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    10 Movies That Would Make Awesome SF Novels
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    Image of scifiMD scifiMD
    03/10/09

    In reply to 10 Movies That Would Make Awesome SF Novels
    "between Pygmalion and" ..and what?? For some reason, I HAVE to know.
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    03/10/09

    @scifiMD: Oh crap. The end of that sentence got eaten! Fixing it....
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    03/10/09

    In reply to 10 Movies That Would Make Awesome SF Novels
    pft. im sorry, the fountain was not an underrated masterpiece, it was bloated, self-indulgent, and poorly executed. pi would be a far, far, far more interesting read.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    03/09/09

    In reply to 10 Movies That Would Make Awesome SF Novels
    What a neat article idea. Thanks, Charlie!
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    Image of holographicProfessorMoriarty holographicProfessorMoriarty
    03/09/09

    In reply to 10 Movies That Would Make Awesome SF Novels
    Unless I'm missing my guess...


    12 Monkeys was a written story before it became a movie. It wasn't an original idea of Gilliam, he just expended it a bit.

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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    03/09/09

    @dOk:


    No, 12 Monkeys was NOT based on a short story. It was based on an earlier short film, "La Jetee."

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    03/09/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: Which was based on an episode of The Flintstones.
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    03/09/09

    Okay, maybe not.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    03/09/09

    In reply to 10 Movies That Would Make Awesome SF Novels
    One of the best novels I read was The Abyss by Orson Scott Card. It was pretty much the movie, but more. And more in substance, not things that could have been explained on screen.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/09/09

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    Oh, how about a novel set as a sequel to Blade Runner by K.W. Jeter?

    No, that actually happened and really sucked.
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    03/09/09

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    WHAT?! This is an OUTRAGE! How could a mere novel ever capture the filmaker's vision? How would they do the special effects, the soundtrack...ARRRGH! PEKING. DUCK...

    Hee, hee, hee.


    Hell, I dunno, Liquid Sky by John Shirley? Nah, too obvious.

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    03/09/09

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    Cormac McCarthy's *Eraserhead*
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    03/09/09

    @4ndreVV: Wow, that would be something.
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    Image of zerofish zerofish
    03/09/09

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    Didn't Elizabeth Hand do 12 monkeys? What was that like?
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    03/09/09

    @zerofish: Really? I thought I searched to make sure none of these movies actually had a novelization.
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    03/09/09

    @zerofish: Oh man, you're right! I am crestfallen. [www.amazon.com]
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    Image of Pegritz Pegritz
    03/09/09

    In reply to 10 Movies That Would Make Awesome SF Novels
    Aaaaand I just bought the last--the ONLY--used copy of Priest's novelization of Existenz available on Amazon.com. I absolutely LOVE that movie, and though I'm not the biggest Christopher Priest fan, I'm really interested in seeing how Priest converts the sheer mindfuckery of the film into text.
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    03/09/09

    @Pegritz: I actually thought the film of The Prestige was much better than the book. Interested to see how it goes the other way round, though.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    03/09/09

    @Discodave: I didn't see the movie of the Prestige because I liked the book, but didn't think a movie could improve on it. And I heard the movie's ending was frustrating and telegraphed, the same way the book's was.
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    03/09/09

    In reply to 10 Movies That Would Make Awesome SF Novels
    Primer is too much of a mind fuck to read. You need to watch to it to be able to understand it.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    03/09/09

    @mad_hatter_md01: you figured it out?
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