Sci-Fi Fans?

[Iolaus]

Here's a poll for all of you science fiction fans:

What are the Best and Worst film adaptations of a major novel or story?
My nominations:

Best: Blade Runner -really captured Phil Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Maybe so, but what I went to see was, I thought, the movie adaptation of "Blade Runner" by William S. Burroughs, and I was very disappointed!

I-Robot was a decent enough film, but it wasn't Asimovs story; in fact, it wasn't even I-Robots world!

Another pet peeve of mine is Beast Master; They kept the animal team working with a human, but placed it into a Conan/Swords-n-Sorcery type world, instead of Norton's Sci-Fi universe of a post interstellar war that had left Earth a blue cinder, with surviving Earth veterans settling elsewhere.

...and the story wasn't even similar - the original was all about alien holdouts from the war!

[smaughazard]

Another excellent translation from print to screen: A Boy and his Dog -from the Harlan Ellison short story

Another Turkey: Dune -the awful version with Sting

[Rob Wright]

Another excellent translation from print to screen: A Boy and his Dog -from the Harlan Ellison short story

Another Turkey: Dune -the awful version with Sting

The Director's Cut is a much better version though the tv mini-series is the best of them all as adaptions, but, DUNE did have some great visuals, the first appearance of hte Navigator was just awesome.

As an adaption Blade Runner isn't that great,(note I sad adaption, I like the movie a lot) it's mainly based on one chapter of thte book. Minority Report is the same way and a good movie by the way. A Scanner Darkly looks to be the closest adaption of Dick's work to the original to date.

The Lensman Anime movie is a decent adaption of the Lensman books, a fave series of mine.

I would like to see Jack Williamsons book Humanoids adapted into a movie.

Starship Troopers the ovie was a satire and a grwat homage to the 50's bug movies.

CJ Cherryh is an excellent writer her Merchanter Universe rocks, DOWNBELOW STATION, CYTEEN,etc as well as the Chanur novels.

Also William Gibson and Bruce Sterling are two great writers, part of the original cyberpunk movement they continue to create consistantly good works.

Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad would be excellent as a series on HBO.

Comics writer Warren Ellis has a respect and love for old pulp writers and he does excellent homages to them, TRANSMETROPOLITAN and ORBITER Aare just two examples.

Rob