>scary nanobot clouds yikes
neat >why is my wife... larger? why does her exterior flicker sometimes? >oh god she's emaciated beneath a skin of nanobots, imitating and controlling her, but also making her look.. better?
k i n o
I have no idea how CG will do the effect justice, especially the bit at the end
I loved this book, when people were talking about the Prey trailer I assumed it was going to be an adaptation of this
FRICK i'd forgotten about that part
20th century fox has had the rights to make a film on this ever since the book came out, but what would they call it now that the dumb predator reboot took the name
>The part where they start making faceless mannequin clones of the people they kill >They kill by flooding literally every orifice on your body and eating you inside out. >They start building a giant underground nest in the desert >The protagonist replaces his wife with a qt asian at the end
>“Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done. And if they are smart, they’ll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly. This is not a good system for research into those areas of science that affect policy. Even worse, the system works against problem solving. Because if you solve a problem, your funding ends. All that’s got to change.”
>“the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.”
>“Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature.” Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty >“You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?”
>“The ultimate lesson is that science isn’t special – at least not anymore. Maybe back when Einstein talked to Niels Bohr, and there were only a few dozen important workers in every field. But there are now three million researchers in America. It’s no longer a calling, it’s a career. Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Its practitioners aren’t saints, they’re human beings, and they do what human beings do – lie, cheat, steal from one another, sue, hide data, fake data, overstate their own importance and denigrate opposing views unfairly. That’s human nature. It isn’t going to change”
“Going back to the 1920s, when Stalin ordered the most famous animal breeder in Russia to do it, to make a new race of (human/chimpanzee) soldiers for him. His name was Ivanov,”
>Michael Crichton, Next
still on the reading list, next after micro
after that I think I've read all his major stuff
These are great quote and spot on. However you can tell people this but they will still mentally see modern science as some incorruptible order of super smart men who are saving the world against all odds. I think Hollywood/media/schools have programmed people's minds as pro-science since birth
there were more great quotes in the books but these were the most easy to find ones online, I don't feel like digging through the books right now
every single story of his tells people to be cautious, even the jurassic park movies did
Next is really good at jumping around and keeping you engaged. gerard the parrot pissing off his would-be-rescuer and getting ditched in the desert, followed by a middle aged female lawyer outsmarting hired goons trying to take her kid because a corp feels they own his genes
I'm halfway through next and it's fantastic
can see it working as a tv series since there's so much going on, each episode can be different
looks like we're gonna get an M rated honey I shrunk the kids >On June 26, 2015, DreamWorks announced plans for a film adaptation of Micro. Frank Marshall will produce the film, while Sherri Crichton and Laurent Bouzereau will act as executive producers.[4] Steven Spielberg is developing the film with DreamWorks.[5] In April 2017, Joachim Rønning was attached to direct the film, with a script by Darren Lemke.[6]
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yeah i sae that a while ago but after this many years i doubt it'll be worth the wait
Humans are religious by nature. Take away their traditional beliefs and they will inevitably replace it with something else faith-based, hence the science worship and "experts" as the new priest class.
>“The ultimate lesson is that science isn’t special – at least not anymore. Maybe back when Einstein talked to Niels Bohr, and there were only a few dozen important workers in every field. But there are now three million researchers in America. It’s no longer a calling, it’s a career. Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Its practitioners aren’t saints, they’re human beings, and they do what human beings do – lie, cheat, steal from one another, sue, hide data, fake data, overstate their own importance and denigrate opposing views unfairly. That’s human nature. It isn’t going to change”
“Going back to the 1920s, when Stalin ordered the most famous animal breeder in Russia to do it, to make a new race of (human/chimpanzee) soldiers for him. His name was Ivanov,”
>Michael Crichton, Next
still on the reading list, next after micro
after that I think I've read all his major stuff
agree, a more book accurate version would work great as a tv series since CG is easy now and they can have 12 or 16 episodes instead of 2hrs
and then they can do the lost world next
I want Jurassic Park turned into a gory 8 part series. All the philosophical discussions should take a front seat whilst also giving us more Dino action.
>“I’m just asking, Peter. Would it be fair to say environmentalists pay your salary?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. Then would it be fair to say the opinions you hold are because you work for environmentalists?”
“Of course not—”
“You mean you’re not a paid flunky for the environmental movement?”
“No. The fact is—”
“You’re not an environmental stooge? A mouthpiece for a great fund-raising and media machine—a multi-billion-dollar industry in its own right—with its own private agenda that’s not necessarily in the public interest?”
“God damn it—”
“Is this pissing you off?” Kenner said.
“You’re damn right it is!”
