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shmokes:
I haven't read the books, but my wife has, and from what she describes, they sound pretty poor. She also pointed out that they are a single book. It's such a ripoff when authors do this. I'm afraid Quentin Terantino invented the concept with Kill Bill (which sucks, cos I love that movie). Your ---smurfing--- work has to be complete. It has to be able to exist on its own. You can't just ---smurfing--- sell a 1/3 completed novel at retail. Except you apparently can now. Which sucks.
J.K. Rowling actually understands this. Her series is a long story arc, but each novel is complete on its own.
Anyway, my impression is that the books are about John Grisham quality (read: pretty crappy), and the movie is quite good.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 26, 2012, 11:39:09 pm ---I'm afraid Quentin Tarantino invented the concept with Kill Bill.
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He wanted one full length film, but Miramax balked at the idea. When "The Whole Bloody Affair" gets released, we will finally see the version of the film he originally intended.
Vigo:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on March 27, 2012, 01:05:14 am ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 26, 2012, 11:39:09 pm ---I'm afraid Quentin Tarantino invented the concept with Kill Bill.
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He wanted one full length film, but Miramax balked at the idea. When "The Whole Bloody Affair" gets released, we will finally see the version of the film he originally intended.
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Beat me to it. Yeah, the whole kill bill was filmed and in editing before Tarantino compromised and agreed to split it up to save it from getting chopped up.
Just finished book 2 of the hunger games. I am getting annoyed with the authors redundant vocabulary. I should have kept a running tally of how many times she uses the word "temple" for the side of the head.
EightBySix:
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on March 26, 2012, 08:02:10 pm ---all the degenerate, home made amateur porn I have watched has made me immune to the shaky camera... or something like that
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Are you sure it was the camera that was shaking, or the desk your monitor is on? >:D
Vigo:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 26, 2012, 11:39:09 pm ---I haven't read the books, but my wife has, and from what she describes, they sound pretty poor. She also pointed out that they are a single book. It's such a ripoff when authors do this. I'm afraid Quentin Terantino invented the concept with Kill Bill (which sucks, cos I love that movie). Your ---smurfing--- work has to be complete. It has to be able to exist on its own. You can't just ---smurfing--- sell a 1/3 completed novel at retail. Except you apparently can now. Which sucks.
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Been thinking about this comment a bit. I know what you mean about Hollywood milking movies for every dollar and unnecessarily splitting things up, and this seems to be the case for the film. From what I read so far, I think that the series just seems like it could be rounded up into a single movie without screwing things up. The books simply are not plot-filled enough to need to preserve the complete unabridged story for the film.
I don't think that this is an issue with the books though. Each book is almost 400 pages, and they do find an ending point between books, even if it is a bit of a cliffhanger on the 2nd book. However, that is really nothing new to books at all. In the Lord of the rings, the whole first book really resolves nothing. They realize they have to destroy the ring, create a fellowship to carry that out, and then the fellowship repeatedly gets busted to pieces and the book ends with the Sam and Frodo running off alone. It is totally an incomplete story by itself.
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