George Michael shows greather originality
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mecfc — 18 years ago(March 13, 2008 04:35 PM)
Garland is a one-hit wonder novelist who got lucky riffing off other materials and being clever enough to put a topical enough spin on the ideas of others to pass them off as his own. So the satire of Romero becomes the blunt force of 28 Days Later, the claustrophobic isolation of Alien and Solaris (and, to a lesser extent, Outland) becomes the cliches and stock structure of Sunshine. That's not to say they're bad films, my opinion is that Boyle irons in the subtleties, where the screenplay often - being seemingly on rails - only sketches.
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jaden165 — 17 years ago(May 25, 2008 07:13 AM)
mecfc Its easy to play the unoriginal card, it can be used on any writer, someone could say night of the living dead is not original because Romero took the concept of zombies from vodu tales, I think Garland is a very good writer, 28 Days Later helped revamp the zombie horror genre.
It is not possible Alien and Solaris borrowed aspects of 2001 a space odyessey and developed them further. I respect your opinion but I do not agree with it. -
MrOstrich — 17 years ago(June 04, 2008 12:44 PM)
fantastic! A 2 page debate. I only haven't come back sooner as it took so long to get a single response. I enjoyed 28 Days/Weeks Later but there are influences of other works at play, nobody can deny that.
I wasn't trashing Garland as someone pointed out, all writers are influenced by one thing or another, but few with as much consistency!
Cambridge man you know. His uncle Bertie and I used to break wind for our college.