Just watched the movie. Read the book a long time ago. Loved it. They were both really good. Anybody want to discuss? If it were me, I probably would have kept the power. But kept it secret.
That's what I'm saying Nomar. Screw it, be greedy and just don't use your subconscious mind to avoid screwing yourself. Other than that, it's like having a Genie who offers infinite wishes. Those dumbasses
There's also a few inconsistensies between the book and the movie that bugged me when I saw it, but I can't call them to mind at 4:50 AM running on 2 hours of sleep that I got in a drunken stupor when I was in Houston this morning...damn, I feel like that one pixies song right about now. Can you remember anything that was blantantly different Nomar?
WTF? You love Sphere the book and like the movie, yet you dislike the LOTR movies?? Your tastes are ALL over the place, man... I think Sphere is Chrichton's best book. I loved reading it. One of the best books I've ever read, personally. I highly recommend it to anyone. The movie, however, was utter garbage. The casting was all wrong, the direction sucked, the acting was horrible, the movie plodded along slowly, and the action was ho-hum at best. Did I mention that the movie was flat-out boring? Not exactly Barry Levinson's finest work (see: Diner and Rain Man). Nomar, the way you feel about LOTR is the way I felt about Sphere. I was so bummed when I left that movie theater. How could anyone take Chrichton's phenomenal work and treat it like The Abyss meets Leviathan? Ugh. There's a reason why retailers sell this movie for cheap...
So The Two Towers sucks and Sphere is good? I gotta agree with VesceySux. Sphere the movie was a chunk of dogcrap. The book was better than average, not Creighton's best (better than Congo...but then again what isnt?)....but the movie...jeeez.....HORRIBLE. To each his own, however....
I loved the book sphere, all except for the ending, I mea come on, "lets just think it away" I was pretty pissed at that ending. I felt like I had just wasted my time when I read that. If the rest of the book wasnt so good I would hate the book. The movie has the same problem as the book, a terrible ending. I mean its almost like when you are writting a book in the third grade and cant think of an ending so you say. "just then I woke up, realizing it had all been a bad dream. . . . . . Still all but the last 30 pages are great.
Yeah, Nomar...this seems REALLY inconsistent. I was a huge Crichton fan about 6-7 years ago, and Sphere was my favorite book of his. When they said they were going to make a movie, I got so excited...but the movie sucked hardcore. It pissed me off. I realized sometime later that this was a book that they would never be able to make a suitable movie for. It just wouldn't work...too much going on inside the characters heads that is near impossible to represent on screen. Hell, I am even a big Sammy L. Jackson fan and I couldn't stand that movie.
I never read the book, but I forgot to send back the columbia house card way back when the movie was the director's cut, so now I have it on DVD. I watched it once. Worst movie ever.
Speaking of Crichton. I got his new book for Christmas. Anybody else reading it> I am really interested in it but I am only about half way through it.
I hadn't heard of his new book yet, I'll have to check it out. What did you think of Timeline? I loved it. They're making a movie out of it that should be released pretty soon here.
I liked Timeline. I have read through it 3 times. The new book is called "Prey". It is about Nano-technology. It is a pretty interesting read and he makes some of the more far-fetched ideas in the book seem like they really could be possible.
Now just hang on one damn minute. My expectations for Sphere was an interesting sci-fi flick. I got what I wanted. My expectations for LOTR was a movie to change all perceptions of movies in the future. I didn't get what I wanted. DallasThomas - They changed some of the characters names, and also they changed up some of the ways people died. There were bigger problems, i.e. unanswered questions. Like, who did open the door and who operated the elevator in the beginning? Never answered. Oh well.
I thought JP was his best book. Now THAT my friends was butchered when it became a movie. Other than some character names and a basic premise, it is a completely different story. It is likke they made a movie off of what one person could remember from the book when they were drunk. I was never so disappointed in Michael Crichton as when I saw that he approved (wrote?) the screenplay. I still bought the JP boxed set on DVD, but it could have been so much more.
i read sphere in sixth grade... it was my favorite book for a while... i would read over and over the part where beth traps him in the room and turns off the oxygen and then he has to figure out how to get out. that whole situation is very well written... i didnt see the movie..because i loved the book so much...i didnt want to ruin it..usually i do that..i read Jesus' Son by denis johnson..but didnt see the movie because i loved the book so much.....i tried to stick with reading Crichton..but i bought Airframe and i never finished reading it.. ive read congo, andromeda strain, the terminal man, the great train robbery, the rising sun, and jurrassic park..ive seen jurrassic park..but the others i dont want to see...as movies...good author.
I love how Chricton centered The Lost World on a character he killed off in Jurassic Park. Classic. Nomar, do you really expect LOTR to change the way you perceive all future movies? To paraphrase Sifl & Olly: "You've got some serious-ass absurdly high movie expectations problems..." Peter Jackson is not going to solve world hunger or topple communist regimes with his movies. It's not like this is Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, where Wyld Stallyns music brought about world peace. Temper your enthusiam and expectations, man. Surely, you know the difference between a flat-out BAD movie and a great-but-could've-been-better movie. Sphere was awful. It got an 18% at RottenTomatoes.com. The Two Towers is holding at 97%. I'm just dumbfounded how you can like one movie but not the better one. Is it solely due to expectations? To each their own, I guess.
That was pretty funny. Of course in the movie he (along with almost everyone else) lives. I have never read a book that was made into a movie that was that different, unless maybe it was the Lost World.
sphere was a'ight at best I'm looking forward to time line. . . i somehow suspect it will suck I listened to it on cassette . . [i think they dropped a subplot in the abridge version but it still kicked ass] Congo was interestin JP was a visual spetacular. . . never heard/read the book Rocket River
