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"Almost Famous?" I didn't love that movie, not what I expected  Anyhoo, who else is it in the movie besides Marky Mark.
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Mar 21st, 2001 06:35 AM |
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Ushgarak
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Schindler's List was a good film of a book. Exactly what a film of a book should be- cut out enough to keep it a film, sand not so much that the point was missed. So he had to re-arrange things a little; I think it was a brilliant conversion.
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Mar 21st, 2001 06:46 AM |
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queeq
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Jaws is the ultimate film of as book: a lot better!!!!
I read an interesting interview with Sydney Pollack a a while back. He said he preferred to buy the rights to bad books with great ideas. Thus he could use the great idea and turn it into a film. The rights are cheap and the author's no bother since his book was lousy anyway. He said that a good book is difficult to make into a movie, since it is so good AS a book. Umberto Eco also said something about that when Jean-Jacques Annaud made Name of the Rose, he said that he didn't want to butt in in the moviemaking because "a film is a film and a book is a book".
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Mar 21st, 2001 01:57 PM |
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Gundark
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I don't think planet of the apes is gonna be another series of movies, finti, just one. Or at least that's what I heard. The Patriot was excellent...it you really gave you a clear impression of what they were fighting for over here and what they sacrificed in their personal lives. We rented that the weekend we rented The Green Mile. That was also very good.
I read Jaws after I saw the movie, queeq...I agree the movie was MUCH better.
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Mar 21st, 2001 05:29 PM |
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queeq
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I read it after the movie as well ( ) and it was a bit of a letdown, I think. Spielberg really made a good story out of story.
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Mar 21st, 2001 05:31 PM |
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Gundark
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Yeah I'm glad he didn't drag that Ellen/Hooper thing into it. And Roy Scheider is much better than the Brody described in the book. 
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Mar 21st, 2001 09:27 PM |
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queeq
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Almost everything is better than the book. Even Quint.
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Mar 22nd, 2001 02:16 AM |
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finti
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Everything, but the shark.
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Mar 22nd, 2001 05:55 AM |
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queeq
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And that's why Spielberg cut him out most of the time.
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Mar 22nd, 2001 01:52 PM |
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Gundark
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Did you know....(Gundy's bit o'trivia here) that the last day of filming on the Jaws set, the crew was gonna toss Spielberg into the water ? He got wind of it and dressed in all leather and suede clothes that day and the crew decided they couldn't do it, being as the salt water would have destroyed everything he was wearing !
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Mar 22nd, 2001 04:56 PM |
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queeq
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Didn't know that.
I loved Dreyfuss talking about the problems with the shark. He said in a doc on the Jaws-DVD that for months they heard the walkie-talkies going like this: "The shark's not working, the shark's not working." And then near the end of the production they finally heard something else: "The shark is working, the shark is working."
Anyway, Spielberg said Jaws was a fun movie to watch but not a fun movie to make.
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Mar 23rd, 2001 03:09 AM |
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Ushgarak
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I don't want to sound all Briitsh and pompous here, but the Patriot was APPALLING from a historical perspective. And I just don't mean that form a scholarly point of view... what is it with Mel Gibson and British oppression, anyway? Won't ever catch him doing an aboriginal rights movie, will you?
Not as annoying as U-571, though.
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Mar 23rd, 2001 03:26 AM |
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queeq
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I heard U-571 was very nice, historically incorrect, but a nice movie nevertheless. And I still have to see The Patriot, heard mixed reports about that one.
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Mar 23rd, 2001 03:39 AM |
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Gundark
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I understand what you're saying, Ush...I guess he figures thats a good subject for big money-makers.
I think one of the best parts of Jaws was when Quint was telling the story of the USS Indianapolis. IMHO.
Ya know, queeq, RC is gonna be really mad when he comes back and sees how we've twisted his Apes topic into a Jaws thread. I guess that'll mean we've done well.
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Mar 23rd, 2001 03:42 AM |
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queeq
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Not done well, we did excellently.
Did you know the Indianapolis story is Spielberg's favourite scene?
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Mar 23rd, 2001 03:50 AM |
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Raz
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No, I didn't
Haven't seen Jaws in a long time. I think I was about 14 since I last saw it.
Although Jaws 3 was on TV a couple of days ago, didn't really think much of it really...
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Mar 23rd, 2001 05:20 PM |
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queeq
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Jaws 2, 3 and 4 SUCK!!!!!
The first one is SUPERB! Go see it again. They re-released it on video and DVD for the 25th anniversary. And they released a wonderful special edition of the soundtrack: John Williams of course. With previoulsy unreleased music and unused music!
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Mar 23rd, 2001 05:51 PM |
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Gundark
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Oh I agree...the other the Jaws were terrible. Especially 4, with Ellen going after the shark. 
Chaos & Mayhem strike again !
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Mar 23rd, 2001 07:46 PM |
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finti
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Yeah Jaws 2,3 and 4 does suck just as al Star Trek movies suck!!!!!!!!!1
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Mar 23rd, 2001 09:03 PM |
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queeq
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And finti-the-movie-fan strikes again.
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