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Are you sure that isn't one of those terrible covers they give to every novel ever when they get a movie adaptation? The blurb at the top gives the impression. That and the original writer was mentioned at all. Definitely fits the thread though.
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DarkSol posted:I really enjoy The Black Hole as a film, even though it has a few problems here and there. It is one of the very first science fiction films I had ever seen, if not the very first, and the whole premise itself stuck with me. And I enjoy Killian Eng's style a lot. (I have his Jodorowsky's Dune poster, and need to get his Argo poster as well.)
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Mar 9, 2014 16:49
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I remember Pete's Dragon as being one of those weird Disney movies they made back in the seventies, along with the Leprechaun one with a very young Sean Connery, and errr the one with the old woman and the pirate ghost? It seems looking back they were flailing around with live-action integrated with cartoons and at one end of the spectrum you had Bedknobs and Broomsticks and at the other end you had Pete's Dragon et al. The Black Hole I remember was some other thing entirely where on the one hand it started as kind of a Lost In Space-style sci-fi adventure. But then about halfway through maybe it turns downright Faustian as you find out whoops the crazed doctor made his underlings by ripping their faces off and replacing their heads with circuitry, and his robot companion (who's big and sharp and red, the opposite of the harmless friendly robots the heroes have) is basically Mephistopheles and even the main bad guy is scared of him. Then the finale was the main characters all dying and going to heaven, while the antagonist is forced to spend eternity in hell inside his robotic enforcer's body, stood atop a burning mountain as the damned parade below him. Not "oh hey the bad guy tripped and plummeted into the flames!" like Hunchback or "he fell and came to an off-sceen and nonspecific but definitely final" fate like Up or Tarzen or whatever, it's pretty drat explicit where he is. I come from a very religious household so yeah that film left an impression. Pierson fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Mar 9, 2014 |
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Mar 9, 2014 23:38
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DarkSol posted:Cool stuff. Will be interesting to see what they do with the remake if it doesn't get stuck in development hell. Albeit that was announced in like 2009 so it may already be tooooo laaaaaaate.
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Mar 10, 2014 01:53
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Harlock posted:I like it. Colorful. Although, are people really that dumb that they have to say "From the studio that brought you The Avengers?"
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May 16, 2014 20:40
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Is Sorcerer as good as its posters make it look?
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Jun 5, 2014 09:20
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Those are really good and I hope they do the rest of the districts. Also I wonder if that's actually a real wooden prosthetic or just a hunk of painted plastic, 'cause there are few things more beautiful than polished wood and if I was that guy I would totally ask to keep it if it was.
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Jun 21, 2014 10:01
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Oh my God.
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Aug 14, 2014 08:21
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That's Natalie Dorner right? (edit; yes) She always looks best when she looks like she's trying to kill someone.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:13
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Where did the legend of "Stephen King short stories make bad movies" come from anyway? There's the Mangler yeah, and there was a miniseries on The Langoliers that was pretty laughable. But Storm of the Century was passable-to-good and Kubrick's Shining is fantastic. Is it just because he hands out the rights to his stuff to film students on the cheap? That isn't really his fault and is pretty laudable besides.
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Nov 10, 2014 10:20
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TetsuoTW posted:Unless you ask King, apparently.
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Nov 10, 2014 12:18
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Gettin' kind of a Jack Black-vibe from that facial hair.
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Apr 19, 2015 20:14
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It had a dance party at the end though. Has any movie ever successfully pulled that off except Shrek? Really asking.
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May 7, 2015 16:01
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I return to find I have been shamed by my lack of dance-party knowledge.
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"Good fukkin' riddence", said the rest of England.
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