“Based on” for my favourite author?!

The last movie I set out to watch that was made from one of my favourite books was “The Lord of the Rings” first book, The Fellowship of the Ring.

Because going to the movies in a theatre was not an experience Chic and I enjoyed, we got a DVD to watch at home. Chic had never read the books, so had no understanding of the crassness of the screenplay ‘for dramatic purposes’. I lasted ten minutes and went to bed, enraged and outraged.

Tonight the ABC is showing the first instalment of Peter Temple...