No doubt about it the film was better, and yes I am a boy.

Monarch of the Glen seemed to gain a life all of it's own on the small screen.

Thrown - all these years I thought you were a rabbit.

Unsure how to proceed. More disappointing than any book film.

Would a film based on comments on the various threads on the fforum be better than the comments themselved?

Ponder

Submit answers.

If a printout of various comment threads were to be shredded, emulsified, then sprayed in a fine film on the treehouse walls, would the resultant fine film be a finer film than the movie, or would the filmmaker be fined for filming?

I enjoyed Neil Gaiman's Starlight the film, but found the novel an drag, it almost put me off Neil's writing altogether!

CannibalRabbit Wrote:
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> I enjoyed Neil Gaiman's Starlight the film, but
> found the novel an drag, it almost put me off
> Neil's writing altogether!

Starlight or Stardust?

The Return of MistyCat. Hurrah. We all missed de cat!!

It would make a great film. The sequel to "mistycat the secret life of a kiwi"

< Trying to shake MistyCat's fine film out of his eyes. Ears?>

< It doesn't work.>

< Clears his throat to speak.>

Flimsy? ... Filmsy? ... Mimsy?

The people who don't like The Thirty-Nine Steps don't realize they've only read the abridged version. Buchan's masterpiece, The Seventy-Eight Steps can still be accessed by jumping once on each of the Thirty-Nine Steps before ascending to the next.

Could each of the 39 steps be composed themselves of 39 steps?

<Realises CR should have checked title of book, before expressing dislike>

Yes, Stardust is the one that I meant. Really enjoyed American Gods and Neverwhere read subsequently though.

the movie of "the Dark is Rising" was absolutely abysmal...

bunyip Wrote:
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> Would a film based on comments on the various
> threads on the fforum be better than the comments
> themselved?
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> Ponder
>
> Submit answers.
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Depends entirely on the special effects budget...

Proof, if it were needed, that Bladerunner is indeed better than the book.

[www.lettersofnote.com]

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> Proof, if it were needed, that Bladerunner is
> indeed better than the book.
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> [www.lettersofnote.com]-
> will-prove-invincible.html

Except PKD doesn't compare them in that letter............... I stand by my original comments both are great, but different .

"In all candor I must say that our field has gradually and steadily been deteriorating for the last few years. Nothing that we have done, individually or collectively, matches BLADE RUNNER"

Or "Your film is better than my book"?

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> "In all candor I must say that our field has
> gradually and steadily been deteriorating for the
> last few years. Nothing that we have done,
> individually or collectively, matches BLADE
> RUNNER"
>
> Or "Your film is better than my book"?

the book was written in 1968, the film released in 1982, although the letter is from 1981. I am not sure that Mr Dick was directly comparing the film to HIS book. I suspect that he had lost faith with SF. Certainly his writings by then tended to be more diverse. I would certainly agree that the film (one of my favourites across all genres) is better than a film that closely followed the book would have been, but even if he did mean that he thought the film better than his book, in my opinion he was wrong!


Addendum. George Lucas believes that his changes have improved the Star Wars saga...........



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Fun Stuff!

John Carter!

lots better than the books even if everyone thinks it is a turkey. (This is a heavy hint for anyone struggling in Animal, Vegetable Mineral.)

All the 007 movies are better than the books. The books are really very rubbish.

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Part time Quantum Elephant hollower

Yes they were written in the days when men could be unashamedly macho. I read them as a young woman and thought they were brilliant.Let's hear it once again
for pure unashamed blokeishness.

Priscilla: Queen of the Dessert


a rather sweeter version of the screenplay,

Actually, if anyone here is old and abtuse enough to remember Monty Python and the interview with Eric Idle who said the script where he accosts Terry Jones in the 'Nudge nudge wink wink' skit was totally unreadable and without any sense. It was only in the performance that the the effect came through.

I think it is like many operas where if you read the libretto you think 'what rubbish' but after seeing it performed you have to say 'Yes, but beautifully spoken'.**

**Quote taken from Spike Milligan and the Goon Show - the Case of the Missing String , I think.

There are probably many screenplays of adaptions of books that are similar in effect.