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From: tjb@snow.UUCP (Timothy Bissell)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The Day of the Triffids
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 06:36:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 12 06:36:52 1985
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Warwick University, UK
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>How can you call Day of the Triffids a bad Sci-fi movie? I thought it was
>quite good and it is certainly far above the likes of Mars needs women, etc.
>M. McCann

The reason why it is so bad is that it deviates from the book so much.
The BBC produced a series based on the book which (as I recall) followed
it more closely, and was much, much better.

        Tim Bissell, University of Warwick, UK