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MemberOvomorph02/2/2012Anyone here seen an old sci-fi movie called Demon Seed......i have just finished reading the Dean Koontz novel and I must say it was a thoroughly entertaining read.
Apparently tho the novel was originally published in 1977....and shortly afterwards a movie was made....the version of the novel I just finished reading was entirely revised and published in 1997.....so am curious weather their is any real differences in the plots ( in terms of the novels) and weather the movie is worth watching....?
It was also interesting to read about another Prometheus project and Adam Two (Protheus) the crazy computer kinda reminded me of the androids and how they may relate to humans and weather they have any real emotions?
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Theusprom
MemberOvomorph02/2/2012Yup Jux I have seen it but I haven't read the book,so I can't tell you how true it is. (it is ok btw, not great but ok).i love Koontz but his work generally doesn't transfer to celluloid very well.Try and get hold of Watchers, great read.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBzwGhH2MY]Seed Demon[/url]
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MemberOvomorph02/2/2012Cool...thanks for the trailer....after watching it I think I will skip the movie....lol...Their was no crash test dummy in the book....however he does find someone or something to act as his hands....
I would strongly suggest u read the book tho....rather brutal, clever, disturbing but also surprisingly funny....just stay far away from the original 1977 book...Dean himself says .."the book itself was more of a clever idea than a clever novel. Reading it recently, I winced so much...."
So what he did was rewrite the book 20 years later and in the "Afterword" of this version he writes....." Here is an entirely new version, which I hope comes closer to fulfilling the promise of the novel's premise."
Obviously the movie which came out in the 70' was based on the original novel. The stories are similar to a degree.
I have read watchers and several of his other novels....recently I also read "Odd Thomas".....also highly recommended!!
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorph02/2/2012The movies not that great but like a lot of seventies scfi it had some great ideas attached and many of those early seventies films and sixties scfi could use a makeover and be brought up to date with a reasonable budget and we could have some very good sc fi.
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MemberOvomorph02/2/2012@Alteredstate
I was just thinking today that the movie could do with a remake....the book got a remake after all and even tho i never read the original....it seems Dean thinks it's way superior to the original.....the only thing I saw of the movie was the trailer and that robotic crash test dummy was a huge turn off....omg and I nearly pissed myself laughing at the end of the trailer when the guy goes in that corny voice....."Julie Christie carries the demon seed.....Fear for her!"
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorph02/2/2012yeah thats classic seventies marketing you had to have a 100 a day smoking habit LOL
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorph02/2/2012i love watching those old films for nostalgic reasons but also as a guilty pleasure and demon seed as tacky as it may look now would look great with a makeover and a good script.
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MemberOvomorph02/2/2012I absolutely loved the trailer for "Machete" in the beginning of "Planet Terror".....it poked such fun at that classic seventies marketing u just mentioned....I really enjoyed Planet Terror as well....a real cult classic IMO....sadly I did not think that Machete really lived up to the trailer.. ;/....but it was ok i guess?
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MemberOvomorph02/2/2012.....the computer voice and the dialogue it delivers in that god awful trailer does not sound like the entity in the book ( tho the version I read is not the one the movie is based upon)....it is way to serious....Adam Two in the book has a weird quirky and almost geeky sense of humor....yet at the same time he is obviously this extremely possessive crazy demented monster....reading the novel he his almost likable... but then suddenly he does something monstrous and u realize....oh no shit this computer is f#cked up!.....they should really do a remake!
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