Movies that make you think

[piece-it pete]

Originally Posted by Fedallah

The book is really far more clear than the movie. Kubrick tries to take the movie places where the book can go quite easily, but in film - it's like putting wheels on a sailboat and driving it on the freeway. You can do it - but you need to be very clever and more than a little bit lucky to pull it off. In the end trying to toss visual metaphors and so on into film is usually more trouble than it's worth, since it's a lot of work to get right and nearly everyone in the audience is going to totally miss it anyway.

No kidding, very well said. I read the book before I saw the movie, otherwise I could've been lost in more than one place. Very trippy though.

I hate to say this, but I just saw Spiderman 3 and was surprised to see life lessons in it.

Pete