THE UNOFFICIAL DIRK PITT MOVIE POLL, Round 3 results
JDeRuvo
are in.
Check it out at: http://www.roughedge.com/pittpoll.htm
and while you're at it, take the survey yourself! Round four is only a survey
away.
THE UNOFFICIAL DIRK PITT MOVIE POLL
http://www.roughedge.com/pittpoll.htm
And the voting continutes ...
"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with
your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been,
there you long to return." -- Leonardo da Vinci.
HramYaegr
Every single time I have tried to view the so called results, they have been
non-existent. I believe that once I actually attempted to vote, but nothing
happened. I'm sick of seeing this crap in our newsgroup, even if it is once
every five months.
Get rid of it! It's pointless! You must have all of ten people voting for it!
It's a waste of time and bandwidth.
Get RID OF THE GODDAMN THING, and take yourself with it!
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"Only slaves love being powerful."
- Hans Erich Nossack
JDeRuvo
Yaegr!
This isn't your own personal newsgroup. This is for ALL Dirk Pitt fans.
And for your information, we have had over 500 responses to the site since it
debuted 3 months ago.
So apparently, there are others in your dominion that don't share your opinion.
It may be that I mistyped the URL ... I retype it here:
http://roughedge.com/pittpoll.htm
So try again. .
Conrad A. Thomaier
the possibilities of him having a dual role with also playing the "James
Bond" character in the book about the train crashing into the Hudson
River. I think that was Night Probe?
There are a lot of great suggestions, such as Sharon Stone playing
Loren. But no one has solved the riddle of who to play Dirk. Dom
Deluise as Perlmutter is great! But you'd have to find a role for Burt
Reynolds, as I don't think I've ever seen Dom alone:-)
JDeRuvo wrote:
>
> At long last! The results for round 3 of THE UNOFFICIAL DIRK PITT MOVIE POLL
> are in.
>
> Check it out at: http://www.roughedge.com/pittpoll.htm
>
> and while you're at it, take the survey yourself! Round four is only a survey
> away.
>
> THE UNOFFICIAL DIRK PITT MOVIE POLL
> http://www.roughedge.com/pittpoll.htm
>
> And the voting continutes ...
Mpoconnor7
>the possibilities of him having a dual role with also playing the "James
>Bond" character in the book about the train crashing into the Hudson
>River. I think that was Night Probe?
"Night Probe" and "Raise the Titanic" were my two favorite Pitt books. I still
think "Night Probe" would make an excellent movie. Connery would play a great
Sandecker, and would also be good in the Shaw/Bond role.
>
>There are a lot of great suggestions, such as Sharon Stone playing
>Loren.
A hard role to cast. I always saw a younger Kathleen Turner as Loren, but
Turner got too old for the part. Sharon Stone would have to dye her hair as
Loren was a brunette.
But no one has solved the riddle of who to play Dirk.
It's hard to say who would make a good Pitt; it all depends on which Book
you're talking about. He has aged about 15 years throughout the Cussler books
("Raise The Titanic" took place in the mid-1980's and "Flood Tide" took place
in 2000); in the earlier books he was young and handsome and looked like he
just stepped off the lifeguard chair at Venice Beach. Ten years ago Kevin
Costner would have been the perfect "younger" Pitt, but he has gotten too old
for the part.
But in the later books Pitt is in his late forties and is somewhat worn due to
all the vicious beatings and fights he has been involved in, and is still
handsome but scarred. In a film version of "Flood Tide" I think an actor like
Ed Harris would be the right guy to play the "older" Pitt.
Dom
>Deluise as Perlmutter is great! But you'd have to find a role for Burt
>Reynolds, as I don't think I've ever seen Dom alone:-)
>
When I participated in the original poll, I left this one blank, because I
thought the only actors who could have played him, John Candy and Orson Welles,
were both dead. But after thinking about it I agree that James Earl Jones
would be excellent in the part.
I wish they would give Dirk Pitt another shot at the movies; if they had filmed
"Raise the Titanic" according to the book it would have been a super movie.
But the filmmakers didn't want to piss off the Soviets so the removed the part
with the Soviets taking over the Big T. And they threw that crazy subplot into
the movie about the Byzanium bomb. And in the end of the movie they left the
guy's burial site alone and walked away. I don't think I've ever been as
disappointed with a film adaptation of a book as I was with this one.
JDSnelders
Mpoconnor7 wrote in message <19990221134614...@ng31.aol.com>...
<<MUCK SNIPPING HERE!>>
>Ten years ago Kevin Costner would have been the perfect "younger" Pitt, but
he has >gotten too old for the part.
While I like Kevin Costner, I have do admit he does come across a a bit
'flat' and 'lifeless' in some rolls. I'm not sure he could come across with
the sarcasm, wit, humour, etc that make up Pitt's character.
>I wish they would give Dirk Pitt another shot at the movies; if they had
filmed
>"Raise the Titanic" according to the book it would have been a super movie.
>But the filmmakers didn't want to piss off the Soviets so the removed the
part
>with the Soviets taking over the Big T. And they threw that crazy subplot
into
>the movie about the Byzanium bomb. And in the end of the movie they left
the
>guy's burial site alone and walked away. I don't think I've ever been as
>disappointed with a film adaptation of a book as I was with this one.
I too feel that another Pitt movies should be made, but *only* if it closely
parallels the book (and I mean REALLY close!). "Titanic" was a disaster I
don't want to see happen again.
Speaking of Titanic, it is the only book I haven't read yet (I've read all
twice, except Vixon 03, Pacific Vortex and Deep Six - which I'm reading
now). I think the problem was I saw the movie first (this was before I
discovered Cussler) and that threw me right off. But one day... And what is
this crap with walking away from the grave at the end? I'm damn sure that
sort of thing would never have happened in the book (even if a scene so
stupid was written in). I don't think Pitt is that kind of person.
--
JDSnelders
Mpoconnor7
>parallels the book (and I mean REALLY close!). "Titanic" was a disaster I
>don't want to see happen again.
>
>Speaking of Titanic, it is the only book I haven't read yet (I've read all
>twice, except Vixon 03, Pacific Vortex and Deep Six - which I'm reading
>now). I think the problem was I saw the movie first (this was before I
>discovered Cussler) and that threw me right off. But one day... And what is
>this crap with walking away from the grave at the end? I'm damn sure that
>sort of thing would never have happened in the book (even if a scene so
>stupid was written in). I don't think Pitt is that kind of person.
>
In the movie Pitt and Gene Seagram left the grave undisturbed because the
government was planning to use the Byzanium to make a bomb instead of using it
for the anti-missile defense systems.
There were so many things wrong with the movie, especially the casting of Dirk
Pitt; the late Richard Jordan was fine in other, smaller roles ("The Hunt for
Red October" and his swan song in "Gettysburg" come to mind). The only two
parts they cast well were Jason Robards (who I think got top billing in this
one, if you can believe it) as Sandecker and Alec Guiness as the last survivor
of the Titanic (a cameo at that). The special effects were pretty good and
John Barry did an excellent score, although it was very reminescent of his
"Thunderball" score. But they took too many liberties with the story, and when
the screenwriters were done it bared little resemblance to Cussler's vision.