10 Best S/F Films That Never Existed

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 14, 2006 @10:19AM from the lament-the-loss-of-these-films dept.

Jamie mentioned (via a Metafilter discussion) a great article entitled The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films that Never Existed. From the piece: "There was a movie that perfectly captured the Douglas Adams experience, the combination of bitter sarcasm and sharp imagination, the droll British wit and whale-exploding slapstick that infused his novels. And that movie was Shaun of the Dead. That movie was not, unfortunately, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a movie that floated around Hollywood for about 20 years before it finally appeared in theaters as a flat, lifeless, americanized lump that was mostly hated by people who liked the book and loathed by people who hated the book. "

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I liked the HHGTG movie by autopr0n · 2006-02-14 11:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Although I'd never read the books and don't plan to. Fuck all ya'll hatas.

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autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
MOD DOWN by jvance · 2006-02-14 20:02 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Oh come down. Every "episode" except "4" was backfill. Star Wars was a one-shot deal, and when it raked in far more than anyone expected, Lucas had to milk more out of an already threadbare Saturday Matinee premise. Intentional? The only thing intentional was an appeal to the demographics needed to pack movie theaters.
The reason Yoda and Obi-Wan didn't teach Jedi culture to Luke was because Lucas hadn't made it up yet.