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 Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 13:41 Post subject: Books |
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how the fuck can you read 300 worth of pages for a story you could have watched in few hours?
maybe I just have an extremely short attention span and no time to relax and read books, I know the wisdom and all the ideas in the book could never be interpreted in a movie but damn that's a lot of pages
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 13:43 Post subject: |
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Ask the guys on here who read books all day and in turn spout a bunch of crap they gathered from the book reworded to sound intelligent.
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 13:49 Post subject: Re: Books |
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 13:54 Post subject: Re: Books |
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| lhzr wrote: | | FireMaster wrote: | how the fuck can you read 300 worth of pages for a story you could have watched in few hours?
maybe I just have an extremely short attention span and no time to relax and read books, I know the wisdom and all the ideas in the book could never be interpreted in a movie but damn that's a lot of pages |
going by the same logic, why watch a 2 hour movie, when you can read its story on the net, in 5 minutes ? |
Why read the synopsis online in 5 minutes, when you can have someone tell you the ending in 10 seconds!?
Personally, I read books - and prefer books over their movie counterparts - because I have an active imagination, a relatively long attention span, and enjoy getting the "full" story; which is something that is missing from movies, more often than not.
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 14:12 Post subject: |
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Usually books have more details than their movie versions, thus is if you watched a great movie without reading the book, chances are that you missed many cool parts.
Recently I've read the book "Trainspotting" and no matter how great the movie was, it covered only 1/4 of the story, when the other 3/4 are just as awesome.
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 14:15 Post subject: |
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Even worse is that a lot of "book to movie" conversions radically alter the storyline and plot too, usually because - as you say - they had to cut so much out in order to fit into 90-120mins of video.
If you cut out a character, you need to remove all the story surrounding that character. By doing that, oftentimes that makes the main plot more confusing - so script writers tweak and edit the original so that it fits.
I say "tweak and edit" but what I really mean is "butcher beyond logical recognition" >:[
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 14:43 Post subject: Re: Books |
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| FireMaster wrote: | how the fuck can you read 300 worth of pages for a story you could have watched in few hours?
maybe I just have an extremely short attention span and no time to relax and read books, I know the wisdom and all the ideas in the book could never be interpreted in a movie but damn that's a lot of pages |
some people read really fast, but yeah id see the movie instead.
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 14:45 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | Even worse is that a lot of "book to movie" conversions radically alter the storyline and plot too, usually because - as you say - they had to cut so much out in order to fit into 90-120mins of video.
If you cut out a character, you need to remove all the story surrounding that character. By doing that, oftentimes that makes the main plot more confusing - so script writers tweak and edit the original so that it fits.
I say "tweak and edit" but what I really mean is "butcher beyond logical recognition" >:[ |
So you want 6 hour movies or maybe no movies made from books at all?
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 14:49 Post subject: |
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| Atropa wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: | Even worse is that a lot of "book to movie" conversions radically alter the storyline and plot too, usually because - as you say - they had to cut so much out in order to fit into 90-120mins of video.
If you cut out a character, you need to remove all the story surrounding that character. By doing that, oftentimes that makes the main plot more confusing - so script writers tweak and edit the original so that it fits.
I say "tweak and edit" but what I really mean is "butcher beyond logical recognition" >:[ |
So you want 6 hour movies or maybe no movies made from books at all? |
Interesting. How did you come to THAT conclusion, good sir?
I never said anything of the kind. I was merely explaining why I prefer reading certain books over watching certain movies. I don't like my stories to be butchered, thanks.
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I personally find books more interesting as usually they go into more depth.
I like reading. Some people like to read, some don't. No biggie either way.
And sometimes the movies are better than the books (thats a rarity tho).
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 15:26 Post subject: |
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@Sabin
I've read the Bible 5 times. From page 1 to the very end. 4 of those times I kinda had to. The 5th time was for fun 
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 16:50 Post subject: |
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| lhzr wrote: | ^ that and there's a lot more detail in books. let's take, for example, hitchhiker's guide.
the book: i laughed 'til i cried. i was in tears for almost the whole time i had that in my hand. there's a ton of side-tracking, descriptions, dialogue, all amazingly funny.
the movie: a mediocre comedy that made me smile a couple of times. and this wasn't JUST because it was suckier. it was also because it's impossible to put not all, not even most, but not even a small part of all the laugh-out-loud details from the book in the movie. the movie has to tell a story which needs to be stripped down to it's bones to fit in those 2 hours. stripping it down to it's bones means you leave all the meat aside. and meat is what makes a meal worth eating, not bones. |
unfortunately bad example, as the books came after the original BBC radio play, which I enjoyed a hell of a lot more than the books.
the film wasn't worth the skid marks in my pants.
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 19:29 Post subject: |
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why bother with the movie at all, just google the actress from said movie and see if you can find nudes of her.
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| _zet wrote: | | why bother with the movie at all, just google the actress from said movie and see if you can find nudes of her. |
pff google subscribe to Mr. Skin !
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| Posted: Sat, 5th Sep 2009 00:42 Post subject: Re: Books |
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| FireMaster wrote: | how the fuck can you read 300 worth of pages for a story you could have watched in few hours?
maybe I just have an extremely short attention span and no time to relax and read books, I know the wisdom and all the ideas in the book could never be interpreted in a movie but damn that's a lot of pages |
I see what you're saying, FireMaster. But what you don't get is that when reading a book, your imagination almost plays the images/story, visually in your head and it really is a great experience. Try reading something!
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I don't see what you're saying cause I'm blind. This is my helper writing(zipfer is an asshole)
8 out of 10 dentists prefer zipfero to competing brands(fraich3 and Mutantius)!
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| Posted: Sat, 5th Sep 2009 03:35 Post subject: |
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| zipfero wrote: | | I don't see what you're saying cause I'm blind. This is my helper writing(zipfer is an asshole) |
Haha, dude, pee a little in zipfer's water !
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| Posted: Sat, 5th Sep 2009 23:00 Post subject: |
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One of my favorite book is Tom CLancy Rainbow Six. I dont undertsand why they never made the movie, the game is a total hit since 1997 and the book would make one great movie.
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