Matheson wrote the screenplay for the Price version, I think. I'm excited to see the film.

He hated the result because they took several liberties with his screenplay, IIRC. Price ain't a bad choice, but it was low-budget, Italian-financed production, so it was never going to be the book.

Yeah, the film's ending is more conventional, which is a shame, but not a huge surprise.

See, I would have LOVED a Will Smith movie to end on that kind of note, and I think he could pull it off (after SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION I won't put anything past him acting-wise, and I don't think that was just a fluke), but he seems to have chickened out on anything that isn't an important (aka ALI) movie In fact, given all the fights on this movie, and Ridley Scott's long involvement that ended due to budget reasons, I wouldn't be surprised if keeping the ending wasn't one of the stumbling blocks. But how the HELL do you keep that title without the ending? And why? I love the book, and it's a genre classic, but hardly a title the general public is going to know by name.

Honestly, I think OMEGA MAN would have gotten more recognition, though I'd love to be wrong.

Huh, my first ever double-post. No idea why that happened.

They do retrofit the ending so that the title still makes sense. Again, it's not the book's ending, but it is an ending that allows for those words (it's the last line of the movie as I recall).

I've neglected to mention that cineastes really should get the two recent volumes of Kenneth Anger's short films which have been released in the last year.

I'd seen the later stuff like "Scorpio Rising" but I hadn't seen his earliest experimental shorts. And it's truly revelatory. Aside from their formal daring and beauty and sexiness you just tick it off in your head: "Oh that's where Tim Burton got that. Oh, that's where Fassbinder got that. Aha! Scorsese, you scamp, you thief. You totally ripped that off."

Seminal (so to speak). But very cool and pure eye candy too.

Oooh fun! John Sayles is gonna be in town tomorrow! [link]

Slideshow from the Wachowski's Speed Racer movie: [link]

Slideshow from the Wachowski's Speed Racer movie

Damn, that movie could go either way, from greatness to extreme suckiness.

"The effects are beyond belief. We called it 'car fu,' because it was like kung fu with the cars," Silver says. "We couldn't have made this movie until right now."

Someone's a Joe Bob fan.

Damn, that movie could go either way, from greatness to extreme suckiness.

Visually, the flick looks amazing. But I share Jon's view. OTOH, even if it sucks, it looks like it will suck in interesting ways, so it might still be worth seeing.

Is Emile Hirsch wearing yellowface in this movie?

I saw Juno and met Ellen Page.

Juno: Really good.

Ellen Page: Tiny and adorable.