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Title: Trashing a successful novel
Review: What's the worst thing one can say about a movie based on a successful novel? : They gave it the typical Hollywood treatment.As a long-time sci-fi fan (age 69), I like my movies to add a reasonably faithful visual dimension to the story. It didn't happen here.Yes, special effects were spectacular; action was fast and frantic, if mostly irrelevant. The original theme and scope of the novel were, in large part, completely ignored. Translating the novel's alien characters to parodies of human actors may have been a practical and artistic necessity (after all, earth's atmosphere was instant poison to the aliens, requiring full breathing masks - not the hospital-like enrichment tubes of the movie - and they were much taller and more massive than humans).For one who has enjoyed rereading the novel several times, the movie was an acute disappointment. Again, typically Hollywood.
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