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Joliet Jake Blues
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
Australia
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 Posted - 07/02/2007 : 8:23:09 PM
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This was a 1950s novel by Heinlein that I read as a boy and loved. So, 10 years or so back I see a movie of the same name at the video store and get all excited.
Afterwards...well it was OK, but it kinda left me thinking that it should have been so much more.
Now, many years later, I understand why:
http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp15.Building.the.Bomb.html
"Age and guile beat youth, innocence and a bad haircut" - P.J. O'Rourke |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2007 : 03:08:20 AM
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| Yep, that was an early screenplay for the dynamic duo of Rossio and Elliott. Still haven't seen the movie. At the very least, I would hope it's better than their Pirates sequels. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2007 : 05:02:10 AM
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You mean the one with Donald Sutherland? It's very similar to an X-Files episode. it has its moments (the climax it's not one of them), but as an adaptation it is a complete failure.
Hope it never gets adapted again, it's one of my favourite SF novels, and I don't think anybody could replicate its bizarreness / political reading. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2007 : 12:11:19 AM
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| Yep, that's the one. With Julie Warner, too. Whatever happened to her? At one time, wasn't she supposed to be the Next Big Thing? |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2007 : 12:13:28 AM
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| Also, refresh my memory: wasn't Roger Corman's It Conquered the World loosely based on Puppet Masters, too? |
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
648 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2007 : 08:58:12 AM
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I think The Brain Eaters was the 50s movie based on The Puppet Masters.
"I reserve the right to look as well as be boring." - Robert Fripp |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2007 : 12:03:12 PM
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| Ah, right, that's the movie I was thinking of. Thanks. |
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