OT- Honour Harrington movie

Randallw · #1 December 23rd, 2005, 08:41 AM

Personally I didn't like the Honour Harrington book I tried reading once, but I know there are some fans here.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22073

sachmo · #2 December 23rd, 2005, 03:35 PM

Neat!

Baron Munchausen · #3 December 23rd, 2005, 07:56 PM

Very interesting. Given the 'formulaic' nature of the stories I suppose it has the potential to spawn a lot of sequels if they get the first one right.

ZeroAdunn · #4 December 23rd, 2005, 10:25 PM

The first one was pretty good, but the series didn't seem to go anywhere. If it wasn't for the very descriptive space combat I would probably consider them utter crap.

AgentZero · #5 December 23rd, 2005, 10:42 PM

More or less agreed. The whole series has been criticized (can't be arsed spelling at 1:40am) for flat characters & lack of development, but the space battles are just so gosh-darn sweet. Still I read War of Honor a while back and it was nothing but politics, intrigue, unrequited love, etc and I spent the whole book thinking, "Shut up and BLOW SOME S*** UP!!" So there you have it.

Randallw · #6 December 23rd, 2005, 11:24 PM

Hmm perhaps I'll need to give it another go. The one I read started with 2 people by a fire talking about her being captured or something and there was some sort of talking cat. I gave up.

Renegade 13 · #7 December 28th, 2005, 10:44 PM

Sounds like the woman for me

Haven't checked the pics mind you.

El_Phil · #8 December 28th, 2005, 11:06 PM

She is indeed easy on the eye, which is never a bad thing.

Starhawk, me old matey, cynicism is good for the soul. It's also normally always right with the advantage that when you are wrong it's normally a nice change.

Case in point: Serenity. A series of joy that was cancelled and a movie that just broke even. It'll be a brave movie exec who makes a sequel. Compare with, say, Lethal Weapon 4. One of the most derivate, predictable films ever made and the only thing stopping part 5 is Mel Gibson has gone barking mad and is making films in Mayan about ancient Mexico.

Hell Rocky VI is in the can and Rambo 4 is on it's way. No brain formulaic movies make money, as do their sequels.

That ain't being negative, it's fact.

Kamog · #9 December 28th, 2005, 11:12 PM

She looks good!!

The nice thing about Lethal Weapon 4 was that Jet Li was in it, though he was a bad guy in that movie.

Siirenias · #10 December 29th, 2005, 04:21 AM

Hmmm...ya think Uma Therman might do a good Honor?

I personally don't have enough faith in today's producers to get it "quite right". In addition, the visuals of a Honorverse battle looks a little like Farscape. It's really not too exciting unless you can empathise with the crew and really feel the tech.

Plus...there is an intimidating amount of non-visual description in the books, and I just know some guy in script writing is going to want to make some of it visible, if only to boost ratings beyond the DW buffs. On the other hand, the series DW did with Steve White, including Shiva Option, is PERFECT for movies. Plus, there's baby eating. The critics will eat it up, or suffer Arachnid domination.