Mayde if they'd sentenced him to FOUR life sentences,...

[RichP]

there should be no life sentences. only death. give them 10 years to appeal, just to make sure they weren't wrongly convicted, then take them out back and put a bullet in their face.

They just cleared some poor schmuck after 42 years for a crime he did not commit. Death is fine with me but only if it's based on physical evidence and no doubt what so ever, eyewitness's have proven to be too dam blind too often.

 

[kastein]

They just cleared some poor schmuck after 42 years for a crime he did not commit. Death is fine with me but only if it's based on physical evidence and no doubt what so ever, eyewitness's have proven to be too dam blind too often.

Agreed.

 

[aintright]

totally agree. that's why i said ten years. well maybe a 12-15 years. ten is usually the amount of time for new technology to be invented and proven accurate for dna/forensic type evidence. after that though, off with their head

 

[5-90]

CAROUSEL!

I think I have that movie on DVD somewhere... Michael York has always been a bit stilted as an actor, but Jenny Agutter is definitely worth looking at!

 

[RichP]

I think I have that movie on DVD somewhere... Michael York has always been a bit stilted as an actor, but Jenny Agutter is definitely worth looking at!

I have that one too, went to buy a copy of the old tron on DVD, about fell over in shock, $195+ plus on amazon.

 

[87manche]

I have that one too, went to buy a copy of the old tron on DVD, about fell over in shock, $195+ plus on amazon.

just wait for the new one to come out, you know they'll double disc it with the old one for$60.

 

[casm]

I think I have that movie on DVD somewhere... Michael York has always been a bit stilted as an actor, but Jenny Agutter is definitely worth looking at!

I'm just glad someone got the reference

Oh, and a double 'yes' on Jenny Agutter.

I have that one too, went to buy a copy of the old tron on DVD, about fell over in shock, $195+ plus on amazon.

Google 'Tron 20th Anniversary Edition' - I've found it floating around for about $20. FWIW, I have that set and quality's decent. Bonus features are kinda meh, though.

 

[Ralph]

I'm just glad someone got the reference

Oh, and a double 'yes' on Jenny Agutter.



Google 'Tron 20th Anniversary Edition' - I've found it floating around for about $20. FWIW, I have that set and quality's decent. Bonus features are kinda meh, though.

Read the book. It's much better than the movie despite Jenny Agutter.

 

[5-90]

Read the book. It's much better than the movie despite Jenny Agutter.

Yeah - I feel the same way about Phil Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and I still can't bring myself to forgive Verhoeven for what he did to Starship Troopers.

There are a few of Stephen King's that I'd like to see made into movies, but you know Hollyweird would screw them up:
- Rage
- The Long Walk
- The Running Man (only done properly this time. Arnold Schwarzenegger was no Ben Richards - or was that the other way about?)
- Survivor Type

And a few other of his shorts. The closest I've seen to a good treatment of any of this has been Maximum Overdrive (based on Trucks) Tommyknockers (based on the novel of the same name.) I can't quite get myself to watch The Mist - not that I have anything against M. Night Shymalan's work, but the "Hollyweird Translation" will probably screw up the story mightily...

I miss Tarantino's early work, y'know?

 

[Ralph]

Yeah - I feel the same way about Phil Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and I still can't bring myself to forgive Verhoeven for what he did to Starship Troopers.

There are a few of Stephen King's that I'd like to see made into movies, but you know Hollyweird would screw them up:
- Rage
- The Long Walk
- The Running Man (only done properly this time. Arnold Schwarzenegger was no Ben Richards - or was that the other way about?)
- Survivor Type

And a few other of his shorts. The closest I've seen to a good treatment of any of this has been Maximum Overdrive (based on Trucks) Tommyknockers (based on the novel of the same name.) I can't quite get myself to watch The Mist - not that I have anything against M. Night Shymalan's work, but the "Hollyweird Translation" will probably screw up the story mightily...

I miss Tarantino's early work, y'know?

They can never quite get it right. It's hard to compare what can be put on the screen to what we can build in our imaginations.

 

[casm]

Yeah - I feel the same way about Phil Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

I'd normally be with you on this one, but I give Blade Runner a pass compared to Androids - but on one condition and one condition only: that the two are not directly-compared.

None of PKD's stuff that has made it to the screen has been done well, IMHO. In a way it's understandable, because much of what he goes into in the books would be very difficult to represent on film and still keep the audience's attention. VALIS, as an example, is very metaphysical and internal to the main character. Having said that, The Man In The High Castle always seemed like (given the right treatment) one that would work as a movie.

and I still can't bring myself to forgive Verhoeven for what he did to Starship Troopers.

Completely agreed. It was given the Robocop treatment in a lot of ways - and I say that as someone who likes Robocop. It was entirely the wrong thing to do to that book. I just hope that Have Space Suit, Will Travel doesn't end up in the same vein (yep, they're apparently turning that one into a movie, too).

There are a few of Stephen King's that I'd like to see made into movies, but you know Hollyweird would screw them up:
- Rage
- The Long Walk

I never understood why The Bachman Books wasn't done as an episodic film, kind of like Cat's Eye was. The individual stories in it are great, but they are short stories.

- The Running Man (only done properly this time. Arnold Schwarzenegger was no Ben Richards - or was that the other way about?)

Yes. This. And with a grittier feel to it.

And a few other of his shorts. The closest I've seen to a good treatment of any of this has been Maximum Overdrive (based on Trucks) Tommyknockers (based on the novel of the same name.)

Maximum Overdrive has always been one of my favourite B-movies, and I mean that in the best way possible. It's just entertaining, which is what stuff like that should be. See also Night Of The Comet, which predated it by a couple of years.

 

[5-90]

They can never quite get it right. It's hard to compare what can be put on the screen to what we can build in our imaginations.

I know - but when the story is butchered almost beyond recognition, I take some serious umbrage to it.

Read Starship Troopers - then watch the movie.

Read The Running Man - then watch the movie.

(Verhoven turned Starship Troopers into a 90-minute long recruiting commercial, and focussed his whole SP:FX effort into the bugs. Didn't even have the powered suits that were part and parcel of the MI. And, while I've nothing whatever against Dina Meyer - or her B-cups! - Dizzy Flores was a fella in the book...

(Co-ed integrated military units aren't a bad idea - I'd like to see it done. It's doable - although it's going to call for some psychological changes on the part of men. That is probably the single largest stumbling block - and that's leaving aside the idea of unisex showers and latrines...)