[TML] Killer instinct (was Re: Navel Silliness)

[Richard Aiken]

On Feb 19, 2008 11:19 PM, Jerry W Barrington <jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, don't blame him too much.  He's a movie maker.  He has to make movies
> that sell a lot in order to go on making movies.  Staying faithful to books
> (or common sense) doesn't generally help that.

Ah.  But there are good ways to adapt books and bad ways.  The
sequence of events in the movie of "Charlie Wilson's War" is greatly
simplified and a TON of minor characters are either left out entirely
or amalgamated with others.  But - having experienced both - I have to
say that the movie did a more than passable job of conveying the
spirit of the book.

The movie of "Starship Troopers" didn't.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein