Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 2:50 am Post subject:
Do you like books?
I, for one, really hate pulp fiction and most novels. In fact I've never liked reading at all. I did read Magician by Feist once, and I gotta say that rocked. But apart from that, I hate books!
Who can be bothered reading all those damn pages?!
Geez...
Does anyone here actually like books? QUICK_EDIT
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Ouch! This one hurts, really. I mean, mocking someone's books is one thing, but this is REALLY low... Last edited by UmmErrKane on Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:11 am; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
If I read all day I can finish a 500 page novel in about a day. Definatly less than 24 hours if I read at a good pace while its really quiet _________________
All hail me
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Yeah all Tom Clancy novels tend to be good ones, I like stories like that (the whole day-after-tomorrow, real world political climate and stuff just appeals to me i guess) QUICK_EDIT
why waste days reaidn a book, when film comapnys make films fo them, and which u can see all of them in 90 mins, they might leave sum bits out, but hey, its worth it _________________ QUICK_EDIT
why waste days reaidn a book, when film comapnys make films fo them, and which u can see all of them in 90 mins, they might leave sum bits out, but hey, its worth it
It's kind of obvious you don't read, Dooffy. QUICK_EDIT
There's major differences between movies and books. Take the first LOTR movie. They totally removed the part in the beginning of the book with Tom Bombadil, which was arguably one of the best parts of the book, AND spanned almost 200 pages.
The Lost World is a perfect example, too. The only similarities between the movie and the book are the names of a couple characters (And even that they fucked up. Doc Thorne in the book is Eddi Carr in the movie, and Eddi Carr in the book is Doc Thorne's assistant, who looks similar to Nick in the movie. Nick doesn't even exist in the book. And Levine, the person they go to Isla Sorna to save in the book, and the center of the whole story, isn't even in the damn movie!). No intelligent person could honestly say a movie is the same as a book. QUICK_EDIT
THe film shouldn't even be called Jurassic Park. It has nothing to do with the jurassic park series, except a couple misspelled or misplaced names. QUICK_EDIT
lol, and i'm sure malcolm never had a daughter either, and what happened to dodgson? lol, the only good bit was the t-rex marching through the city but that's merely from spectacle standpoint QUICK_EDIT
Plot: In the movie, the plot is that Hammond wants to send a team to investigate Sorna, and sends Harding in ahead to trick Malcom into going. BioSyn sends an army of scientists and hunters and guys with guns to trap dinos to put in a massive zoo on the mainland. Nick turns out to be Hammond's "Ace in the hole" and messes them up, releasing the animals, and forcing everyone to go tramping through the jungles incurring the wrath of both rexes AND raptors, and then the T-Rex rumbles through a city smashing stuff.
In the book, Richard Levine, a kind of paleontologist, works with Ian Malcom, his old friend, to find the location of In-Gen's "Site B." He finds it and takes off with Diego, a guy he hired in Costa Rica as a guide, without telling anyone he's leaving. He sends a call from his cell phone asking for help when he's attacked by Cantosaurs (I believe, could be wrong). Malcom, Doc Thorne (Who's building all of Levine's field equipment for the trip, with the help of his assisstant, Eddie Carr. The company is called Thorne Field Systems, and Thorne used to be a university professor who turned mechanic when he retired because the other teachers were asshats), and Levine's helpers (He got arrested doing 90MPH in a school zone and was forced into community service at a school. The two kids help him out with menial tasks, but also with getting him stuff he doesn't want to see the BioSyn investigator seeing him getting. The kids are Arby, a computer geek, and Kelly, another smart kid [not a geek though, more along the lines of nerd]) investigate his apartment. They discover he was looking for Site B, and furthermore, that it was Isla Sorna. The adults leave the kids behind and head to isla sorna, but the kids stow away in one of the trailers. Malcom calls Harding, who's working in africa studying hyenas (Which are infinitely cooler than any other animal in africa, and not just because it says so in the book), and invites her. Malcom and Co. arrive on the island and head around to the Factory (Dino factory ), discover that a dino disease