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Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-02-2011, 08:57 PM

Sorry my reply doesn't reach your standards.
I wasn't trying to prove Jackhammer wrong, just that it works the other way around too.

I'm not saying all films are bad, most of the films he listed are very good.

What I am saying is I've never seen a film that was better than the book or the TV series if it was originally made as those things. I enjoy character development, watching plot strands come to fruition, evolution of concepts. Most of those things don't translate into films very well due to the time constraints that most films have.
So from my point of view the only things that movies have as a plus point is a bigger budget which is probably why I watch so few.
Last year I spent about 2 months working my way through the entire run of The Sopranos. I got a hell of a lot more out of that than I ever did watching The Godfather Trilogy or Goodfellas, as good as they are.

If you want something to fill a couple of hours then movies are great, I just like to invest a bit more time into something a little deeper, that's all.

07-02-2011, 08:57 PM	#11 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Sorry my reply doesn't reach your standards. I wasn't trying to prove Jackhammer wrong, just that it works the other way around too. I'm not saying all films are bad, most of the films he listed are very good. What I am saying is I've never seen a film that was better than the book or the TV series if it was originally made as those things. I enjoy character development, watching plot strands come to fruition, evolution of concepts. Most of those things don't translate into films very well due to the time constraints that most films have. So from my point of view the only things that movies have as a plus point is a bigger budget which is probably why I watch so few. Last year I spent about 2 months working my way through the entire run of The Sopranos. I got a hell of a lot more out of that than I ever did watching The Godfather Trilogy or Goodfellas, as good as they are. If you want something to fill a couple of hours then movies are great, I just like to invest a bit more time into something a little deeper, that's all. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.