Re: Conlangs in the Comics!

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:33:50 -0800, Costentin Cornomorus
<elemtilas@...> wrote:

> --- Caleb Hines <cph9fa@...> wrote:
>
>> Saw ROTK yesterday. Great movie! Haven't
>> finished the third book yet,
>> though, which is probably a good thing (that I
>> saw the movie first). That
>> way I wasn't comparing the movie to the book.
>> Books, as a general rule, are
>> always superior to movies!
>
> Quite. While both movies have thus far been
> superior; the books quite easily outstrip them.
>
> But that's not really a complaint: it could
> easily have made into a rather long miniseries,
> perhaps somewhere in the region of 16 hours, and
> still not gotten everything in place.
I daresay you could easily double that figure, or maybe triple it. It's
what I dislike about the more recent of the _Dune_ adaptations. Too damned
short to faithfully tell the story.




Paul

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