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Black sheep also put me in mind of the kind of movies that Peter Jackson USED to make - before he got sick of working for free and spending 6 years making a film out of his own funding.
Check out Brain dead or bad taste sometime.
The idea of were sheep/zombie sheep was just ludicrous enough to send it all into parody territory.
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FITZZ wrote: IMO The Green Mile,The Shawshank Redemption, The Shinning,Cujo and Carrie are the only Stephen King books that translated fairly well to movies.
As you stated KC,most of Kings books just don't "cross the gap" very well.
Don't forget Stand by Me, Apt Pupil and Misery.
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The Stephen King works that have given decent treatment by talented people have generally worked out pretty well, in fact he's got a really high strike rate. The Stephen King horror stuff that's been made as straight to TV stuff has sucked.
I think King's reputation for hard to translate work has a lot more to do with how much straight to TV stuff tends to suck than anything to do with King's material.
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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
FITZZ wrote: IMO The Green Mile,The Shawshank Redemption, The Shinning,Cujo and Carrie are the only Stephen King books that translated fairly well to movies.
As you stated KC,most of Kings books just don't "cross the gap" very well.
Don't forget Stand by Me, Apt Pupil and Misery.
Very true,I totaly forgot those,basicly due to Stand by Me going under a different name in print (The Body--IIRC),and Apt Pupil was a short story in a colection and just slipped my mind,both are however good print to film adaptations of Kings work.
Now as for Misery,good adaptation,I'll grant that,however seeing James Cann in such a helpless situation just makes me want to "Go to the matresses"...especialy considering his toll both misfortunes years before .
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VikingScott wrote:OH GODS YES!
The trailer made i look like a good parody but nooooooooo. It was awful
I laughed at so much stuff in that film.
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If said slapped grenade didn't blow up when slapped, it will blow up when it hits the ground.
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If you get stabbed by space tentacle things, you die. End of story.
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Amen Pipboy,I watched that gak with my son last week (he likes dinosuars and he likes sharks ...so.),I honestly feel like a bad parent for allowing my offspring to view such utter crap.
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Sasori wrote:I wonder where the Break down at SCI-FI is. They have some good shows, then they have movies like...
Dinoshark...
Honestly the Sci-Fi chanel (or SyFy) IMO is a tremendous let down,I mean there is literaly 60 + years of Sci-Fi films floating about (some great,some not so...none as bad as most of the gak they show) that could be aired,however for reasons I can't seem to grasp Sci-Fi airs crap like Dinoshark and Ghost Hunters.
I don't know about the rest of you,but I'll gladly watch 1950's B-films over "Ice Spiders" or "Dinoshark" any day.
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At least the 1950's B-films there is an attempt to make a real movie with real actors and a script not something in order to get out of film school. For my money there is nothing better than "Them" or "Forbidden Planet" to kill a couple of hours.
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Eragon, the 2005 film (no, not film. Doesn't qualify as a film.)
Good God, I don't watch a huge amount of movies but that was without a doubt the biggest piece of SH*T I have ever watched. I recommend anyone who sees the director to bring him to me....alive.
I thought the book was OK, was fairly excited about the movie, and when I saw it....well, for some reason no one else wanted to leave, so I was stuck there, sandiwiched between two large people shoving popcorn into their face, watching a movie so bad, I turned down an invite to the snack bar so I could have my folks drive me home...so I could reflect that yes, their really is such thing as a loser director.
Maybe I liked the book better than I thought, and thus the movie was made to be awful in my eyes for not doing justice to me. But that was without a doubt the worst movie I have ever seen.
Twilight is a close second.
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Sasori wrote:I wonder where the Break down at SCI-FI is. They have some good shows, then they have movies like...
Dinoshark...
Honestly the Sci-Fi chanel (or SyFy) IMO is a tremendous let down,I mean there is literaly 60 + years of Sci-Fi films floating about (some great,some not so...none as bad as most of the gak they show) that could be aired,however for reasons I can't seem to grasp Sci-Fi airs crap like Dinoshark and Ghost Hunters. I don't know about the rest of you,but I'll gladly watch 1950's B-films over "Ice Spiders" or "Dinoshark" any day.
I've always wondered that too. There's so many great Sci-Fi movies they could show there, and yet they only have these crappy original movies? Seriously, there's barely anything I even recognize on there, except maybe Dr. Who and Stargate.
Edit: Today I was checking the channels and Aliens was on Sci-Fi. Go figure.
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Sasori wrote:I wonder where the Break down at SCI-FI is. They have some good shows, then they have movies like...
Dinoshark...
Honestly the Sci-Fi chanel (or SyFy) IMO is a tremendous let down,I mean there is literaly 60 + years of Sci-Fi films floating about (some great,some not so...none as bad as most of the gak they show) that could be aired,however for reasons I can't seem to grasp Sci-Fi airs crap like Dinoshark and Ghost Hunters.
I don't know about the rest of you,but I'll gladly watch 1950's B-films over "Ice Spiders" or "Dinoshark" any day.
I've always wondered that too. There's so many great Sci-Fi movies they could show there, and yet they only have these crappy original movies? Seriously, there's barely anything I even recognize on there, except maybe Dr. Who and Stargate.
Edit: Today I was checking the channels and Aliens was on Sci-Fi. Go figure.
I saw that as well,perhaps the suits at Sci-Fi are taking notice of the crap ratings they get and are attempting to become an Actual "Sci-Fi" network,but who knows,next week they may be showing a "Super Snake vs Super Squid" marathon.
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