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Reign

7.7 (29 Ratings) Rate It

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Reign is an American historical romantic drama television series following the early exploits of...

The Artist (2011)

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In the 1920s, actor George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a bona fide matinee idol with many adoring...

Michael Phillips recommended His Girl Friday (1940) in Movies (curated)

His Girl Friday (1940)

1940 | Classics, Comedy, Drama

9.0

(2 Ratings)

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"I’m desperately trying to find a way not to include His Girl Friday because it’s kind of been touted a lot. But it’s my favorite romantic comedy couple on screen. I think Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in that picture are roughly as great as Beatrice and Benedict in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. That’s how great they are. It’s my favorite Cary Grant performance because it combines the leading man side of his persona with this crazy farceur. I just love hearing people talk as fast as most people think. And I love the fact that they condense this three-hour play into whatever the running time is — ninety, ninety-two minutes — and they basically didn’t cut anything; they just got it all in. I adore this film. That first scene… You watch that first scene when she comes back to the office, and it’s 10 of the greatest minutes of romantic byplay ever, and it’s beautifully performed. I revere Hawks more highly than I do John Ford, and that’s saying something. For me, if you don’t have a Hawks film on that list, you’re lying."

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Robert M. Grant

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Robert M. Grant combines a highly accessible writing style with a concentration on the fundamentals...

David McK (3245 KP) rated Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) in Books

Jan 28, 2019 (Updated Oct 1, 2022)

The first of the late Michael Crichton books that I've read, and this is still the best.

While the film of the same name is very good, it's really only a watered down version of the story contained within here, with several of the characters (most notably Alan Grant and John Hammond) undergoing a personality/trait change between print and screen. Presumably for reasons of cost and running time, the film also leaves out some of the dinosaurs and events of the books (eg the Pterodactyl lodge, although that is later used in the film Jurassic Park III).

For me, this was further proof of what I've always found: that films based on books are never quite as good as the source material.