Have you seen the movie "A Time to kill"?
Do you think it does justice to the novel based on which it is made? Which one do you like more movie or novel?
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Oh, I liked the movie much, much, MUCH better for three reasons:
- The book didn’t have Samuel L. Jackson in it.
– The movie included popcorn (the book….zero popcorn)
– I never read the book.
@imrainmaker I read the book and later saw the movie. I enjoyed both. Probably enjoyed the book more. A favorite author of mine.
I have read the book and seen the movie. But I’ve read so many of Grisham’s books, more than once, that I’ve kind of lost the thread of how the book went. May have to revisit.
There is one scene in there that irks me, and that’s when the wife goes to visit him in the jail and makes the comment, “We need money.”
Well, what is he supposed to do about it from jail? Doe she think he doesn’t know this?
I realize he actually finagled a way to get money to them, and that was a set up for that scene, but that still bugs me.
I have seen the movie and read the book. I preferred the book, but that’s normal for me. I think that the movie did the book about 95% justice. Can there be such a thing as a percentage of justice??
Yes. Seabiscuit was a good one. I’ve read the book and it is amazing. I could watch the movie every night. It’s amazing too. I would say the movie does the book about 97% justice. However, there are scenes they had to skip in the movie in the interest of time, and compactness. Some GREAT scenes. Like, Seabiscuit had a twin brother named Grog. Smith, the trainer, often put Grog out in Seabiscuit’s place for the press, wearing Seabiscuit’s halter. Oh, a whole short movie could have been made about the troubles it caused, which is just what Smith wanted! But they don’t even mention Grog in the movie.
Smith invented leg wraps. The press saw Seabiscuit in the wraps and wanted to know what was “wrong.” Smith said, “All four of his legs are broke.”
Went out over the AP!!! Again, not mentioned in the book.
The only thing I’ve read on Apollo 13 was an original Look magazine I came across from 1969 that dedicated much of the magazine to the story. If the magazine was accurate, then the movie that came out almost 30 years later was 99.99% accurate.
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