Come on Kim, I've seen a lot of those, most of them are really good movies.
I am not talking about GOOD movies. That's sort of the point. I am making an over-generalization that Hollywood is out of ideas, so they simply copy each other - Dante's Peak and that other Volcano movie, Deep Impact and Armageddon...for example, or make whatever crap they think they can get the most mouth-breathers into the theatre.
You're simply not thinking hard enough...
Need for Speed? You Got Served? Dukes of Hazzard? Honey? Gigli? BATTLEFIELD EARTH!!! Yeah a book, I know, but still... BLEH!
I assume you have good taste and you simply filter out all of the non-sense movie ads that flash on the TV.
I'll never forget when I saw Contact, the guy behind me bitching because for some reason he thought it would be like Men In Black or Independance Day. Not enough explosions and zombies or something.
E
Freelance 3-D Animator, F/X Artist
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From: Kim Aldis <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Sent: Saturday, November 4, 2006 11:57:57 AM
Subject: RE: OT: Talking-animal movies are ruining my life
Winnie the Pooh, The Jungle Book, Lord of the Rings, Snow White - in fact
pretty much everything Disney ever did by way of features he ripped from
books and completely ruined - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, all the
Bond books, Get Carter, Bridget Jones's Diary, Chocolat, Forrest Gump,
Princess Diaries, The First Wives Club, The Commitments, The Firm, Get
Shorty, Crash, Fight Club, Ordinary People, Shawshank Redemption (Different
Seasons, I think), The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Series of Unfortunate
Events (Lemony Snicket), James and the Giant Peach, Mary Poppins, War of the
Worlds, Harry Potter (all of them now, I think), Shrek, Jaws, Psycho, The
Exorcist, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Green Mile, The Silence of the Lambs,
Deliverance, Double Indemnity, The Manchurian Candidate, The Godfather, A
Beautiful Mind, The Perfect Storm, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Cold
Mountain, Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep), Contact, Hitchiker's Guide, Dune, I Robot, Jurassic Park, Sphere,
The Time Machine, Romeo and Juliet, Black Hawk Down, The Pianist, Jarhead,
Band of Brothers, Apocalypse Now, The Dirty Dozen ........ yadda, yadda. You
could fill pages.
In fact, I think you'd be hard pushed to find a movie that isn't from a
book.
A movie idea taken from a book doesn't class as an original idea.
(Sorry Eric, ;-) )
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> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Eric Lampi
> Sent: 04 November 2006 16:16
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> Subject: Re: OT: Talking-animal movies are ruining my life
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> One day, maybe someone in Hollywood will discover a "library" where
> they have these things called "books". It's a treasure trove of
> original ideas and stories.
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