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10/01/09
Keep yer hands off of my (P.K.) Dick!
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when will they ever learn to just do it like the book.now that would make one cool movie.
and being the WW2 buff I always wanted to see a version of The Main In The High Castle
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As much as I enjoy watching Blade Runner, even that is barely recognizable from the source material. I'm glad Phil didn't stick around to see what they made of his other stuff.
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Mind you the movie is no Shakespeare, but I really like the concept that someone would find out their identity was false and still choose that one over their original one.
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so guys what is next in line ?
a tween re-telling of the mummy where a lonely girl falls in love with a 3,000 year old Mummy or maybe
a tween re-telling of Frankenstein's Bride where we get to create a lonely tween from body parts or maybe
I GIVE UP !!!!
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Its called Quiver. Its about a Hope, an average girl who is a bit of a loner, who falls in love with a mysteriously charming young man. It turns out he is actually a teenage Great Old One.
Naturally, they fall in love as he opens her mind to the unknowable abyss beyond the possibility of human reason. It will be the feel good movie of the year.
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I'm also of the opinion that if a book is part of a series, it's best to wait until the series is done before making the movie, but nobody seems to listen to me on that one. *coughHarryPottercough*
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I am genuinely curious. I haven't read any of the books, was there a shift in tone/style in the books since they began making movies?
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I like my werewolves with a lot less angst, please. I also like them female at times. And I'm so sick of love stories where the human (but special!) girl is loved by, protected by, and in awe of her all-powerful, super-ultra-magic boyfriend. Gag.
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I loved B&C when I was a teen and wish the movie had actually been a real adaptation.
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I always wanted somebody to make a movie out of it. The writing's intended for middle schoolers (which I was at the time of reading it) but it's a great story.
Maybe people are getting tired of seeing girls fall for supernatural beings? What about guys? I haven't watched or read any of the Twilight books, and I don't plan to, but I do like the subject at hand. I'm just hoping for a story that isn't corny as hell and doesn't cater to 13 year old girls.
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Polygamy I see as being unlikely to ever become the norm in Western society, unless a lot of other things change. Leaving aside the complexities of a relationship involving several people instead of only two (which is already more than many people can handle),
I don't think the economics support it.
People move around far too much to follow education, jobs, etc. for a fully blown polygamous kinship system to take root. The nuclear family has a major advantage of mobility--which is why the Inuit and modern Western cultures adopted them.
I suppose there's an argument for a lot of casual relationships, at least for young adults--but that's a quantity vs. quality debate; and once the issue of children comes up, the game changes.
As for an imbalance in gender ratios... well, that's what robots, AI, and the Virtual Reality internet are for.
If you have fully immersive VR sex with someone, does it count as cheating? What about if the person you're having sex with is an AI construct?
Courtly love? Well, that's inevitable in our backward slide into corporate feudalism.