Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

[therapist]

Yeah... that seems to be all it has.

[DiegoSapiens]

still Lynch's version is cool imo.

i like the atmosphere and if the film was like 4 hours it would be cool but is so fucking incoherent everything after the comercial cut

[hubb]

yeah I like incohere.. what were we just talking abou.. uhhh yeah

[joeki]

I think the Lynch version certainly has its moments (in atmosphere mostly as others have stated, and a great soundtrack), but overall the movie was pretty crappy, like a pretty cool B-movie. It has its place in sci-fi but this failed Jodorowsky attempt just looks like it was going to be the shit.

Strangely I read the Incal (graphic novel) many moons ago and found it unremarkable.

[DiegoSapiens]

you didn't like the Incal?!?!?!?!'!?

[wolf89]

Jodorowsky's Dune would have been an amazing film but a really shit Dune film.

[hubb]

Yeah probably if 1:1 is the idea. I dont think it is with film though.

It's an interesting discussion, but I can't remember a good book turning into a good film.
And you can't really ruin a book by seeing the film first imo. Only the other way around, which is something people rarely say. Like GOT, was a bit silly to me but my mate kept on trying to get me to read the book and now I enjoy both.

But agreed dune as a book is something really special.



Oh and dont front on sting when hes trying to look like a raver.

[wolf89]

I'm saying that because Jodorowsky has basically said that the film would have been nothing like the book in any way not because I don't think it could be as good. Like a bad adaptation in the sense it's inaccurate not bad. I have no doubt it would have been an awesome film.

[DiegoSapiens]

It's an interesting discussion, but I can't remember a good book turning into a old film

clockwork orange? (the film is very different from the book though)

[joeki]

That's usually it though, the book has to differ from the movie. A true book adaptation into a movie has, to my experience, never been very good.

When the movie does its own thing do, it can be awesome

Solyaris (lem) => Solyaris (tarkovsky)
A Roadside Picnic (Strugatsky) => Stalker (tarkovsky)
Clockwork Orange (Burgess) => Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
Heart of Darkness (conrad) => Apocalypse now (Kubrick = ok but if a leap that one).

True adaptations have never worked for me. Examples; The Road, I am Legend (ok maybe not a true adaptation), Ender's Game etc.

[hubb]

It's an interesting discussion, but I can't remember a good book turning into a old film

clockwork orange? (the film is very different from the book though)

old ?

[hubb]

Solyaris (tarkovsky)

is probably one of the best things humans have done in my book ( !)

[DiegoSapiens]

It's an interesting discussion, but I can't remember a good book turning into a old film

clockwork orange? (the film is very different from the book though)

old ?

dunno why i have read good instead of old

[DiegoSapiens]

Heart of Darkness (conrad) => Apocalypse now (Kubrick = ok but if a leap that one).

ugh

[joeki]

Hey man, that's because clockwork orange was above it and I was at work..as you noticed there was a lot wrong in that post that's what happens when you peak at forums in a totalitarian work environment.

Seriously...

[hubb]

It's an interesting discussion, but I can't remember a good book turning into a old film

clockwork orange? (the film is very different from the book though)

old ?

dunno why i have read good instead of old

[DiegoSapiens]

Hey man, that's because clockwork orange was above it and I was at work..as you noticed there was a lot wrong in that post that's what happens when you peak at forums in a totalitarian work environment.

Seriously...

hahaha

[wub]

Outland


Capricorn One

[magma]

I can't find the recommendation now, but someone suggested The Believer (2001) last week and it's very good.

[wysockisauce]

Star Trek Insurrection

Fountain of youth b2b eminent domain.

There are many episodes of the show that are better than this "movie". Just about every aspect is underwhelming. The thing that stood out the most to me was the amount of cheese in this film. One liners and "cute" androids a plenty.

2/10

On a side note, I'm sad to see the direction the franchise has taken. It would have been awesome to see some hard sci-fi set in the star trek universe.