[HPforGrownups] books / movies

[Diogo Miguel Preto Mena Reis]

No: HPFGUIDX 3502



On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, lrcjestes wrote:

> 
> > Actually, I also have a suggestion, but it's not the usual sci-fic books,
> > and still one of the most famous and popular: Frank Herbert's "Dune" and
> > it's sequels. I think it can be compared to the LOTR and it's definitely
> > not for children. One of my favourites,
> 
> Now there's a movie that IMO was awful.  I'd never read the books, but I'd
> heard great things about them...so I went to see the movie.  Now, maybe it
> was the atmosphere in which I saw the movie...it was in a drafthouse where
> they serve pizza and beer during the movie...so it was crowded, and people
> were getting up and waitresses were wandering through.  I had a hard time
> hearing, and could make no sense whatsoever out of the plot...but it sticks
> out in my mind as one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
> 
> Whenever my husband and I are referring to a ridiculous plotline in a
> movie...we tend to start chanting "the worm is the spice...the spice is the
> worm" and burst out laughing.....
> 
> I mean no disrespect to the books, as I have heard from many people they are
> great, and maybe I will try them one of these days, but the movie surely
> turned me off attempting them for a long time...lets hope that doesn't
> happen to Harry.
> 
> carole
>

	I saw the movie too, and it was terrible because the book was
turned into an action movie (a bad one actually), when it's a very complex
book in it's ideas, but that would be hard to turn into a movie that
wouldn't make you want to sleep. The book is great for the ideas and that
can't be seen in a 2 hours movie. That movie made me think if I shouldn't
have read some books that I didn't read because I had seen the movie...
	That is why I also don't have big expectations about the HP's
movie. Likely, when you see a movie of something you have already a
very precise idea about what it should be like, you'll be very
disappointed. The movie can't contain all the ideas of a book and IMHO
it won't be enough, even if it's a very good movie.

					Diogo