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RE: Bad movies - 11/22/2011 5:14:37 AM

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They lifted the title from a book by Alan E Nourse (not Alan Dean Foster), and actually had to pay off William Burroughs, who'd published a film treatment based on the novel for the title as well.
I think you're being overly harsh on DADOES, but you're right that the book as written wouldn't have worked as a thriller, and the changes Ridley Scott made work brilliantly with the material. Supposedly Dick saw a rough cut shortly before he passed, and was very impressed...

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RE: Bad movies - 11/22/2011 5:27:16 AM

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Titanic. i don't love to hate it. i don't hate to love it. It cost millions of dollars, and was utterly banal and forgettable, and yet managed to be the top grossing movie of it's day.

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RE: Bad movies - 11/25/2011 1:36:40 AM

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