OT: Hit Movies that Blow Chunks

[Loser]

He's not as much of a rage as you might think. You'll still find more of his stuff in a good used books store than in a Big Chain.

Blade Runner and Total Recall are not recent movies. I figure they make a PKD movie every decade or so.

[QuarianRex]

Originally posted by DavidG:

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Originally posted by Chronon:
My choice for worst movie ever made is Dune (like Blue Velvet, another totally bizarre David Lynch film). But since it wasn't really a hit, it probably doesn't qualify for this list.

Heheh I was gonna mention Dune too. Amazaing how such a great book can be made into such a bad movie.

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Hey, I loved that movie! Granted, I watched the movie before reading the book (IIRC I was eight when it came out) but it helped to shape my ideas of what it is to be more-human-than-human, and fed my burgeoning messiah complex. The thought that one could shape the world with a word is a powerful (and somewhat biblical) concept. When I finally did read the book I was bitterly disappointed that the wierding way was so horribly misrepresented. Once I finished the book I vastly prefered the true Version, so much so that I even pursued the martial arts (and some yoga), at least partially, in an attempt to gain some small understanding of prana-bindu. Needless to say, Dune is one of my favourite series.

My, that was a little OT.

[Puke]

Originally posted by Erax:
There's a movie called Screamers that's a pretty good adaptation of a short SF story. In case the title does not ring a bell, the following quote might.

"This is Don Giovanni. Come down. Over."

the one with the underground worms attacking the trailer park in the desert? i loved that, Kevin Bacon is so danmed funney.. Michael Gross put on a good show too. Oh wait, that was Tremors. Screamers had its good moments, but it was painfully bad in places, too.

block busters that sucked? I hated T3. in fact, im not too fond of most of the recent blockbuster movies. i mean, kangaroo jack toped the charts! granted, there was nothing else out at the time, but it was popular, for crying out loud!

[Ran-Taro]

Originally posted by Chronon:

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Originally posted by DavidG:
Amazing how such a great book can be made into such a bad movie.

Since Dune is my favorite SF book of all time, I had very high expectations. Unfortunately, I have been disappointed in most films made from good books: the Lord of the Rings, Dune, etc. After reading the bad reviews, I didn't even go to see the Postman or Starship Troopers (two more of my favorite books).

I think most books are just too long for the movie format. The BBC made a pretty decent Dune series, but it took six hours of story to do the book justice. Short stories can make very good films, though. Blade Runner was an adaptation of a short story called "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?" (I believe by Philip K. Dick).

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Starship troopers is a cool movie. Very different from the book (which is good in a very different way). You just have to not take the movie seriously.

Although how anyone can take a movie with lines like:

"You're just a big, fat, BRAIN BUG, ain'tcha?"

seriously is beyond me! Denise Richards attempts at acting are always quite funny too - oh, how I laughed!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*peers in QuarianRex's ear...*

*...Hey, i can see a light at the end of the tunnel!*

[dogscoff]

Oooohh... contact. I'd forgotten (blocked out?) everything about that. But yeah, now I'm reminded, it really was muchly badly bad. Awful, in fact. One might even go so far as to say "heap o' ****e."

If you hadn't noticed, I really didn't like that film.

[General Woundwort]

My friends and I had a darn good time watching "Contact"! Of course, turning it into a home Version of MST3K helped tremendously.