Just what the fuck IS IT with Hollywood?
Thursday, July 8th, 2004 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seraiBack again, with an enraged rant...
John the Baptist with a side of fries!!! HELLO?? Just what the FUCK does any of this have to do with Asimov?? Just when did I, Robot, a wonderful, thought-provoking, interesting book about the differences between humand and artificial consciousness, turn into a goddamn shoot-em-up?
The THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS, Jerry? Remember those? The ones that are COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE for any robot to disobey? The concept that's so solid and useful that actual RL robotics experts are beginning to include it in the making of REAL robots? Hello??? Your whole premise is based on a WILLFUL misinterpretation of the word "law", as evidenced by that deeply stupid tagline, "Laws were meant to be broken". Hey asshole, IT AIN'T THAT KIND OF LAW. It's not a "Murder is illegal" kind of law, it's a "Gravity makes things fall" kind of law!! Or did you think nobody would notice??
Whoever it is that's holding the keys to Asimov's estate should be FIRED, and like, right NOW. No, not fired. He/She should be FRIED. In cooking oil. That's been used to cook FISH. What the hell could they have been thinking to sell the rights to that wonderful book to JERRY FUCKING BRUCKHEIMER???
ARGH.
DOUBLE ARGH.
(I'd love to hear what Harlan Ellison has to say about this monstrosity. He wrote an incredibly lovely screenplay based on I, Robot, that was shunted around and turned down for YEARS because of...wait for it...budgetary constraints. Just how much do you think this utter wankfest cost? Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure of exactly what he'd say.)
Well, now. That's THREE hideous fiascoes based on wonderful original stories this year. Why can't these goddamn movie conglomerates just come up with their own friggin' stories and leave the GOOD BOOKS alone? I mean, I don't give much of a shit when they take an original script and rip it a new asshole, or when they put out a deeply stupid sequel to a great original film. (Well, ok, I was pretty pissed off at how badly the Matrix thing went.)
But sweet gods, why do they have to take a perfectly good book and KILL it? If you're going to get this off-the-wall, why not just call it something else? Why piss in such a great pool?
Man, and I'd just started to get over the trauma of Stuart Little. (The trailer, mind. There's no way in hell you'd ever get me to watch even ten minutes of that soul-killing horror.)
Can I kill Jerry Bruckheimer? Please? I promise I won't make a mess. Plllleeeeeease???
ETA: IF I SEE ONE MORE MOVIE FEATURING GRATUITOUS USE OF THAT GODDAMN HONG KONG WIREWORK, I SWEAR SOMEONE IS GOING TO DIE.
ETA 2: I just went over to IMDb and looked Bruckheimer up. It's amazing just how many utterly worthless piles of crap this guy has made. About the only worthwhile thing on the list is Pirates of the Caribbean, and I wouldn't give the guy any Gold Stars For High Quality on that score. Raucous fun, yes. Cinematic achievement...eh, not so much.
My eyes are bleeding!!
John the Baptist with a side of fries!!! HELLO?? Just what the FUCK does any of this have to do with Asimov?? Just when did I, Robot, a wonderful, thought-provoking, interesting book about the differences between humand and artificial consciousness, turn into a goddamn shoot-em-up?
The THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS, Jerry? Remember those? The ones that are COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE for any robot to disobey? The concept that's so solid and useful that actual RL robotics experts are beginning to include it in the making of REAL robots? Hello??? Your whole premise is based on a WILLFUL misinterpretation of the word "law", as evidenced by that deeply stupid tagline, "Laws were meant to be broken". Hey asshole, IT AIN'T THAT KIND OF LAW. It's not a "Murder is illegal" kind of law, it's a "Gravity makes things fall" kind of law!! Or did you think nobody would notice??
Whoever it is that's holding the keys to Asimov's estate should be FIRED, and like, right NOW. No, not fired. He/She should be FRIED. In cooking oil. That's been used to cook FISH. What the hell could they have been thinking to sell the rights to that wonderful book to JERRY FUCKING BRUCKHEIMER???
ARGH.
DOUBLE ARGH.
(I'd love to hear what Harlan Ellison has to say about this monstrosity. He wrote an incredibly lovely screenplay based on I, Robot, that was shunted around and turned down for YEARS because of...wait for it...budgetary constraints. Just how much do you think this utter wankfest cost? Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure of exactly what he'd say.)
Well, now. That's THREE hideous fiascoes based on wonderful original stories this year. Why can't these goddamn movie conglomerates just come up with their own friggin' stories and leave the GOOD BOOKS alone? I mean, I don't give much of a shit when they take an original script and rip it a new asshole, or when they put out a deeply stupid sequel to a great original film. (Well, ok, I was pretty pissed off at how badly the Matrix thing went.)
But sweet gods, why do they have to take a perfectly good book and KILL it? If you're going to get this off-the-wall, why not just call it something else? Why piss in such a great pool?
Man, and I'd just started to get over the trauma of Stuart Little. (The trailer, mind. There's no way in hell you'd ever get me to watch even ten minutes of that soul-killing horror.)
Can I kill Jerry Bruckheimer? Please? I promise I won't make a mess. Plllleeeeeease???
ETA: IF I SEE ONE MORE MOVIE FEATURING GRATUITOUS USE OF THAT GODDAMN HONG KONG WIREWORK, I SWEAR SOMEONE IS GOING TO DIE.
ETA 2: I just went over to IMDb and looked Bruckheimer up. It's amazing just how many utterly worthless piles of crap this guy has made. About the only worthwhile thing on the list is Pirates of the Caribbean, and I wouldn't give the guy any Gold Stars For High Quality on that score. Raucous fun, yes. Cinematic achievement...eh, not so much.
Re: Oh, indeed we do.
Date: Monday, July 12th, 2004 12:48 pm (UTC)You know, that's the one thing that would probably make me go find the Foundation Trilogy and try again to read it -- I got a few chapters into the first book and got bored and dropped it and never touched it again...
Re: Oh, indeed we do.
Date: Monday, July 12th, 2004 04:17 pm (UTC)Re: Oh, indeed we do.
Date: Tuesday, July 13th, 2004 07:45 am (UTC)Re: Oh, indeed we do.
Date: Tuesday, July 13th, 2004 03:30 pm (UTC)