Thread: how hard can it be??

which movies?

mainly rettop yrrah ( read back wards ) Bob

well when you consider the theme of the book and movie, what do you expect. Reality only comes with quality books and movies.Good grief.

never seen one, never read one

Try 2001 a Space Odyssey, the book was brilliant but impossible to put onto celluloid, the current ABC series Robin Hood needs to be shot with a ball of the producers own shyte, it is absolute crap.
I enjoyed Ringworld but have never seen it on the big screen and of course there is Philip Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' which as a movie was not too bad.

It's the age old problem (well, as long as cinema has been around anyway).

You can't condense a 500 page novel into a 9 hour mini-series let alone a 2 hour movie.

I happen to like the books and the movies (I haven't seen the latest yet).

Reality only comes with quality books and movies.Good grief.

Huh? Reality only comes with quality fiction? It's a novel. Whether the theme appeals to you or not, it's still a novel.

Personally, I think the Harry Potter novels have done more for teenage boys' literacy than just about everything that came before it combined. That has to be a good thing.

i understand why they have to make it shorter and all that, they cant follow everything in the books, but it annoys me when they cut important things and details. also when they rearrange the order of sequence.
the new movie would be so hard to understand IMO if you had not read the book.


you have to admit they're inconsitent though, take hogsmaede (sp?) for example, in every movie, it is in a different setting, and is of a different size ( it never changes in the book though ). they're is many more but ....meh

maybe they should consider making an extended version like LOTR has????

cheers

The level of frustration increases in proportion to how much you are familiar with, and are a fan of, the story in question.

Both Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings are brilliant stories (as far as I'm concerned) (I've read The Lord of the Rings about 25 times to date), and the movies pale in comparison. However, the movies in their own right are amazing - awesome vision, and attention to detail. It is sad they cannot reflect the full story, but they, I think, are honest to the story with the castings, the scenes, the vision.

So it may be a proportional response, but at least the visualisation of the printed word is a pretty good viewing!

As to moving pubs - well, it is full of wizards!

Originally Posted by fred.n

never seen one, never read one

Here here.

How much more can they milk out of it?



(Actually I have never read a story book in my life. )

Originally Posted by Iain

I enjoyed Ringworld but have never seen it on the big screen...

Ringworld movie?

The set musta cost a scrith load of cash.

Originally Posted by Iain

'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' which as a movie was not too bad.

Blade runner? Issues as to whether or not I cleft the title in twain aside (Bladerunner is one of SWMBO's faves) changing storylines to allow for greater narrative continuity in films is a necessary practice.

Originally Posted by markharrison

You can't condense a 500 page novel into a 9 hour mini-series let alone a 2 hour movie.

Some do it OK, LOTR (except Frodo nearly falling into the fire of Mt doom in the flick) and some poorly, Eragon is quite different, but the Saphira was brilliant IMHO.
I read a review on the new Potter film and he thought it was shyte.

Yes, Bladerunner, just wanted to see who was awake

Originally Posted by ss_11000

...the new movie would be so hard to understand IMO if you had not read the book

Ah yes perhaps, but if you haven't read the books, you don't know the sequence nor have any expectations.

The process of going from the printed page to the big screen is, probably, the most difficult of any writing project. It gets further complicated by the director trying to fit the words into the scenery.

I remember the movie Sybil and not understanding it at all. Then I read the book. It took reading the book to understand the movie however without having seen the movie, the book would have been most difficult to understand.