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 Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:27 pm
Aria The Wanderer Hehe, yeah, Sting was dead sexy, but other than that.....If there had been anymore whispered voice overs I might have killed myself. xp xd Did you ever see the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series version of Dune? Yes! I did! I owned that version for a time. Oh, how I wish I hadn't gotten rid of it. It was so much better. I still liked the book better ... but I think that was because this was a story that is really best on paper. Voice overs...I think that was part of where Lynch went wrong.. the voice overs were killing him.. but he had read it in the novels and so he was driven to try to translate it over to celluloid. *ack*
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:40 pm
Did you ever see the second mini-series? I think it combines books two and three, which is why I've been hesitant to watch it, since combining like that tends to result in missing a lot or important things.
Oh! I did think of one book to movie adaptation that I absolutely hated. Queen of the Damned. It was absolutely nothing like the book, filled with story holes and had several really bad characterizations. Although I must say that the guy who played Lestat really looked the part and did a great job capturing Lestat's personality. It's too bad he was stuck in such a horrible movie. xp
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Aria na`Hael Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:49 pm
I have not seen the second one! eek I probably wont, either, really. The Dune books all got gradually worse as the series progressed. 2-3 were still ..pretty good... but not as good as the first. I think they should have named the last book Dune: The Zimmerframe Conspiracy rofl and I do agree with what you said about lumping books togther to make one movie.
About QOD I never really did Anne Rice so I was never interested in the QOD. I've never seen it.. but it just didn't look like it would interest me.
I did see the first one.. Interview With A Vampire with crazy cult boy Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.. and I thought that it was "OK" but it didn't grab me at the time, either... maybe if I saw it again.. since my tastes were less mature then and I was NOT into Goth Horror at the time.
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:13 pm
Ah. I love the Vampire Chronicles. Lestat made being dead look good. xd The last book in the main series (Memnoch the Devil) sucked though. She completely changed Lestat's charcter with no warning at all. crying
And yeah, I don't think I got beyond the third book. Once Paul Jr. (or whatever his name was) actually became a sand worm, it kinda lost me. eek
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Aria na`Hael Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:42 pm
Aria The Wanderer Ah. I love the Vampire Chronicles. Lestat made being dead look good. xd The last book in the main series (Memnoch the Devil) sucked though. She completely changed Lestat's charcter with no warning at all. crying And yeah, I don't think I got beyond the third book. Once Paul Jr. (or whatever his name was) actually became a sand worm, it kinda lost me. eek Paul Atredes (spelling error..ack) Yes.... Dune is ANOTHER series of which I refuse to acknowledge the existance of after the first book xd
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:26 pm
Aria The Wanderer Ah. I love the Vampire Chronicles. Lestat made being dead look good. xd The last book in the main series (Memnoch the Devil) sucked though. She completely changed Lestat's charcter with no warning at all. crying And yeah, I don't think I got beyond the third book. Once Paul Jr. (or whatever his name was) actually became a sand worm, it kinda lost me. eek
... sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:47 pm
=Wireless.Virgin= Aria The Wanderer Ah. I love the Vampire Chronicles. Lestat made being dead look good. xd The last book in the main series (Memnoch the Devil) sucked though. She completely changed Lestat's charcter with no warning at all. crying And yeah, I don't think I got beyond the third book. Once Paul Jr. (or whatever his name was) actually became a sand worm, it kinda lost me. eek
... sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:18 pm
OMG, OMG, OMG!
Dune as a movie was one of the worst things I have ever wasted time and money on. I loved the books (I think I read 2 or 3 of them). I was totally into the books. But the movie was pure drek.
Another movie that totally wrecked was "Under the Tuscan Sun"... had absolutely nothing to do with the book. Nothing! Complete invention. Piece of chicken-stink.
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:44 pm
designergrl OMG, OMG, OMG! Dune as a movie was one of the worst things I have ever wasted time and money on. I loved the books (I think I read 2 or 3 of them). I was totally into the books. But the movie was pure drek. Another movie that totally wrecked was "Under the Tuscan Sun"... had absolutely nothing to do with the book. Nothing! Complete invention. Piece of chicken-stink. I'm glad you said that. I was thinking of renting that one day. heart
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:46 pm
time for a fresh gripe...
why is it that i seem to be the thread killer? haven't seen it here yet but everywhere i start posting, it seems to shrivel and die....it is very disheartining crying
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:34 am
It's just been very quiet, Dragonmatt. Neither Aria or Designer has been on yesterday, it seems
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:48 pm
@ Dragonmatt5
I haven't seen you "kill" a thread yet, but if it happened it was probably because you sound intelligent and perceptive in your posts... which probably cuts about 80% of Gaia users out of the conversation ...
okay, bad joke, but from what I've read in GD, GCD and CB, there really isn't much of a "market" for good conversation.
That's why we gathered here.
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:40 pm
@DG, that sounds about right.. I often kill threads too.. *shifty eyes* So, I'm willing to accept that answer.
How have you been?
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:25 pm
I just saw The Highlander about a month ago, and it makes me happy. I mean, Sean Connery is the only Scottish guy in the film, and he plays an Egyptian guy posing as a Spanish guy who likes to hang out in Japan. How can you go wrong?
When I first saw it, the first thing that came to my mind was, "This makes no sense! It's great, but there is no reason for anything that happens. Why can there only be one? Why is there lightning? Why are they randomly immortal?" But then, after thinking about it a little, I came up with a pretty good reason that ties everything together. It's kind of long-winded, though; I'll only type it out if you guys want me to. Apparantly the sequels don't go along with it, though, but they are widely regarded as bad anyway, so I think I'll ignore them.
Rumor has it they're making an anime version of The Highlander sometime this year. I don't expect I'll hunt it out.
I saw the first quarter of the Dune miniseries. It was pretty good, though it still managed to take an amazing book and turn it into an eh televison production. It wasn't bad; I just don't know that I would have enjoyed it had I not read the book.
Speaking of bad sequels, I've only read the first to Dune, and that really managed to turn an amazing book into a penny sci-fi story. Blargh. I own the next three, though, so I suppose I'll get around to reading them sooner or later.
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:38 pm
Kai Errant But then, after thinking about it a little, I came up with a pretty good reason that ties everything together. It's kind of long-winded, though; I'll only type it out if you guys want me to.. Tell uuuussss xd I, for one, wanna hear! heart 3nodding
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