Timeline by michael crighton

[korbendallas]

I read the book...thought it was really good. The movie looks pretty lame in comparison :-(

[The Drifter]

I read it when it first came out and only rember some parts of it. The movie does look kinda lame but the battle scenes are suposed to be awsome.

[JOEYd]

that was seriously one of the best books I have ever read.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOve books that can bring sci-fi and tech stuff into the real world, and I LOOOOOOVE history and historic stuff too, so, merge those two and I was in extacy.

plus, the book is insanely well written.

but yeah, Paul Walker? :wtf:

the movie is going to be a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE disappointment, and I think they realize this, which is why they are doing very little to publicize it.

[korbendallas]

Crighton (sp?) is awesome. He obviously researches his information well...before he writes his books.

I read the terminal man, which was written...I want to say...in the 70's. A few years ago I saw on cnn that the same procedure he talked about in his book is starting to be used.

Disclosure was really good too :) I thought the movie did the book justice.

[mattb]

I just finished Prey. also a good book by a master of his craft. I'm getting deja vu.. that movie looks lame, although I like paul Walker, but i almost have too see it cause i enjoyed timeline soo much. it made me get into researching quantum technolgies being developed right now and opened my mind to some killer tech that is on the horizon for the consumer electronics market.

Oh, and another thing. Kinda in a simmiliar fashion, Jurassic Park turned me onto genetics in a big way as well. The guy who invented the chemical process used to clone DNA in labratories, Kary Mullis, wrote an excellent book called, "Dancing Naked in the Minefield". worth reading!

[numbskull]

this movie looks increadibly lame. it's like they did a really good job on the first couple of movies they made from his books in order to establish his credibility on screen and then just slacked off, content that so long as they could slap his name on it people would show up and hand over their cash.

[Jamie_G]

i've got timeline around here somewhere. havn't even started it yet. i enjoyed sphere and congo, then i heard the movies sucked (never saw em myself).

[The Drifter]

They do but the books are worth reading. Try reading the great train robery for a diffrent tatse of Crighton.

[FunkTribe]

I haven’t seen previews for the movie yet, but the book was pretty cool. I hope its not like Sphere …. where the book is unbelievable but movie is god awful.

I also hate how movie interpretations of his novels always leave out the details gathered from his research. An example is Discloser. The book goes pretty deep into virtual reality technology … yet the movie barely touches the subject. I really hope the director includes the details about time travel presented in Time Line instead of focusing completely on the Knights fighting.

[SCHLiTZ]

I'm about halfway through the book and love it.... unfortunately, it does look awful promising to turn the plot into a somewhat pointless action flick with no real technical composition.

[korbendallas]

Originally posted by FunkTribe
I really hope the director includes the details about time travel presented in Time Line instead of focusing completely on the Knights fighting.

don't count on it.

sphere...the book was good...til the end. I watched about 10 minutes of the movie and lost interest.

yeah...it's a shame all the research gets lost in transition to the big screen.

:lame:

[mattb]

Congo was by far the worst.

[tigermomma]

I loved Timeline. Definitely my favorite out of Crightons books. I loved the *accurate* portrayal of the middle ages. Fascinating.

[JOEYd]

for the most part, movies from his books will need about $200 million each and a mini series or something in order to even come close to the actual badassness of the books. And I agree, Timeline was my favorite of his books so far.

[FunkTribe]

I loved Timeline, Sphere, (Red or Rising) Sun .. etc etc … shit … all his books are good. He always has many references at the end of all of his novels from all the research he puts into the stories. He also is pretty straight to the point with details instead of dragging on about stupid shit. I’ll end up seeing this but I know its not going to be anywhere near as good as the book.

[tigermomma]

:werd: The best book to movie that I have seen so far is LOTR and The English Patient. All the others I was disappointed with.

[korbendallas]

Fear and loathing in las vegas....was very true to the book. ;-)

[The Drifter]

:werd:

[JOEYd]

Originally posted by tigermomma
:werd: The best book to movie that I have seen so far is LOTR and The English Patient. All the others I was disappointed with.


yes, and LOTR is still nothing compared to the book, they left out TONS AND TONS, and even invented crap, like all the women in the movies, there were like 4 lines by women in all of the books, and they made them have like all these scenes.

[tigermomma]

I forgot Fear and Loathing.
And even though LOTR movie versions are not as *true* to the books, they are still good representations of the world of Tolkein, at least IMO.

[Webslinger]

Hey look another dissapointment out of Hollywood. Seriously I do not care what has to be done but if you can not follow the book as close as possilbe you will crush the movie.

[Webslinger]

Originally posted by tigermomma
I forgot Fear and Loathing.
And even though LOTR movie versions are not as *true* to the books, they are still good representations of the world of Tolkein, at least IMO.

But you have to admit this is the closest you have seen anyone to making it exactly like the book.

[tigermomma]

Fear and Loathing or LOTR?
F&L most definitely. I actually read the book after I watched the movie, so maybe that spoiled it for me :shrug: but the casting, the visuals, everything was portrayed perfectly.