The book got better and better as I got older: layers of political thinking sparked thought, even though the people were way too polite for this child of the eighties. The movie is a bug hunt; the CGI worked for me, at the time, but my feeling is that they stuffed up good story by taking out all the interesting bits. No power-armour? or, as far as I remember, no proper political orientation discussions? Hah.
Mind you, have you ever seen The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp and also read its originating novel The Dumas Club by Arturo Pérez-Reverte? I reckon they cut the plot and went with the sub-plot. At least the story stood the pruning. I don't know if the movie could have swallowed the plot whole, especially when I remember that I used to work with a man who reckoned the movie was called The Ninnth Gate and the book was called The Dumb-ass Club...
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Date: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:40 (UTC)The movie is a bug hunt; the CGI worked for me, at the time, but my feeling is that they stuffed up good story by taking out all the interesting bits. No power-armour? or, as far as I remember, no proper political orientation discussions? Hah.
Mind you, have you ever seen The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp and also read its originating novel The Dumas Club by Arturo Pérez-Reverte?
I reckon they cut the plot and went with the sub-plot. At least the story stood the pruning. I don't know if the movie could have swallowed the plot whole, especially when I remember that I used to work with a man who reckoned the movie was called The Ninnth Gate and the book was called The Dumb-ass Club...