And if I go around with you, you know that I get messed up, too

[venta]

No.... no... nooooooo.

This probably isn't going to be good, is it?

http://www.bureau42.com/view/11398/snow-crash-es-onto-film

(To clarify: I don't really know who Joe Cornish is. People keep saying he did Attack the Block, but that doesn't mean anything to me. Oh, and, er, apparently he's the Joe of Adam and Joe. That surprised me.

I just can't currently conceive of a film version of Snow Crash which doesn't suck.)

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Also... from a personal point of view, I'm not sure "watchable" is good enough.

V for Vendetta was (apparently) a pretty good and watchable film. Didn't mean I was happy with it ;)

In fact, I'm just coming to the conclusion I should never watch films based on books I like. They make me bitey.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Yup, there's no way it'll be as good as the book.

This never bothers me. After all, there are no films as good as my favourite books, so that would be setting the bar unreasonably high!

[venta.livejournal.com]

It does bother me, though I concede quite irrationally. Especially when the resulting film is so unlike the book that I wonder why they bothered (The Eagle (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034389/), I'm looking at you).

Go ahead and make films - watchable or otherwise - but think of your own damn plots! Stop taking my books, ripping their entrails out, and hanging a dessicated mask-wearing husk on a cinema screen!

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Unless you're Blade Runner?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I enjoyed Blade Runner, but then it was so incredibly unlike the book I barely registered that it was based thereon :) Also, I am not that attached to the book.

However, even there I did get mildly annoyed by things that had been cut out - it was quite odd to base the are-you-a-real-human test on scenarios like "A friend gives you a leather wallet..." without ever explaining why leather is supposed to provoke an extreme reaction. Or indeed that it is supposed to provoke an extreme reaction.

So yes, I think the summary is that Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is not one of *my* books :)