I was thinking Tim Burton but we'll never know. I think Burton pretty much has the visual metaphor thing figured out.

I have the Hitchhiker's Guide series on DVD. It came out sometime last year, I believe. Wonderfully funny, and captures the sense of the books in a way that only a low budget BBC series can.

The movie Dune is an awful adaptation of the book. I wholeheartedly agree. However, if you regard it as a film by David Lynch, and view it in that context, it's pretty good. On that basis, I liked it, and I actually liked the original theatrical release version better than the recut monster with the tedious narration.

Okay...so far, so good...

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I'd love to be the guy who pulls off Neuromancer. I'd like to see Peter Jackson, or me do it. :)

Neuromancer as in "William Gibson's Neuromancer"? That book is fucking me up right now. I enjoy it, but I'm having to reread paragraphs twice to get whats going on.

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The BBC is releasing a radio adaptation of the last three books in the Hitchhiker's series, starring many of the same voice talents as the original (minus one who passed away).

Here's the ultra-spiffy part... Douglas Adams himself stars as one of the character voices. Hell yeah!

With very good reason, apparently.

Okay, so I'll plug it first: The movie is fucking fantastic, IMO. I thought it was very well done, and with superb casting/acting. Nothing about the movie was overdone - even with the extraordinary amount of absurd shit going on in the book. Much better done than many of the (serious) sci-fi movies I've seen to date. I laughed pretty much through the whole film. What I meant to say was: Much better done than even many of the serious sci-fi movies ...

I strongly recommend it. A friend said he didn't think it would be funny for people who haven't read the book, but I disagree. Very engaging and entertaining.

Sorry I can't provide more color - my brain is kinda zapped from a tough week at work.

And yes, I had to pay $10.50 plus $1.50 fuckin' Fandango charge to watch the damn movie here in NYC. This city really sucks sometimes.

Seconded. Very funny.

Haven't seen it yet, but regardless, Martin Freeman is a brilliant actor.

yea they did hitchhikers alright, hard up the arse. Bleh.
If they dare touch neuromancer or any other gibson novel it's nuke-from-orbit time. Sure, they'd make it look purty but it'd be what I Robot was to the original.

I thought "I Robot" was done pretty damn well all in all, and there's not many bigger Asimov fans than me.

True, it was a bit overly crash/bang/boom when compared to the short stories, but I thought the film did an admirable job of retaining the thoughtful nature and interesting twists which Asimov was so good at writing.

It could have been *much* worse.