You bastards! You Blew it up!
May. 17th, 2004 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Jack Off Jill - [Lovesong (Cure Cover)]--- So, last night, i went to see "Troy," again, and i was right about the whole being further fromt he screen thing. I was able to more fully enjoy parts that i missed, as i wasn't so close to the damned screenthat i hat to look up a sotey and a half to see. (Corvus Corax - [Tanzwut]). On the other hand, i was more able to see the things i hated, as well, and very clearly. So it still evens out. I saw something else, before i saw the movie though. I saw previews.
There were previews, there for things i don't remember, and three that i most certainly do. Of those three, one of them was remembered for a good reason, the other two, because i can't fucking scrub their memory from my mind. Saw the "Catwoman" trailer, and that horror was nothing new. Yes it looks to be disgusting, and like they've butchered the character, but, and i don't mean this to be insulting, or Anything, there wasn't that much potential in what i've seen of the Catwoman Series, to make that great of a movie. The story of Selina Kyle, yes, but what else? (Stabbing Westward - [Shame]). Granted, i haven't read much of the Catwoman series, but i like the character, and think what they've done is horrible. But they've done something even Worse, in my opinion. They've fucked up HellBlazer.
I saw a preview for the "Constantine" movie. Yes, it's actually Keanu Reeves. Yes, it's actually LA. No, he doesn't Smoke. No, he's not British. No he's not blonde, and from what i can tell, he's not even a Right Fucking Bastard. So, in short, He's Not John Constantine. They fucked it up. They took something that could have been wonderful, and awesome, and they destroyed everything that made it good. They had the potential of a story about a man who, Several Times, has conned the Legions of Heaven And Hell, for friends, while, in the same breath, using his friends, to save his own skin. Because he's a fucking Bastard. But he's amazing. He's a character that you hate, you love, and you want nothing more than to see him Get His, and Win, all at the same time. (Sneaker Pimps - [Becoming X]). You Care. This movie.... This Fucking Movie... you don't give a Damn, about anyone in it. And maybe you think i'm upset, because i'm a fan. Click that link.
You see those credits? Click them. Check the Director. Script Writer. Cast. Hey, Gavin Rossdale's in it; can't be that bad, right? Note my ironic depths. It will be horrid. Because they took something that has, in its time, been a pinnacle of the comics world, and turned it into "The Order 2," where a man named John Constantine fights for love, and the true of heart, and those in need, in the depths of... LA...Office Buildings... (The White Stripes - [Fell in Love With a Girl]). Uhm.... No? So, i'm a little upset.
I look around, and nothing i see gives me hope for people being faithful to Materials. For the love of god, don't make me talk about what they did to "I, Robot." (Oingo Boingo - [On The Outside]). Mr Asimov... on behalf of everyone... I'm sorry... I'm So Very, Very Sorry...
They've destroyed Potential icons, and institutions, this time around. They've taken things that, if done properly, could have taught peole lessons in things, and given them a good story, Too, and turned them into things that will tank so very hard that the matreials from which they are drawn may suffer. Catwoman, HellBlazer, I, Robot... They don't deserve this treatment... they can't weather this treatment, in the movie business... Superman, Batman, Spidreman: these are already Institutions. (Meryn Cadell - [Knitting]). As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drstrangeal has said, they are known, and understood, within the collective unconscious, thereby allowing people to play around with the concepts, and not Hurt them... Of all of the translative movies, yet to be released, i think I, Robot stands the best chance of not being hurt.
Wolfsheim - [Blind]--- Don't get me wrong i hope the movie tanks, and that the people who do see it, are intruiged enough to read the source material, and gain some damned knowledge... But i take double endged comfort in the fact that most of the people who see the piece of garbage won't have read Asimov, and that they may not even know who he is, unless told... So i think, maybe, with all of these, the point is to talk to people, before and after they've seen them, and tell them what's gone Wrong. Show them the sources, and try to convey the importance of getting a Story, and the Truth of the Matierial Across. (Social Distortion - [Story of My Life]). Because the shit being put on screen is not a worthy representation of these works. Not at All.
End Transmition.
{4.16: [Correction]: There is a cigarette. So he may still smoke. Rest stands.}
There were previews, there for things i don't remember, and three that i most certainly do. Of those three, one of them was remembered for a good reason, the other two, because i can't fucking scrub their memory from my mind. Saw the "Catwoman" trailer, and that horror was nothing new. Yes it looks to be disgusting, and like they've butchered the character, but, and i don't mean this to be insulting, or Anything, there wasn't that much potential in what i've seen of the Catwoman Series, to make that great of a movie. The story of Selina Kyle, yes, but what else? (Stabbing Westward - [Shame]). Granted, i haven't read much of the Catwoman series, but i like the character, and think what they've done is horrible. But they've done something even Worse, in my opinion. They've fucked up HellBlazer.
