You know, I don’t think John C. Wright liked the movie Jumper very much.
The book sounds like a bit of entertaining juvenile fiction, though. The movie’s “creators” (for want of a better word) seem to have done to the book what was recently done, movie-wise, to one of the favorite books of my adolescense, The Dark Is Rising. In case you didn’t know, and don’t want to click on that link, the people who got hold of Susan Cooper’s fantasy novel basically gutted it, for one thing turning the very British main character into an American kid for no good reason — did they think American kids wouldn’t be able to “identify with” (there’s a phrase the use of which should be made a capital crime) a British character? Probably — which only proves the theory that Hollywood (or Hollowwood, as my fingers keep wanting to type) is not so much out of touch with their American audience as they are with the population of Planet Earth, and perhaps all of reality all together.
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March 9th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Have you read any of Wright’s books?
March 9th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Not yet — they’re on my list, but right now I barely have the attention span to finish reading the shorter blog posts on the sites I frequent. I have this huge pile of unread books next to my bed as well… I am forbidden to buy any books until I’ve at least finished the ones I’ve started. (Right. That’ll work.)
March 10th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Heh. It took me two or three years to stop buying DVDs that I never have the time to watch. I’ve still got a stack that I will get to “Real Soon Now”.