Same reaction here. With the exception of Jackie Brown. He did that one completely straight and it works really well. I watch it whenever it’s on the box and still enjoy it. I also think Pulp Fiction is OK due to its strong plot line, but I didn’t make it to the end of Reservoir Dogs or any of the others.
The movie lets the books down. Both the book from ender’s perspective and the one from beans’s perspective.
On the subject of sci fi book movies I’m still waiting for a starship troopers movie which is true to the Heinlein novel and that long promised forever war movie.
Bond would be Bond and he’d be smooth as ■■■■.
The special sub-villain (Jaws/oddjob etc.) would be a schoolgirl with a friggin’ spiked metal ball on a chain.
Whoops, okay, not that, But something equally cool.
Love Wes Anderson! His style really resonates with me. TRT is only a millimetre behind The Life Aquaric fur me. The Darjeeling Limited is also magnificent.
The Man in the Glass Booth - an ex-Nazi is on put on trial for crimes against humanity, only things aren’t all that straight forward. Written by the actor Robert Shaw (The Sting) and featuring an outstanding performance by Maximillian Schell who appears to have been born for this part. This is the best Holocaust related movie l have seen.
This is also the movie l left off my last post.
The Life Aquatic is my fave Anderson effort. Bill Murray is brilliant in that and also in Where the Buffalo Roam, where he plays gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson covering the Nixon election. Craps all over the Johnny Depp effort to portray Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, but then, that wouldn’t be hard.