by jellydonut25 » Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:27 pm
i know all movies cut things from their respective books, but i was more upset by Dreamcatcher the movie basically disregarding MOST of the second-half of the novel.
as for Jurassic Park, that one kinda goes both ways. in some ways, yes the book is better, features fewer deus ex machina moments and suffers from almost none of Spielberg's insistance on nobody ever being seriously hurt (except Genero and Nedry who are "bad guys" anyway)...but I also remember the book DRAGGING quite badly in the middle where Chrichton basically devoted like 50 pages to the science behind everything and bogging everyone down in all the research...
though i will confide that it's been at least 10 years since I read the novel (maybe more)