Re: OT: Talking-animal movies are ruining my life

[Guy Rabiller <guy(at)alamaison.fr>]

But they are not out of ideas when it comes to TV Series.

It seems to me that a lot of talented people have joined the tv series 
world as the quality ( and quantity ) in there is quite amazing these days.

Its understandable somehow, from a scripter point of view, as in a TV 
Serie you have plenty of time to develop plots, characters, etc..

Could it be one of the reasons ?

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guy rabiller | 3d technical director (at) LaMaison



Eric Lampi a écrit :
> 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.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> 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
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>
> 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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> > Behalf Of Eric Lampi
> > Sent: 04 November 2006 16:16
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: OT: Talking-animal movies are ruining my life
> >
> >
> > 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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