so, the ruins.
are they in the right place? are the vines scary? were they stupid for going down into the fucking hole in the first place? anybody you feel especially close to?
discuss.
The Ruins ***Here There Be Spoilers***
so, the ruins.
are they in the right place? are the vines scary? were they stupid for going down into the fucking hole in the first place? anybody you feel especially close to?
discuss.
I will be ready to have full discussion on this tomorrow (be prepared turtlesong!). Right now, it's bed for me. I'm pooped.
A NEW GAME BEGINS
I didn't really like it much. It felt like reading R.L. Stine or Christopher Pike again.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
the stine reference i get. but wasn't christopher pike one of the captains of the enterprise?Originally Posted by Tiffany
so what didn't you like about it?
Pike was a Star Trek character but it's also a pseudonym used by some guy that wrote young adult thriller novels (much like the high school thrillers Stine wrote).the stine reference i get. but wasn't christopher pike one of the captains of the enterprise?
so what didn't you like about it?
It just didn't feel like it had any depth. I felt like I could have watched the movie and gotten the exact same thing out of it.
It wasn't one of those books that I thought I'd wasted my time with but it definitely wouldn't be on my favorites list.
I'd classify it as "Meh."
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
So how is the movie compared to the book, is it similar?
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I still think you need to change your sig, ricky. can't...stop...clicking...spoiler...button...
I haven't seen the movie, so I have no clue. It might not be similar at all but when I've read a book and see that it's also a movie, I always feel glad that I've read the book rather than watch the movie (though I'll sometimes see it anyway, being curious as to how close it is to the written word.)
I didn't feel that way at all at the end of The Ruins. I'm no book critic so it's hard to articulate what I mean but that's just how I feel about it.
I just felt like I'd watched a horror movie. It had more to do with the writing than the story itself.
Spoiler:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
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