RE: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'
thanks James, I'll give 'em a read -- Original message -- From: James Landrith [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few links on the differences between film and story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/78/44/ Even though it links to my essay, I did not write the Wikipedia entry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:43 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO' Never read Minority Report's source material. How did the ending stray (though from what I know about the author, I'd guess it was pretty bleak in the book). I see your point in some cases. A.I. was damn near brilliant until that god awful ending. And I loved War of the Worlds in so many ways--the alien walkers were terrifying, emitting a sound almost as scary as the Shadows on B5. But they ruined the movie for me by insisting on including kids, which destroyed the whole thing. -- Original message -- From: Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Same thing with everything Spielberg touches post Close Encounters -- the ending. Nothing is as bad an ending as A.I., to be sure, but Minority Report could have stayed a little truer to the book for me. On 9/13/07 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was okay with Minority Report. What did you dislike about it? -- Original message -- From: Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I¹ll see your horror and raise you one first thing that came to mind was ³Minority Report² -- what if Steven Spielberg directed this movie? Halfway through we¹d forget what it was supposed to be about and be staring at aliens for an hour. On 9/13/07 12:49 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The horror...the *horror*... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net wrote: Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes for a highway in the future. -- Original message -- From: Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:Brent_Wodehouse%40swiftnet.org http://www.blackflix.com/coming_soon.html FOREST WHITAKER TO DO 'MAMBO' September Forest Whitaker has landed a role opposite Jude Law and Brazilian actress Alice Braga in the futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. Based on the novel by Eric Garcia, the film is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit with one catch - if the buyer defaults on payment, it will result in a fatal repossession. Law's character - himself made up of artificial organs' - is a repo man who reclaims organs when their recipients cannot make the payments. When he struggles to pay off his new heart, he becomes one of the people he used to hunt down and must go on the run with Braga's character, who is also down on her luck. The Universal Pictures project is slated to begin Oct. 15 in Toronto. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'
A few links on the differences between film and story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/78/44/ Even though it links to my essay, I did not write the Wikipedia entry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:43 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO' Never read Minority Report's source material. How did the ending stray (though from what I know about the author, I'd guess it was pretty bleak in the book). I see your point in some cases. A.I. was damn near brilliant until that god awful ending. And I loved War of the Worlds in so many ways--the alien walkers were terrifying, emitting a sound almost as scary as the Shadows on B5. But they ruined the movie for me by insisting on including kids, which destroyed the whole thing. -- Original message -- From: Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Same thing with everything Spielberg touches post Close Encounters -- the ending. Nothing is as bad an ending as A.I., to be sure, but Minority Report could have stayed a little truer to the book for me. On 9/13/07 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was okay with Minority Report. What did you dislike about it? -- Original message -- From: Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I¹ll see your horror and raise you one first thing that came to mind was ³Minority Report² -- what if Steven Spielberg directed this movie? Halfway through we¹d forget what it was supposed to be about and be staring at aliens for an hour. On 9/13/07 12:49 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The horror...the *horror*... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net wrote: Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes for a highway in the future. -- Original message -- From: Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:Brent_Wodehouse%40swiftnet.org http://www.blackflix.com/coming_soon.html FOREST WHITAKER TO DO 'MAMBO' September Forest Whitaker has landed a role opposite Jude Law and Brazilian actress Alice Braga in the futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. Based on the novel by Eric Garcia, the film is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit with one catch - if the buyer defaults on payment, it will result in a fatal repossession. Law's character - himself made up of artificial organs' - is a repo man who reclaims organs when their recipients cannot make the payments. When he struggles to pay off his new heart, he becomes one of the people he used to hunt down and must go on the run with Braga's character, who is also down on her luck. The Universal Pictures project is slated to begin Oct. 15 in Toronto. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'
Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes for a highway in the future. -- Original message -- From: Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blackflix.com/coming_soon.html FOREST WHITAKER TO DO 'MAMBO' September Forest Whitaker has landed a role opposite Jude Law and Brazilian actress Alice Braga in the futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. Based on the novel by Eric Garcia, the film is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit with one catch - if the buyer defaults on payment, it will result in a fatal repossession. Law's character - himself made up of artificial organs' - is a repo man who reclaims organs when their recipients cannot make the payments. When he struggles to pay off his new heart, he becomes one of the people he used to hunt down and must go on the run with Braga's character, who is also down on her luck. The Universal Pictures project is slated to begin Oct. 15 in Toronto. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'
The horror...the *horror*... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes for a highway in the future. -- Original message -- From: Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blackflix.com/coming_soon.html FOREST WHITAKER TO DO 'MAMBO' September Forest Whitaker has landed a role opposite Jude Law and Brazilian actress Alice Braga in the futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. Based on the novel by Eric Garcia, the film is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit with one catch - if the buyer defaults on payment, it will result in a fatal repossession. Law's character - himself made up of artificial organs' - is a repo man who reclaims organs when their recipients cannot make the payments. When he struggles to pay off his new heart, he becomes one of the people he used to hunt down and must go on the run with Braga's character, who is also down on her luck. The Universal Pictures project is slated to begin Oct. 15 in Toronto. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'
