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War of the Worlds Remake
subtropolis writes "The Guardian has an article about a remake of the classic. Spielberg directing, T. Cruise acting. The guy who did Jurassic Park I & II did the screenplay. Anyone else think Bruce Sterling would've been a good choice for that? Quoth the article: 'While HG Wells was an enthusiastic supporter of many of the film adaptations of his work, the likely attitude that Orson Welles might have had to another director taking one of the works with which he became most closely associated, can only be a matter of conjecture.'"
My dodctor told me to stop that lest I go blind. And when I say doctor, I mean the leather-clad woman I pay money to for various services.
Movies fall into two catagories. Good and entertaining.
You forgot the categories of "boring", "insipid", "dreck", "what the Hell were they thinking", "I wish death upon all those who stole 2 hours on my life" and "Affleckted".
If you lucky you get a movie that is both.
Obligatory Hollywood Level Humor: And I may crap a gold turd. [laughtrack]
If you, you, or you did Jurassic Park ( for example) it would have been completely different than the way I would have done it. Everyone has thier own idea of how something should be done. Not everyone has the same taste.
Can't disagree here. My Jurassic Park would have had more flying monkeys, biker lesbians, fractal math and Reese's breakfast cereal. Just like the book... if I'm thinking of the right book. It's the one with the thing, right? You know, the big green thing with the little bits along the side that went all "woop woop" if you rubbed them.
And just think.
No! It hurts!
Some kid who goes and sees the remake of War Of The Worlds could be inspired to make movies when they get older that you WILL want to watch.
Or they may make Brown Bunny 2040.
--- Ban humanity.
"Migration" implies they will be going back.
We have and illegal EMIGRATION problem.
What worries me isn't the Mexicans coming here for work (though they should be at least registering somewhere), it's the terrorists that can (and probably do) use the same routes.