OT- Honour Harrington movie

[El_Phil]

He still looks tiny which was my point. The problem with Hollywood Urban legends is that they're rarely as strange as truth.

After Terminator came out if you said Arnie will be "The Governator" or he's only 5ft everyone would have gone for the short option.

[TurinTurambar]

His ego is definitely taller on Opra's couch.

[Xrati]

"Camera angle" is everything in hollywood. If your short then your in front and the camera is below your shoulders AND wolla! YOUR BIG! Arnold and Sly are around 5'9" - 5'7" and are always shot from a lower angle to make them appear larger then life! John Wayne always rode a smaller horse to make him appear larger then he was. Hollywood, where anything is possible, even Galaxy's far, far away.

[Baron Munchausen]

Xrati said:
"Camera angle" is everything in hollywood. If your short then your in front and the camera is below your shoulders AND wolla! YOUR BIG! Arnold and Sly are around 5'9" - 5'7" and are always shot from a lower angle to make them appear larger then life! John Wayne always rode a smaller horse to make him appear larger then he was. Hollywood, where anything is possible, even Galaxy's far, far away.

Gak! I don't know about Stallone, but Arnold Schwartzenegger is 6'2" - I know this because Arnold was beaten out for 'The Hulk' role by Lou Ferrigno because he is 6'5"!

[geoschmo]

Yep, Sly isn't a tall man. If you ever saw pictures of him with Bridget Nielsen you can see it. If you think about it everybody in the Rocky movies, Carl weathers, Mr. T., Micky, was a little on the short side so he didn't seem too short by comparison. Then in Rocky 4 when they brought our Dolph Lundgren he looked like a giant, but he was only 6'5" or so. But next to Sly he looked 8 feet tall.

John Wayne was one of the tallest actors in Hollywood though at the time he was working. He was 6'4". Not saying they didn't put him on a small horse to make him look even bigger though. Course it might have been just so they could keep him in the frame with the other actors.

[Siirenias]

Ahem...

Hollywood be darned; who do ya think should play Honor?

[JAFisher44]

Sylvester Stallone is 5'10"

[PvK]

El_Phil said:
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.

If you say so, but please consider:

* Is there any reason why even derivative sequels _have_ to be so badly made, either for games or for films? Surely with the huge budgets invested, someone could invest some more taste, talent, or other qualities? Do the _have_ to be so bad to make money? Wouldn't they make more money if they were better derivative sequels than they generally are?

* Just because some crappy business practice makes money, doesn't mean I or you or anyone _has_ to care, purchase, or pay any attention to the crappy products. For example, we're still here playing Space Empires IV, a _good_ sequel, and I never even bothered with MOO3, a crappy sequel, or most other low-gameplay megacorp releases, or most Hollywood (i.e. crappy) films.

* By paying for, paying attention to, and mentioning acceptance of such crappy practices, one becomes part of the problem.

PvK

[Siirenias]

PvK has a point. And also, you're more likely to keep your audience and possibly grow it by making a respectable series of movies. Sort of like star wars, only not overbearingly shiney to the point of sacraficing content. Sort of like Harry Potter who, despite my own reservations, is a pretty good example of how to continue a sustainable movie franchise.

[Starhawk]

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