• Describe one of your reading habits. • Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
Today my musing is about Science Fiction movies. I have to admit I am not much of a
movie person. When I go it is with a
group of friends and they
don’t like Science Fiction.
When a Science Fiction movie comes on I will say that I am going by
myself but then I will pick up a book and read instead. For the same reason I don’t have
any of the premium movie channels but when the free weekends come on I record
all the movies I meant to see but did not. That same reading a book gets in the way of watching what I
record so they pile up on my DVR.
I don’t feel like I have to hurry to see them but now I am up against a
deadline.
Friday I go with a new cable provider and a new DVR. I will lose all of the movies I
recorded to watch later so today is Sunday and I am on a movie marathon. I
started with John Carter. I know
the critics panned it but I liked it. It was different from the book but still
entertaining. I would give it a B
or B+.
Cowboys and Aliens came next. That one I found a little slow and fast forwarded through
parts. Something I could not do in
the theater. I would give it a C-
or D+.
I, Robot was next. I like Will Smith and the movie is good. Again not much like the book but entertaining. It gets a B+.
I have a few to go before Friday. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter was next. Fantasy instead of Science Fiction but not something my movie buddies would go to. It turned out to be a DNF. Since I did not pay to see that was OK>
This does have something to do with books as all of these movies are taken from books - I have read I, Robot and Edgar Rice Burrows Mars books.
I will report on my progress during the week next Monday. By then what I have not watched will be
gone.
