RE: Movies That Should Have Been Epic
December 27, 2012 at 7:45 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2012 at 7:53 pm by Cyberman.)
(December 27, 2012 at 2:39 am)Rhythm Wrote: also, any Michael Crichton title.........
In all fairness, I have to say I quite like The Andromeda Strain and especially Westworld... that shock moment when Yul Brynner turns to Richard Benjamin after killing James Brolin, fixes him with that chilling stare and that smile, and simply says "Draw!" Classic cinema. Jurassic Park, though, book and film, was just Westworld with dinosaurs; in fact, I imagine the working title was probably DinoWorld or something. Actually, JP the book had a much better ending when:
(December 27, 2012 at 10:25 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Y'know, I'll be entirely honest here, I have always found Alan Moore's writing to be detestably cynical about everything. I prefer the movie adaptations to the source material a lot more. V For Vendetta as a comic was good but it wasn't anything mind-blowing. V For Vendetta as a movie WAS mind-blowing.
I only came to read the comic after I saw the movie, so maybe my tastes were skewed a bit, but I also prefer the screen version. What annoyed me most was the first panel, which if memory serves is meant to show the original attempt to blow up Parliament, and whoever drew it - Moore, I guess - drew completely the wrong building (the later Palace of Westminster, rebuilt after the medieval original was destroyed in the fire of 1834). Silly thing to get hung up about I realise, but it would have been more impressive if the artist had got it right. Or not shown the building at all apart from the cellars where Guy Fawkes was captured.
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