quote: Ah, yes, the fate of any film that comes out from a Disney studio. Remember how they took all the violence and profanity out of Pulp Fiction? I was lucky enough to read the original script and, well, I don't want to go into too much detail, but remember Sam Jackson's supposedly "iconic" line all the promo material used? "My wallet's the one with Mickey Mouse on the front"? That scene was just so much better as originally imagined.
Now, now, don't use up your whole ration of sarcasm at once. It has to last the month, you know.
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I just learned something fascinating yesterday... Did any of you know that when J.R.R. Tolkien sold the rights for making a Lord of the Rings movie, he made one condition: that Disney never, ever have anything remotely to do with the production of said movie?
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A wise move. Prahaps he forsaw Disney's masterpiece The Black Hole.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: In all fairness, "I, Robot" was a decent movie. It even incorporated some ideas from Asimov. It just needed a different name, because it was not "I, Robot".
Much like the upcoming Speilberg/Tom Cruise version of War of The Worlds. It's done for name recognition- not because the producers have any love of the original material.
The Speilberg/Cruise WOTW is set in modern times and features "martians disguised as humans that have been here for years". ((shudders uncontrollably))
I misseed that in the original Wells version somehow.
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"Much like the upcoming Speilberg/Tom Cruise version of War of The Worlds."
Or The Time Machine. Or Planet of the Apes. I mean, you'd think that, at some point, someone would raise the issue of plagiarism.
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Well, they buy the rights to the story from whoever owns it first (usually some writer's inheritors) nad then discard the entire story- keeping only the barest threads of plot- while retaining the title in an attempt to cash in on name recognition.
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Somewhere, I've seen production photos of the actor putting the costume on. I got the impression, that it was a placeholder for CGI later.. but at any rate, he's your plastic pal that's fun to be with!
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Because a paranoid android shouldn't look like some plastic Japanese kiddy robot, goddammit.
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That's NOT what the marketing division of the Sirius cybernetics Corporation says, heh heh.
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In this instance, I like DC's spunque. And I guess Adams OK'd it.
Movie-Marvin will be played by Willow, Warwick Davis. If there is one thing Warwick lacks, it's sarcasm and bite. He's so damn wholesome in all his roles.
I sense they'll cutify Marvin the way the LOTR-movies cutified baby-eating, from-behind-strangling Gollum...
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"Movie-Marvin will be played by Willow, Warwick Davis. If there is one thing Warwick lacks, it's sarcasm and bite. He's so damn wholesome in all his roles."
Except, he's just in the costume. If the IMDb can be trusted, then the comments at the beginning of this thread are oddly prescient, since it says Alan Rickman is doing the voice.
However, I've always thought Marvin needed to look like a robot from a low-budget '70s production. That thing really just doesn't look right.
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