“Good,” Kenner said. “Now you know how legitimate scientists feel when their integrity is impugned by slimy characterizations such as the one you just made. Sanjong and I gave you a careful, peer-reviewed interpretation of data. Made by several groups of scientists from several different countries. And your response was first to ignore it, and then to make an ad hominem attack. You didn’t answer the data. You didn’t provide counter evidence. You just smeared with innuendo.”
that could be the trailer for "state of fear" by itself
State of Fear is one of the most unbearably smug, fart smelling books I've ever pushed my way thru. Arguments written so that Crichton's viewpoint always comes out on top and everyone else is dumb and shit and knows nothing. It's like he lost an argument at a dinner party or something and seethed so much he wrote the longest book of all his works.
Only good part is the blatant stand in for Martin Sheen getting eaten alive by a tribe of cannibals. Also one of the "heroes" seduces a young tribal boy to lean in close to her pussy and then snaps his neck with her legs.
>It's like he lost an argument at a dinner party or something and seethed so much he wrote the longest book of all his works.
didn't he get so buttblasted about a book of his getting a bad review that in the next one he had a character named after the reviewer be a child rapist with a micropenis?
wrong book >Micro is a techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, the seventeenth under his own name and second to be published after his death, published in 2011. Upon his death in 2008, an untitled, unfinished manuscript was found on his computer, which would become Micro. Publisher HarperCollins chose science writer Richard Preston to complete the novel from Crichton's remaining notes and research, and it was finally published in 2011.[1][2] Micro followed the historical thriller Pirate Latitudes, which was also found on his computer and published posthumously in 2009.
micro is about a team of scientists who were shrunk to the size of insects and have to survive in the middle of the jungle, so it's like an M rated honey I shrunk the kids
lmao based crichton >Michael Crowley of The New Republic alleged that, in retaliation for his having written a negative review of Crichton's previous novel State of Fear, Crichton named a character with a small penis who rapes a baby after him. From page 227: "Alex Burnet was in the middle of the most difficult trial of her career, a rape case involving the sexual assault of a two-year-old boy in Malibu. The defendant, thirty-year-old Mick Crowley, was a Washington-based political columnist who was visiting his sister-in-law when he experienced an overwhelming urge to have anal sex with her young son, still in diapers." Both the real and the fictional Crowley are Washington-based political columnists who had graduated from Yale.[24]
This might be true, but Crichton movie adaptations generally suck, or are mediocre with nostalgic charm at best, with very few exceptions, which sucks because reading the novels, he had a great cinematic sense of pacing.
>The movie basically did everything the book was critising about our portrayals of history.
It's sad but I heartily chuckled at how accurate this is.
I love congo, probably cause the music and adventure and wacky fun. But also never read the book. I wouldn't mind a new version, but worry they'd have bad casting and make it too serious and dark like most modern movies
>That part the Timeline novel where the villain uses his quantum time travel technology to get footage of Lincoln reading the Gettysburg address >He complains about how gross and weird Lincoln looks, how he has a weird high voice that's hard to understand, and everyone looks dirty and cold and miserable >His technicians promise him to pretty up the footage.
I liked when Crichton would get more loose and write something really wacky but also with his trademark technical, grounded in reality details. Results in a lot of intentional and sometimes unintentional humor
thanks anon. I remember when he died in 2008, it was around election time, and it was first time I was sad an author passed. I wrote most of my book reports in high school around MC books.
>Ends with the villain getting sent back to 14th century Europe >He sees a castle guard lying dead, leans in close to get a better look >Then he sees flagellants and realizes where he is >He hopelessly sits down on the ground and begins to cough
Back in the golden age of machinma, I tried to make a movie trailer by using the shrink tool on manhacks in Gmod. I was just a kid, but I had already realized the absolute kino potential of Prey.
No, it was supposed to be entirely in Gmod, but I was too stupid to figure out how to rig stuff or build maps, so I had to give it up. Never saw the light of day.
>New Republic contributor Michael Crowley alleged in 2006 that science fiction writer/ political conspiracy theorist Michael Crichton had maligned him in his novel "Next." Crowley had published an essay criticizing the right-wing paranoia on display in Crichton’s previous novel, "State of Fear," and Crowley alleged that Crichton had retaliated by putting a fictionalized version of him in his follow-up novel. The character, Mick Crowley, was described as a Yale graduate with a small penis, “a Washington-based political columnist who was visiting his sister-in-law when he experienced an overwhelming urge to have anal sex with her young son, still in diapers.”
