I loved it too! I highly recommend checking out the book John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood. Available on Kindle for free.
The author basically does a week by week analysis of the film's marketing campaign up to the release date to try and analyze/understand what went wrong to make this movie such a colossal flop. Super interesting!
There are a lot of strange rules about crediting screenwriters but here is what the producer had to say about Adams' involvement:
"The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote.... All the substantive new ideas in the movie ... are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him.... Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie."
Turns out I found a better way to end the movie. Well, one that works for the context.
It's only a few scenes. That's it. These few images slide the viewer into the idea that the overlook is not dead, and may still truck right along like nothing ever happened.
So I deleted the first edit. This new link is the final version.
Cheers!
Yep, it didn't make a big impression in theaters so many people today forgot about it. It's no masterpiece by any means, but the concept has some genuinely creepy moments.
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I wouldn't trust the IMDb rating (I generally don't judge films based on that, and DEFINITELY not Rotten Tomatoes), watch it for yourself and see if it clicks for you. The game's graphics, for 2006, were pretty good.
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I'd go for the unrated version though, as it includes extra scenes that add some critical backstory to the plot and help it make more sense. I'd personally rate it at a 7 out of 10, not great but worthy of one viewing.
I feel the problem lies with the group itself. It could have been a bit more preped, since Jon and Tormud has already faced Wights at Hardhome.
Carry some DragonfuckingGlass and make weapons on the Voyage to East-watch. Would be really good start.
I would have loved to see some seriousness in the task. The build up is important here, some cut scenes of mining dragon glass, recruiting some men that can go or are fit to go beyond the Wall, preparing warm Armour. In previous episode would have been worth it.
Then come this episode. I would fully agree. They could have made this entire episode "beyond the wall" exclusive. GoT has done this before. Why not now. Infact GoT is known for the second-last episode.
For time pass in waiting scene, which most of the audiance including me were not able to get it in the first go could have been made better. With some light effect. And cut scenes. Probably here they could have discussed about "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", which they were doing in the start of the episode.