Damon Agretto wrote:
>
> > I saw Michael Crichton's 'Timeline" tonight. I was
> > pleasantly surprised.
> > It has been a few years since I read the book, but
> > the movie seems to be
> > reasonably faithful to the original storyline. There
> > were some
> > annoyances - like them posing some questions that
> > were never answered,
> > but otherwise it wasn't bad.
>
> Heh just wait until I see it and pick apart the
> historical innacuracies/anachronisms...
>
> Damon.
I'm sure you'll find some, but nothing was too glaring.
(They sure did some shoddy construction back then, though!)
As book to film adaptations go, I thought it was very
good. Some of the rambling subplots of the book got a solid
pruning, and the action was speeded up. Chrichton screws up
the logic of time travel in the book, so the movie's sparse
treatment of the issue was a definite gain.
---David
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