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The book was absolute crap, probably the worst thing Crichton's ever written. The characters were terrible and cliched, the dialogue was terrible, and the plot was horrendous to the point that I had the ending figured out halfway through the book. Now taking all of that into consideration, and the fact that every Crichton adaptation has sucked ass compared to the book, this should be a big steaming pile of ******.
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Love the book, the movie's gonna be awesome.
BTW, if you people hate Crichton's books so much, don't read them and stop whinning. Damn, nobody's forcing you to read his stuff.
BTW, if you people hate Crichton's books so much, don't read them and stop whinning. Damn, nobody's forcing you to read his stuff.
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I read a month back or so that Donner structured the movie to get away from the "technical" nature of time travel and get the travelers back to the past much quicker in the movie.........not a good sign.
After Congo and Sphere, color me very skeptical (but still interested)
After Congo and Sphere, color me very skeptical (but still interested)
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I've read all of MCs books, including the non-fiction stuff. I feel that after the original Jurassic Park was written every novel post 1994 was written like an easily adaptable screenplay. Timeline has all the right earmarks to be a "Blockbuster". But like previously mentioned, book to screen is usually a sure fire way to ruin everything.
I may not see this in theatres, but definitely worth a rental.
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I may not see this in theatres, but definitely worth a rental.
Ian
(Why haven't we seen a theatrical version of Airframe?)
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This movie blew. The best part was near the end. Everything else was laughably bad. The way they got trapped into the past was ridiculous. The costumes looked too new. And oh yeah, Paul Walker's character and his girlfriend in the movie was pointless and annoying. All they did was run, get caught, repeat 1000 more times.
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Originally posted by GmoneyOwnsYou
Geez, Paul Walker is complete trash.
Geez, Paul Walker is complete trash.
Every time you hate on Paul Walker, God kills a kitten.
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Originally posted by Buckaroo Banzai
(Why haven't we seen a theatrical version of Airframe?)
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Originally posted by FuzzyBallz
Are you insane. Do you know how many people will file suit against the studio who does it? Seeing how "everybody" was affected by 9/11.
Are you insane. Do you know how many people will file suit against the studio who does it? Seeing how "everybody" was affected by 9/11.
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I think time travel concepts in films are generally made for an audience who may not know the finer points of quantum physics. Like anybody really knows what the finer points are. I can't say for sure, but don't most people want to see the action and the drama, less science? I for one thought the books explanation for time travel was quite clever and would love to see the ideas implemented in the film. However that would probably take alot of screen time to cover. Besides which, some of the words in the book might have proven difficult for Paul Walker when doing the first script run through! Ha.
Fuzzy, please explain your basis for your comment. Just interested to know your opinion.
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Fuzzy, please explain your basis for your comment. Just interested to know your opinion.
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Originally posted by PalmerJoss
The book was absolute crap, probably the worst thing Crichton's ever written. The characters were terrible and cliched, the dialogue was terrible, and the plot was horrendous to the point that I had the ending figured out halfway through the book. Now taking all of that into consideration, and the fact that every Crichton adaptation has sucked ass compared to the book, this should be a big steaming pile of ******.
The book was absolute crap, probably the worst thing Crichton's ever written. The characters were terrible and cliched, the dialogue was terrible, and the plot was horrendous to the point that I had the ending figured out halfway through the book. Now taking all of that into consideration, and the fact that every Crichton adaptation has sucked ass compared to the book, this should be a big steaming pile of ******.
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Originally posted by Supreme Sean
Every time you hate on Paul Walker, God kills a kitten.
Every time you hate on Paul Walker, God kills a kitten.
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Originally posted by RyoHazuki7
I have a question for you. It is an honest question. Im not insulting you I just want to know. Are you gay?
I have a question for you. It is an honest question. Im not insulting you I just want to know. Are you gay?
And if you had read through the " Most Beautiful Actress " thread, you would have seen that I posted twice with a number of actresses I find attractive.
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I think that was just playful taunting, brah. Kinda like when Tyrese said, "Don't drop the soap, big homey." Or when Paul 'Ownz' Walker thrusts his crotch at Tyrese while Tyrese is coming at him furiously.
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Well hyping up Sean Connery, Sam Jackson, Tom Cruise, and Al Pacino is alright because these guys are respectable actors with strong careers. You must have a reason for like Paul Walker and I though maybe it was sexual preference. Calm down.
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Originally posted by Buckaroo Banzai
I've read all of MCs books, including the non-fiction stuff. I feel that after the original Jurassic Park was written every novel post 1994 was written like an easily adaptable screenplay. Timeline has all the right earmarks to be a "Blockbuster". But like previously mentioned, book to screen is usually a sure fire way to ruin everything.
I've read all of MCs books, including the non-fiction stuff. I feel that after the original Jurassic Park was written every novel post 1994 was written like an easily adaptable screenplay. Timeline has all the right earmarks to be a "Blockbuster". But like previously mentioned, book to screen is usually a sure fire way to ruin everything.
Timeline doesn't even benefit from a good book. The story seemed flimsy to begin with. I was surprised that he could make such a cool concept as time travel into such a mediocre story. And I knew that a movie was inevitable. Like you said, it seemed like I was reading a screenplay.
Although I was interested in Crichton's concept of time travel. Infinite parallel universes temporally shifted, so when you travel back in time you are crossing over into one of these parallel universes that is for all intents and purposes identical to our own past. The person who comes back is not the person who left, but an almost completely identical doppelganger from another universe. You can do or change anything you like in the past, since it will not alter your own universe but the "present" of another universe. As that was the only really interesting idea in the book, I'm sure that will be left out.
Originally posted by matrixrok9
This movie blew. The best part was near the end. Everything else was laughably bad. The way they got trapped into the past was ridiculous. The costumes looked too new. And oh yeah, Paul Walker's character and his girlfriend in the movie was pointless and annoying. All they did was run, get caught, repeat 1000 more times.
This movie blew. The best part was near the end. Everything else was laughably bad. The way they got trapped into the past was ridiculous. The costumes looked too new. And oh yeah, Paul Walker's character and his girlfriend in the movie was pointless and annoying. All they did was run, get caught, repeat 1000 more times.
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Looks entertaining but run-of-the-mill, which is perfect for this director and cast. From what I've heard, they actually kept in the bit where the professor stud guy is disillusioned by the reality of the middle ages compared to what he imagined. That sounds good to me, since those little anthropological "this is what we normally think, this is what really happened" asides by Crichton - which were the best part of his book - were probably kept in the movie.
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Originally posted by Kal Jedi
Sorry, but I gotta call bull***** on this. Please say you're exaggerating. Halfway? really now. You knew that
Sorry, but I gotta call bull***** on this. Please say you're exaggerating. Halfway? really now. You knew that
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This was without a doubt Crichtons most predictable and least interesting work for me to date. A totally by the numbers thriller with not a single surprise in it which is probably why it took me almost a month to read it(average time for me to finish a book is around 2-3 days).