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I didn't think J Nolan was to blame for the abominable final product. The fact that the plot veered so sharply at the end from an original script was troubling to me. The original end would have been shocking and amazing. I'm not sure it would have saved the movie, but it sure would have brought something different.
So glad Christopher Nolan has another brother. I was very worried.
FYI: WalMart and Target are reducing DVD prices to $10, including on new bestsellers such as Star Trek and Harry Potter 6. Amazon would presumably be matching these prices.
Movie-better-than-book: Die Hard. The novel it was based on, Roderick Thorp's Nothing Lasts Forever was horseshit wrapped in a fecal tortilla and sprinkled with grated poop.
I had no idea it was based on a book! Huh.
And it was originally supposed to be a sequel to Commando. What! Man, movies are weird sometimes.
It was? Really?
How fucked up is that?
Right? How did it go from being a Schwarzenegger sequel to being one of the greatest action movies of all time and turning Bruce Willis into an action hero? I'm surprised this bit of trivia isn't better known. Unless Wikipedia is lying.
Wikipedia lies... It lies... It lies when it cries...
It lies when it cries...
Bwah!
John Rogers is recommending Audition for weekend Netflix streaming pleasure. From now on, whenever anyone reccomends it, I'm going to suggest Oldboy as a tasty pairing. It never gets buzz, and it should.
Not a movie, but I think Dexter as a TV series surpasses the books.
Dexter in the Dark is excellent, and the tv series got its clever tone from Jeff Lindsay droll word play.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter is pretty good, though it is at this point that one starts being annoyed by the differences in plot between show and book. Cody and Astor start to emerge as young sociopaths to whom Dexter will become as Harry to them. Doakes survives and has his tongue and various appendages cut off, and continues through the rest of the books to distrust Dexter.
Dearly Devoted Dexter is such a crock it doesn't even deserve to be used as a doorstop. The Dark Passenger emerges as a type of demon possessing Dexter, and there's an eventual battle with another, different evil demon.
Dexter by Design reads like a okay enough episode of the tv show, but continuing on the same original plot line. Dexter starts to teach Astor and Cody how to kill animals, which is totally creepy. Doakes now has some sort of vocalizer, so he can say, "I'm watching you" in a computerize voice.
Jeff Lindsay is married to Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter. They have known each other since they were kids, sailing together.