OFF: Sci-Fi movies (Nightfall...)

[Mike Holmes]

On 02/01/2014 20:12, John McIntyre wrote:
> Keith Henderson wrote:
>> FoFP sed...
>>
>>> They could make a great movie from that one too.
>>
>> >Also ...... and of course the classic Nightfall vovella by Asimov.
>>
>> Um...that story *was* already made into a movie.

A very poor movie.

> Aside from the movie entitled "Nightfall", the basic story was also the
> basis for the movie "Pitch Black" which is such a rip-off that Giger
> could have sued for copyright violation of his "Alien" design and Vin
> Diesel is channeling Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector. And yet, "Pitch
> Black" works, if you can forgive the rampant ripping off.

It works great as horror. As alien biology though? Could alien predators 
really evolve just to eat the occasional crashed spacemen?

FoFP


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