>Writes a technoir detective novel that features cops getting bamboozled by an early version of photoshop >Wrote an entire main character based off Sean Connery just so he could work with him again >This results in a man with a thick scottish accent saying words like Sempai and Kohai >Main theme is America selling it's economic future to foreign powers, most notably japan >Released in 1992 during Japan's lost decade where for 10 years they saw the least economic growth of any industrialized nation.
Probably one of his worst novels
Crichton wasn't a good author, his books had cool premises but he was an edgelord and his writing style was clinical and soulless to say the least. The book version of Jurassic Park is wildly inferior to the movie, Spielberg made it good and gave it heart.
>The book version of Jurassic Park is wildly inferior to the movie
moron take.
Book: >Profit motivated startups working on cutting edge technology will inevitably evade regulators and cut corners. This will lead to disaster.
Movie: >Hammond dindu nuffin wrong, everything bad happening is because, ... life, uh, finds a way
>Kino
Andromeda Strain
Great Train Robbery
Eaters Of The Dead
Sphere
Jurassic Park >Great
Timeline
The Lost World
Congo
Next >Good
The Terminal Man
Prey >Meh
Disclosure
Airframe
Rising Sun
State Of Fear
the movie just came out like 2 weeks ago
>scary nanobot clouds yikes
neat
>why is my wife... larger? why does her exterior flicker sometimes?
>oh god she's emaciated beneath a skin of nanobots, imitating and controlling her, but also making her look.. better?
k i n o
I loved this book, when people were talking about the Prey trailer I assumed it was going to be an adaptation of this
FRICK i'd forgotten about that part
I have no idea how CG will do the effect justice, especially the bit at the end
20th century fox has had the rights to make a film on this ever since the book came out, but what would they call it now that the dumb predator reboot took the name
conveniently leaving out the part where the nanobots made her a cheating hoo-ah. a hooah with open-toed shoes.
>The part where they start making faceless mannequin clones of the people they kill
>They kill by flooding literally every orifice on your body and eating you inside out.
>They start building a giant underground nest in the desert
>The protagonist replaces his wife with a qt asian at the end
"State of Fear" was also fantastic
>“Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done. And if they are smart, they’ll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly. This is not a good system for research into those areas of science that affect policy. Even worse, the system works against problem solving. Because if you solve a problem, your funding ends. All that’s got to change.”
>“the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.”
>“Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature.” Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty
>“You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?”
>Michael Crichton, State of Fear
These are great quote and spot on. However you can tell people this but they will still mentally see modern science as some incorruptible order of super smart men who are saving the world against all odds. I think Hollywood/media/schools have programmed people's minds as pro-science since birth
there were more great quotes in the books but these were the most easy to find ones online, I don't feel like digging through the books right now
every single story of his tells people to be cautious, even the jurassic park movies did
Thanks for the quotes, I haven't read any Crichton that I can recall, what are the best books to start off with?
Next is really good at jumping around and keeping you engaged. gerard the parrot pissing off his would-be-rescuer and getting ditched in the desert, followed by a middle aged female lawyer outsmarting hired goons trying to take her kid because a corp feels they own his genes
thanks
I'm halfway through next and it's fantastic
can see it working as a tv series since there's so much going on, each episode can be different
looks like we're gonna get an M rated honey I shrunk the kids
>On June 26, 2015, DreamWorks announced plans for a film adaptation of Micro. Frank Marshall will produce the film, while Sherri Crichton and Laurent Bouzereau will act as executive producers.[4] Steven Spielberg is developing the film with DreamWorks.[5] In April 2017, Joachim Rønning was attached to direct the film, with a script by Darren Lemke.[6]
yeah i sae that a while ago but after this many years i doubt it'll be worth the wait
start with JP and the lost world, because you would have seen the films, and the books are nearly totally different and much longer than 2hrs
if you want something totally new and hasn't been turned into a film
terminal man, prey, state of fear, next, binary are good starts
btw there's a lot of his audiobooks on youtube
timeline is an easy read
Humans are religious by nature. Take away their traditional beliefs and they will inevitably replace it with something else faith-based, hence the science worship and "experts" as the new priest class.
