View Single Post
Old 08-19-2005, 07:38 AM   #258
CaptainofDespair
Shade of Carn Dûm
 
CaptainofDespair's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 452
CaptainofDespair has just left Hobbiton.
Quote:
Originally Posted by the guy who be short
Films based on books that radically alter storylines. LotR was passable. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was good. War of the Worlds has no right at all to be associated with one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time. They could have just made the tripods bipedal and given the film a new name, and nobody would know it was supposed to be WotW.
Which Chocolate Factory? The Gene Wilder version, or *shudders* the Johnny Depp version? The former was creepy good, but the Depp version is most certainly trash.

Thus, I send Johnny Depp to Mordor. I will also send Hollywood and fruitcakes (often seen together ) to that dark land beyond Gondor.
CaptainofDespair is offline   Reply With Quote