Welcome, Time Machine, & rest of my daytt

First of all, a quick shout-out to a friend of mine who just became a new LJ user, masonk. Everybody make him feel at home! (Oh, man, I just realized...I'm gonna have to redo all my incest maps now. :)

I don't know what it is about movie reviewers, but they sometimes seem to have the power to make one feel stupid.

I've just been reading Ebert and Berardinelli ragging on The Time Machine, which blacknumber01 and I went out to see this evening. It's annoying; neither of them can seem to find very much worth enjoying in the movie, and it makes me wonder a bit if I'm some kind of a schmuck for liking it so much.

No, it's not 100% faithful to the book. It's maybe 50% faithful, what with all the changes and the stuff they added. But you know, I don't really care. This is a different time; they did different things. Just because the story is written down in a book first doesn't mean it's inviolate. There were some things I disliked about the original story, and they weren't as much in evidence in the film--and it entertained me for a couple of hours; I didn't feel gypped of my money. That's all I really ask.

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