NPC's are religious by nature*
State of Fear was absolute dog shit with good moments of action sprinkled in
>the jungle cannibals
it was great, you got filtered
Won't happened. The dude denied climate change.
then they should stop making jurassic park films
btw state of fear needs to be made into a film, that has loads of kino moments
michael crichton is a kinogod
Want an airframe movie directed by Nolan
and "Next" is also great
>“The ultimate lesson is that science isn’t special – at least not anymore. Maybe back when Einstein talked to Niels Bohr, and there were only a few dozen important workers in every field. But there are now three million researchers in America. It’s no longer a calling, it’s a career. Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Its practitioners aren’t saints, they’re human beings, and they do what human beings do – lie, cheat, steal from one another, sue, hide data, fake data, overstate their own importance and denigrate opposing views unfairly. That’s human nature. It isn’t going to change”
“Going back to the 1920s, when Stalin ordered the most famous animal breeder in Russia to do it, to make a new race of (human/chimpanzee) soldiers for him. His name was Ivanov,”
>Michael Crichton, Next
still on the reading list, next after micro
after that I think I've read all his major stuff
Rising Sun is underrated kino.
the book or the film?
the film is good to me, but crichton wasnt happy and walked off the project
havent read the book yet
we need a new jurassic park reboot now that jurassic world is over
properly adapted it would be an incredible horror film
agree, a more book accurate version would work great as a tv series since CG is easy now and they can have 12 or 16 episodes instead of 2hrs
and then they can do the lost world next
Yeah the book has so many fantastic scenes that didn't make it into the movie, my only problem is the cast would be made up of women and minorities
tfw we will never see the raptors in the hatchery sequence in live action
if only I had my walking stick
>damn kids playing with the tannoy system
I thought that was adapted into a miniseries years ago
if only he was alive today
I want Jurassic Park turned into a gory 8 part series. All the philosophical discussions should take a front seat whilst also giving us more Dino action.
>“I’m just asking, Peter. Would it be fair to say environmentalists pay your salary?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. Then would it be fair to say the opinions you hold are because you work for environmentalists?”
“Of course not—”
“You mean you’re not a paid flunky for the environmental movement?”
“No. The fact is—”
“You’re not an environmental stooge? A mouthpiece for a great fund-raising and media machine—a multi-billion-dollar industry in its own right—with its own private agenda that’s not necessarily in the public interest?”
“God damn it—”
“Is this pissing you off?” Kenner said.
“You’re damn right it is!”
“Good,” Kenner said. “Now you know how legitimate scientists feel when their integrity is impugned by slimy characterizations such as the one you just made. Sanjong and I gave you a careful, peer-reviewed interpretation of data. Made by several groups of scientists from several different countries. And your response was first to ignore it, and then to make an ad hominem attack. You didn’t answer the data. You didn’t provide counter evidence. You just smeared with innuendo.”
that could be the trailer for "state of fear" by itself
State of Fear is one of the most unbearably smug, fart smelling books I've ever pushed my way thru. Arguments written so that Crichton's viewpoint always comes out on top and everyone else is dumb and shit and knows nothing. It's like he lost an argument at a dinner party or something and seethed so much he wrote the longest book of all his works.
Only good part is the blatant stand in for Martin Sheen getting eaten alive by a tribe of cannibals. Also one of the "heroes" seduces a young tribal boy to lean in close to her pussy and then snaps his neck with her legs.
I was wrong, she actually cuts his throat and then promises to kill as many more as she can.
Martin Sheen get's cannibalized.
absolutely based
also whats wrong with your finger? looks like a toe
>It's like he lost an argument at a dinner party or something and seethed so much he wrote the longest book of all his works.
didn't he get so buttblasted about a book of his getting a bad review that in the next one he had a character named after the reviewer be a child rapist with a micropenis?
this isn't even a book he wrote, it's a scrapped plot outline that some ghostwriter turned into a book
wrong book
>Micro is a techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, the seventeenth under his own name and second to be published after his death, published in 2011. Upon his death in 2008, an untitled, unfinished manuscript was found on his computer, which would become Micro. Publisher HarperCollins chose science writer Richard Preston to complete the novel from Crichton's remaining notes and research, and it was finally published in 2011.[1][2] Micro followed the historical thriller Pirate Latitudes, which was also found on his computer and published posthumously in 2009.
wait he wrote TWO books with nanobots? what a hack
micro is about a team of scientists who were shrunk to the size of insects and have to survive in the middle of the jungle, so it's like an M rated honey I shrunk the kids
yeah and it has little robots in it which is what i remembered
lmao based crichton
>Michael Crowley of The New Republic alleged that, in retaliation for his having written a negative review of Crichton's previous novel State of Fear, Crichton named a character with a small penis who rapes a baby after him. From page 227: "Alex Burnet was in the middle of the most difficult trial of her career, a rape case involving the sexual assault of a two-year-old boy in Malibu. The defendant, thirty-year-old Mick Crowley, was a Washington-based political columnist who was visiting his sister-in-law when he experienced an overwhelming urge to have anal sex with her young son, still in diapers." Both the real and the fictional Crowley are Washington-based political columnists who had graduated from Yale.[24]
Petty
you should all check out the other kinos he was involved with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton_bibliography#Film
Fioriti is a moron
Too bad Timeline was so badly adapted, the book was kino. The movie basically did everything the book was critising about our portrayals of history.
