Laura’s Comments (group member since Jul 25, 2022)

Laura’s comments from the New and Up and Coming Authors group.

Iseult wrote: "Laura wrote: "I haven't read it, but my friend said that Jurassic Park should be added to this list. She said the book characters were less likable and the book was just plain weirder. She is a din..."

She did say that too about the dinos being a perk, but the characters themselves being nearly unbearable at certain points. I still plan to read it to form my own opinion though.

I haven't read it, but my friend said that Jurassic Park should be added to this list. She said the book characters were less likable and the book was just plain weirder. She is a dino-fanatic, so I trust her on this one.

Chad wrote: "I've never read the book (saw the movie of course, in the theater as a kid...it was great, but I didn't like when they killed the shoe...I cried). Reading your thoughts, I have a curiosity to check..."

The shoe scene was pretty bad. My girlfriend just watched WFRR for the first time last week and I warned her right before it happened that it might be hard to watch.

BUT! fun fact: in the original script, Judge Doom was supposed to shoot Bambi's mom and then sigh "I hate toons." while walking away, the weasels laughing and all. That would have been absolutely awful.

Also, Tim Curry auditioned to be Judge Doom, but was deemed just too creepy!

Iseult wrote: "That’s very interesting, Laura. I tracked down a copy of the book because I loved the movie so much, and I was very disappointed. I didn’t know the author wrote a sequel. Have you read it?"

Not yet, but I keep meaning to track it down

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is my favorite example of this. the original book was called "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" and was way darker and very different as Roger himself was the victim. The author of it, Gary K. Wolf liked the movie so much better than his own work that he actually retconned his own book! "Who P-P-P-plugged Roger Rabbit?", the sequel is actually based on the movie itself.