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Even Hulk and Contact got edited by DoDquote:The national security state has a profound, sometimes petty, impact on what Hollywood conveys politically. On Hulk, the DoD requested “pretty radical” script alterations, according to its script notes we obtained through Freedom of Information. These included disassociating the military from the gruesome laboratories that created “a monster” and changing the codename of the operation to capture the Hulk from “Ranch Hand” to “Angry Man”. Ranch Hand had been the name of a real chemical warfare programme during the Vietnam war.
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Some Guy TT posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/Variety/status/1452770252757078025 James Joyce's letters
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The silmarrilion is basically the first version of the eternals
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gradenko_2000 posted:James Joyce's letters 
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I think you could adapt the Silmarillion but not easily into movies and certainly not into a movie
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indigi posted:that’s not really adapting anything from Slaughterhouse V it’s just a completely different thing
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Marvel having a scene where an Eternal laments over letting Hiroshima happen implies they sat down in a park and watched 9/11 happen lmao
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Lucas was playing homage to Vonnegut by also starting the numbering for his series in the middle. Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse prequels would have been dope af tho.
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Knight posted:I'm thinking of the section where Vonnegut is saying he's going to end his book with Derby's execution and O'Hare's wife accuses him of writing a book that will portray them as manly heroes like John Wayne and Frank Sinatra, when they were just "babies," and make war look appealing and heroic and he swears to her it won't be like that. The original is an author talking about his intentions in writing the book in your hands, and you could do a straight translation and have an actor talking about writing the tv/movie you're watching, but if you're really adapting it to the medium it's going to be a production meeting that they don't want to cast Hemsworth or Pratt as the leads. yeah the point of that section isn’t the nuts and bolts of creating a story or spoiling the shocking ending or denigrating the leading men of the day, it’s entirely about how sick and evil our society is to glamorize war and the military and how we’ve created a machine to warp the minds of children who we then send off to die completely ignoring the novel’s major theme at the outset isn’t really an adaptation of it
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Marvel having a scene where an Eternal laments over letting Hiroshima happen implies they sat down in a park and watched 9/11 happen lmao many sides
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If we are talking about nearly unfilmable sci-fi series, I've always thought Tad Williams Otherland was just dumb enough to make an entertaining streaming series. it's got fantasy elements, stupid 90s matrix cyberverse poo poo, socioeconomic conspiracies, and poorly written diverse characters that couple potentially be adapted to good ones that those types of shows love.
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Lol what if they tried to make Xanth movies
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to give a sincere “how to adopt the Silmarillion” answer I think it’d work best as an anthology-type series in the vein of Electric Dreams where you get ten directors and have them make 60-90 minute movies out of individual stories from the Silmarillion (someone does the theft/kinslaying, someone does the lay, someone does the fall etc). let each filmmaker pick what story they want to tell and don’t try to force them into telling the story chronologically. also some stuff like the Narn would obviously be a multi-parter this way it’d feel like a compilation of old mythic tales where they all have their own aesthetic and storytelling style (and takes on different characters who’d pop up in multiple episodes) all still part of the same universe e: also if someone wants to take something Tolkien only mentioned in passing (like Azaghâl) let them do that indigi has issued a correction as of 19:03 on Oct 27, 2021 |
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indigi posted:yeah the point of that section isn’t the nuts and bolts of creating a story or spoiling the shocking ending or denigrating the leading men of the day, it’s entirely about how sick and evil our society is to glamorize war and the military and how we’ve created a machine to warp the minds of children who we then send off to die
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gradenko_2000 posted:Lol what if they tried to make Xanth movies Looks like someone bought the rights to it in 2017, but I dont think the world is libertarian enough for pedofantasies the series yet
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watched david lynch's dune last night after taking the dune pill and, while i love lynch and there was some cool/interesting stuff in there, that poo poo sucked!! the stans for this are about as confounding to me as the star wars prequel stans — sorry this is just no bueno oh well guess i'll go read the book/s now