This might be true, but Crichton movie adaptations generally suck, or are mediocre with nostalgic charm at best, with very few exceptions, which sucks because reading the novels, he had a great cinematic sense of pacing.
>The movie basically did everything the book was critising about our portrayals of history.
It's sad but I heartily chuckled at how accurate this is.
>Crichton movie adaptations generally suck
they can do as many as they want til they get it right
congo deserves another chance
I love congo, probably cause the music and adventure and wacky fun. But also never read the book. I wouldn't mind a new version, but worry they'd have bad casting and make it too serious and dark like most modern movies
>That part the Timeline novel where the villain uses his quantum time travel technology to get footage of Lincoln reading the Gettysburg address
>He complains about how gross and weird Lincoln looks, how he has a weird high voice that's hard to understand, and everyone looks dirty and cold and miserable
>His technicians promise him to pretty up the footage.
I liked when Crichton would get more loose and write something really wacky but also with his trademark technical, grounded in reality details. Results in a lot of intentional and sometimes unintentional humor
>read Andromeda Strain
>read Sphere
>red Airframe
>read Jurassic Park
>read Lost World
where do I go from here bros?
prey or terminal man
or start watching some of the other films crichton was involved in
COMA is really good
thanks anon. I remember when he died in 2008, it was around election time, and it was first time I was sad an author passed. I wrote most of my book reports in high school around MC books.
>Ends with the villain getting sent back to 14th century Europe
>He sees a castle guard lying dead, leans in close to get a better look
>Then he sees flagellants and realizes where he is
>He hopelessly sits down on the ground and begins to cough
Jesus fricking christ let me press a homosexualy fricking button to rotate the c**ting Black person camera stop with this automatic fricking shit
Lewis Dodgson is the main villain of The Lost World novel and his death is probably Crichton's most brutal piece of writing.
nah, this one is
or nedry in jp1
ah shit, wrong video
Back in the golden age of machinma, I tried to make a movie trailer by using the shrink tool on manhacks in Gmod. I was just a kid, but I had already realized the absolute kino potential of Prey.
this?
No, it was supposed to be entirely in Gmod, but I was too stupid to figure out how to rig stuff or build maps, so I had to give it up. Never saw the light of day.
>New Republic contributor Michael Crowley alleged in 2006 that science fiction writer/ political conspiracy theorist Michael Crichton had maligned him in his novel "Next." Crowley had published an essay criticizing the right-wing paranoia on display in Crichton’s previous novel, "State of Fear," and Crowley alleged that Crichton had retaliated by putting a fictionalized version of him in his follow-up novel. The character, Mick Crowley, was described as a Yale graduate with a small penis, “a Washington-based political columnist who was visiting his sister-in-law when he experienced an overwhelming urge to have anal sex with her young son, still in diapers.”
>Writes a technoir detective novel that features cops getting bamboozled by an early version of photoshop
>Wrote an entire main character based off Sean Connery just so he could work with him again
>This results in a man with a thick scottish accent saying words like Sempai and Kohai
>Main theme is America selling it's economic future to foreign powers, most notably japan
>Released in 1992 during Japan's lost decade where for 10 years they saw the least economic growth of any industrialized nation.
Probably one of his worst novels
To be fair, before the crash Japan was economically dominate, and it does take time to finish a novel and get it published.
Still love how Tim Curry would say ZEEEEENJ!
Crichton wasn't a good author, his books had cool premises but he was an edgelord and his writing style was clinical and soulless to say the least. The book version of Jurassic Park is wildly inferior to the movie, Spielberg made it good and gave it heart.
>The book version of Jurassic Park is wildly inferior to the movie
moron take.
Book:
>Profit motivated startups working on cutting edge technology will inevitably evade regulators and cut corners. This will lead to disaster.
Movie:
>Hammond dindu nuffin wrong, everything bad happening is because, ... life, uh, finds a way
I haven't used the term "plebeian" for quite some time, but your post is absolutely plebeian.
>Kino
Andromeda Strain
Great Train Robbery
Eaters Of The Dead
Sphere
Jurassic Park
>Great
Timeline
The Lost World
Congo
Next
>Good
The Terminal Man
Prey
>Meh
Disclosure
Airframe
Rising Sun
State Of Fear
>Lost World
unironically the worst of the bunch, a soulless cashgrab following the commercial success of the Jurassic Park movie