Quote: Moonstone @ September 23 2009, 2:58 PM BSTHello Julia
yes hello! Really nice to meet you finally! I owe you a drink btw. 
Can you think of any time... Page 3
Quote: JuliaC @ September 23 2009, 3:14 PM BSTIaaaaaan!!
How are you, you lovely woman? Though I did 'kind of' speak to you via the medium of Finck a little while back
Total Recall.
Starship Troopers.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ September 23 2009, 3:16 PM BSTyes hello! Really nice to meet you finally! I owe you a drink btw.
Hi Bex, you too. I had way too much wine that night! 
Quote: Moonstone @ September 23 2009, 3:18 PM BST
How are you, you lovely woman? Though I did 'kind of' speak to you via the medium of Finck a little while back
I'm good thanks, you? Glad to see you back, if only online for now.
Quote: JuliaC @ September 23 2009, 3:32 PM BSTI'm good thanks, you? Glad to see you back, if only online for now.
Ha!
There WAS a reason though - would've been lovely.
And thank you. Good to see you're still around too, don't know what's what here any more!
That'll teach you to abandon us. 
At least you appear to have got yourself a giant bagel...?
Quote: JuliaC @ September 23 2009, 3:47 PM BSTThat'll teach you to abandon us.
Yes, was a gift from zoooz, although I should be deeply ashamed since I thought it was a doughnut 
Me too at first!
Quote: JuliaC @ September 23 2009, 3:55 PM BST
But I'm expected to know the difference 
Probably for much the same reason you worked out it 'must be' a bagel and not a doughnut
No sugar. 
Quote: JuliaC @ September 23 2009, 4:16 PM BSTNo sugar.
LOL! Goo on with ya!
Quote: Fergal @ September 20 2009, 6:24 PM BSTI think it totally relies on whether you read the book first, or whether you saw the film first.
If you read the book first, then I tend to think, that in the film, there was so much left out. If you see the film first, and then read the book, I have in the past thought that in some cases it is hardly the same story.
I just guess it boils down to who is the screenwriter.
Not necessarily. I saw the film of Battle Royale before reading the book and I'd say they are both pretty damn good.
Quote: Curt @ September 20 2009, 6:41 PM BSTBattlefield Earth
Xenu thought it was good.
Nah, the book is actually pretty good but the film is unrelentingly shit.
Quote: chipolata @ September 23 2009, 3:19 PM BSTStarship Troopers.
Bollocks. Although the film was a lot better than it could have been. It was largely good because it didn't take itself too seriously. If anyone else apart from Verhoeven had done it, it might have been dire but he took an entirely different tone to the book.
I'm still waiting for them to do a film of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
Quote: Afinkawan @ September 23 2009, 4:49 PM BSTBollocks.
How dare you! It's a while since I read the book, but I thought it was gung ho hackwork. The film has a fun satirical element. As for Heinlein, I'd like to see a lot of his stuff adapted, especially Stranger in a Strange Land.
The film Alien was a wonderful piece of cinema but I read a few pages of the book - something along the lines of "Ripley took the gun and blasted the shit out of the mother f**king alien" - and decided it wasn't for me 
But then I think the book was based on the film and not t'other way round.
Quote: Moonstone @ September 23 2009, 5:01 PM BSTThe film Alien was a wonderful piece of cinema but I read a few pages of the book - something along the lines of "Ripley took the gun and blasted the shit out of the mother f**king alien" - and decided it wasn't for me
But then I think the book was based on the film and not t'other way round.
Wasn't it by Allen Dean Foster, king of the film novelisation?