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also now having watched all of lynch's films i can do a full ranked list (not including Twin Peaks The Return because it would be #1) 1. Mulholland Drive 2. The Straight Story 3. Eraserhead 4. Inland Empire 5. Lost Highway 6. Twin Peaks FWWM 7. Blue Velvet 8. The Elephant Man 9. Wild at Heart 10. Dune
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:watched david lynch's dune last night after taking the dune pill and, while i love lynch and there was some cool/interesting stuff in there, that poo poo sucked!! the stans for this are about as confounding to me as the star wars prequel stans — sorry this is just no bueno 1984 Dune seems only enjoyable if you never read Dune or watched 2021 Dune beforehand
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DesertIslandHermit posted:1984 Dune seems only enjoyable if you never read Dune or watched 2021 Dune beforehand that's me! and i didn't really enjoy it
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:watched david lynch's dune last night after taking the dune pill and, while i love lynch and there was some cool/interesting stuff in there, that poo poo sucked!! the stans for this are about as confounding to me as the star wars prequel stans — sorry this is just no bueno thats mostly cined where criticism something is "making GBS threads on it". that movie is generally considered crap for a reason
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Judakel posted:thats mostly cined where criticism something is "making GBS threads on it". that movie is generally considered crap for a reason i'm seeing it on twitter too though like i think from (prob unsurprisingly) leslie lee and some others
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:i'm seeing it on twitter too though like i think from (prob unsurprisingly) leslie lee and some others leslie lee looks like a turtle. turtles don't mean poo poo to me
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every big media release that comes out nowadays is primarily an opportunity for twitter people to practice their hot take technique. there are now entire franchise fandoms based solely off the satisfaction of being a contrarian about them online
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one thing i've learned from following leslie — do NOT call him a "contrarian." it elicits the same reaction as calling marty mcfly "chicken" poo poo he'll probably find this and rant about it on twitter i've already said too much
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Srice posted:when the suicide squad came out a few months back james gunn re-litigated the scorsese thing again and said that scorsese only hates marvel movies for the attention, dude is totally bitchmade comic book movie people are this personified: 
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Judakel posted:thats mostly cined where criticism something is "making GBS threads on it". that movie is generally considered crap for a reason also I can fully criticize or poo poo on something while simultaneously enjoying it, it doesn’t have to be a binary is Wild Wild West one of the dumbest most ridiculous movies of all time? absolutely. do I enjoy when Will Smith and Kenneth Branagh do problematic jokes at each other? buddy I’m giggling just thinking about it I had a lot of problems with Dune but I still enjoyed my experience, that’s why I gave it an above average rating
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Is it better to watch Dune or The French Dispatch first? To really get the full experience?
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i like the sound guns in lynch's dune and wow is that ever a hot take in nerd circles
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indigi posted:burger Kingo
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DesertIslandHermit posted:1984 Dune seems only enjoyable if you never read Dune or watched 2021 Dune beforehand I read the books and watched the tv miniseries 'frank Herbert's dune' (which is p good!) before I watched Dune and I thought it ruled  Then I saw DUNC, and enjoyed it! But my ranking is still the same indigi posted:also I can fully criticize or poo poo on something while simultaneously enjoying it, it doesn’t have to be a binary 
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Trabisnikof posted:Even Hulk and Contact got edited by DoD The DoD is covering up the Dark Forest
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there's a lot to love about lynch dune, and those gems are easier to spot when you can compare it against a newer take on the material the harkonnens in lynch dune are great. the sandworms actually look pretty good. lynch actually gets through the entire book and it mostly makes sense, although it requires a *lot* of voiceover. as previously mentioned, the guild navigator is a gem. on the other hand, the shields look very bad. the sound guns are very silly
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Aglet56 posted:there's a lot to love about lynch dune, and those gems are easier to spot when you can compare it against a newer take on the material all i remember about the lynch version is he tried to hit a bunch of homeruns. some worked (harkonnens, guild navigator), some were strikeouts ( weirding module) also i really should watch the 3 movies of his that i haven't, since i've seen the bottom 5 on that goonlist but only 2 of the top 5
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mastershakeman posted:also i really should watch the 3 movies of his that i haven't, since i've seen the bottom 5 on that goonlist but only 2 of the top 5 which haven't you seen
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