Adapting a popular novel is never going to be easy, the difference in mediums is too great for there ever to be a perfect translation from book to screen, but in the case of the 2008 adaptation of Steven Gould’s young adult book Jumper they didn’t even try.
Tag: Samuel L. Jackson
Kong: Skull Island (2017) – Review
For those of you who wanted to know what a mash-up of King Kong and Apocalypse Now would look like Legendary Pictures has done their best to answer that question with this second installment in their “MonsterVerse” series, which started back in 2014 with their American reboot of Godzilla, and pits Kong against Samuel L….
The Legend of Tarzan (2016) – Review
In this movie Tarzan has is ass handed to him by an ape. Are you bloody kidding me, how can you put that in a Tarzan movie? That’s a perfect case of defamation of character if ever I heard it.
The Hateful Eight (2015) – Review
“It was Tarantino, in the cabin, with the revolver.” In what is basically a western whodunit Quentin Tarantino collects a group of rather unpleasant characters, plops them in an Agatha Christie And Then There Were None plot line, adds expletives and gore, then stirs occasionally.
Jackie Brown (1997) – A Retrospective Review
No acclaimed filmmaker is immune to the curse of “that one movie that everyone ignores“. For Francis Coppola his film in that category is pretty much everything after Apocalypse Now, for Martin Scorsese, that film is Bringing Out The Dead (or any of his documentaries), and for Quentin Tarantino, it’s Jackie Brown.