What about movies that dangerously distort, mutilate and mis-represent Ray Bradbury?
eg. A SOUND OF THUNDER

oz-crumley:
I don't necessarily think the movies you described are dangerous, but... terribly anemic. Tho it is an interesting take on dangerous movies. Sort of, yeah!

However, I am absolutely convinced Ray Bradbury stories will be put excellently and completely authentically before audiences someday! How? In what media? I don't know. We have a long way to go. But it will happen, and then something waaaaay beyond Bradbury will becon for new understanding and translation.

Yes, Nard, I know they're not really dangerous - I was being half-serious.
As a film lover, I share your hope that Ray's works will be done justice on the big screen. I just re-watched SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. Let's hope that Frank Darabont's F451 gets off the ground soon!

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Originally posted by Nard Kordell:
...However, I am absolutely convinced Ray Bradbury stories will be put excellently and completely authentically before audiences someday! How? In what media?...

It may have already happened, Nard. The medium? Radio! Some of the BBC productions have been very close to as-good-as-you-can get. And Bradbury 13 was pretty good. Radio can evoke, just like Mr B's stories. Movies just depict, and they often depict something very different to what each reader had imagined.

philnic:
PHIL:

What's up ahead we can barely imagine. On second thought, we cannot imagine. Can you explain to someone in 1920, a 1920's telephone becoming an iphone? Or to a youngster, a hand drawn schoolboy's flip-book next to, say, a Pixar work? Can you describe to an Apache Indian communicating smoke signals, a GPS? Unthinkable. Unimaginable.

If you could peer ahead one hundred years, you could not adequately describe what civilization would look like, or its modern life! Would you sound like the writer of the The Revelation, describing things to him so strange and perplexing? Every single facet of what we see as daily life will be altered. I think that also go for the arts.

Nard, that's one of Arthur C. Clarke's "Laws":

Any sufficently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I find it quite amusing when I see a newspaper or magazine from the early 1990s: not a url to be seen. And when watching any movie more than, say, 20 years old, it's difficult to forget that the characters can't save themselves useing their cellphone.

(Conversely, it's very difficult to write movie scripts nowadays, because so many predicaments can be solved by a cellphone.)

It's just as in the book by Clarke that I just finished where, twenty years ago, he is describing what is essentially the new iPhone and other passages he has the internet nailed down. Amazing! And remember he had communication satellites figured out in 1944 if you can believe that. His comment was that he did not go for a patent on the idea because he did not think that the idea would become a reality in his lifetime.

Phil, are you staying dry?

Yes, thanks biplane1. I imagine you've heard about the endless British rain and the widespread floods. Fortunately I live at a fairly high altitude, so I'm not prone to flooding.

(Reminds me of the Beatles line: "If the sun don't shine you get a tan from standing in the English rain...")

That's great to hear. When I first saw the images of flooding on the television I immediately thought of you. Glad to hear that there are a variety of elevations in England as opposed to the relative flatness of southern Florida.

One good thing about that nasty weather over there is that it drove an acquaintance of mine to come inside from gardening and work on the crosswords I love. Here's his site:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~wgh/crosspuz1.htm

Hey you guys on the other side of the Pond: remids me of a Malvena Reynolds song "What have They Done To The Rain". In California, we have had the driest year ever, and you appear to be having one with the most rain ever. Is it the Sun, the precesion of the Equinox or Global Warming? Or is the Aztec calendar involved here, look out for 2012! Build an ark?

Agreed on not watching "knocked Up". Despite (almost) every goo-goo-eyed critic drooling out four star ratings. Sounds like a diaper-load to me.

Watch the trend toward what author Nancy Friday calls "the glorification of mommyhood".

Responsibility for what you parented doesn't absolve you from responsibility to avoid breeding in the fisrt place.

Movies back in the 1920's and thru lot of the 1930's, was the moral equivalent to the wild west. A lot of backlash created groups that monitored the movies for common sense morality and behavior. But the restraints to the movie industry really started to fall when the Roman Catholic League of Decency rating board (A, B. C (for condemned) disbanded for lack of continuing leadership, in the midst of many movies that likely would have often been given the C rating. The Pawnbroker, for instance, was given a C rating, tho mild in comparison to movies today. Several national columnists called the disbanding of the Catholic League of Decency rating as a horrific loss to the ratings of movies and the average theater-goer. But who really cared elsewhere in the media? What has happen within a generation is most restraints have been loosened, and the floodgates of the worse base intents of the human soul is glorified. It's easy to get addicted to puke when it is the darkness of the creases in the human soul and heart already! The profiting on those broken spheres of the humankind appears thruout history to be lucrative sources.

The current rating, G, PG, R, etc. is tomfoolery. Ten years or more ago, the R ratings suddenly became PG 13, and no one seemed to care. It hardly means anything nowadays. When a porn producer insists that his participants are actors and actresses, and convinces the interviewer nad news media and legal eagles to that assumption, words are lacking to explain what's happened to common sense.