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When will I ever learn (re: Timeline)
Over the years I have been burned badly by Michael Crichton's Wonderful works turned to pure shit on the screen. I get to marvel as I read thru these exciting tales that flex the mind and endear the heart, Just to watch some two-bit hack create a screenplay that is utter crap.
I still must hold the Andromeda Strain is the only crichton book that has been perfectly translated to film. To translate Jurassic Park, you would have to meld chunks of all three films together. Sphere was close but still so so wrong. Congo? No words from me there. I missed Rising Sun, but Mainly because I'd never read it.
And here I sit...still shocked at the travesty that was "timeline" I weep for my $7.50 that was better spent purchasing a paperback and reading than a ticket to the theater.
I urge you, if you haven't seen this movie, go purchase the book. It is soo much better in the theater of the mind than on the silver screen. Hell, the first 5 minutes of the movie cover roughly the first 100 or so pages. That should tell you something about how rushed this movie was!
/end rant
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