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Rupert Bair Inner circle ? 2179 Posts |
Cage rocked in this.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Not to worry, Cage will be appearing in a second installment of "National Treasure".
And there are plenty more PKD stories to butcher. How about "The Preserving Machine" where instead of ...
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2007-04-27 10:04, Cliffg37 wrote: I didn't see "Da Vinci Code," I did see "The Princess Bride" and felt that as good as the book was, the movie moved much better and was more coherent. I usually have one favorite section in a book that usually gets cut out for time or paceing purposes. In "The Princess Bride," it was the decent down the stairs (readers of the book will understand) but I was enjoying the film so much, I didn't even notice the sequence was missing until afterwards. 90% of the time however, I agree with you. You have to take movies on their own level and not try to compare them to the book because as entertaining as they are, they usually lag behind the book. The "Harry Potter" films are a perfect example. Quote:
On 2007-04-27 13:56, photius wrote: Seems to me most of the films Hollywood has made were originally books or plays. There were some exceptions, as there are now, but still there was a lot of adaptation going on in the 30s and 40s as well as today.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Josh Riel Inner circle of hell 1995 Posts |
You need to watch yourself when comparing a book to a movie.
I still cannot watch the L.O.T.R. trilogy, simply because I was far too obsessed (And still do re-read them often). I read everything I could find that Tolkien wrote regarding that mythology. I watched 15 minutes of the first movie, saw everyone horribly misrepresented and additions that were evil and spawned from the Devil himself. I watched later by accident the fight between Gandalf and Saruman and was displeased greatly. If I watched that movie, ignoring the slight resemblance to the book, I might have enjoyed it. The Harry Potter movies started out reasonably close to the books. I watched the movie of Interview with a Vampire and that caused me to read the book so it was O.K. It also got me hooked on Anne Rice...... Then I tried to watch the movie Queen of the ***ed...... Disgraceful. I think I want to read the Bourne Trilogy, after I watch the last movie. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe wasn't too bad.
Magic is doing improbable things with odd items that, under normal circumstances, would be unnessecary and quite often undesirable.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
I read the entire LOTR trilogy, but I never became a major fan and so was able to enjoy the films as well.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2007-08-19 17:26, Dannydoyle wrote: I liked the short stories that "The Postman" was based on. They appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine back in the 80s. Just didn't see it as a movie though.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
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On 2007-08-26 00:11, mandrake01 wrote: I was assigned to read them as a jr high school project in a history class... and did not seen them as medieval ... and when I got news of the movies started to wonder how a movie could be made as anything but a musical.
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