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    Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters

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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08:57 PM

    In reply to All Systems Go For Large Hadron Collider - Stay Tuned for Collisions!
    Aah, so 2012 is comin right on the heels of the movie.
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    08:48 PM

    In reply to All Systems Go For Large Hadron Collider - Stay Tuned for Collisions!

    I have huge love for the LHC, but I can't help thinking everytime I see it, that it contains all the essential components of the largest circular mass driver [en.wikipedia.org] we could ever conceive of building.

    For the love of G.K.O'Neill [en.wikipedia.org] (and Carl Sagan), why haven't we been able to get an international consortium together to build that?

    For merely half of the cost of the LHC (or 25% of it, if it had been built in parallel with the LHC), we'd have a facility capable of launching several hundred tonnes of cargo into low earth orbit, all day, every day, for mere dollars-a-pound, for ever!

    [The one in the photo is an artist's impression of a linear (no need to make it circular in a vacuum) lunar mass driver that was tech-spec'd and costed down to the last nut and bolt, a quarter of a century ago. Seriously, WTF?]
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    08:44 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
    Most of these I agree with, 100% (hell, 110%).

    But... Ozymandias? Maybe a lousy adaptation, but I kinda dug the whole "David Bowie stars in Less Than Zero" vibe he had going on. I certainly didn't dislike him half as much as I did Malin Akerman (who can't act, at all, and it was sooo painful to watch her try, uggggh).

    Daredevil is a better, more fun movie than ANYONE gives it credit for, and that's a shame.

    Also, given my hatred of all paycheck-grubbing Robin Williams films, I will say that I surprised myself when I saw Bicentennial Man for the first time on cable about five years back. I was expecting it to be awful and unbearable, but shockingly, I sat through the whole thing somewhat interested. Nowhere near as terrible as, say, Patch Adams, Toys, or worst of all, Being Human.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    07:48 PM

    In reply to All Systems Go For Large Hadron Collider - Stay Tuned for Collisions!
    So next week is when we all have the flash forward?
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    Image of mekki mekki
    07:37 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
    One that you have missed;

    Coppola's version of Dracula. I can't even bring myself to call that movie by it's formal title, Bram Stoker's Dracula. Dracula isn't supposed to be a tragic figure. He's one of the great villains. And who in their right mind thought it was a smart idea to cast Ryder and Reeves as a young British couple.
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    Image of Mary Ratliff Mary Ratliff
    07:40 PM

    @mekki: Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one that hated that film.
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Dr.Quatermass
    08:28 PM

    @Mary Ratliff: I'll definitely back you on the Ryder as Mina part but oddly enough, Reeves was almost perfect for his role, once you get past the "accent." As for the rest of the cast, fucking brilliant. There is a scene right after Reeves first meets the three vampiressess(sp?) where Gary Oldman bursts through the door screaming in Romanian. His laugh immediately after the speech he gives is enough to make someone a fan of the casting. And Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing was far more interesting than the paper thin character Stoker drew up. Tom Fucking Waits as Renfield. Nuff said.

    Now for the movie on the whole, it is chock full of obvious symbolism and it is uber-romantic. Just like the book it was based on. Excuse me, the badly written book it was based on. Let's face it, we know vampires better than Stoker ever could.

    When it comes to Coppola it's take it or leave it. But almost never awful.
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    Image of mekki mekki
    09:01 PM

    @Dr.Quatermass: Dracula was not uber-romantic at all. Not one drop. It was a dime store horror novel for the Victorian period that caught on. Nothing more.
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    Image of Rocketknight Rocketknight
    07:31 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
    1. Ozymandias, 2. ?, 3. Bicentennial Man, 4. Daredevil, 5. Dr. Doom, 6. ?, 7. Grinch, 8. Robert, 9. ?, 10. Captain America, 11. ?

