Works where you liked both the book and the movie, but for different reasons

[oreally]

@CalMeacham

He didn’t play the Abominable Snowman (which is never called that in the book – it’s a Charles Beaumont imposition. The book calls it a Russian ot a Bear or something) or the Giant Serpent

Well the serpant was an “animation” and I think he did the voice, so yeah he was that character.

eh on the others. You could have inserted any of a zillion other actors in there and not lost a thing (assuming the Eden character was hot ). Randall was the movie.

[CalMeacham]

@oreally

Well the serpant was an “animation” and I think he did the voice, so yeah he was that character.

eh on the others. You could have inserted any of a zillion other actors in there and not lost a thing (assuming the Eden character was hot ). Randall was the movie.

I’m not sure he did the serpent voice – it sounds like O’Connell (who it resembles in some scenes), so I’ve always suspected he did the voice. But I admit I dpon’t know for sure. (By the way – the scene between a businessman and the serpent is in the book, so at that point the movie’s being fairly faithful. It goes on much longer in the book.)

[Wheelz]

*Moneyball. *
A fascinating book for baseball fans, but probably nobody else.

The movie somehow turned a book that was primarily about how to best interpret baseball statistics into an engrossing dramatic narrative about how people relate to and value one another. A different kind of fascinating.