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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Books / Film This Is Not a Useful Website

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM

Some people were talking about this website at BEA as one of the ways people can use the internet to enhance the reading experience: Storycasting ("For the Movie in Your Mind!") is a website where you can cast actors in the roles of characters in books.

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But wait! There's more!

...Actually, no, that's just about it. That's about all you can do. What a weird, unnecessary little website.

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Why, those choices look like they're the work of lonely bookish 20-somethings!

Oh, wait...

Posted by Baconcat on June 2, 2009 at 4:51 PM

was this post necessary?

Posted by slogbuster on June 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM

My god Paul. Websites don't have to be useful. Been on the internet long?

Posted by w7ngman

on June 2, 2009 at 5:20 PM

Jesus H Fucking Christ, that's godawful casting for that book. Not the worst I've ever seen (Keanu Reeves for Eddie!), but still godawful.

Posted by Sweeney Agonistes on June 2, 2009 at 5:23 PM

THERE BE TYPO ON SIGN-UP OF NON USEFUL WEBSITE. THIS LIKELY INDICATES THAT MY ATTEMPT TO CAST ANGELINA JOLIE AS HUMBERT HUMBERT WILL RESULT IN IDENTITY STEAL OR CREDIT FRAUD.

I NO TRUSTEES PAUL CONSONANT NE MOR

Posted by LaRiiiiM0RrrHAwtiiii696969 on June 2, 2009 at 6:16 PM

#1

Johnny Depp is like 46.

Posted by Generation Xerox on June 2, 2009 at 7:08 PM

you gotta admit hugh laurie would be pretty good in 1984

Posted by Swearengen on June 2, 2009 at 10:07 PM

I've been doing this in my head since I was 15.

Posted by LeslieC on June 3, 2009 at 7:54 AM

I agree with w7ngman. Useless sites are a founding characteristic of the web. Where were you in 1994?

Posted by Greg on June 3, 2009 at 8:12 AM

I checked out the site a bit.

Daniel Craig and Christian Bale get picked for everything. Sometimes they get voted for in multiple roles in the same thing.

However, there's hardly anyone voting anyway, so it's probably just one guy/gal who thinks Daniel Craig and Christian Bale would be perfect for every role in every movie.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on June 3, 2009 at 10:00 AM

And it's grammatically incorrect, so it's even more useless now.

Posted by olychick on June 3, 2009 at 10:37 AM

*shudder* I looked at some books I consider particularly cinematic, and the casting choices were both vapid and stupid. It's like the people casting votes on that site only know about 10 actors in the entire world.

Posted by Geni on June 3, 2009 at 2:04 PM