Topic: Master and Commander and Timeline

[762]

At least you can still buy the original updated for today's hardware. 24 MB download for $30, I'll probably grab that when I get home. Thanks for the link Nightmare.  

[Tremok]

 I enjoyed Master and Commander. Frigates chasing each other around the oceans appeals to the salt in me blood.

Timeline was, honestly, not the greatest movie. It was ok. While I don't feel my money wasted, I wouldn't pay to watch it again.    

[Taldren_Erin]

I didn't even know they were making a Timeline movie until I randomly saw a poster quietly put up in a movie theatre near my house. But then, we don't have cable, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. =) I really enjoyed the book -- Tremok, have you read it, and if you have, how did the movie compare?  

[Sirgod]

Hehe, My wife drug me out of the house today to see Haunted Mansion, after we went Garage selling. It's a better movie to rent IMHO. I've actually heard better Ghost stories around a campfire.

I in fact picked up Timeline the book today, as I hadn't read It or another one he has out called Prey.

stephen

[Taldren_Erin]

Timeline has a slightly different rhythm than a lot of his other books, but I really enjoyed it. It's funny, I just unpacked Prey yesterday (family was coming over, had to act like we'd actually done some work unpacking ) and remembered I still had it on my reading list. I'm curious as to what they could have done with Timeline as a movie without making it into a pure action flick. From what I remember, it was sort of like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, only with quantum tunneling and violence.  

[Green]

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Hehe, My wife drug me out of the house today to see Haunted Mansion, after we went Garage selling. It's a better movie to rent IMHO. I've actually heard better Ghost stories around a campfire.

I in fact picked up Timeline the book today, as I hadn't read It or another one he has out called Prey.

stephen  

I read Timeline "some time back" when it first came out.  I enjoyed the book, but it definately has some major league holes in the plot.  I'd put the book on par with Congo.  Will wait to see if the movie is as bad.  

[Daew Anahos]

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 I enjoyed Master and Commander. Frigates chasing each other around the oceans appeals to the salt in me blood.

Timeline was, honestly, not the greatest movie. It was ok. While I don't feel my money wasted, I wouldn't pay to watch it again.    

Master And Commander was awesome! It was hard to get into the characters at first but I really wound up liking the Cap and Doc.  Nice mix of battle scenes and character devlopment. Worth a serious look.


I am really looking forward to Timeline also - The book was great! The hard task is always trying to convert the book to a 90 min-120 min. format. If anyone remembers how long the book version of Hunt For Red October was and how condensed the movie version was compared to the book...but they did a good job with October.

It will be interesting how they transition from present to past with Time Line.  The last time travel movie they put out was another remake of The Time Machine. I skipped it since it didn't look inspiring enough.


Oh...another hint that Hollywood is running out of names...is a preview for "The Day After Tomorrow" since they couldn't name the movie "The Day After" since it already exists.  The Day After Tomorrow is by the same director as Indpendence Day...so you will know it's a touching love story with a happy ending     .



   

[Green]

Red October was a pretty short book, you may be thinking of Red Storm Rising (a great book).

[762]

Ohhhhhhh man was Red Storm Rising ever good!  

Ever want to know what WWIII would be like if it had been fought in the 80's?

[WillWeasel]

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Ohhhhhhh man was Red Storm Rising ever good!  

Ever want to know what WWIII would be like if it had been fought in the 80's?  

Red storm rising, got the game, PC, commodore64 and board, HFRO games as well. Board game that has 4 turns, and could take a whole weekend to play.

That book was one of the first true novels I read back when i was around 10. The land battle th,e air battles, the sea battles, heck wasn't that one that had the jet shoot down the sat? Just the detail was amazing.  

[Soreyes]

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Ohhhhhhh man was Red Storm Rising ever good!  

Ever want to know what WWIII would be like if it had been fought in the 80's?  

One of the best Novels that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Two of my all time Quotes from the book are.
"No one ever said that the Russans were dumb"

"Poor Josph is very sick...though he does not know it yet"

[Karnak]

Master and Commander was a pretty good movie that really tried to put you in that time period. I thought that it started off a little slow but then I always like to see cannon balls and muskets going off all the time.  What was Royal Navy thinking in having a Hobbit at the helm too, hehe.

BTW,  AandE is showing two new Horatio Hornblower movies starting Tuesday, 12/02/2003, at 8pm EST.

http://www.aetv.com/tv/shows/horatio_hornblower/

Roll out the guns, et A l'abordage!!  

[Daew Anahos]

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Red October was a pretty short book, you may be thinking of Red Storm Rising (a great book).  

  I guess October was shorter then I remembered.

Red Storm Rising would have been a 4 hour movie.  

[Tremok]

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Red October was a pretty short book, you may be thinking of Red Storm Rising (a great book).  

  I guess October was shorter then I remembered.

Red Storm Rising would have been a 4 hour movie.  

They managed to condense his other movies into short enough films...

Anyway, on the discussion of Tom Clancy novels; has anyone noticed the difference in his newest novels (Red Rabbit and Teeth of the Tiger) and his old ones? They lack the Tom Clancy trademark epicness. I do not think he has taken 9/11 well.  

[762]

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Red October was a pretty short book, you may be thinking of Red Storm Rising (a great book).  

  I guess October was shorter then I remembered.

Red Storm Rising would have been a 4 hour movie.  

Heck no, Red Storm Rising would have been an 18 hour miniseries, and then they'd have to cut parts out!

[Dogmatix!]

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Red October was a pretty short book, you may be thinking of Red Storm Rising (a great book).  

Agreed..I'd have loved a long-arsed Red Storm Rising movie....


..better yet, a modern wargame based upon it that would ne not onlike Hearts of Iron but with a little more detail on the combat side and maybe a little bit less on the production side...


 

[Dogmatix!]

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Ohhhhhhh man was Red Storm Rising ever good!  

Ever want to know what WWIII would be like if it had been fought in the 80's?  

Red storm rising, got the game, PC, commodore64 and board, HFRO games as well. Board game that has 4 turns, and could take a whole weekend to play.

That book was one of the first true novels I read back when i was around 10. The land battle th,e air battles, the sea battles, heck wasn't that one that had the jet shoot down the sat? Just the detail was amazing.  

I read it when it first came out, too..though I was a little older....freaking great gook.  I was playing Three-Sixty's PC version of Harpoon back then, too...great game.  Wish H4 would come out already...


 

[762]

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 Wish H4 would come out already...  

TEH YAYES!!!!11!!!1!

[Dogmatix!]

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 Wish H4 would come out already...  

TEH YAYES!!!!11!!!1!  

YESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!111!!!!!!

[Nightmare]

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Wish H4 would come out already...

Not to threadjack, but I assume by H4 you mean Harpoon 4.  It was announce last week that it has been canceled.  Appears that UBI has run out of money to fix an unfixable crash.  

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