Heh.
When Nixon's first autobiography (RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon) came out, decades back, a bookstore in SF sold it, per pound, at the price of what baloney was going for.
Another bookstore chose the per pound fertilizer price.
(The book was huge and heavy, as I recall. If they sold any, they probably did okay…

I've agreed, above, on Jackie Brown - just wanted to say, yes, giving Pam Grier the job was a wonderful thing for Tarantino to do. Obviously it paid off - that is, obviously she can act - but I think it took an amount of courage for him to do that (and to give Forster the part too).

Austin Powers had great gags, then overused them to the point of ridiculousness. Example: the very name Fat Bastard as a henchman is pretty damn funny (especially preceded by other, less funny henchman names). And I suppose showing a fat guy didn't hurt the gag too much.

Hadn't thought of the actor's appearance actually, but — in the book, we aren't told till nearly the end where Johnny's from, or that he has an ethnicity other than caucasian. That's a trick Heinlein used a few times, especially in his books for juveniles: Get the readers to know, like and sympathize with a…

The novel First Blood by David Morrell is really good. At the end of it Rambo shoots himself.

There are a couple other examples - High Noon, and the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Both can be seen by different factions of the Red Scare as promoting their view.
But I think Starship Troopers IS the best example. Now - I really enjoyed the Heinlein book so it took me two viewings for the movie to work…

Karen's dad, noticing Ray's FBI T-shirt:
"Hey Ray, do you ever wear one that says 'Undercover'"?

Ahem - you missed one: Michael Parks, unrecognizable as Esteban Vihaio, in Kill Bill 2.

What I didn't like about Hateful Eight was that it was filmed in 70mm and then… set in a dingy saloon. We got some cool wide-open vista stuff at the beginning, but after that he could have shot it on an iPhone.

Travishmagee!

Like a lot of people, I had read Ellroy's book before the movie came out. My very first sight of Russell Crowe onscreen (and I think I'd never seen him anywhere) I thought "Hey that's Bud White" and I'm not sure that was clear from the dialogue at that point. He was amazing. The entire cast was, and the script took…

I note this every time it comes up - he was once talking about directing an Elmore Leonard western, can't remember which one. Escape from 5 Shadows? 40 Lashes Less One?.. most of them would be great movies.
As much as I found Hateful Eight to be… interesting, I just wanted him to put that cast into an Elmore Leonard…

Me too!

Agreed about Out of Sight the book, which I loved. Loved the movie, too, and the endings of each are great examples of novelistic vs. cinematic finishes to the story.

Yes indeed. Saying that "it might be better" than Pulp Fiction, though? Ridiculous.
It is TONS better than Pulp Fiction. And I like Pulp Fiction just fine.

Yeah, that's the consensus - I heard an interview with a guy who'd written a book about Trump (not Art of the Deal; but the author of that one agrees): Trump doesn't want to be president, wants to stop, and he will figure out a way to stop and make it seem like the best idea, HIS best idea.
He will also - this is my…

Have they? That would be good. Weren't they the only ones willing (for some reason) to loan him money the past few years?

Just to be clear, HiiiPower - I put a "like" on that 'cause I agree with you, not 'cause I like it.
If we look at all the crap the GOP has been able to at least set up to be enacted (gutting various social programs, purging voter rolls, not televising actual press conferences, war on women's health, etc. etc.) — each…

I long for the alternate reality wherein Gregg Stillson is our president.

"using the language of the North Korean dictator to communicate to him clearly"