Yeah that one was a surprise. But he got Prophet and Supreme to go places.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 27 April 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link
akiva goldsman is like the rob liefeld of film so it's a match made in heaven, really
― ben "bance" bance (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 April 2017 12:17 (seven years ago) link
Wouldn't that be Michael Bay? A Beautiful Mind and A Winter's Tale aren't very Liefeldian.
Piers Anthony was another surprise, they'd have to radically change so much.
Michel Faber getting more screen adaptations is also weird.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 27 April 2017 12:26 (seven years ago) link
there are plenty of claimants to the crown of 'cinema's liefeld' but goldsman seems to have a similar level of ongoing success despite appealing to no-one i've ever met irl
― ben "bance" bance (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 April 2017 12:31 (seven years ago) link
Akiva Goldsman: A Class Act
― How many gigabyte is in trilobites (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 April 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
Wow that list of upcoming sci-fi/fantasy projects pretty much veers between rubbish and remakes of stuff that's already been made, often both.
― écorché (S-), Friday, 28 April 2017 02:08 (seven years ago) link
It's also completely meaningless - the majority of these will never see the light of day.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 28 April 2017 08:20 (seven years ago) link
― écorché (S-), Friday, 28 April 2017 03:08
How many of those books have you read? Some of them are just released this spring. Has to be plenty of good stuff in there that hasn't been adapted. We Have Always Lived In The Castle is good but it's just barely horror, with no fantasy elements.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 28 April 2017 13:34 (seven years ago) link
Park Chan Wook's Stoker actually reminded me of it a bit.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 28 April 2017 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Grant Morrison on Brave New World is interesting. Hasn't had much luck with TV/movie stuff though
― Number None, Saturday, 29 April 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
I thought Trainspotting 2 was a good faithful sequel, what was the consensus?
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Friday, 9 June 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
I thought it was horrendous
― Number None, Friday, 9 June 2017 06:26 (six years ago) link
Still haven't seen it, but the consensus is good to great (depending on whether you think we don't get enough exploration of male mid life crises).
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 9 June 2017 07:53 (six years ago) link
It's dramatically inert and visually repugnant (has that same nauseating digital look that all of Boyle's latter-day work does) and 90% of it is half-hearted callbacks to the original movie. Felt almost aggressively pointless to me
― Number None, Friday, 9 June 2017 09:26 (six years ago) link
Somehow I missed this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZwkStRlou4
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
Why
― Gravy Zebra (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
Because the script was probably written in 1992
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
Cop and a Half 2: Lou Diamond Phillips Has Some Expensive Landscaping in Mind
― Always Be Cropdusting (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
Is this Scorsese batman thing a hoax or what
― streeps of range (wins), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 10:03 (six years ago) link
Scouse I heard
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 10:55 (six years ago) link
Either I missed Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle when I was setting up the poll or (more likely) it wasn't listed on Wiki yet. Either way, it sounds awful (and racist), but I have to admit that I kind of appreciate that it apparently starts out as a Breakfast Club ripoff before developing a needlessly complicated plot about body-swapping avatars. More here:
http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2017/12/jumanji-welcome-to-the-jungle.html
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Monday, 25 December 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
Some of the reviewers giving extremely positive accounts of this travesty must have been paid off generously.
― calzino, Monday, 25 December 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/movie-review-jumanji-2017.html
― El Tomboto, Monday, 25 December 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link