I didn’t think the SciFi “Dune” was terrible, but it certainly wasn’t great. The Earthsea (don’t even call it “Wizard of Earthsea” because it was like, “Hey, let’s just throw in about half of Tombs of Atuan even though it happens, like, 50 years later! Yeah!”) series was terrible.

I was thinking of Babylon AD because I have a soft spot for crappy action/scifi movies (I just watched Doomsday, which is half Mad Max and half Connecticut Yankee and half Resident Evil and all shit, except for the main girl’s haircut which I wish I could emulate but it probably wouldn’t work) but you’ve dissuaded me.

The internets says that the book is actually pretty good, and that appears to be part of the Director’s hatred: he has spent, like, five years working a screenplay for it.

The movie seriously felt like that hellish “Wizard of Earthsea” movie that the Sci-Fi channel raped my childhood with. Or the “Dune” remake. Just bad.

I feel sorry for Kassovitz. The guy saw the potential for another Blade runner. he had it figured out, the market was still hungry for more since the matrix… people were used to seeing Disel as the moral/amoral antihero and Fox fucked him long and hard with burning pokers of tedium. The same brand, make and model number as those that insist that if tom cruise is in a movie, there must be a love interest. you know?

I can only hope that this thing hasnt eaten his career, the poor bastard.