TOPIC: Harry Potter Question

Great list, Jeff!  I think I've seen most of them, and have read quite a few as well!<br /><br />Brian<br />

How about the first redition of Dune done in the 80's?  It was really bad - as compared to the book.<br /><br /><br />Got to love the guys (male & female) associated with True Dungeon, you can always count on intelligent, but sometimes heated, debates!  I loveeeee smart people.  =D

<br />Alright then...you asked for it!   =D<br /><br />Yeah,  those movies based on the written word really suck.  I wish they had never made "To Kill a Mockingbird ", "Gone With the Wind", "Jaws", "The Hunt for Red October", "The Enemy Below", "The Guns of Navarone", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Stand By Me", "Schindler's List", "Die Hard", "Jurassic Park", "From Here to Eternity", "LA Confidential", "Silence of the Lambs", "Seabiscuit", "Band of Brothers",  "2001: A Space Odyssey", "True Grit", "War and Peace", "The Godfather", "The Exorcist", "The Color Purple", "My Left Foot", "Driving Miss Daisy", "GoodFellas," "Forrest Gump",  "Apollo 13",  "High Fidelity", "Casablanca", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "All About Eve", "From Here to Eternity", "Doctor Zhivago", "M*A*S*H", "The French Connection ", "All the President's Men", "Amadeus", "Dangerous Liaisons ", "Sling Blade", "The Cider House Rules", "The Green Mile", "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "Chicago", and those "Lord of the Rings" movies!<br />

<br /><br />Nice, was the list from memory, or did you do an IMDB/Amazon search !!   =D<br /><br />It is not that the movies are bad as stand alone entertainment.  If you can ask, “Was I entertained?  or Did I get my $X.XX, worth? and answer in the affirmative then, yes they were good and entertaining.  IF however, you were expecting a faithful rendition of the book and it’s story, there are always things left out that each of us would have liked to see, addressed, or portrayed a different way.  <br /><br />Movies can never match our imagination and the images we conjure up in our minds.  I am always left thinking “This character doesn’t look this way, or “it” is not supposed to look/act/work that way.  There is always a let down, somewhere.<br /><br />Some are extremely well done, most recently LOTR, but there were still things I would have liked to see.  Peter did King Kong, and was fairly faithful to the book, but the movie was kind of “OK”.   The newest Bond film I found really well done as an adaptation of the novel, but in modernizing it, they could not stay entirely faithful (they were close enough in some scenes though).<br /><br />Others from your list, like Hunt for the Red October, Space Odyssey 2001, Jurassic Park, and The Exorcist, either took license and abstracted from the book, left really cool parts out, or stuck actors in that really did not match the characters described in the books.  In JP I really wanted to see the whole pterosaur aviary part done visually, and the follow-up book based movies, bah!  <br /><br />Some authors, like Clancy, Crichton, or Arthur C. Clark you will never be able to portray the intelligence and detail.  In the case of 2001, Kubrick really did not rely on much of the dialog interaction between characters detailed in the book.  The movie was wonderful and revolutionary, but entirely faithful, well.  Stephen king movies always fail because they just can mix his brand of humor with the suspense and terror, so the movies are either dang dry or so campy they stink.  But the books, wonderful!<br /><br />And then, of course, there are those movies that left you going huh?  Like Dune (as mentioned by fritz), Starship Troopers, Battleship Earth.  Which is not to say that Dune (both versions) and Starship Troopers weren’t entertaining, but they ain’t much (or in the case of ST and BE, nothing)  like the books<br /><br />Some of the older movies you mentioned, I watched before reading the book and was left disjointed when I kept looking for the written description of the scene and it was never there.  <br /><br />Understand, I accept much of this as the price (loss) of making a movie from previously written story (that was not a screenplay).  I used to get really irate when the movie failed to meet my expectations of being faithful to the book, I now just accept they will not get it entirely right and focus more on the “as entertainment, did I enjoy it?” question.  It saves me much frustration.  I also have lower realistic expectations/standards for the visual media than I do for “Audio Books”.  You can not cram 1000 pages of novel into a 2 hour movie.   <br /><br />I really do want movies to be wonderful adaptations of the book and meet all of my expectations, they generally do not however….<br /><br />So, entertaining, usually.  Perfection IM(not so)HO, hardly ever.   :cool:<br />

Dave,<br /><br />That last post was too long for me to read.  Can you abridge it for me?<br /><br /><br />                                        :tongue3:

That was better than a hand full of popcorn!!!

ROFLMAO!!!

Let's all remember to tip the wenches!<br /><br />Best dinner show I have seen since the only one I've ever seen 8+ years ago...

coiqagnibfk  dsfjiasmbvl;ds  Sorry, my head hit the keyboard, I was laughing so hard.  <br /><br /><br />Widseth

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I have a friend who had a pretty good HP theory, but I don't want to upset anyone who is trying to avoid potential spoilers - how do I write in invisible ink?<br /><br />Brian<br />

I'm not very good at it...but you change the color of font to <br /><br /> white

Geez, Dave....I think you hit a nerve here with Jeff...he's really picking on you.<br /><br />Do you want to get him back?  Just refuse to answer your phone or e-mails from him for about 4 days.  That will shut him up.  (Of course, he might totally freak out and drive to your house, but that's a chance you're going to have to take).<br /><br />Stop it boys, or we'll have to separate you two.<br /><br />Lori