10 Best S/F Films That Never Existed

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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The Dialogue to this article ...

[neonprimetime]

A: Do you remember seeing that one?
B: No
A: Me neither ... but it was good
B: Yeah, Totally

Re:As an independent filmmaker...

[radish]

Two suggestions:

(a) Move to Germany
(b) Change your name to Uwe Boll

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Plus, I just have to copy and paste this quote for Snow Crash, I think it's hilarious because it's completely true:

"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live,devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad."

So true, so true.

Best quote from the article

[s20451]

Everyone remembers the exact moment when they realized that their Phanom Menace sandwich was filled with shit.

I think that would make a good Slashdot poll. When did you realize that George Lucas had defecated on your childhood memories?

- Opening sequence: "The taxation of trade routes to outlying systems is in dispute."
- First appearance of Jar Jar
- First mention of midi-chlorians
- The creepy virgin birth thingy
- First appearance of the annoying brat who played young Anikin
- First appearance of the wooden teen-aged brat who played older Anikin
- ???