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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Josephus

Quote from: Syt on December 16, 2021, 11:55:25 AM
Villeneuve to direct Rendezvous With Rama, produced by the same company as Blade Runner 2049.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/denis-villeneuve-rendezvous-with-rama-movie-1235062337/

WOW...he must have heard me...I brought that up like a month ago  :) (And you guys all said it was unfilmable ;)
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Barrister

Quote from: Syt on December 16, 2021, 11:55:25 AM
Villeneuve to direct Rendezvous With Rama, produced by the same company as Blade Runner 2049.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/denis-villeneuve-rendezvous-with-rama-movie-1235062337/

I want to encourage Hollywood to keep making science fiction movies.

But Rendezvous with Rama never really struck me as being very adaptable to being a motion picture.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Habbaku

I have faith in St. Denis.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Josephus

Quote from: Josephus on November 10, 2021, 06:39:00 AM
Quote from: celedhring on November 09, 2021, 08:52:23 AM
Oh, and if we're talking Arthur C. Clarke I'd much rather have somebody adapt Childhood's End (I refuse to acknowledge the SyFy version).

Yeah, that was terrible.

And let's also do Rendezvous with Rama once we're at it.

Denis? Denis? Are you on this forum  :lol:
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Habbaku

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Sheilbh

Quote from: Barrister on December 16, 2021, 12:00:31 PM
Quote from: Syt on December 16, 2021, 11:55:25 AM
Villeneuve to direct Rendezvous With Rama, produced by the same company as Blade Runner 2049.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/denis-villeneuve-rendezvous-with-rama-movie-1235062337/

I want to encourage Hollywood to keep making science fiction movies.

But Rendezvous with Rama never really struck me as being very adaptable to being a motion picture.
I want to encourage Hollywood to keep giving unfilmable sci-fi adaptations to Villeneuve.
Let's bomb Russia!

celedhring

Quote from: Sheilbh on December 16, 2021, 12:20:14 PM
Quote from: Barrister on December 16, 2021, 12:00:31 PM
Quote from: Syt on December 16, 2021, 11:55:25 AM
Villeneuve to direct Rendezvous With Rama, produced by the same company as Blade Runner 2049.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/denis-villeneuve-rendezvous-with-rama-movie-1235062337/

I want to encourage Hollywood to keep making science fiction movies.

But Rendezvous with Rama never really struck me as being very adaptable to being a motion picture.
I want to encourage Hollywood to keep giving unfilmable sci-fi adaptations to Villeneuve.

That book doesn't even have an actual plot  :lol:

Visually it should be breath-taking, though.

Maladict


Josquius

It'll be just like Dune (part 1) with people being lost and confused when it suddenly ends with a whimper ... Only it is the actual end of the book.
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Josephus

Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Josephus

Quote from: Tyr on December 16, 2021, 03:17:03 PM
It'll be just like Dune (part 1) with people being lost and confused when it suddenly ends with a whimper ... Only it is the actual end of the book.

Yeah...but there are three sequels, I believe
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

crazy canuck

Quote from: Josephus on December 16, 2021, 07:17:47 PM
Quote from: Tyr on December 16, 2021, 03:17:03 PM
It'll be just like Dune (part 1) with people being lost and confused when it suddenly ends with a whimper ... Only it is the actual end of the book.

Yeah...but there are three sequels, I believe

Yeah, and the ending is... well lets just say the books are more about the journey than the destination - literally.

Admiral Yi

Rewatched Finest Hour.  I don't get the criticism, I think it's wonderful.

In the final fight them on the beaches scene it's the Liberals are whooping up a storm and the Tories are sitting on their hands.  Is this accurate?  Was the Tory rank and file for a negotiated peace?

Gups

Apparently so  (at least according to Churchill's wife). BUt hard to know as no television or even a recording (the recording we all hear was in fact made in 1949). MPs would have been very despressed following Dunkirk.