What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

[Orang Utan]

That doesn't support the notion that he's seen them

 

[TruXta]

That doesn't support the notion that he's seen them

It has no bearing on the matter whether he's seen them or not. I said he hates them. He doesn't have to have seen them to hate them. You're a bit dense today, ape.

 

[Orang Utan]

He hates the idea of them.
I inferred from the original claim that he hates them to imply that he'd actually seen them

 

[TruXta]

No, I'm pretty sure he hates the movies. I'm sure he's read a lot of the scripts too. Dear oh dear, you ARE quarrelsome today.

 

[Orang Utan]

He hasn't seen them though. That's the point I'm trying to make. He want nothing to do with them. If you say he hates them, you'd be forgiven for thinking he'd seen them.

 

[TruXta]

He hasn't seen them though. That's the point I'm trying to make. He want nothing to do with them. If you say he hates them, you'd be forgiven for thinking he'd seen them.

That's one point you were trying to make. The other point you tried to make is demonstrably wrong. And of course I forgive you.

 

[Orang Utan]

You're the argumentative one!
All I was saying is that Alan Moore is famous for not wanting anything to do with any movie adaptations, and not for seeing them.

 

[TruXta]

You're the argumentative one!
All I was saying is that Alan Moore is famous for not wanting anything to do with any movie adaptations, and not for seeing them.

That's not what you said to Idris.

 

[Yetman]

Moore is well known for hating -genuinely hating - all the screen adaptations of his work. As an example of how the Watchmen movie made a travesty of his work, look at the character of the Comedian. In the book he's a symbol of America at it's worst. In the film he becomes a sympathetic square-jawed All-American hero.

I got the impression that he was a egotistical desperate fuckup, far from an American hero.....there's plenty of points which make you realise he's a cock, the other characters responses to him totally confirm that...not sure where he comes across as anything other tbh

I loved it anyway, bit long but never boring.

 

[Orang Utan]

That's not what you said to Idris.

Yes it is.

The man himself on adaptations of his work:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9709576.stm

 

[Firky]

Downloading Prometheus as I was in hospital (somewhat ironic) when it was at the pictures. It is a DVDR so it should be good quality but everyone is leeching

 

[jeff_leigh]

A Bittersweet Life - Why do these gangsters always have a crisis of conscience when there's woman involved ?

 

[ringo]

It gets much better as the series progresses. The Swede

Yep, best character in it, and the freed slave politics were quite well done. Good enough to watch all of the series but not good enough to have raved about it. Spect I'll watch the next series.

 

[redsquirrel]

I don't think that's true. He just doesn't watch them or want anything to with them. He just isn't interested.

Bit more than that, he left ABC (the company that was publishing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, ultimately owned by Warner) because the Producer of V for Vendetta lied about the fact that Moore was supportive of the adaptation.

 

[DexterTCN]

Bit more than that, he left ABC (the company that was publishing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, ultimately owned by Warner) because the Producer of V for Vendetta lied about the fact that Moore was supportive of the adaptation.

He went to another company which was later bought by them as well, I think.

He definitely does not agree with film conversions though.

 

[redsquirrel]

He went to another company which was later bought by them as well, I think.

He definitely does not agree with film conversions though.

AFAIK since he left ABC he's been self-publishing. He left Image for ABC when Image was bought by DC Comics (itself a subsidiary of Warner). When ABC was bought by DC comics he initially stayed on the proviso that DC wouldn't have any direction over him but after the V for Vendatta incident he split with them.

 

[Firky]

Downloading Prometheus as I was in hospital (somewhat ironic) when it was at the pictures. It is a DVDR so it should be good quality but everyone is leeching

There's one or two plot holes in this film isn't there?

 

[ringo]

First 4 episodes of season 3 of Sons Of Anarchy. Enjoyed it more than when I started to watch it last year, but then I've seen Spartacus since then so my threshold may have been lowered.

 

[DotCommunist]

It gets much better as the series progresses. The Swede

The swede was also seen recently on HBOs trueblood for a few episodes.Only he was a vampire on not the swede obvs

 

[Orang Utan]

There's one or two plot holes in this film isn't there?

Go read my thread when you're done!

 

[ringo]

The swede was also seen recently on HBOs trueblood for a few episodes.Only he was a vampire on not the swede obvs

He's actually from Norwich.

 

[Firky]

Go read my thread when you're done!

I like the bit where Cpt Stringer Bell abandons his crew inside inside a hazardous alien ship to shag a robot.

I don't want to do a JC2 and quote six year old posts

 

[Orang Utan]

She's not a robot

 

[Orang Utan]

He's actually from Norwich.

In British Columbia?

 

[ringo]

In British Columbia?

They grow a lot of Swedes there, apparently.

 

[DotCommunist]

The Avengers movie was fine for what it was, but the Watchmen flick was a travesty, which managed to not only miss the point of Moore's work, but to actually put forward the opposite message to that of the original novel. Even the V for Vendetta adaptation was better.

he tears the arse out of the V adaptation in 'mythmakers and lawbreakers: anarchist writers on fiction'

Also spotted him last month wearing a blue wifebeater and frowned at him

 

[Idris2002]

he tears the arse out of the V adaptation in 'mythmakers and lawbreakers: anarchist writers on fiction'

That's my point, the Watchmen movie was even worse than the V flick.

 

[DotCommunist]

true say. Surely they'll get around to doing his Swamp Thing sooner or later. And it'll be crap.

 

[andy2002]

Lockout: Escape From New York in space, with Guy Pearce not entirely convincing as a Snake Plissken-style hard bastard trying to rescue the US President's daughter from an orbiting prison full of wrong 'uns. Joe Gilgun from Misfits and This Is England pretends to be Scottish in it. All in all, quite enjoyable.

 

[DotCommunist]

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