Comments on: Brad Pitts Space Odyssey http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey The Official Home of Correct Movie Opinions Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:55:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nico http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167810 Nico Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:28:51 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167810 Just one thing to say: Oh brother, where are thou? is a very recent adaptation of the odessey, and a dammed good one. But that was a very clever way of adapting the story, and a very long shot. To take it to space sounds like they are pushing it. Just one thing to say: Oh brother, where are thou? is a very recent adaptation of the odessey, and a dammed good one. But that was a very clever way of adapting the story, and a very long shot. To take it to space sounds like they are pushing it.

]]> By: Grant Draper http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167716 Grant Draper Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:56:00 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167716 A bit different to the likes of Fight Club! A bit different to the likes of Fight Club!

]]> By: Grant Draper http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167715 Grant Draper Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:55:12 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167715 Imagine it might go with certain viewers, doesn't sound like my cup of tea though! Imagine it might go with certain viewers, doesn’t sound like my cup of tea though!

]]> By: tobor68 http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167616 tobor68 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:49:48 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167616 this sounds like it could be an amazing concept if handled right. fwiw, 'oh brother where art thou?' was the best adaptation of the odyssey i've ever seen. this sounds like it could be an amazing concept if handled right.

fwiw, ‘oh brother where art thou?’ was the best adaptation of the odyssey i’ve ever seen.

]]> By: Penelope http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167606 Penelope Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:19:57 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167606 hmmmm okay... that will be intresting. btw there was a anmated series like that in the 80's right? hmmmm okay… that will be intresting. btw there was a anmated series like that in the 80’s right?

]]> By: dublin_sullivan http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167564 dublin_sullivan Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:06:45 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167564 wont let me post the vid heres the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8 i hope pitt grows the 70's porn beard wont let me post the vid heres the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

i hope pitt grows the 70’s porn beard

]]> By: dublin_sullivan http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167563 dublin_sullivan Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:04:49 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167563 okay anyone ever see this that is the odyssey n space. okay anyone ever see this

that is the odyssey n space.

]]> By: Edvin http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167521 Edvin Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:15:47 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167521 Bjon, I never said realistic, I'm just saying you can adapt certain themes and myths to modern standars. We have been doing it all through history. Everything is derivative, and there is no originality. Every idea borrows from something. All that matters is how you execute the idea. Point and Case: Star Wars: A New Hope, George Lucas borrows heavily from everything. The Wizard of Oz, Dune, LOTR, Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress to name a few influences. Independance Day is a vamped of version of H.G Wells War of the Worlds. It even had the same way of killing the aliens, a simple virus, though it was a computer virus in this version. And on changin other bodies of work making another film, book or whatever is not allways a bad idea. Point and Case: Baron Munchausen by Terry Gilliam, he hardly sticks to the source material, but that is one of the most wonderous films I have seen, a true feast for the imagination. Guy ritchi is making a different version of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. House is based on Sherlock Holmes, only he uses his detecting skills for finding diseases instead of solving crime. I could go on and on. Point is just because people are not sticking to the things like they were written, be it that they change the time of the piece ( Romeo & Juliet ) Drop characters from the narrative, remove entire segments from the work, change the Dialog (LOTR, Which in a funny way actually made the story better). As long as the people that are making changes and/or borrowing/stealing from the source material have respect for the material they are dealing with, who knows, mabey something great could come from it. The Shining and Blade Runner are another excelent example of this, those films were both vastly superior to their source material. Bjon, I never said realistic, I’m just saying you can adapt certain themes and myths to modern standars. We have been doing it all through history.

Everything is derivative, and there is no originality. Every idea borrows from something.

All that matters is how you execute the idea.

Point and Case: Star Wars: A New Hope, George Lucas borrows heavily from everything. The Wizard of Oz, Dune, LOTR, Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress to name a few influences.

Independance Day is a vamped of version of H.G Wells War of the Worlds. It even had the same way of killing the aliens, a simple virus, though it was a computer virus in this version.

And on changin other bodies of work making another film, book or whatever is not allways a bad idea.

Point and Case: Baron Munchausen by Terry Gilliam, he hardly sticks to the source material, but that is one of the most wonderous films I have seen, a true feast for the imagination.

Guy ritchi is making a different version of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. House is based on Sherlock Holmes, only he uses his detecting skills for finding diseases instead of solving crime. I could go on and on.

Point is just because people are not sticking to the things like they were written, be it that they change the time of the piece ( Romeo & Juliet ) Drop characters from the narrative, remove entire segments from the work, change the Dialog (LOTR, Which in a funny way actually made the story better).

As long as the people that are making changes and/or borrowing/stealing from the source material have respect for the material they are dealing with, who knows, mabey something great could come from it.

The Shining and Blade Runner are another excelent example of this, those films were both vastly superior to their source material.

]]> By: bjon86 http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167472 bjon86 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:41:45 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167472 yo Edvin and everybody else out there with these ideas about how to transform mythology into something real, THAT'S BULLSHIT!! IF it's mythology, just put myTHOLOGY on the SCREEN!! Why does it have to be REALISTIC??!! I don't get it. Is mythology not cool as shit! GOD! I don't get it. yo Edvin and everybody else out there with these ideas about how to transform mythology into something real,

THAT’S BULLSHIT!! IF it’s mythology, just put myTHOLOGY on the SCREEN!! Why does it have to be REALISTIC??!! I don’t get it. Is mythology not cool as shit!

GOD! I don’t get it.

]]> By: bjon86 http://themovieblog.com/2008/10/brad-pitts-space-odyssey#comment-167471 bjon86 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:38:17 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=15044#comment-167471 Okay, Doug, the Odyssey is not a poem. You should read it. It was tight. But when you do, you will see that a lot of the people that died in the recent Troy movie actually didn't fuckin die because they were in the fuckin Odyssey which is POST Troy and that movie will annoy you even more. Anyways, the Odyssey is a tight book, it's not a poem and I could see them adapting it to space. It's all mythology anyways. I mean, why not space? Instead of making Poseidon the god of the sea, they could just make him the god of....space...haha. It could work. Instead of prolonging Odysseus's journey by puttin insurmountable waves in his path, Poseidon could throw meteor showers his way or some shit. hahahaha Okay this is cracking me up. Maybe it's not a good idea. But who knows? It's Hollywood. It's the movies. Okay, Doug, the Odyssey is not a poem. You should read it. It was tight. But when you do, you will see that a lot of the people that died in the recent Troy movie actually didn’t fuckin die because they were in the fuckin Odyssey which is POST Troy and that movie will annoy you even more.

Anyways, the Odyssey is a tight book, it’s not a poem and I could see them adapting it to space. It’s all mythology anyways. I mean, why not space? Instead of making Poseidon the god of the sea, they could just make him the god of….space…haha. It could work. Instead of prolonging Odysseus’s journey by puttin insurmountable waves in his path, Poseidon could throw meteor showers his way or some shit. hahahaha

Okay this is cracking me up. Maybe it’s not a good idea. But who knows? It’s Hollywood. It’s the movies.

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