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Re: Lord of the Rings
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:15:53 GMT
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 03:55:54 GMT, John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net>
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> Wow. I loved it. 'Course, I read Jurassic Park years before it became a
> movie, and Lost World. Movies can't do justice to the books on which they are
> based [1], but they do a good job of graphically portraying the characters,
> especially Dinos:-) Reading the book and *then* seeing movies is the best way
> IMO to go. I'd think living in Utah you'd be a little more sympathetic to our
> extinct friends;-)
Well, the movie did have one advantage over the book: It didn't have
to start the very first scene with the apalling retcon of how Ian (?)
the mathemagician really _isn't_ dead.
Other than that... both the book and the movie, even compared to other
Crichtons, basically just sucked. It was a pure money-grabbing quickie
by Crichton, and it got turned by Spielberg into a film that would
have been extremely impressive just for Visual effects if it had
appeared a year after JP. But it didn't, and it wasn't.
All IMHO of course.
Jasper
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| (...) ~~~...~~~ ??? Wow. I loved it. 'Course, I read Jurassic Park years before it became a movie, and Lost World. Movies can't do justice to the books on which they are based [1], but they do a good job of graphically portraying the characters, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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