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LotR???? ARE YOU ON DRUGS? And if so, what drugs are so powerful as to create such gross intereference with judgement???
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Hobbes: I was never able to finish it. It read like a technical manual. *shrug* To each his own, I guess.
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If you're tempted to read the book to see if I'm right, trust me, I am. Don't waste your time - those are hours of your life you will never get back.
My friend was the stunt double for that movie, and I stayed in the hotel the characters stay in in Choteau. Yes, I am aware that it's a pretty dumb movie.
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I watched a whole movie about one dinner party the other day and absolutely loved it. Babette's Feast - it's in Danish and French and has a turtle that makes this really freaky noise. Fabulous.
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Ender's G....Oh, they haven't made that one yet (AAAAH! QUIT HITTING ME! QUIT QUIT! OW! I WAS KIDDING!)
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I was so disappointed that there was no original, I really wanted to read about the fashions and dinner parties that he 'skipped over.'
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Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon. Thomas Harris is a terrible writer. The Bourne Identity, too, I like how they dispensed with the whole "everything but the starting concept" thing. Robert Ludlum, too, is a terrible writer. The first one was okay, but the second two of the Bourne Identity books were quite bad and I was stuck on a thirteen hour plane ride with nothing to read but them.
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Uhhh...Man. I haven't read any books that weren't better than the movie. (Though I thought Timeline was a good action movie and the book was uberhard- science fiction.)
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Them's fightin' words. The movie sucked (all 4 of them). Gregory Peck said he was miscast as Ahab. The book was perhaps the greatest book of all time. Certainly the best book I've ever read.
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I loved the Princess Bride book, read it years before the movie. Goldman did amazing things with author persona there. He basically writes the whole prologue as a way to get you to dislike him (writes about cheating on his wife, hating his kids, etc.), then proceeds to charm you with his story and his process. Very risky and challenging. Good stuff, IMO.
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No WAY are the Harry Potter movies better. I had to bite my toungue in the theatre, they left so much out.
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In the Princess Bride debate, I vote for the book, because while William Goldman's dialogue is good and often memorable, his prose is simply delightful.
Hm. I said 'delightful.'
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Speed, are you crazy? My friends and I would actually sit around and read portions of the Lost World outloud, and laugh ourselves silly. That's when Michael Crichton completely went insane.
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Battlefield Earth-- I know, I know the movie was horrible-- but the book was worse-- I read one review that called it a sludge pile of a novel which I thought pretty much summed it up.
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BE won a Razzie a couple years back for being the absolutely worst movie of the year.
Personally, I thought that if the book had stopped where the movie did, the book would have been decent. But then the movie would probably have been worse because it would have had less material to work from.
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One Flew Over was a very well shot movie, and very different than the book. I happened to prefer it's approach, I didn't much care for the kind of mystic milieu in which the book was set. Not that I didn’t like the book, I did, I just liked the movie better. And the end part, going through the window with the music, well I can (and have!) watch that part endlessly without tiring.
Essentially, where the book is plod-ding-ly written but the story is tolerably entertaining, I usually find I prefer the movie.
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