At the bottom of the Aronofsky Watchmen thread linked above there's another link to an interview with the guy who IS directing Watchmen that might allay some concerns.
― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Easy to say when it isn't your words putting bacon on the table. PK Dick was so damn broke at the end of his life, he would have been elated if they cut him a check to turn one of his movies into a musical comedy.
Moore has already had one movie not translate from the comic very well with "From Hell".
― earlnash, Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
One?! Can we get the full list of bad Moore adaptations? I'll start with LXG and SWAMP THING!
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
LXG was awful.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 18 March 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 March 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 18 March 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
"It's a common device for serial killer films to let you know who the killer is right away."
Please tell me what these movies are, because I disagree. Obviously Jason/Mike Myers/Freddy etc are not analogous with Dr. Gull. I guess there's "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" and the various Gacy movies, but those don't involve a cop/investigator as the main protagonist - they feature the killers themselves as the protagonists (an approach which also wouldn't have worked with From Hell, I don't think).
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 March 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 March 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
*this has always vaguely annoyed me abt moore's "from hell" actually: gull is the easily least interesting of the various proposed rippers; a "from hell" based round james maybrick wd have been better
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link
It would've been nice if they'd squeezed Oscar Wilde and the Golden Dawn into the movie, but what can ya do... at least they managed to get the Elephant Man in there (tho not the reference to Ganesha, the Opener of Ways, sadly. Actually that's what I missed most from the movie - the depth of magical/mystical ref. points)
Dick's being thoroughly mined now Mark, don't worry. He wrote enough trash to fuel a million crappy sci-fi flicks.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 March 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyone, turns in to more counterfactual nazi pron. yawn. Still, Natalie Portman eh? Can't all be bad.
― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Henry, Silence of the Lambs, The Minus Man, American Psycho, Felicia's Journey (arguably), Eye of the Needles (arguably), Freeway, Natural Born Killers, I Was a Teenage Serial Killer, Summer of Sam, Bonnie and Clyde...
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 18 March 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Wow. I missed that. This thread makes me want to reread those comics...
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 18 March 2005 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
and anyway none of these suggest a workable template for From Hell (w/the possible exception of American Psycho)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 March 2005 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 18 March 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 18 March 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 18 March 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 18 March 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 18 March 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 18 March 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Dude, just let me have my From Hell movie dream.
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 21 March 2005 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually, a unique namedropping encounter, in that David was saying 'hello Martin' to me while I was still not sure if he was who I thought. I've not met a famous person before where that's happened.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
you know who should have directed this? the ghost of alan clarke.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 11 May 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
was gonna go for whoever did that 60s Batman movie
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 May 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
sorry is that what happened irl?
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 May 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
adam west/burt ward v for vendetta would be good too
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
burt ward has a look of skinheady sadsack about him
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
If the screenwriters had rewritten the movie so that Stephen Fry was the Big Brother, then it would have been awesome.― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:17 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:17 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
have never seen this movie but knew stephen fry was in it and until now had assumed he was the big brother, just like how when i heard he was in sherlock holmes 2 A GAME OF SHADOWS i assumed he was moriarty. but he wasn't. what the hell. how hard is this.
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 12 May 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
Somehow I never got around to watching this until last night. Mild head trip watching it now in 2018 looking back at 2006 potential future history but it is as politically astute and timely as pages 4-5 of the Maximum Rock & Roll letters column from 1985. Commodify your dissent!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
this is a funny thread.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
this was better than decent tbh, I'd much lower hopes for it but flung it on last night to good effect personally speaking
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 January 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
I really liked it!
― mardheamac (gyac), Saturday, 29 January 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link