Too bad, I loved the book, but my first thought when I heard they were making a movie of it was that it wouldn't work. It's just not that sort of book, interesting as it was.
Escape to the Movies: The Road
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Didn't he do this movie a couple weeks ago? I remember seeing this review before new moon.
But really, the Road was an okay book if your into that sort of thing, and he's right, you need to pace yourself correctly. A movie version of it would be terrible, like a book version of monty python.
But really, the Road was an okay book if your into that sort of thing, and he's right, you need to pace yourself correctly. A movie version of it would be terrible, like a book version of monty python.
Sorry are you saying you didnt like Leon/The Proffesional? I really enjoyed that movie. Ok it was arty and pretentious butit was jean reno and natalie portman....Doug said:
So now are people happy he's being more negative? Twice in a row in fact.
Anyway as for this films, I don't know, I do like post-apocalyptic themes and from what I've seen from previews/trailers, it looks great. We shall see, when more reviews come in.
Anyway as for this films, I don't know, I do like post-apocalyptic themes and from what I've seen from previews/trailers, it looks great. We shall see, when more reviews come in.
It's a good review, MovieBob and the film looks like something I'm going to avoid.
But the beeping has to go. At first I thought it was kind of funny like random symbols sprouting up in comics indicating the character in a cartoon is swearing. But this is the Escapist--the website that has a really foul mouth Australian that makes witty sentences with politically-incorrect wording, so I doubt we need any censoring.
But the beeping has to go. At first I thought it was kind of funny like random symbols sprouting up in comics indicating the character in a cartoon is swearing. But this is the Escapist--the website that has a really foul mouth Australian that makes witty sentences with politically-incorrect wording, so I doubt we need any censoring.
In convincing me not to see The Road, MovieBob has convinced me to see Adaptation. and the Seventh Seal - Well done.
I didn't like it very much (and I made a mistake in my original post); to be honest, it just seemed very 'meh', and generic with only a vinear of artiness. But then again, I don't think I saw it when it was new, so it might not have been generic at the time, in the same way the first Halo wasn't generic because it was doing those things first and at the time was new.crotalidian said:
Yeah because it's not like we have any other movies out there about for survivors of a zombie apacalypse...The Great JT said:
I liked how moviebob gave a metaphorical bitchslap to alot of the purists. As he seems to be doing alot.
Do you have any proof of this or is it speculation? I didn't hear any beeping over the cursing in the most recent ZP review, where he said such things as "skull fucks".oliveira8 said:
EDIT: looking over it again, methinks you may have been being sarcastic. It's hard to tell in text.
I think it's the sound quality as a whole that can't really handle high pitches.The_root_of_all_evil said:I'm slightly annoyed that there seems to be a turn towards censoring the F word in videos.
Either leave it out (least favourite), reduce it to F- or lower that damn bleep sound, or let us have an 18 version.
Don't go all Atkinson on us.
I usually don't enjoy much of the Escape to the Movies video, but this one just hit the point pretty well.
Which larger expand on the point that good movies are only those made out of games that ripped off movies to begin with: Resident Evil can be converted on a decent zombie movie, Mortal Kombat can be converted on a decent martial arts movie and Silent Hill can be converted on a decent horror movie. Try to convert Super Mario Bros into a movie and... well, we all know how that ended up.The Great JT said:
While i agree with bob that the movie contains very little approached with the right mind set and the casting out of most preconceptions of what a movie should contain you get a visual and emotional treat, but not a movie at-least not in the sense of what a movie should be and what this film could of contained. Even if this movie does poor at the box office i predict it will become a cult film as you need a certain mind set to consider this a good movie, im not saying people who don't like it just don't get it i myself agree with bob on this one but i could certainly tell there was a certain type of person this film would strike a chord with.
Regular great work, though I didn't see how the metaphor supports your claim of "you can make a good movie out of anything". You either except that Halo could be made into a good movie (and it can, since Halo is a fucking rgeat game, and if you don't like it, fine, but I like it and so do many people) or say that not anything can be made into a good movie. You can't have your cake and eat it.
Also, why is "Fuck" censored? suddenly The Escapist is poppulated with 7 year olds? come on, *beep*s break immersion so much. Use "Fuck" freely. Don't worry, we won't tell on you.
Also, why is "Fuck" censored? suddenly The Escapist is poppulated with 7 year olds? come on, *beep*s break immersion so much. Use "Fuck" freely. Don't worry, we won't tell on you.