Vivian on 25/7/2008 at 21:59
Black Book was pretty good, but it did have a lot of RL atmosphere to fall back on. Other than that (and the standout 'they'll fix you' line in robocop) evidence for Verhoven as an autere is pretty thin. He has a nice line in ridiculous, but I've yet to see a film of his which genuninely impresses me (even Starship Troopers dropped the ball. If Rico had actually died when that arachnid thiny stuck its mouth thingy in his guts it would have been an ace 'fuck you, audience!' plot twist).
Besides, satire can be subtle. Why not? there's got to be something to seperate Gormenghast from Young Frankenstein.
snauty on 27/7/2008 at 14:53
Showgirls is a masterpiece, too.
Subtlety isn't a good thing per se.
And Hollow Man really really really sucks.
meishern on 18/3/2010 at 07:36
Travolta will definitely be a miscast. Also I suspect that he will force script change so he will not be sacrificing the youth in the 'meat-grinder'. It would be funny if instead of room that grants wishes, the room had L Ron Hubbard sitting there with one of those electrical gadgets scientologists use to drive away ghosts.
The movie should focus more on the gadgets discarded by aliens and the weird vibe of the Zone. I would hate to see Travolta 'act' for 75% of the movie while spending the remaining 25% running around the zone while his 3 chins and man-boobs shaking like a bowl of jello.
Axon1988 on 22/3/2010 at 08:38
I have this personal feeling that travolta isnt the right actor for any scifi movie. Except ofcourse if he isnt like a central character in the movie. No ways he just never fits into them. Let him stay with action stuff.
Someone who might have ideas to which actors would make great characters from the book?
EternalPresidentBush on 25/3/2010 at 17:48
Quote Posted by snauty
Oh please let's just wait and see you naysayers and Hollywood-haters by default.
Yes, Tarkovski's movies are art and all and blah blah, but Lem didn't like his Solaris movie and to me it never ever matches his book either. Some people never dare to dismiss Tarkovski's work and are keen to point their finger to Hollywood no matter what. Tarkovski's Stalker movie is self pretentious, flat, dull and boring. Again, no match for the Strugatzki novel. But of course the "connaisseur" would never admit that in public. It's actually nothing but a sequence of images. Meanings and layers are only found - or rather projected into - in this movie by the viewer who has read the book. An interesting concept but by no means a good film..
Does that mean a book equals to a movie?
Now that's usual hostile attitude toward art films, those "sequence of images" may mean nothing to you, it doesn't mean it's meaningless to the others.
icarus-liquorice on 27/1/2011 at 12:58
Quote Posted by Rogue Keeper
Verhoeven sucks in subtle critique. He sucks in film humor for that matter. No, I mean he sucks in moviemaking completely but has incredible talent to turn his B flicks into cults, which seem to be more than they are, but in reality they aren't.
That said, I confess I enjoyed Starship Troopers like afternoon tea, but it has no place in my collection.
Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers...
I love each of them.
polytourist97 on 27/1/2011 at 22:55
Me too. Starship Troopers in particular is one of the few movies that if I stumble upon it on TV, I almost always end up watching the rest of it, even if I don't really feel like it.
Bakerman on 28/1/2011 at 02:48
Wait, how did we get from film adaptations of books to Starship Troopers? That hardly counts as an adaptation :p.
/troll
icarus-liquorice on 28/1/2011 at 06:29
Quote Posted by Bakerman
Wait, how did we get from film adaptations of books to Starship Troopers? That hardly counts as an adaptation :p.
/troll
I guess in the hopes that thats the kind of film Roadside Picnic could become (one that is pleasing and awesome everytime you see it). Honestly, if what-his-name has anything to do with the movie theres no way it could feel like that for any of us. I love pulp fiction for instance, and the only redeeming part of the movie is that he gets machine gunned. And at that time (early 1990s) Tarentino could have had no idea that John Travolta would turn into a giant idiot. So thus, I love pulp fiction anyway. But that is not so in this case. If you just see Travolta in the movie, it'll kill it the spirit of the story. It'll muddle everything about it. Kinda sad that his tentacles could get rapped up into something as amazing as roadside picnic.
242 on 28/1/2011 at 14:46
Quote Posted by icarus-liquorice
I guess in the hopes that thats the kind of film Roadside Picnic could become
It would be a horror, in the worst sense. Those movies you like are totally opposite to artworks that inspired the game series, on different end of movies spectrum.