I saw a preview for the "Constantine" movie. Yes, it's actually Keanu Reeves. Yes, it's actually LA. No, he doesn't Smoke. No, he's not British. No he's not blonde, and from what i can tell, he's not even a Right Fucking Bastard. So, in short, He's Not John Constantine. They fucked it up. They took something that could have been wonderful, and awesome, and they destroyed everything that made it good. They had the potential of a story about a man who, Several Times, has conned the Legions of Heaven And Hell, for friends, while, in the same breath, using his friends, to save his own skin. Because he's a fucking Bastard. But he's amazing. He's a character that you hate, you love, and you want nothing more than to see him Get His, and Win, all at the same time. (Sneaker Pimps - [Becoming X]). You Care. This movie.... This Fucking Movie... you don't give a Damn, about anyone in it. And maybe you think i'm upset, because i'm a fan. Click that link.
You see those credits? Click them. Check the Director. Script Writer. Cast. Hey, Gavin Rossdale's in it; can't be that bad, right? Note my ironic depths. It will be horrid. Because they took something that has, in its time, been a pinnacle of the comics world, and turned it into "The Order 2," where a man named John Constantine fights for love, and the true of heart, and those in need, in the depths of... LA...Office Buildings... (The White Stripes - [Fell in Love With a Girl]). Uhm.... No? So, i'm a little upset.
I look around, and nothing i see gives me hope for people being faithful to Materials. For the love of god, don't make me talk about what they did to "I, Robot." (Oingo Boingo - [On The Outside]). Mr Asimov... on behalf of everyone... I'm sorry... I'm So Very, Very Sorry...
They've destroyed Potential icons, and institutions, this time around. They've taken things that, if done properly, could have taught peole lessons in things, and given them a good story, Too, and turned them into things that will tank so very hard that the matreials from which they are drawn may suffer. Catwoman, HellBlazer, I, Robot... They don't deserve this treatment... they can't weather this treatment, in the movie business... Superman, Batman, Spidreman: these are already Institutions. (Meryn Cadell - [Knitting]). As
drstrangeal has said, they are known, and understood, within the collective unconscious, thereby allowing people to play around with the concepts, and not Hurt them... Of all of the translative movies, yet to be released, i think I, Robot stands the best chance of not being hurt.Wolfsheim - [Blind]--- Don't get me wrong i hope the movie tanks, and that the people who do see it, are intruiged enough to read the source material, and gain some damned knowledge... But i take double endged comfort in the fact that most of the people who see the piece of garbage won't have read Asimov, and that they may not even know who he is, unless told... So i think, maybe, with all of these, the point is to talk to people, before and after they've seen them, and tell them what's gone Wrong. Show them the sources, and try to convey the importance of getting a Story, and the Truth of the Matierial Across. (Social Distortion - [Story of My Life]). Because the shit being put on screen is not a worthy representation of these works. Not at All.
End Transmition.
{4.16: [Correction]: There is a cigarette. So he may still smoke. Rest stands.}
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Date: 2004-05-17 01:06 pm (UTC)Then there are all the people who I generally like but are so B-D list that it makes me hurt to think about them in this flick, like Rachel Weisz. However, I'm sure even Shia LeBouf will be better than Keanu. Grarg.
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It could have been as bad as "I, Robot". It's like they took the premise, turned it inside out and backwards, and then anally raped it with angry badgers. When it was sufficiently torn, bleeding, confused, and covered in filth and semen, they said, "Ok! Movie's done, let's get this sucker on screen!"
I hate Whorelywood, so much, right now.
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Date: 2004-05-17 01:13 pm (UTC)I thankfully have no ties to I, Robot, and no desire whatsoever to see it since the only film I've ever liked that had Will Smith in it was Independence Day, which I mainly enjoyed due to Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum.
Yeah hollywoods a bitch. They need to get off their asses and let Volty make the Chi-Chian movie. Mmmmm Bai Ling...
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Stupid horrible movie place...
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Date: 2004-05-18 06:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-05-18 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
That's Sean Bean. Played Boromir, plays Odyseus, in "Troy." Very British. Very Much a look-alike for John. Could pull it off better than anyone. :\ And they couldn't even do that.