Staudey Yikes if that's what I've been missing then I'm glad I'm not a reader. 🙁

      brent I actually don't know if there are a lot of them, but I know for a fact that there is a rather graphic one in "IT".

      edit: Sorry for derailing the thread somewhat.

          Movies based on S. King's books are mostly not very faithful to the source material. It's because they would be just too weird or too long. I watched 'Thinner' some time ago and this movie was bizarre. Some scenes looked kind of retarded. 😆

            WetGeek I prefer the book(s) for content, and the movies for presentation values.

            What I didn't say in that post, and came back too late to edit it, was that I'm able to enjoy one without distracting anything from the other. I approach both movies and the books they're based on with a different set of expectations, and thus I'm rarely, if ever, disappointed.

                You need to read ALL the Dune saga books, from machine time to the great finale. Otherwise, you are missing out big time. 😁

                MattX Langoliers and Apt Pupil are two of my favorites. I've not seen them all, but I've liked what I've seen. Like @WetGeek said earlier, you'll never get all the content in there.

                WetGeek What I didn't say in that post, and came back too late to edit it, was that I'm able to enjoy one without distracting anything from the other. I approach both movies and the books they're based on with a different set of expectations, and thus I'm rarely, if ever, disappointed.

                Agreed. I feel that way about the Bond/Ian Fleming series, and even Tolkien and F. Herbert., etc. Can appreciate both.

                edit Staudey I missed that one but I saw the old one recently. Yes, hope its not a trend for him!

                      Solarmass you know the second two weren't as good as the first one and keanu is looking long in looking long in the tooth right now, but so am I... since it was revealed the entire premise (renegade ships, traitors like Cypher, Zion) was also an alternate artificial construct and the Neo story (the software creator told Neo) was recycled several times because it's popular with the passive underwater bodies, but the Neo story developed a glitch...what's left? No Agent Smith. no Oracle (she died right in real life I think?) according to Wikipedia. Fishburne publicly said no one has contacted him and Pantoliano has publicly said Lana Wachowski is not responding to his texts.
                      (Yet?)
                      So why am I looking forward to this? Carrie Ann Moss🙂....and....wait for it....NEIL PATRICK HARRIS!

                          WetGeek I don't believe in these figure things, this is just bullshit imho. A book could take 5 pages to describe a landscape or 15 pages to describe a scene that will last just 1 or 2 seconds in the movie. It's all about translating the athmosphere, feelings, the message of the author. Nothing else matter. Trying to do a one-to-one mapping will lead to a fail for sure. Personally I don't care if the director drops elements or add some in his/her movie... These things are just for fanboys/fangirls that will anyhow always find something to complain about.
                          The books are full of dialogs, it looks like there are very few in the movie which personally which I think is positive because the movie will focus on the athmosphere.

                          I regert I couldn't read the books before watching the movie (I won't wait) because I prefer not knowing the storyline and the main events but also and that's the most important because my imaginary is then influanced by what I saw in the movie. I think I'll wait a couple of decades before reading the books... Anyway I don't have the time now. Too many things in which I am involved... Even on Solus I had to slow down...

                              kyrios It's all about translating the athmosphere, feelings, the message of the author. Nothing else matter.

                              Pretty much. That's where a director comes in. No matter what a director is doing he/she is reinventing the author. Will he/she please everyone who read the book? There is no chance at all for that. edit: like wetgeek said, I can appreciate them both if they give me something to appreciate. No expectations of faithfulness on my end.

                              kyrios . Personally I don't care if the director drops elements or add some in his/her movie... These things are just for fanboys/fangirls that will anyhow always find something to complain about.

                              If the Mel Gibson/George Miller Max trilogy began as a series of books then that whining fanboy would probably be me🙂.

                                  brent you know the second two weren't as good as the first one

                                  The first one was awesome! The other two are mediocre imho, I was expected much more from the sequels back then.

                                      brent my expectations are still low even after this (rather cool) trailer...

                                      brent I got a good feeling about this one.

                                      You reminded me about Bing-bong 😿

                                            Solarmass from a pixbar fan wiki website:
                                            "Bing Bong was Riley's imaginary friend that existed within her mind. He was created by her when she was three. As a result, he was somewhat naive in both his appearance and personality. For instance, he does not know how to read everything. Bing Bong's body is mainly made of cotton candy. Shape-wise, he was part cat for the tail and whiskers, part elephant for his trunk and ears, and part dolphin, though the latter is not so obvious. He cried candy when he was sad. "
                                            Sad indeed. I've had mornings like this.

                                                7 days later

                                                Solarmass Well I didn't wait those 13 hours for that countdown. I went about my life and a week passed-------
                                                ------saw this for the first time last night. And again tonight. Not sure of the premise it looks like they both got reinjected back into the matrix semi amnesiac(?) to be working shleps like us all and don't know each other kind of. Either way
                                                PSYCHED.
                                                What a trailer. Grace f-ing slick White Rabbit with no Jefferson Airplane and instead a bad as* techno/string hurricane of sound behind her wild voice? WOW,
                                                won't be rushing to the theater with a KN95 mask but one way or another I will see this!

                                                  Gattaca: A great example of what I call "Humanist sci-fi." It doesn't highlight, or even feature any of the whiz-bang, techie stuff that many would normally associate with the genre. Instead the focus is on the social and personal ramifications of genetic engineering becoming common place. An additional plus would be that the movie does this without immediately resorting to depictions of dystopia and sanctimony.

                                                    stream26 "Humanist sci-fi."

                                                    Love that moniker and love the cerebral films that have no bells, whistles, guns, crap blowing up. (not saying bells whistles guns and crap blowing up is bad in any way🙂).
                                                    It's got to have a taut psychological angle, not necessarily a morality play to make my day. I'd stick 2001 in that category as well. Nolan's Memento as well (its guns were barely noticed). Michael Clayton too. Dig it.

                                                    edit: you put gattaca on my to-see radar