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« Reply #1964 on: 2 August 2008, 04:37:20 » |
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Worked the store today. Almost caught up with my comics finally, but Barrell still comes in and #####s me over for it all by talking to me for hours. At least I'm almost back on track. Got a "Step Brothers" sweat band. I didn't really care about it, but it's red, white, and blue, and I wanted a sweat band like that. Free is free and I can hide the "Step Brothers" logo on the inside of my forearm enough. Bought Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall, which I have yet to read. Also bought a couple comics I'd already read but are part of what I collect, and a Mini Munny (yaaay!). Went to the Rideau Centre after work and bought two new CDs; NaS's new album with the controversial no-title, and Be Your Own Pet's album called "Get Awkward!" I haven't listened to either yet, but I have some tracks from the Be Your Own Pet album downloaded already, including the song "Becky" which was banned in North America because it says "We'll wait with knives after class". Seriously. What the hell? After that I visited Jess at her work and waited around for her while they closed the store then bussed back with her. Got eaten by some mosquitoes while waiting for my transfer bus (she got a ride from her parents from where we got off). Tomorrow I'm going to see "Step Brothers" with her. I don't really want to see it, have heard mixed reviews, but she wants to and I've seen everything I wanted to see that's currently out anyway. OH and this is for ASR; Yesterday I finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and will start The Restaurant at the End of the Universe this weekend. Which is a long weekend. Seems impossible that upcoming movie will satisfy. Unlikely to translate well to film. Highly reccomended everyone reads in original format.
Agree, but I'll be seeing it fooo sho. The prettiness of the movie actually goes against the idea of the book. The artist of the book can draw incredibly, but he had to dull it all out and-I think I've invented a great term here-boreify it all because that's what the STORY had to be like.
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« Reply #1965 on: 2 August 2008, 04:50:30 » |
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I'll definitely see it, too, and I'm damn excited for it now. I'm just glad that I actually chose Watchmen to get off my ass and read before the movie, unlike 300, which I was originally going to buy and read, yet now I don't feel like it. I would do the same for V for Vendetta, and since I never saw the movie either, I'm thinking about it.
Anyway, my point is that there's a LOT of stuff that simply cannot be translated into film. I'll be able to subconsciously fill in the missing bits because I've experienced it as intended, but I don't think it'll be a hit in much the same way the Hitchhiker's Guide movie suffered: it only appealed and made sense to fans, and butchered much of its entirety so that even the fans disliked it.
I'd LOVE to be proven wrong, though.
And back on the topic of Hitchhiker's Guide, I'll just point out to you that Life, The Universe, And Everything is my favorite of the batch.
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