RE: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'

2007-09-16 Thread KeithBJohnson
to my essay, I did not write the Wikipedia entry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:43 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO' Never read Minority Report's source

RE: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'

2007-09-15 Thread James Landrith
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:43 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO' Never read Minority Report's source material. How did the ending stray (though from what I know about the author, I'd guess it was pretty bleak in the book). I see

Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'

2007-09-13 Thread KeithBJohnson
Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes for a highway in the future. -- Original message -- From: Brent

Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'

2007-09-13 Thread Martin
The horror...the *horror*... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just please, please don't let Michael Bay direct, or this will devolve quickly from a pointed satirical comment on society into a non-stop chase full of explosions and speeding vehicles on whatever passes

Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'

2007-09-13 Thread Daryle
I¹ll see your horror and raise you one ‹ first thing that came to mind was ³Minority Report² -- what if Steven Spielberg directed this movie? Halfway through we¹d forget what it was supposed to be about and be staring at aliens for an hour. On 9/13/07 12:49 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'

2007-09-13 Thread Martin
(removing brain for acid scrubbing) Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I¹ll see your horror and raise you one ‹ first thing that came to mind was ³Minority Report² -- what if Steven Spielberg directed this movie? Halfway through we¹d forget what it was supposed to

Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'

2007-09-13 Thread Daryle
Same thing with everything Spielberg touches post Close Encounters -- the ending. Nothing is as bad an ending as A.I., to be sure, but Minority Report could have stayed a little truer to the book for me. On 9/13/07 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was okay with Minority

Re: [scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'

2007-09-13 Thread KeithBJohnson
Never read Minority Report's source material. How did the ending stray (though from what I know about the author, I'd guess it was pretty bleak in the book). I see your point in some cases. A.I. was damn near brilliant until that god awful ending. And I loved War of the Worlds in so many

[scifinoir2] Forest Whitaker To Do 'MAMBO'

2007-09-12 Thread Brent Wodehouse
http://www.blackflix.com/coming_soon.html FOREST WHITAKER TO DO 'MAMBO' September Forest Whitaker has landed a role opposite Jude Law and Brazilian actress Alice Braga in the futuristic thriller Repossession Mambo. Based on the novel by Eric Garcia, the film is set in the near future when