OT- Honour Harrington movie - Page 5

Kana · #41 January 3rd, 2006, 03:48 AM

China Chow is so hot...and she hasn't done many movies...might actually be a good fit...she can joke, be serious, do action, and be sexy all rolled up in one...and this is just the one film I saw here in with Marky Mark...

Kana

dogscoff · #42 January 3rd, 2006, 09:18 AM

I would be interested to see hollywood's interpretation of 'coup de vitesse'. Whoever plays Honor is going to want some martial arts training- preferably in a hard style like shotokan rather than some hollywoodised and flouncy version of kungfu/ tae-kwondo.

I've read the books up to about number 8 or 9 and although I'd make time to watch an Honor film when it made it to TV, I wouldn't bother going to the cinema for it. I don't think a film show me anything that the books haven't already done, and given the shallow and formulaic nature of the books, I find it hard to believe that the films would be particularly enjoyable, except as exploding-CG-dreadnought firework displays.

And what's the betting that they manage to write in at least one gratuitous shower scene for Honor?

And bring forward events from the middle of the series into the first book so that they can have a love interest?

And make Nimitz all cute and fluffy and goofy and lovable, rather than the savage, violent, razor-sharp alien mastermind of a sinister plot to telepathically infiltrate and overthrow humankind?

And make the Peeps EVEN MORE unrealistically evil than they already are? (My money is that they will all be equipped with not-so-subtly-inspired-by-USSR uniforms, along with villainous twirly moustaches and bad-guy facial scarring, with the exception of the legions of brave and handsome Peep officers destined for defection.)

Starhawk · #43 January 3rd, 2006, 01:27 PM

Uh never seen Jow Ga kung fu have you? LOL it is just about the hardest combat style of Kung Fu there is (oriented not for grace but for deadly effect). It also incorporates throws breaks and locks that would make Coup De Vitesse come alive

As far as the books being shallow I kind of liked them, they do have an "overly evil" enemy but I also understand where the bad guys are coming from, and let's face it they do fit the Soviet style mentality very well.

Hell before I read a review that pointed out the Havenites were supposed to be French inspired I thought they were an analogy for Soviet Russia/Communist China.

And why do bad guys only have to have facial scars? I mean seriously this is something I don't get, what good guys who are injured in battle don't scar?

See that's why my character Rukia Fujita has a deep scar on her face to go against the "only bad guys scar" trend; then again some folks think the Icarans ARE bad so I guess that sort of sticks to the stereotype heh.

Anyway considering the books have gratuitous "Honor nude" scenes I think I could live with that in a movie.....especially with China Chow playing Honor muahahahahem ahem.

Anyway the battles if done well would certainly be something to see, on the ground we'd get one of the biggest gore fests in modern movie making, in space we'd get some of the most epic space battles WITH SOME of the gorriest "real life" representations of death in a warship thrown in.

I think it could come out quite well.

dogscoff · #44 January 3rd, 2006, 02:26 PM

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Uh never seen Jow Ga kung fu have you? LOL it is just about the hardest combat style of Kung Fu there is

Note that I said "some flouncy version of kung-fu", which acknowledges the existence of other (and therefore non-flouncy) kung-fu styles as well. I'm not saying all kungfu is like that, just some of it.

It's a sad fact that out of all the hundreds of punching/kicking/grappling/throwing/weapons styles available throughout the world, the stuff they use on screen (particularly in Western cinema) tends to be limited to a small subset of showy styles (with lots of pointless and inneffectual jumps, high kicks and stuff.

Anyone ever see a film called "the hunted"? Utterly crap film- One of the worst I've ever seen in my life- but it had some really interesting knife-work from a Malaysian fighting art called (IIRC) balisong. Stylised for film, obviously, but very interesting nonetheless.

Suicide Junkie · #45 January 3rd, 2006, 02:45 PM

Hollywood has the same problem with computers, even aside from the rapid tech advancement.

Usually they have something equivalent to that flouncy movie-fu, which makes DOS look great in comparison for those in the know.

TurinTurambar · #46 January 3rd, 2006, 03:37 PM

I too am highly annoyed by representations of computers in Hollywood, ESPECIALLY in TV. I love CSI:Miami, but that show has got to be one of the worst possible offenders. It's almost starting to spoil the show for me now, ever since the bullet-in-the-gas-tank-how's-it-going-to-leak simulator from 2 weeks ago.

EDIT: Wow, that's way OT. Sorry.

Baron Munchausen · #47 January 3rd, 2006, 07:42 PM

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dogscoff said:
I would be interested to see hollywood's interpretation of 'coup de vitesse'. Whoever plays Honor is going to want some martial arts training- preferably in a hard style like shotokan rather than some hollywoodised and flouncy version of kungfu/ tae-kwondo.

I've read the books up to about number 8 or 9 and although I'd make time to watch an Honor film when it made it to TV, I wouldn't bother going to the cinema for it. I don't think a film show me anything that the books haven't already done, and given the shallow and formulaic nature of the books, I find it hard to believe that the films would be particularly enjoyable, except as exploding-CG-dreadnought firework displays.

And what's the betting that they manage to write in at least one gratuitous shower scene for Honor?

And bring forward events from the middle of the series into the first book so that they can have a love interest?

And make Nimitz all cute and fluffy and goofy and lovable, rather than the savage, violent, razor-sharp alien mastermind of a sinister plot to telepathically infiltrate and overthrow humankind?

And make the Peeps EVEN MORE unrealistically evil than they already are? (My money is that they will all be equipped with not-so-subtly-inspired-by-USSR uniforms, along with villainous twirly moustaches and bad-guy facial scarring, with the exception of the legions of brave and handsome Peep officers destined for defection.)

Honor Harrington picks up quite a few 'scars' herself during the series. I wonder if they'll follow the books and have her wearing an eye-patch and artificial limb?

narf poit chez BOOM · #48 January 3rd, 2006, 09:50 PM

Well, if they don't, there's going to be an awfull lot of angry people.

Plus, DW isn't exactly a starving artist - I'm pretty sure the studio would have difficulty presuring him.

Baron Munchausen · #49 January 3rd, 2006, 11:27 PM

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Starhawk said:
Yah know who would make a good Honor Harrington

http://www.perfectpeople.net/picpage.php3/cpid=83531

Awwwww China

Seriously from what I've seen she's an okay actress and she's fairly tall AND she fits the "good looking Asian/Caucasian" mix that HH would require

She has the right 'look' for sure... but according to IMDB, China Chow is only 5' 2" tall! Not even close to what we need.

Siirenias · #50 January 3rd, 2006, 11:44 PM

I always imagined that the PN uniforms were somewhat similar to gray Imperial officer uniforms. And I imagined that they generally had Spanish accents (by the way their accent is described). But I guess that the post-revolution PN would have a much greater variety of accents.

I would imagine they would do okay with Nimitz, as long as they don't get too creative with CGI...