    Help me out here, guys.
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    07:43 PM

    @Rocketknight: Look to the right of the pictures. All except numbers 1 and 10 have captions.
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    07:22 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
    If Carrey as The Grinch is included, then we should add Myers as The Cat in the Hat. I'm not sure why Hollywood thought that live-action feature length adaptations of Seuss books would work.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    07:16 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
    As bad as Dr. Doom's portrayal was in the 2005 movie, it has nothing on the 1994 version produced by Roger Corman. In the 1994 version (which was so terrible it was never officially released, but which I have seen through the wonder of bootllegging) Doom steps into the machine that turns him into a supervillain and when the weird energy beams hit him he screams exactly like this: "Awwwwwwwwww...(breath)...Awwwwwwww...". Later in the movie, when he thinks one of his plans is coming together he starts clapping like a little kid and laughing maniacally.
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    Image of thexpert thexpert
    09:26 PM

    @Bill-Lee: That movie is HILARIOUS. Reed Richards actually get sout of trouble by stretching his hand under a forcefield that for some reason doesn't reach the floor. Doom's severed hand is full of wires, and the Thing looked like a shell-less ninja turtle.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    09:28 PM

    @thexpert: Either a shell-less Ninja Turtle or Kermit the Frog covered in scabs.

    #calendar
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    Image of thexpert thexpert
    09:35 PM

    @Bill-Lee: The Human Torch's line toward the end: "I've been waiting my whole life to race that laser."

    It's probably the third funniest movie of all time.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    07:08 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters

    I'll take that you left me out as some ... cold comfort!!
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    Image of MS-18E Shadoblak MS-18E Shadoblak
    07:14 PM

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: EVERYBODY FREEEEEZE
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    Image of cletar cletar
    07:50 PM

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.:
    Coooool it!
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    Image of Evdor Evdor
    08:02 PM

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: The timing of this image and pun were... COOL!

    I'm bad at this.
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    Image of jamesryan jamesryan
    08:09 PM

    @Evdor: How do I follow that pun? I'm just at a frost for words...
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    Image of Evdor Evdor
    08:27 PM

    @jamesryan: That's just cold, man.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07:06 PM

    In reply to All Systems Go For Large Hadron Collider - Stay Tuned for Collisions!
    that is not the sexiest thing i've ever seen but it's at least top five.
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    Image of Jeriba Jeriba
    07:13 PM

    @tetracycloide: Yep. I'd hit that.

    (Not literally, though. It would probably break.)
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    08:53 PM

    @Jeriba: The appropriate line is "I'd hit that- from the future!"
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07:02 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
    it's a travesty that the vampires from i am legend are on here but neville doesn't have his own entry.
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    Image of CustomFirmware CustomFirmware
    07:01 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
    Where the hell is Deadpool! That adaption of Deadpool broke my heart, spit on it, pissed on it, then shitted on it while laughing at me.
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    Image of zerofritz zerofritz
    07:30 PM

    @CustomFirmware: it's tempting to hate - but pre-whatever-the-hell-happened-to-him, he was spot on - quips were the only bright part of the movie.
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    Image of shoroko shoroko
    06:56 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
    Eh, I was okay with Ozymandias up until all that 'I've felt every death, please beat me up,' bullshit at the end. Granted, Goode definitely didn't have the physique, and I sort of wonder if that was purposeful, considering it's kind of hard to imagine the visual of Nite Owl beating the crap out of someone who was clearly his physical superior, even if that was true in the movie, as well.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    06:51 PM

    In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
    I disagree about Bicentennial Man and I Am Legend - I thought that they were different adaptations, but that they worked well.
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    Image of Rocketknight Rocketknight
    07:27 PM

    @Andrew Liptak: I've heard from a great many people that the movie misses the ENTIRE POINT of the book, but I do think Will Smith did a good job with what he was given.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    07:56 PM

    @Rocketknight: Yeah, he was ok. The problem was the non-sentient raving vampire monster people. The whole point of the book is that Neville is a legend *to the vampire people*--he is a boogey man to the emerging vampire/mutant society. The Will Smith version missed that completely, and did a dis-service to both the original novel AND to "Omega Man."
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    08:45 PM

    @Andrew Liptak: Speaking as someone who has seen Bicentennial Man before even knowing about the book, I loved it. It's one of the few movies that make me cry (and I'm a girl, lol).

    I am legend, on the other hand, I still don't like. Not because it's so different from the book but becuase I didn't like most of the choices Neville made.
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    Image of Dresan Dresan
    05:22 PM

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    A few bullet points after seeing all of them:

    The Golden Voyager cover is nothing short of awesome.

    I did not know the existence of the word "beaver-pie".

    Nude in Orbit probably wrote itself.

    Does the Mona Lisa cover have an anime style girl with blue hair in the back of the pic?

    I need to read 'Odd John'.
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