In article , MC
wrote:

The imagination is in your mind, but not necesarily in that of the
author.

So?

Are you saying that you've never seen a film that is a greater
work of art than the book it was based on?

Yes. I read over 100 books a year, some years over 200, mix of fiction,
non-fiction and tech stuff. If we're restricting this to fiction, I can
safely say that I've never seen a movie that was better than the book.
If you feel differently, this may well reflect differences in what you
& I read. There's no movie I've ever seen that hasn't butchered the
book's plot and character development in an attempt to get it small
enough/simple enough for a film. Maybe if your reading taste runs to
generic Westerns and the like, this isn't a problem. Not much plot to
cut down.

Have you seen Blade Runner?

No. Nor have I bothered watching Terminator, Die Hard and other such
ilk. Life's too short to waste it on such crap.

PDW


Cheers

Peter Wiley wrote:

In article , MC
wrote:


Donal wrote:



Films rarely manage to capture more than a tiny percentage of the
brilliance
of a good book.


Sometimes they can be much more. Perhaps you should look beyond the
'plot' and consider the cinematography... At a physical data content
level a film generally contians far more data than a book.



For those with little/no imagination......

PDW