Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:44:30 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Movie complaint
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> eva.whitley at gmail.com 1/24/2006 4:12:27 PM >>>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>>>ejablow at cox.net 1/23/2006 10:28:30 PM >>>
>>>John Derbyshire, of "National Review Online", has this
>>>complaint about a current film:
>>>
>>>----
>>>Warning to Robert A. Heinlein fans: the current movie
>>>Glory Road is not based on Heinlein's novel of the
>>>same name. There is no time travel, no heroic quest,
>>>no Igli (my favorite character in the book), and no
>>>topless heroine with... Well, if you're a Heinlein fan,
>>>you know the attributes his women were generally
>>>endowed with. Sorry. The movie version of Heinlein's
>>>Glory Road is still unmade. Although, considering what
>>>Hollywood did to Starship Troopers, this may be a blessing.
>>>----
>>>
>>>I think I see a future Capclave panelist.  Don't you, Ernest?
>>>
>>
>>Surely Heinlein fans are not that dim that they would pay money to
see
>>a movie based solely upon the title?
>>
>As opposed to all those Asimov fans who went to see "I, Robot"? --Eva

I saw parts of it while trapped on a plane to somewhere.... it looked
pretty silly.  I was amused to see no "novelization" of the movie, so
movie fans who wanted to "read" the movie ended up reading *gasp* the
original stories.  Boy, where they in for a surprise... no Will Smith in
those stories.... and I don't think Asimov's Susan Calvin was quite like
the movie version as portrayed by Bridget Moynahan (do an Image Google
of her to see what I mean).

Still, anyone who goesto amovie based solely on a title deserves what
the get.

I was amused to read a comment somewhere about the new Underworld
movie, something like "Not even Kate Beckinsale in latex can save it."
Ouch.

mjw