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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
01:53 AM

In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
Why didn't Judge Dredd make that list?

Meredith, how about a follow up article on Live-Action versions of video games? I vote Street Fighter as number 1 on that list.
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Pessimippopotamus
11/20/09

In reply to Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
Awwwwww. Jennifer Garner isn't so bad. She kicked ass in Alias.

You know who else kicked ass in Alias?

Isabella Rossellini.
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Daveinva
11/20/09

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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mekki
11/20/09

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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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Mary Ratliff
11/20/09

@mekki: Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one that hated that film.
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Dr.Quatermass
11/20/09

@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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mekki
11/20/09

@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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Rocketknight
11/20/09

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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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Ghost_in_the_Machine
11/20/09

@Rocketknight: Look to the right of the pictures. All except numbers 1 and 10 have captions.
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EdificeComplex
11/20/09

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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Bill-Lee
11/20/09

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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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thexpert
11/20/09

@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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Bill-Lee
11/20/09

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

#calendar
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thexpert
11/20/09

@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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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
11/20/09

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I'll take that you left me out as some ... cold comfort!!
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MS-18E Shadoblak
11/20/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: EVERYBODY FREEEEEZE
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cletar
11/20/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.:
Coooool it!
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Evdor
11/20/09

@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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jamesryan
11/20/09

@Evdor: How do I follow that pun? I'm just at a frost for words...
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Evdor
11/20/09

@jamesryan: That's just cold, man.
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tetracycloide
11/20/09

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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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CustomFirmware
11/20/09

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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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zerofritz
11/20/09

@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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shoroko
11/20/09

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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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Andrew Liptak
11/20/09

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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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Rocketknight
11/20/09

@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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cletar
11/20/09

@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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geesejuggler
11/20/09

@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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CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
11/10/09

In reply to War Is Less Hell In The Future Of Sgt. Rock
Oh f*ck that! Sgt. Rock has to be in World War II. Warner Bros. may be abandon the WWII because of potential racism? Bullshit.

They probably don't see any marketing value in another WWII movie. Instead they may try to make it modern so that the movie can connect with the youths who have grown up watching the Afghan and Iraq War.
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Edited by CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) at 11/10/09 7:10 PM

cletar
11/10/09

In reply to War Is Less Hell In The Future Of Sgt. Rock
I shall make the obligatory post of

"aw hell naow!"

in expectation of the subsequent development that, once you start down the slippery-slope of making it more action-y and sci-fi-ish, you inevitably end up with Will Smith in the title role.

By rights the part belongs to Tom Sizemore. "Saving Private Ryan" was a goddamned 2 hour audition tape for Sgt Rock. #sgtrock
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ManchuCandidate
11/10/09

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Why not Sgt Rasczak?

Otherwise this just sounds like the comic book movie disaster equivalent of Speed Racer.
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