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RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:11 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Poultry Lad has it all wrong. It's New Englanders who are slow. Remember? They are reserved, laconic, and staid. Slow to form alliances, slow to develop affection, and disinclined to shows of emotion.
Quick to start wars with Great Britain . . .
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:35 pm
by oldman45
Team Yankee was Red Storm Rising.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:37 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: oldman45
Team Yankee was Red Storm Rising.
I read them both and not even close. TY was land warfare. RSR was much more about naval and amphib operaitons.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:45 pm
by USSAmerica
Yep, and Coyle mentioned that Team Yankee was "set" in the story from WWIII.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:53 pm
by Cuttlefish
ORIGINAL: mdiehl
How about an HBO series about Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser?
That might be enough to convince me to hook up my cable service again. Even some 60 years later they remain among the best fantasy stories ever written.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:07 pm
by crsutton
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Perhaps Ben Afflec can take the part of Hans Bilgewort, a lonely lighthousekeeper in Newfoundland who falls for Eva Corn, a longshorewoman of questionable virtue. They have a torrid love scene inside the lighthouse, where some whacky Canadian RAF pilots had draped parachutes to dry. When Affleck points the lighthouse's piercing light into the eyes of a German U-Boat commander, blinding him temporarily so that he beaches his vessel, Afflec is given command of the HMS Ulysses. He rams Ulyssess into Tirpitz, Gniesenau and Prince Eugen, sinking all three, but discovering the Eva was actually a bosun in the German Navy. She informs him that his son is actually the love child of Admiral Donitz. The End.
I don't know. The whole love child of Donitz thing has been done to death. Maybe
Ulysses, while under US command, could capture an Enigma machine?
I thought you guys already knew. I actually "am" the illegal love child of Donitz.
Fox is making a movie of the whole thing. Neal Patrick Harris plays me and Larry Hagman plays Donitz. Thing is he is called Donneritz in the movie. My lawyer tells me that they do not have to pay me any royalties that way...
I really have to update my profile one of these days....
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:09 pm
by crsutton
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Poultry Lad has it all wrong. It's New Englanders who are slow. Remember? They are reserved, laconic, and staid. Slow to form alliances, slow to develop affection, and disinclined to shows of emotion.
Southerners, on the other hand, fly off the handle. We're quick to see; to evaluate; to decide; to jump on you like Early jumped on Sheridan at Cedar Creek!
Yes, and we southerners are more likely to marry our first cousins as well.[;)]
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:09 pm
by crsutton
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Poultry Lad has it all wrong. It's New Englanders who are slow. Remember? They are reserved, laconic, and staid. Slow to form alliances, slow to develop affection, and disinclined to shows of emotion.
Southerners, on the other hand, fly off the handle. We're quick to see; to evaluate; to decide; to jump on you like Early jumped on Sheridan at Cedar Creek!
Yes, and we southerners are more likely to marry our first cousins as well.[;)]
Guess, I had to say it twice just in case some of you missed the joke....
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:46 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: crsutton
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Perhaps Ben Afflec can take the part of Hans Bilgewort, a lonely lighthousekeeper in Newfoundland who falls for Eva Corn, a longshorewoman of questionable virtue. They have a torrid love scene inside the lighthouse, where some whacky Canadian RAF pilots had draped parachutes to dry. When Affleck points the lighthouse's piercing light into the eyes of a German U-Boat commander, blinding him temporarily so that he beaches his vessel, Afflec is given command of the HMS Ulysses. He rams Ulyssess into Tirpitz, Gniesenau and Prince Eugen, sinking all three, but discovering the Eva was actually a bosun in the German Navy. She informs him that his son is actually the love child of Admiral Donitz. The End.
I don't know. The whole love child of Donitz thing has been done to death. Maybe
Ulysses, while under US command, could capture an Enigma machine?
I thought you guys already knew. I actually "am" the illegal love child of Donitz.
Fox is making a movie of the whole thing. Neal Patrick Harris plays me and Larry Hagman plays Donitz. Thing is he is called Donneritz in the movie. My lawyer tells me that they do not have to pay me any royalties that way...
I really have to update my profile one of these days....
I hope you took after your mom, then. No offense, but his forehead seems really big.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:56 pm
by geofflambert
Verne's Off on a Comet. It was hilarious. Kids would love it.
Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar. Very timely. Mombasa was actually part of Zanzibar not Kenya when Barack was born there. [:D]
On Gettysburgh, the cable show was great, but I missed any portrayal of action at Culp's Hill etc.. Also maybe throw in a narrator here and there with a map. I think it was hard for non military buffs to follow, perhaps.
Also it's appropriate to follow a letter missing the umlaut with e. Doenitz.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:30 pm
by crsutton
Oh, how silly of me. That would be Doenneritz.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:43 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: crsutton
Oh, how silly of me. That would be Doenneritz.
Doernnerblitzen?
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:50 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Gettysburg was based on Killer Angels (an absolutely sublime book, btw). Much of the emphasis was on 20th Maine and Longstreet. Shaara used Longstreet's memoirs. That's why Culp's Hill isnt in there.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:21 pm
by John 3rd
Just makes you more angry at the USELESS Early and Ewell!
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:02 am
by SuluSea
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand--being made and looking forward to it.
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James Hornfischer
Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:30 am
by mike scholl 1
Shiloh, BLOODY APRIL.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:14 am
by John 3rd
How about Larry Bond's Red Phoenix? Hypothetical 2nd Korean War?!! The book ROCKS!
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:23 am
by LoBaron
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
I would like to see "enders game" by Orson Scott Card turned into a movie.
I think I read somewhere it's in produciton or post-production already.
Wow, one of the favourite books from my youth (Ender´s Game) combined with (back then) favourite actor in a SF movie (Harrison Ford in Blade Runner).
Thanks, will keep an eye on that!
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:33 am
by warspite1
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol. I think this would be great subject for a film.
RE: OT: Five Books I'd Love to See Made Into Movies
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 7:03 am
by ilovestrategy
E.E. Doc Smith's The Lensmens Series over a series of months, like an HBO or Showtime series.