called DX was threatening the facility before it was abandoned, then pick up Levine who didn't want their help at all, and instead insisted they stay and help him study the dinos. Harding catches a ride with Dodgeson, King, and the other dude, can't remember his name, who work for BioSyn. They plan to steal dino eggs for BioSyn to get the DNA from so they can make their own Dinos (Of course, Harding knows nothing of this, and thinks they're friends of Ian's). Dodgeson tries to kill her by knocking her out of the boat near the island, but she swims into a tunnel and shows up on the island. Meets up with Malcom and Co. Dodgeson fucks up with the rexes and the other dude gets killed, while he gets nearly killed by Compys, and King escapes and starts running around trying to get to the boat and off the island. Eddie Carr accidentally breaks an infant Rex's leg when they investigate the damage done by the Biosyn asshats, and then takes it back to the trailer without anyone knowing. Sarah and Malcom try to fix the leg, but then the Adults show up and start kicking the crap out of the trailer. When the trailer goes over the cliff, Doc Thorne shows up and throws a rope down to Sarah, who pulls an unconscious Malcom with his broken leg up the rope and over the cliff face, just before the accordion connector between the trailers breaks and the whole thing plummets. Arby locks himself in a dino cage to keep from being attack by a bunch of raptors which attack the High Hide, and Eddie Carr gets eaten by them. Doc Thorne and Levine rescue Arby, then participate in the legendary cliff face battle (My FAVOURITE PART), then Sarah and Kelly chase down a raptor that has the key to the cage, kill it, get the key, and return it to arby. Eventually, they all rendezvous at the worker village, escape a raptor attack, find the boat house (in the process killing Dodgeson and King... accidentally of course), and grab a boat and escape the island.
Blatant character mistakes!
Movie -- Book
Nick = Eddie Carr
Carr = Doc Thornw
Noone = Arby (Who's black)
Kelly (Who's black) = Kelly (Who's white, and no relation to Malcom)
Entire BioSyn Army = 3 unarmed guys in a jeep
Hammond = DEAD!!!!!
Well, Malcom was dead too, in the first book, but they made it all better in the second one. He returned in his second iteration. QUICK_EDIT
Holy crap, I wrote all that from memory. I could have added a lot more detail (The part where Malcom gets all drugged up on Morphine was hilarious), but I didn't in the interest of space-saving. I guess the fact that I read the book about 43 or 45 times (Maybe 1 more, since I stopped counting after the 40th time) shows, eh? QUICK_EDIT
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Do you like books?
), discover that a dino disease called DX was threatening the facility before it was abandoned, then pick up Levine who didn't want their help at all, and instead insisted they stay and help him study the dinos. Harding catches a ride with Dodgeson, King, and the other dude, can't remember his name, who work for BioSyn. They plan to steal dino eggs for BioSyn to get the DNA from so they can make their own Dinos (Of course, Harding knows nothing of this, and thinks they're friends of Ian's). Dodgeson tries to kill her by knocking her out of the boat near the island, but she swims into a tunnel and shows up on the island. Meets up with Malcom and Co. Dodgeson fucks up with the rexes and the other dude gets killed, while he gets nearly killed by Compys, and King escapes and starts running around trying to get to the boat and off the island. Eddie Carr accidentally breaks an infant Rex's leg when they investigate the damage done by the Biosyn asshats, and then takes it back to the trailer without anyone knowing. Sarah and Malcom try to fix the leg, but then the Adults show up and start kicking the crap out of the trailer. When the trailer goes over the cliff, Doc Thorne shows up and throws a rope down to Sarah, who pulls an unconscious Malcom with his broken leg up the rope and over the cliff face, just before the accordion connector between the trailers breaks and the whole thing plummets. Arby locks himself in a dino cage to keep from being attack by a bunch of raptors which attack the High Hide, and Eddie Carr gets eaten by them. Doc Thorne and Levine rescue Arby, then participate in the legendary cliff face battle (My FAVOURITE PART), then Sarah and Kelly chase down a raptor that has the key to the cage, kill it, get the key, and return it to arby. Eventually, they all rendezvous at the worker village, escape a raptor attack, find the boat house (in the process killing Dodgeson and King... accidentally of course), and grab a boat and escape the island.
I'm confused!
