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I haven't seen it, yet, but it must suffer from trying to compress elements of several books into a single film - although I expect they were hoping it would be the first of a series.
Stephen King should be well-suited to film adaptations, he writes rattling good yarns with a lot of popular-culture references, the only problem is he's too verbose! Quite a few of his books have been made into well above average films, though. Maybe some of the others should be revisited for TV.
In the movie the age of carousel was 30 in the book it was 21 so where did all the "adults"come from ? They were all having shagging parties and filming each other , Logan was hanging a girl out of a window by her feet to record one group shagging . All very strange , especially when you realise all of the "adults" shagging were between about 9 - 13 , could have been lower ! (i am not reading it again to check , once was enough ). It was like reading a book written by paedophile authors .
Then when they escaped and they ran into trouble it was as though they had only walked a few steps , they get out of there walk a few more steps they are in the middle of a civil war re-enactment .
It must be the most incoherent book i have ever read and there is now a rumour (yes again) they are going to do another movie based on the book . Bad idea .
After reading i was surprised they made such a great movie out of it . The original book should have been pulped .
Master and Commander. Brilliant telling of the books. Crowe is Aubrey and Bettany is a very true Maturin. The action and general feel of the ship are very true. It's a great pity they didn't make any more of the books into films, they'd hit upon a perfect formula. I'd have loved to have seen Clarissa Oakes and Desolation Island on screen.
Apocalpse Now, while it impressed me enormously on early viewings, now seems overblown and a series of cheap thrills. An accurate retelling of Heart of Darkness is well overdue.
Have you read any other J.H?
I read Something Happened and it was an eye-opener at the time. This was years ago. From memory it could be both strangely topical and hideously dated at the same time right now.
I tried - both Something Happened and Picture This. I couldn't get on with either of them. I went to a talk by him when Picture This had just come out - I bought a copy and got it signed - and he only seemed interested in talking about Catch-22...
I eventually sold the signed copy of Picture This on Ebay, but it didn't fetch much.
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They have cast Edris Elba as Roland WTAF?
The film has taken elements of the books and tried to make a story from those elements. No Eddie, no Susanah NO OY!!!!
No oy no party
A Clockwork Orange on the other hand, great book AND film.
The thing is, the Martin Freeman film/movie/big screen adaptation only scratches the whole HHGG universe. I've read the (five) books, and listened to the whole radio series including the final episodes, and there's so much material, such that someone could extend the franchise by at least two more films (depending on length).
What did you think of the TV series? To me that captured the "vibe", for want of a better expression, that the film lacked. Douglas Adams presumably had a lot more direct influence on the TV production.
It’s a great book but a really shite film.
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A classic sci-fi book but the film wasn't able to capture half of what was going on.
McCarthy's writing is just a genius at work,
the radio series was awesome.. the book was excellent too..
the TV series and movie were utter sh1te..
loved the books... the movie was pants