it's a good thing. I mean, it's not like I said you were a bannana, did I?
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Maybe they should have read the book before making it...
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Mr Garrison: *bleargh* *bleaaaaaargh* Euh that movie was horrible! And when that alien turned out to be her father...*bleeargh*
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No, the movie was totally screwed up. If they're going to write their own story, they shouldn't steal the major plot points from a perfectly good book. If you're going to use the book, use the whole book. Not just the bits you like, while changing everything else.
------------------ "Although, from what I understand, having travelled around the Mid-west quite a bit, apparently Jesus is coming, so I guess the choice now is we should decide whether we should spit or swallow." -Maynard James Keenan
"If they're going to write their own story, they shouldn't steal the major plot points from a perfectly good book."
If i'm not mistaken, it was Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan who signed off on the whole thing.
"If you're going to use the book, use the whole book. Not just the bits you like, while changing everything else."
Again, Carl and Ann. Zemeckis just directed the thing. This is something non-film (the techie bits) don't get. YOU try adapating any novel to a screenplay and see what you wind up with. You'll wind up with a screenplay that's twice as long AS the novel. (Knows this from personal experience)
Bottom line: "Contact" = Great movie. TSN ='s HERETIC.
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Wasn't it just Druyan who signed off? Wasn't Sagan already dead by this time?
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Let's see... The religious-freak guy was in the movie way too much. Arroway was the only one who went through the device, rather than the five or six that were supposed to. They made her mother dead from the beginning, when it's supposed to be only her father who dies, and her mother remarries. They don't find the message in pi at the end.
And that's just the stuff I remember offhand...
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You know, it's not that a movie captures every little nuance in the book. Read the book LA Confidential, & then watch the movie, why don't you? It's that the movie captures the spirit of the book. You're just nitpicking. That's like my friend -- ex-navy -- who hates submarine movies because the set is a different shade of gray than the real thing.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
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Different shade of gray??? The entire movies are black!!! They must have terrible gashes over the body from running into levers and bolts...
Submarines practically glow from the light gray everywhere, coupled with the fluorescent lamps. When I watch "Red Sea" (sorry, "Crimson Tide", I ran out of synonyms) I feel like I'm walking through a star destroyer! But the movie's good.
A friend and I actually laughed in "Red October" (is everyone hemoglobin-obsessed???) when my fellow turnip Stellan Skarsg�rd was giving out orders to his staff aboard the Alfa class sub.
He sat sloped over a chair, green and red lights blinking in his face to increase the drama and make him look like a scheming psychopath, smoking filterless russian cigarettes. We excpected him to storm away and rip the throat out of the chief engineer for not wanting to push the engines past 110%.
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Jeff: Nitpicking would be if a word or two were missing from the dialogue and I complained. I'm talking about things they changed for no good reason.
------------------ "Although, from what I understand, having travelled around the Mid-west quite a bit, apparently Jesus is coming, so I guess the choice now is we should decide whether we should spit or swallow." -Maynard James Keenan
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"YOU try adapating any novel to a screenplay and see what you wind up with. You'll wind up with a screenplay that's twice as long AS the novel. (Knows this from personal experience)."
Er, you adapt novels into major Hollywood movies now Jordan? When do you find the time?
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