Why? Did you hate the Hobbit movies?

I had a short look at Twelve Years a Slave - it's online at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45631 - and found it unreadable. But that might be the only case where I preferred a book-based film over the book, ever. Though I still haven't gotten round to reading Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes...

But what generally happens is that I watch a movie and enjoy it, and then I read the book and realize how "wrong" the movie was, how many things were changed or left out to compress several hundred pages into the standard movie format. Or how wrong the actor was for the role and how bad the characterization (I'll be forever grateful that I read Lee Child after watching Jack Reacher. The other way round I would have hated it.)

The only movie on my "watch when it comes to the library"-list of which I've read the book already is the one about the 100-year old man who runs away from the retirement home. I deliberately did not watch it when it was in cinemas because I had just read the book and loved it so much that I figured the movie had to be disappointing.

I have a friend who still hasn't watched Lord of the Rings, because she wants to read the book first so as to be able to pictures everything herself. But when I've loved a book I've generally been disappointed by the movie, because they can hardly ever be as rich as a well-written book (even some tie-in novels are better than the film they are based on...) So nowadays I watch the movie and then if I want to delve deeper into the story, I get the book.

Which way round do you do it?

The movie is about three computers working for NASA - yes, once upon a time a computer was a mathematician who did calculations during the space race. Actually, computers were women (men with the same qualification were working as engineers, getting paid twice as much and their names on the reports), and the heroines of the movie are afro-american, which makes life even more difficult for them. 

But the movie is entertaining rather than depressing, because Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson are brilliant on all levels, very good at their jobs and thus successful - the Civil Rights Movement, its conflicts and violence is only seen in passing. The problems of segregation are not glossed over, but things are changing for the better even during the events. It's a very watcheable film and I was happy to get to see a little bit of female history that would have been forgotten if Margot Lee Shetterly hadn't dug it up and written down in a book (and somebody in Hollywood had had the sense to film it).
 

I don't see any common political point between these countries either, but I'd still like to know... And I don't think it's fair to hide such an exclusion so well - have any of you read the "small print" before donating? I don't know how popular Sherlock is in Syria and Thailand, but I'd expect quite a few fans in Canda, Italy and Ireland...

Is there any way for us to find out how much will have been donated by how many people? That would allow to judge current fan interest pretty well (which is probably the main reason for the campaign...)

nakahara wrote:

....Unbelievable, that it´s the same man who acts as stern Sherlock ...

Off-topic here, but that statement has been bugging me ever since I first read it: Which Sherlock scene/episode are you referring to? Because "stern" is about the last adjective I'd put on Benedict's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes...
 

I'd suggest to do a search for Benedict Cumberbatch and Infinity War to find his promotional interviews... Le Figaro has one as well: http://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/2018/04/16/03002-20180416ARTFIG00043-benedict-cumberbatch-doctor-strange-est-le-plus-mature-des-avengers.php but it stays on topic.

Thanks, Susi, it's bookmarked! 'Cause faced with a website in a completely foreign language a machine translation is better than none...

besleybean, the only way to find out what BC really said would be to either contact him or Lorenzo Soria. Who happens to be in Los Angeles, so I'm  100% sure that the interview took place in English! It was part of the Infinity War promotion activities, by the way - Marvel wants Italians to go see the film...

miriel68 wrote:

Well, if he won't have a stand-alone movie, I don't care much about his appearing in other Marvel works. ...

 
Same here. I wanted a second Doctor Strange movie! Besides, BC seems to think that Dr. Strange stays dead...

General spoiler warning for this post! Both for Infinity War and Spielberg's War of the Worlds

SusiGo wrote:

You know that there will be a second part? 

Obviously I didn't when I wrote my post. I just found out on YouTube that one is planned. However, I also just found out that there are apparently no plans for a second Doctor Strange (https://nation.com.pk/19-Mar-2018/no-plans-for-second-doctor-strange), which I would have vastly preferred over another crowded "let's put in as many superheroes as possible"-movie.

Has anybody read the Marvel Comics and has any idea how they want to continue? There's people speculating about undoing the end of the Infinity War, but the only way I can see is for Thanos to have a change of heart and turn back time. But however they do it (if they should do it), as heartbreaking as it is to have people I've grown attached to die - I generally find it even worse if it turns out that they are alive after all. For me that completely cheapens the tragedy (classic example: Spielberg's War of the Worlds - I always switch it off before the final scene when the family is reunited) and I feel cheated.