I wish I hadn't reread the book this past week. The movie may have been a bit better. I went in with all of the details in the back of my skull and every detour that the book took caused me to cringe. Books in general are difficult to translate onto the big screen. Sci-fi and fantasy books are tremendously more difficult to put together. There were a couple of times where I wished they had ignored some of the "fluffy" CG that did not lend itself to the story and added something that actually had something to do with the story. The decisions on which parts of the book to use and which parts have to be changed just to make it feasible must give the producers ulcers. CG and plot rants aside, the movie was good.
Posted by carl at June 4, 2004 03:54 PM
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