OFF: Starship Troopers and a connection to the Tick

Alasdair Macdonald alimac at NETCOMUK.CO.UK
Tue Jan 13 19:14:26 EST 1998


Someone wrote:

> >There in lies the rub.  How many great books have been sucessfully
> >translated into movies?  I'm hard pressed to think of many.
>
> >It's harder than it sounds.  Some people who write great books
> >cannot write good screenplays...
>

Following much thought and pub discussion I can only come up with 1
specific movie, and 1 entire genre; viz:

10 Rillington Place

and

Bond movies

anyone have any more?

Alasdair (and Mark helped with the thinking)
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