Has anyone mentioned Jack Williamson's classic 'Darker Than You Think' - currently in print as part of Orion's wonderful Fantasy Masterworks series which you...
Chris H wrote: The BBC announced today:'Doctor Who to get Stateside release. BBC Video have announced plans to release all 13 episodes of the 2005 series in...
John Schulte wrote: <...I thought I'd join. I've been interested in Sci-Fi for years and joined Starfleet a few years ago to expand my love for Star Trek. ...>...
Yes, it's very interesting that Star Trek basis themselves on Naval ranks, our group is a Star Trek simulation type of a group where each of us has a ...
Tonight at around 8pm est there will be an interview with voice actress Renae Jacobs (more known as the original voice of April O'Neil on the original TMNT ...
You might thinking of FireFox with Clint Eastwood. In the movie he has to steal an advanced plane from the Russians. The trick was that he had to think in...
The petty Officers in Trek or at conventions were the "RED SHIRTS" ******************************************************************************* Re: New Guy ...
... I have Starship Troopers on DVD and I had a blonde moment because I had forgotten about Dizzy and the fact Dizzy is indeed Dina Meyer.... The best line in...
I've read a great number of comments about movie adaptations, here and elsewhere, that include the criticism that the movie was not a faithful adaptation of...
I've seen this, speculating on the season two finale of BSG - and if this is even half-true it looks like a stunner. I've posted the article below my sig, and...
I certainly don't believe that a good movie adaptation needs to be faithful--in fact I've gone on record arguing the opposite, that at the very least a good...
Just a very brief comment FWIW Well I've come to now seeing the first 3 Harry Potter films and I thought they were pretty good adaptations to the books and...
Totally with Brian on this thread - I think. As in, the complaint about the "correct" way to adapt a book seems to be totally subjective. - and that maybe a...
[osti] Read the McCammon's "The Wolf's Hour". Nice premise. But didn't have what I desire in a werewolf book. I like werewolf and vampire stories, because of...
... Yes, you're absolutely right. I didn't mean to suggest that a film that was faithful to Do Androids Dream could not have been a great movie, only that...
Brian wrote: Blade Runner seems to enjoy a pretty high degree of appreciation in the sf community. Yet it must rank as one of the worst adaptations ever...
I agree with you, Brian. A movie must stand on it's own whether it was made up from scratch or based on a published work. The bug-a-boo comes from those lovers...
... _______________________________ A "direct" (or literal) adaptation would result in a pretty awful movie, in fact. Now, you could maybe do My Dinner With...
Osti, wasn't there a book you mentioned a little wile back, about werewolves and vampires joining forces with humans? I think it had the word "Ice" in the...
[osti] Hy, Tracy. Yes, the name of the book is "The Cry of the Icemark", by Stuart Hill. It's a fairytale like story of a princess that allies herself with ...
... <dave70mailbox@y...> wrote: Comment: I certainly agree that this is one way to approach it. The novel Starship Troopers does not have a linear action...
... __________________________ I'm not sure I understand you. "Wouldn't fly"--do you mean modern audiences wouldn't agree with it or that they simply couldn't...
King, No, the red shirts were engineering, the gold command, and the blue were science. Remember Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott wore red. He was not an NCO. ...
... read ... ____________________________ Fair enough. But, hey, you never know. If Tom Cruise could drag Steven Spielberg into a doing a script as fatally...
... that lots of versions can be released with them all having their own separate identity. _____________________________ Which is why remakes don't generally...
