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1. Neuromancer
2. When Gravity Fails
3. The Thing II


This has been... The Three Movies I Wish They'd Make!

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: 3. The Thing II

I was led to believe that this was happening, except it was going to be a prequel of sorts, following the wacky happenings of the original Nordic expedition guys.

This is what I was led to believe.

1) A decent Neverwhere
2) Snow Crash
3) Illium/Olympos (Dan Simmons)

Neuromancer...I hope they don't make that into a movie because of the inevitable suck factor. 'Johnny Pneumatic' was based in the same world as Neuromancer and they didn't come close to the imagery Bill Gibson wrote about. Besides, if they do make it everyone will just assume it's another Matrix ripoff instead of the other way around.

Snow Crash....Well, they'd need to explain the Mafia pizza thing in small, easy to understand words. I'd like to see that movie though. They might set the record for most CGI in a movie.

Olympos. Wow. That would be a nine hour movie. And that metal spike killer-thing (it's been a while since I read the series) would never be as scary as the one I imagined while reading the books.

AArdvark wrote:Olympos. Wow. That would be a nine hour movie. And that metal spike killer-thing (it's been a while since I read the series) would never be as scary as the one I imagined while reading the books.

Are you thinking of the Shrike? That was the Hyperion/Endymion series, the killer in Olympos was Caliban.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Told ya it's been a while. Come to think of it I don't believe I did read the Olympos series. I read his vampire book and that fixes everything.

Just please please stop making movies out of childrens' picture books. I really have no interest in 'Make Way For Ducklings' in 3-D where the CGI ducks speak English and make wise-cracks about Boston and shit.

(Originally I was gonna write 'wise-quacks' but that would be too horrible)


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Will Neuromancer: The Movie suck?

Yeah. It will definitely suck. And I'm pretty sure it will be ripped to shreds because the antagonist doesn't appear in the first couple of scenes.

But Case eventually survives and has two kids. Would that we all had such an ending!

I hope they make all those cyberpunk books into movies because then I will finally get through one of them. I've tried reading most of the classic cyberpunk books multiple times and I can never get through them. Just something about the way they're written.

Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

There's somebody named "Dan Simmons"? Who is a WRITER? In my mind, he is a combination of Dan Brown and Bill Simmons, and exists only on this plane to troll me with writing that - in terms of "dollars per good sentence" - breaks calc.exe.

Flack wrote:I hope they make all those cyberpunk books into movies because then I will finally get through one of them. I've tried reading most of the classic cyberpunk books multiple times and I can never get through them. Just something about the way they're written.

MAY I SUGGEST MY FAVORITE BOOK THEN HEH

I haven't suggested this book to anyone in a few years, so I'm due.



It is absolutely my favorite book and it is what got me into cyberpunk, and yeah, I find most cyberpunk books rather dry.

In a perfect world, I'd be able to do the following:

1) Buy it through Amazon/Kindle
2) Gift it to you

But I can do NEITHER of those things. Anyway, it's "When Gravity Fails" by George Alec Effinger, and this (waves hands) all of this exists only because I was inspired by that thing. And unlike most books people like they they are in their teens, it actually still holds up.

But both the Hyperion/Endymion books and the Ilium books are pretty much just literary criticism in a really really strange wrapper.

How do you make that into movies?

Bruce

bruce wrote:But both the Hyperion/Endymion books and the Ilium books are pretty much just literary criticism in a really really strange wrapper.

How do you make that into movies?

Naked chicks?

Senseless gore and violence?

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:1) Buy it through Amazon/Kindle
2) Gift it to you

3) Have you met me?*

"Cyberpunk 2020 - Talsorian - When Gravity Fails.pdf"

Old habits die hard. I will begin reading soon.

(*Ok, you haven't, but you read the book and that's close enough.")

I have met you! Also, the author is dead, so I think that means we can all swap PDFs of his work guilt-free.

DOH. Okay now I feel like a putz because I forgot. That dinner was really bad timing and I wish I could have gone, although I did have a lot of fun at the Star Trek experience and the Pinball Hall of Fame.

The only types of PDFs I will download are those from dead authors, and live ones.

bruce wrote:How do you make that into movies?

Shrike!

RealityCheck wrote:

bruce wrote:How do you make that into movies?

Shrike!

Yes, yes, Shrike, naked chicks, senseless gore and violence.

And it will piss off all the Catholics, too.

Still: it might just overthrow Graham Nelson's seminal work of IF as "Strangest staging of <i>The Tempest</i> ever". I mean Ilium, not Hyperion.

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: MAY I SUGGEST MY FAVORITE BOOK THEN HEH

I haven't suggested this book to anyone in a few years, so I'm due...[DELETED] Anyway, it's "When Gravity Fails" by George Alec Effinger, and this (waves hands) all of this exists only because I was inspired by that thing. And unlike most books people like they they are in their teens, it actually still holds up.

By the Late G. A. Effinger, as it turns out by sheer coincidence I saw his obit in the Washington Post about, oh, fifteen years ago.