I¹ll see your horror and raise you one first thing that came to mind was ³Minority Report² -- what if Steven Spielberg directed this movie? Halfway through we¹d forget what it was supposed to be about and be staring at aliens for an hour. On 9/13/07 12:49 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The horror...the *horror*... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net wrote: Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes for a highway in the future. -- Original message -- From: Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:Brent_Wodehouse%40swiftnet.org http://www.blackflix.com/coming_soon.html FOREST WHITAKER TO DO 'MAMBO' September Forest Whitaker has landed a role opposite Jude Law and Brazilian actress Alice Braga in the futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. Based on the novel by Eric Garcia, the film is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit with one catch - if the buyer defaults on payment, it will result in a fatal repossession. Law's character - himself made up of artificial organs' - is a repo man who reclaims organs when their recipients cannot make the payments. When he struggles to pay off his new heart, he becomes one of the people he used to hunt down and must go on the run with Braga's character, who is also down on her luck. The Universal Pictures project is slated to begin Oct. 15 in Toronto. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'
(removing brain for acid scrubbing) Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I¹ll see your horror and raise you one first thing that came to mind was ³Minority Report² -- what if Steven Spielberg directed this movie? Halfway through we¹d forget what it was supposed to be about and be staring at aliens for an hour. On 9/13/07 12:49 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The horror...the *horror*... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net wrote: Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes for a highway in the future. -- Original message -- From: Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:Brent_Wodehouse%40swiftnet.org http://www.blackflix.com/coming_soon.html FOREST WHITAKER TO DO 'MAMBO' September Forest Whitaker has landed a role opposite Jude Law and Brazilian actress Alice Braga in the futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. Based on the novel by Eric Garcia, the film is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit with one catch - if the buyer defaults on payment, it will result in a fatal repossession. Law's character - himself made up of artificial organs' - is a repo man who reclaims organs when their recipients cannot make the payments. When he struggles to pay off his new heart, he becomes one of the people he used to hunt down and must go on the run with Braga's character, who is also down on her luck. The Universal Pictures project is slated to begin Oct. 15 in Toronto. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'
Same thing with everything Spielberg touches post Close Encounters -- the ending. Nothing is as bad an ending as A.I., to be sure, but Minority Report could have stayed a little truer to the book for me. On 9/13/07 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was okay with Minority Report. What did you dislike about it? -- Original message -- From: Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I¹ll see your horror and raise you one first thing that came to mind was ³Minority Report² -- what if Steven Spielberg directed this movie? Halfway through we¹d forget what it was supposed to be about and be staring at aliens for an hour. On 9/13/07 12:49 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The horror...the *horror*... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net wrote: Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes for a highway in the future. -- Original message -- From: Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:Brent_Wodehouse%40swiftnet.org http://www.blackflix.com/coming_soon.html FOREST WHITAKER TO DO 'MAMBO' September Forest Whitaker has landed a role opposite Jude Law and Brazilian actress Alice Braga in the futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. Based on the novel by Eric Garcia, the film is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit with one catch - if the buyer defaults on payment, it will result in a fatal repossession. Law's character - himself made up of artificial organs' - is a repo man who reclaims organs when their recipients cannot make the payments. When he struggles to pay off his new heart, he becomes one of the people he used to hunt down and must go on the run with Braga's character, who is also down on her luck. The Universal Pictures project is slated to begin Oct. 15 in Toronto. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'
Never read Minority Report's source material. How did the ending stray (though from what I know about the author, I'd guess it was pretty bleak in the book). I see your point in some cases. A.I. was damn near brilliant until that god awful ending. And I loved War of the Worlds in so many ways--the alien walkers were terrifying, emitting a sound almost as scary as the Shadows on B5. But they ruined the movie for me by insisting on including kids, which destroyed the whole thing. -- Original message -- From: Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Same thing with everything Spielberg touches post Close Encounters -- the ending. Nothing is as bad an ending as A.I., to be sure, but Minority Report could have stayed a little truer to the book for me. On 9/13/07 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was okay with Minority Report. What did you dislike about it? -- Original message -- From: Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I¹ll see your horror and raise you one first thing that came to mind was ³Minority Report² -- what if Steven Spielberg directed this movie? Halfway through we¹d forget what it was supposed to be about and be staring at aliens for an hour. On 9/13/07 12:49 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The horror...the *horror*... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net wrote: Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes for a highway in the future. -- Original message -- From: Brent Wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:Brent_Wodehouse%40swiftnet.org http://www.blackflix.com/coming_soon.html FOREST WHITAKER TO DO 'MAMBO' September Forest Whitaker has landed a role opposite Jude Law and Brazilian actress Alice Braga in the futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. Based on the novel by Eric Garcia, the film is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit with one catch - if the buyer defaults on payment, it will result in a fatal repossession. Law's character - himself made up of artificial organs' - is a repo man who reclaims organs when their recipients cannot make the payments. When he struggles to pay off his new heart, he becomes one of the people he used to hunt down and must go on the run with Braga's character, who is also down on her luck. The Universal Pictures project is slated to begin Oct. 15 in Toronto. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
