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So the book is worse? Jesus!
I think you'd have to read it to find out. I hated the book. But it seems to have a huge fan base, so maybe I'm just weird.
Imagine the movie. Only imagine it 8 hours long, and throw in a bunch of characters. Like after Beverly dies, Peter drops off screen and you spend two hours with a new character. And then that character drops off screen and you spend two hours with a new character. Then all there characters are on screen (including 30 minutes watching the back story of a character who bumps into Peter and then does nothing else in the plot) for the ending. Also, imagine there's a mysterious cloud wall/fog that people in the movie keep referring to, but they never really explain it.
And there's a bunch of characters that should be dead but aren't, and you never really know why, and there's a big, mysterious ship working on a big, mysterious project, but even when you find out what it is is, you still just don't really understand what the heck it is. Basically, imagine the movie with a lot more characters and a lot of loose ends/unexplained things/vague metaphors.
Consider the novel a masterpiece that needs David Milch giving it his best treatment over 3 to 4 seasons on HBO!
I will never understand the Goldsman connection of Pearly Soames to...the devil? Seriously? I do agree that a miniseries, produced and directed by someone qualified, might be landmark.
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So the book is worse? Jesus!
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I think you'd have to read it to find out. I hated the book. But it seems to have a huge fan base, so maybe I'm just weird. Imagine the movie. Only imagine it 8 hours long, and throw in a bunch of characters. Like after Beverly dies, Peter drops off screen and you spend two hours with a new character. And then that character drops off screen and you spend two hours with a new character. Then all there characters are on screen (including 30 minutes watching the back story of a character who bumps into Peter and then does nothing else in the plot) for the ending. Also, imagine there's a mysterious cloud wall/fog that people in the movie keep referring to, but they never really explain it.
And there's a bunch of characters that should be dead but aren't, and you never really know why, and there's a big, mysterious ship working on a big, mysterious project, but even when you find out what it is is, you still just don't really understand what the heck it is. Basically, imagine the movie with a lot more characters and a lot of loose ends/unexplained things/vague metaphors.
Consider the novel a masterpiece that needs David Milch giving it his best treatment over 3 to 4 seasons on HBO!
I will never understand the Goldsman connection of Pearly Soames to...the devil? Seriously? I do agree that a miniseries, produced and directed by someone qualified, might be landmark.
