Why can't anyone make a good Gibson film?

[robinturner]

I started watching New Rose Hotel and switched off in boredom. The beginning looked promising, and I was thinking that at least it wouldn't be as bad as Johnny Mnemonic. But after a while, the low-budgetness of it started to become irritating. I mean, we're talking about a cyberpunk story about seducing a genetic wizard, and people in the hotel are still pushing the revolving doors! Sure, Willem Dafoe was good because he's always good, and the Italian chick had boobs that defied the laws of physics, but cyberpunk it was not.

If I ever become suddenly and obscenely rich, I will first satisfy my secret lusts by making humungous donations to organisations like Free Tibet, Mor Çatı and RAWA. Then I will commission a blockbuster film quadrilogy based on Gibson Neuromancer novels. I will be the head honcho artistic director. The Wachowski brothers will be the on-scene directors. James Cameron will produce. Ridley Scott will do the lighting. The special effects will be done by a bunch of no-name geeks and the biggest Beowulf cluster ever. Wade Davis will serve as consultant on Voodoo. faux_pas, after strenuous martial arts training, will be Molly. And it will kick ass.

Comments

[circumambulate.livejournal.com]

Yeah, New Rose was a bit of a cock-up. I find Ferrara to be really hit or miss.

I did really like The Addiction, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Who is this faux-underscore-pas?

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[solri.livejournal.com]

Old friend - used to have an LJ by that name.

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[solri.livejournal.com]

Oh, it turns out that there is actually a faux_pas (with an underscore). It wasn't her I meant.

[ironed_orchid]

Can we count The Matrix as a Gibson film? While its not based on any story, its derivative enough. Trinity stole Molly's wardrobe.

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[solri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kept expecting to see the razor nails.

There again, I always Molly to be slightly shorter and with a hint of Japanese ancestry. Kind of like an anime character.

[ironed_orchid]

Interesting.

I don't think I'd even seen anime when I read Neuromancer. Unless you count Astro Boy.

[dtlw.livejournal.com]

Can i do the really bad one liners and the required sex scene???

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[solri.livejournal.com]

Maybe we could segue in the brothel scene from Big Trouble in Little China.

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[dtlw.livejournal.com]

Good idea.......or it was once i worked out what you meant by "segue"