I'm a movies guy. I read approximately one book in two years and feel proud of this incredible achievement for the next five.
I've always hated when people compared movies to books and said one or the other is better.
It's like comparing a sculpture to an oil painting -- either one can be equally sh&^t and its nothing to do with the medium.
You can't do that.
I'm now going to do that.
There is Contact by Carl Sagan and there is Contact by Robert Zemeckis. The later one is more simplified, more hollywoodised and even got a still-in-a-rom-com-mode-Matthew-McConaughey in it.
Both of these two are great. I loved the book and I love rewatching the movie over and over again ever since it came out.
There is The Martian by Andy Weir and The Martian by Matt damn it, by Ridley Scott.
Both are hollywoodised, both are not simplified, neither has still-in-a-rom-com-mode-Matthew-McConaughey in it, both are great.
There is Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang and there is Arrival by Denis Villeneuve. The movie is a must for every sci-fi lover and I haven't yet read the novel but it won a Nebula (not Thanos's daughter. The award.) I'm sure its amazing too. (the book, not the daughter)
There is 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and there is 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick.
There is Solaris by Stanislaw Lem and there is Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky (sorry George)
And then there is The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and... there is this.
This, where a nanomaterials researcher looks and acts like a spoiled entitled supermodel, where soapy relationships of freshly made-up characters are more important than anything else happening in the first 500 pages of the book, and where the "entire Universe" thinks so little of its viewers' intelligence it flickers in visible light.
(so visible you can see it at night even when a glowing display is stuck to your retinas)
I can't compare this series to The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
It'd be like comparing a Mona Lisa painting to a sculpture of her nose made out of a sweet potato.
The only thing I can think of comparing it to is Foundation by Apple Tv.
Because of the way these two treat the unique, extraordinary ideas bestowed upon them by their source materials, they, together with their creators, have a special place reserved for them in hell.
I've always hated when people compared movies to books and said one or the other is better.
It's like comparing a sculpture to an oil painting -- either one can be equally sh&^t and its nothing to do with the medium.
You can't do that.
I'm now going to do that.
There is Contact by Carl Sagan and there is Contact by Robert Zemeckis. The later one is more simplified, more hollywoodised and even got a still-in-a-rom-com-mode-Matthew-McConaughey in it.
Both of these two are great. I loved the book and I love rewatching the movie over and over again ever since it came out.
There is The Martian by Andy Weir and The Martian by Matt damn it, by Ridley Scott.
Both are hollywoodised, both are not simplified, neither has still-in-a-rom-com-mode-Matthew-McConaughey in it, both are great.
There is Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang and there is Arrival by Denis Villeneuve. The movie is a must for every sci-fi lover and I haven't yet read the novel but it won a Nebula (not Thanos's daughter. The award.) I'm sure its amazing too. (the book, not the daughter)
There is 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and there is 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick.
There is Solaris by Stanislaw Lem and there is Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky (sorry George)
And then there is The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and... there is this.
This, where a nanomaterials researcher looks and acts like a spoiled entitled supermodel, where soapy relationships of freshly made-up characters are more important than anything else happening in the first 500 pages of the book, and where the "entire Universe" thinks so little of its viewers' intelligence it flickers in visible light.
(so visible you can see it at night even when a glowing display is stuck to your retinas)
I can't compare this series to The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
It'd be like comparing a Mona Lisa painting to a sculpture of her nose made out of a sweet potato.
The only thing I can think of comparing it to is Foundation by Apple Tv.
Because of the way these two treat the unique, extraordinary ideas bestowed upon them by their source materials, they, together with their creators, have a special place reserved for them in hell.
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