the plot.
Yea the book. any book is always better then the movie.
I know that when I went to see it BEFORE reading the book.
thats why I did it that way.
Loved the movie.
Actually still like the movie.
But after I read the book I was royally pissed that they didnt make the movie like the book.
Far as Im concerned they are practially two entirely different stories.
Cept for a few minor moments. the only thing either have in common is they both have dinosaurs. and the names of the charators.
Although I found Malcom just as annoying in the book as he was in the movie
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Anything written by Alan Furst...
WWII spy novels at their best...