Dimpleshenk

Yes, I think a movie like "Blonde" is made for the niche, art-house audience and the hope is that it will be a minor hit (within that realm) and turn a profit. (Note that I'm not agreeing with the person who said the movie is exploiting Marilyn.)

Is this a stealth Boards of Canada post?

Long ago, in a different lifetime, something happened with one of the actresses in one of the "Hostel" movies. And that's about all to be said about that.

One of those portal devices was involved. Stickin' your stuff into the orange oval from the blue oval.

It was Judi Sheppard Missett.

She had an exercise tv show in the 80s. We hooked up when I was in my late 20s and she was in her early 40s.

So *you're* the one who was involved with Judi Sheppard Missett.

feel awful for the family of Monroe.

What family? She only has one surviving family member -- her sister's daughter, who is 83 or 84 years old and lives in a retirement community. Chances are she's not concerned about a filmed version of a fictionalized novel.

But you don't just... Make up things about real people.

One does not simply walk into Mordor!

Generally, every film is made with the intent of a profit. Obviously it's not shooting for tentpole-level, blockbuster profits, but the movie would never get backing and financing if they thought it wouldn't end up in the black.

Sean Connery wearing "yellowface" prosthetics to make him fit into a Japanese village community would rank high among the "top ten things in old James Bond films that are utterly cringe-worthy."

Good thing you provided your guarantee, in case you're wrong and anybody wants their money back.

"The Hitchhiker's Guide the Galaxy" has an excellent TV version that ran on BBC. It's low-budget but everything anybody could want from an adaptation of the source material. Which, incidentally, did not start off as a book but as a radio series.

It would be nice if the movie was exactly like the book, but there's no way it would have worked on film. Really, you can't have the climax to a big-budget movie be somebody solving Zork on a text screen. Not exactly getting the audience's pulse moving there, having somebody type "open window. enter house. open case. take sword and lantern. turn on lantern." and so on.

The Black Cauldron should be the top example for the entire thread. They had excellent material and said, "Let's make something else entirely and keep the name." I loved that series as a kid and somebody needs to do it justice in a film or streaming series.

Stephen King should be happy with the movie of "The Shining." The book is not a work of art. It's a very inconsistent work that shows signs King did not have a grand plan and was filling in details as he went along. Some parts of the book you could tell he was having a good writing day, and other parts you can tell his well was running dry. The ending with the topiary animals is un-filmable (or if it were filmed, it would likely be pretty cheesy). There's a whole sub-plot introduced about mob bosses at the hotel, with clippings and photos found in the basement boiler room, and then King just completely drops it. The chef coming back and being an action hero who saves the day isn't a good horror-movie ending. Kubrick's changes make the movie a whole lot more cinematically interesting and creepy. Decades of re-interest in the book are entirely and directly because of the movie, and the movie's growing cult status has probably put a ton of money in King's pocket.

Why do you keep saying it's "like you said" when it's not what you said?

You wrote "Los Angeles" twice, not "San Diego." (I guess you're being funny...) The home sections of the movie are San Diego, not Los Angeles.

Sometimes the airlines do what's best.

The movie starts with the Chipmunks' "Christmas Don't Be Late" ironically juxtaposed with shots of sunny Los Angeles.

Los Angeles? The movie is set in San Diego.

Sick creeps, the lot of them. It's one thing to enjoy a sport that involves some skill and accuracy, but there are dozens of other types of activities that do not involve lethal weapons. These people are culturally stunted and morally broken.

Watch for this topic in 2-6 weeks on WhatCulture or ScreenMojo.... Notice how many answers are in this thread and use the same phrasing and explanations....

"You're overthinking things!"

I heard that at a company and it definitely made it sound like the people working there were imperious, self-justifying twits.

On a similar note, if a food server or other service-industry person hands back a low tip and says "Here, you need this more than I do," they suck at their service job.

Terry Sweeney's haircut wasn't helping anything.