Check out the trailer. Looks like they're actually going to do it right this time. It looks way closer to the book. I'm assuming the gent with the English accent is John Lackland.
Posted by Raymond Arnold (Member # 11712) on :
I'm trying to figure out whether Paul Ballard suddenly showing up in ANOTHER show where people's lives are getting bizarrely toyed with is a good sign or bad.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Gaeta, too.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Looks very good, and has a hell of a cast.
Posted by Raymond Arnold (Member # 11712) on :
who/which is that?
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Could you clarify?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'm put off by the clothing. I realize that it isn't practical to have everybody naked right at first, but still.
Posted by Raymond Arnold (Member # 11712) on :
Gaeta. Who/what's that? (google is a little vague)
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Alessandro Juliani (sp?) played Lt. Gaeta in BSG. He's also Emil Hamilton on Smallville, and I noticed him in the Riverworld trailer.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I got mad at this series before the end, as I recall. And the ending was a huge letdown. Can they make a good movie out of a bad series of books?
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Did you see the movie M*A*S*H?
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Now there's a movie that does not hold up well. We'll "fix" the gay guy by getting a nurse to rape him? And it's ok to sexually harrass a coworker if she has it coming?
I just didn't find much of it funny and some of it downright gross.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
True. It definitely doesn't hold up. Although it wasn't really an issue of "fixing" him from being gay, so much as fixing him from being suicidal.
Posted by aeolusdallas (Member # 11455) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tatiana: I got mad at this series before the end, as I recall. And the ending was a huge letdown. Can they make a good movie out of a bad series of books?
The first few books were pretty good. The short stories anthologies set on Riverworld are even better.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Wait, Riverworld anthologies? I've read a Riverworld short story collection, but never an anthology. Do you happen to know any of the titles of the books?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Hm. I found a pair of anthologies on amazon, but the pages for them don't give a table of contents. Anybody know who are the authors are who contributed to them?
[Edit - Ah, okay, contents found. I'm curious about the Mike Resnick/Barry Malzberg collaboration in the first anthology, and morbidly curious about Turtledove's contribution, but nothing else looks terribly interesting. I'll have to see if I can get the first book from the library.]
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Now there's a movie that does not hold up well. We'll "fix" the gay guy by getting a nurse to rape him? And it's ok to sexually harrass a coworker if she has it coming?