Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!jab From: jab@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: Roll-your-own SF Films - (nf) Message-ID: <3900029@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-May-84 21:08:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uokvax.3900029 Posted: Tue May 15 21:08:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 18-May-84 01:43:49 EDT References: <966@druxt.UUCP> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:druxt:-96600:uokvax:3900029:000:554 Nf-From: uokvax!jab May 15 20:08:00 1984 #R:druxt:-96600:uokvax:3900029:000:554 uokvax!jab May 15 20:08:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.movies / druxt!mcq / 7:46 pm May 8, 1984 */ One of the mistakes movie makers seem to make, at least in my opinion, is attempting to do movie versions of LONG novels and series of novels. Most of the novels I've really liked would NOT make good movies. Oh well. Bob McQueer ihnp4!druxt!mcq /* ---------- */ But gee, there have been SO MANY good ones. There was "Lord of the Rings," "Excalibur," and all the "Tarzan" movies. (The last two weren't from one book, but sorta fall into that class also.) Jeff Bowles Lisle, IL