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Cracked's "The 10 Most Awesome Movies Hollywood Ever Killed"

post #1 of 15
8/15/07 at 5:28pm
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http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2304

A good list in my opinion, although Im uncertain about the veracity of these projects; Rama, Halo, Megapolis and Crusades sound like wasted opportunities, but I have to agree withe number one choice...dammit, how I long for a good film to be made from that book.

Any thoughts?
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post #2 of 15
8/15/07 at 5:39pm
Megalopolis is the only one that sounds all that interesting. Maybe Rendezvous with Rama.

I've never gotten around to reading Confederacy, but the commentary is right - funny books seldom translate all that well to the screen. This is probably why Mother Night, the least funny of attempted Vonnegut adaptations, is also the best.

I suppose Cracked is a publication for pre-pubescent boys, so the Dumb and Dumberer, Ghostbusters III, and Fartman picks shouldn't be that surprising, but they still sound incredibly stupid.
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post #3 of 15
8/15/07 at 5:46pm
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Yeah, most of the projects on the list are shit, but come on, a Crusades film with Arnold and Verhoeven (hopefully on full Robocop/Starship Troopers ultra violence mode) would have been entertaining at least.
as For "Confederacy...", its probably one of the hardest books to adapt, especially on this PC day and age.
Rama and Megapolis are easily the best from that list, though.
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post #4 of 15
8/15/07 at 6:14pm
It's a pretty terrible list, so naturally it was at the top of Digg yesterday.
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post #5 of 15
8/15/07 at 6:19pm
It's a terrible list, but they're interesting stories that I, for the most part, haven't heard before.
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post #6 of 15
8/15/07 at 6:42pm
Any such list that doesn't include Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness is suspect. The inclusion of Fartman and Dumb and Dumberer only serve as confirmation.

EDIT: Hell, half the films on a list like that should be Orson Welles projects.
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post #7 of 15
8/15/07 at 7:05pm
"While the producers hunted in vain for funding, Fincher's schedule filled up with other, less interesting projects (Panic Room, Zodiac)."

This quote alone basically sank the whole list for me. I mean, I'll give them Panic Room, but Zodiac?
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post #8 of 15
8/15/07 at 7:32pm
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Originally Posted by ScottieFerguson
"While the producers hunted in vain for funding, Fincher's schedule filled up with other, less interesting projects (Panic Room, Zodiac)."

This quote alone basically sank the whole list for me. I mean, I'll give them Panic Room, but Zodiac?
I agree with you just on Panic Room (despite my lack of love for Zodiac, I admire the film), but I think they are just making a juvenile comparison; I mean, a existensialist movie about a huge spaceship reaching earth would be much interesting than a real serial killer case, in terms of size and posibilities.
Still, Cracked is not by any means a good source for good taste in movies, right?
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post #9 of 15
8/15/07 at 7:44pm
To The White Sea
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post #10 of 15
8/15/07 at 7:47pm
Dunces is funny as hell, but it is way too big and sprawling to fit in a 2.35:1 frame. Having the protagonist be a fat, greasy charlatan who is annoying and a closet homosexual is no risk any backer wants to make.

Keep that story in a book. It's too good for film.
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post #11 of 15
8/15/07 at 8:10pm
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Originally Posted by Matt M
Any such list that doesn't include Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness is suspect.
Spot on, and I'd also punch any list that didn't include The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Fartman? Buh.
Megalopolis is something I have been pining to happen ever since I first heard about it. If he doesn't ever film that one, It wouldn't surprise me if we got an Artificial Intelligence like production of it some where down the track.
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post #12 of 15
8/15/07 at 8:18pm
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To The White Sea
This, and I'll add:

Paul Greengrass' Watchmen. Maybe Snyder's version will make me forget that Greengrass' was ever close to filming.
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post #13 of 15
8/15/07 at 9:20pm
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Originally Posted by Matt OCallaghan
Spot on, and I'd also punch any list that didn't include The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
As an avowed athiest I hate to say this, but Hollywood really didn't kill TMWKDQ - God snuffed that one. Have you watched Lost in La Mancha? The flooding and Rocheforte's illness pretty much did them in.

To be fair if he'd been able to get Hollywood funding maybe things might have been more organized and they could have handled or avoided a lot of the disasters they encountered, but I still don't think it's fair to really blame Hollywood for this one. The European backers, maybe.

A crime that the movie never got finished, though, the footage he did have and what he had planned looked amazing. Of course, The Man of La Mancha is another Welles project, too...
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post #14 of 15
8/24/07 at 4:38pm
That list is kinda bullshit. The only thing to "confirm" Unbreakable II was an off-hand comment by Bruce Willis. Christ, how many times has Tom Arnold said True Lies 2 was going to happen? Shyamalan himself said there was never any intention for an Unbreakable trilogy; it was always to be a stand-alone film.

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Originally Posted by Matt M
Any such list that doesn't include Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness is suspect.
I'd also add Frank Miller's original script for Robocop 2 and David Cronenberg's aborted Total Recall from 1985.

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Originally Posted by Bushipunk
As an avowed athiest I hate to say this, but Hollywood really didn't kill TMWKDQ - God snuffed that one. Have you watched Lost in La Mancha? The flooding and Rocheforte's illness pretty much did them in.
As a Baptist, I can't speak for God. But I'd assume he was a Gilliam fan.
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post #15 of 15
8/24/07 at 8:51pm
Terrible list, but nice to see myers87 is getting work.
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