Well, Neil Gaiman helped write the screenplay for Stardust, and the movie still fell way short of the book.

Thanks. Wait… is that good?

very much liked the movies I, Robot, Starship Troopers, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The trick is to stop expecting the movies to be true to the books.

I just don’t understand the point of taking something people liked, and converting it into something completely different and inferior. They use the name just to get people into the theaters. It’s a cheap trick.

In the case of those three films, the stories were completely dumbed down. Troopers became “Our Fascist Future!”. I, Robot because a Wil Smith product placement extravaganza. League was the worst. In the book, Mina Murray was in charge (and wasn’t a vampire) of the group and Quatermain was a drugged out sot she had to drag out of an opium den in Cairo. You just know some tie wearing pinhead at the studio said, “Oh, my, we can’t have the woman in charge.”

Richard Dawkins stomped on the show once in an interview, though I can’t come up with in which, because in the X-Files Universe woo-woo explanations always win, scientific explanations always lose.

Well, I guess it’s a good idea neither Fox nor the shows creators ever tried to sell it as a science show, then!

Seriously, I am uberskeptic, but I DO NOT GET that attitude. It’s a science fantasy show. It’s make believe. As much as I respect the man for his works, I’m detecting a level of OCD or something.

until Orson Scott Card decided to write it himself.

Hmm. Maybe there’s hope then.

They’re going to need a “Crying Game” style disclaimer at the start to warn audiences not to reveal the ending.

The creators of LOST had the entire series mapped out before the show even went on the air. In the last 2 seasons, they had no concept of when the show would end so they had to add some filler into it that didn’t really add anything to the show.

Now that LOST has a definite end date, the creators can properly create the shows without the filler. I’m not getting my hopes up for TV nirvana, but I definitely think LOST will be better than ever from here on out.

So tune in again Phil!!

As far as I have been able to determine from lab tests, Richard Dawkins is chemically free from any trace of a sense of humor.

I’ll buy that, but it still wasn’t good filmmaking.

Also, once I realized that Chris had no idea where the story was going, I stopped watching the series. Maybe this film will work out, but I don’t know.