14th July 2010, 5:38 PM
I didn't know Jules Verne wrote Around the World in 80 Days. I'm more inclined to pick it up if that's the case.
I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea my senior year of high school (it wasn't assigned reading, I just love underwater life) and it was fantastic. So fantastic, that I picked up the 1993 movie at Blockbuster, plopped down with a smile on my face... and then proceeded to be probably the most disappointed I'd ever been in any movie up until that point.
I wrote a huge rant on how awful it was on here, I wish we still had it (we don't have archives from 2002, right?). They replaced the ultra-faggoty subservient Smithers clone Consiel with a different character - Professor Arronax's daughter who dressed like a man to get on the ship that collides with the submarine in the beginning - so they could tie in a torrid love triangle between her and Ned and Captain Nemo. God damn I was pissed.
I think I was even more mad that they didn't have giant squids, but instead, an awful CGI giant manta ray of some kind. What a crummy budget, and an even worse script, no wonder it was only a stupid made-for-TV movie. Fuck you, Rod Hardy and Brian Nelson (director and teleplay writer).
Anyway, I've been meaning to re-read the original novel forever, so I guess I know what to go to next if I don't want to buy another book (reading through HP Lovecraft tales right now).
I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea my senior year of high school (it wasn't assigned reading, I just love underwater life) and it was fantastic. So fantastic, that I picked up the 1993 movie at Blockbuster, plopped down with a smile on my face... and then proceeded to be probably the most disappointed I'd ever been in any movie up until that point.
I wrote a huge rant on how awful it was on here, I wish we still had it (we don't have archives from 2002, right?). They replaced the ultra-faggoty subservient Smithers clone Consiel with a different character - Professor Arronax's daughter who dressed like a man to get on the ship that collides with the submarine in the beginning - so they could tie in a torrid love triangle between her and Ned and Captain Nemo. God damn I was pissed.
I think I was even more mad that they didn't have giant squids, but instead, an awful CGI giant manta ray of some kind. What a crummy budget, and an even worse script, no wonder it was only a stupid made-for-TV movie. Fuck you, Rod Hardy and Brian Nelson (director and teleplay writer).
Anyway, I've been meaning to re-read the original novel forever, so I guess I know what to go to next if I don't want to buy another book (reading through HP Lovecraft tales right now).