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Posted by Omegasox on Nov-11-2003 21:11:

Timeline

Do you think the movie will even come close to being as good as the book? I personally can't wait to see it, but I'm ready for a letdown as well.

Posted by MisterOpus1 on Nov-11-2003 21:13:

Re: Timeline

quote:
Originally posted by Omegasox
Do you think the movie will even come close to being as good as the book? I personally can't wait to see it, but I'm ready for a letdown as well.

My wife read it and told me to start reading it immediately, despite already reading 2 other books. From what she says, it's Michael C.'s best and most thoroughly researched book. I'm very interested myself.

Posted by Psionic on Nov-11-2003 21:13:

When's this coming out. I really wanna see it!

Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on Nov-11-2003 21:32:

Whats the plot?

Posted by wookieslut on Nov-11-2003 21:35:

"Timeline? shitttt...more like Black Knight 2."

Posted by mezzir on Nov-11-2003 21:36:

they should make a movie from prey
better book imo
and i've read every MC novel to date

Posted by DarkFall01 on Nov-11-2003 21:55:

Doesn't really look like a good movie, but might be fun to watch.

Trailer here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/timeline.html

Posted by placebo on Nov-11-2003 22:02:

The book was AWESOME, and I can't wait for the movie...

Hopefully it will be as good as Jurassic Park, even though the book was 100x better then the movie, the movie did do the book justice.

Posted by DR86 on Nov-11-2003 22:05:

If this movie is as good as the book...omg.

amazing book, so well written and accurate.

Posted by whiskers on Nov-11-2003 22:09:

IMHO, terminal man is crichton's best book that i read, with sphere maybe coming really close.

yes, timeline was good, but i just couldn't help but cringe when i read the obvious hollywood cliches, for examples, heroes that do amazing tricks and escape death at the last moment... and the ending... ugh... so even though i'm expecting an average movie, it's still on my "must see" list.

Posted by Spad on Nov-11-2003 22:26:

It's all about Westworld

I didn't think Timeline was as good as JP but if the translation from book to film is as good it should be well worth watching.

Posted by Omegasox on Nov-12-2003 00:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Galapidate
When's this coming out. I really wanna see it!

Late November. 28th maybe?

Posted by mezzir on Nov-12-2003 00:40:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
IMHO, terminal man is crichton's best book that i read, with sphere maybe coming really close.

yes, timeline was good, but i just couldn't help but cringe when i read the obvious hollywood cliches, for examples, heroes that do amazing tricks and escape death at the last moment... and the ending... ugh... so even though i'm expecting an average movie, it's still on my "must see" list.
grr same here
i think the best movie in relation to the books was sphere, i absolutely loved that movie, almost as much as i liked the book
jurassic park's right up there too
congo and lost world definately being down at the bottom (read: if you've read the book and liked it, don't go see the movie, cause it's terrible in comparison)

i think the main problem with converting timeline to a movie would be that in MC's books, he can explain and rationalize everything as much as he wants, so he actually goes into a fair amount of depth in explaining the quantum theory behind it all
somehow, i doubt that filmmakers think our attention span is long enough to understand it all so they'll give us a crappy boiled down 'works for our purposes' version

like it'd be great if they explained it in the movie, but if you think about it, when its in a book if you don't understand it the first time through, you can re-read it, or read it slower again. can't do that with a movie

Posted by Fast Turtle on Nov-12-2003 00:48:

Posted by mezzir on Nov-12-2003 01:02:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Nuclear
Sphere was great. Too bad the movie sucked. :/

meh...i liked it
course i was like 14 and it was 2 in the mornin
but i remember liking it....

Posted by djSlain on Nov-12-2003 02:38:

Chrichton's books are great. If it isn't produced by Chrichton, don't expect top notch productions such as ER or Jurassic Park. If it isn't produced by chrichton, expect another The Lost World

Posted by Excite on Nov-12-2003 05:32:

timeline was a good book but not great like a lot of his previous works. there are some flat-out stupid/cheesy parts like the green knight fight and the ending..

and i'm guessing theyre not going to bother with the language differences unlike the new mel gibson directed movie about jesus which is completely in the ancient languages.

Posted by Alccode on Nov-13-2003 04:46:

I think the movie will do the book justice. Look at the trailer; it's not bad.

As for the book itself, I liked Jurassic Park more and Sphere 10000X more.

Sphere, people, Sphere!!

Timeline's plot is iffy and sketchy. I mean, they don't know how to reconstruct the people from this end into the other quantum universes, but they somehow get reconstructed because the reconstructed people are from a different universe where they DO know how to reconstruct.

Come on! And if that was the case, then obviously the reconstructed people would have memories from that OTHER universe, where they DID know how to reconstruct them in, so they would have memories of how it was explained to them. Except they didn't.

And so on. The book is great fiction, no -- almost amazing sci-fi, but don't expect this to come true at all.