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6 months ago
in Musings on SciFi Book Length on Kyle Brady: A Blog
I'm with you. In fact, ANY book should be as long as it takes to tell the story. Look how long the Harry Potter books got. Were we bored? No! Even after Page 926 I hated to see it end. Same with Christopher Paolini's 4-book Inheritance trilogy. He made a live video on his website explaining that the story just wasn't ready to end, and that even though he loved long books there was a limit as to how much one volume could reasonably cover. Who the heck was debating the "con" side of long books?
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7 months ago
in Fox To Remake The Great Adventure Movie “Romancing the Stone” on Daily Dose of Fantasy
Yes, Romancing the Stone was a very exciting and romantic adventure move. But when you consider over 397,000 works are published every year in the English-speaking world alone (Wikipedia’s stats for UK, USA and Canada), why not move on? Why mess with the classics? RARELY do the redos match the quality of the originals.
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roya_ghp
Unfortunately movie industry is not always about what might interest audience or publishers. Sometimes it's merely a challenge for a director or a production company to demonstrate their ability in recreating some of the popular movies.
And sometimes economically speaking, they don't want to take risks, esp. ever since internet emerged , the production companies became more conservative in their choices, maybe since they can't really decide in this vast sea of information , what might be an interest of the mainstream.
I agree with your opinion, but it's really not up to us.
Thanks for the comment.
And sometimes economically speaking, they don't want to take risks, esp. ever since internet emerged , the production companies became more conservative in their choices, maybe since they can't really decide in this vast sea of information , what might be an interest of the mainstream.
I agree with your opinion, but it's really not up to us.
Thanks for the comment.
All very true.
Charles Stross pretty much started this debate [ http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/200... ], which continued in the comments on his blog, and blogs elsewhere.
But it's not a new debate... Stross just added his authority/weight to the argument, which seemed to be pretty successful at gaining attention for the "Issue".
--Kyle