[OT] Movies vs. Books (was: Tired...)

I have yet to see a movie that lived up to a book that I liked. On the other
hand, I have yet to see a novelization of a movie that was as good as the
movie.

Movies based on books usually drop the character development and interesting
themes. Books based on a movie usually fail to convey the visual nature of the
movie (as well as futdz with the details in order to add pages).
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> At 6:45 PM -0800 3/6/99, Brian Bell wrote:

Good points. However, books based on movies often have a few scenes that
didn't make the final cut in the movie. For example, Allen Dean Foster's
novelizations of Alien and Aliens (worth reading) have the missing scenes,
such as the cocoon sequence from Alien and the sentry guns from Aliens that
didn't make it into the movie, even though it was filmed (I saw a URL for a
webpage with scenes, but forgot to bookmark it, more silly me). The two
Terminator novelizations (c'mon, I bought 'em used) add a lot of incidental
detail and charaterisation for the minor characters that just couldn't come
through onscreen since it'd be a waste of expensive film. Of course in T and
T2, the screenplay definitely needs the padding to qualify as more than a
novella.

> Brian Bell wrote:

In a message dated 99-03-07 13:32:12 EST, you write:

<<
Good points. However, books based on movies often have a few scenes that
didn't make the final cut in the movie. >>

Did anyone on the list pick up the one (and only as far as I know) Space Above
and Beyond novel? I had heard it went into some organizational and technical
detail only hinted at from time to time in the series.

Perry

> In a message dated 99-03-07 13:32:12 EST, you write:
Space Above
> and Beyond novel ? I had heard it went into some organizational and

Got it, but afraid I haven't read it yet (still WAAAAY down the
pile....).
And no, I didn't buy it - someone gave me a copy!  :-)