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Adventurer
Just finished "The Adventures of Sherlock Homes" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Beautiful language and interesting plots. Plus, i got them for the price of less than two beers. 

What ultimately saved the movie for me was the fact that you can't condense a 500 page book into a 2 hour movie without some major cuts. Fortunately, the cuts were good ones, and the general feeling of the book was brought across into the movie. Last time I saw that was Patriot Games, maybe even The Hunt for Red October. Both were pared down quite a bit, but still remained true to the story.FredLC said:Yeah, but thought Sagan, every now and then, would get too technical needlessly, specially in the beggining (when stablishing Ellie's caracther) just to show what he got. Anyway, some movie decisions were good - a "one person" machine can, maybe, not make much sense aftera movie when the reasoned manner though which contact happened was the theme of the entire movie, but it certainly reinforces the development of people not believing in the trip. Also, uniting in the caracther of Father Joss the agent which had an affair with Ellie is wise on-screen decision (even though a bit forced), for it leaves more time for the text development. Overall, I think that the movie turned out as good as it could possibly be for such a limited midia to communicate the complex debate Sagan proposed.
Which does not mean that the movie is as good as the book, just that it was pretty good anyway, and I feel no one could realistically expect it to be any better.
Regards.
REALLY?Turner said:Well, if that's all that bothered you...
And believe it or not, not every chapter starts out that way. There was a couple of chapters recently that didn't. Can't recall which ones, but it was enough to make me wonder why he didn't use his trademark opening sentence.![]()
As well they should be!jalapeno_dude said:REALLY?The foundations of my world have been shaken!
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jalapeno_dude said:I don't really have anything against Feist. I just don't find him particularly groundbreaking.
Cheezy the Wiz said:Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Heretic_Cata said:Dante Aligheri's - Divine Comedy![]()