Hair of the dog

[sakon76]

Have just finished reading Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Revenge of the Fallen. (Shaddup, it's a slow day at work and I'm caught up.) Given how bad the first three TFs novels by him have been, I wasn't expecting very much.

I have seldom been so pleased to have my expectations disappointed. Obviously coming from an earlier draft of the script, it keeps in almost everything I liked about the movie (except Simmons' dialogue about "Gunfight at the OK Corral", and a couple smackdowns 'Bee does to most deserving characters), and fixes all the shit that sucked. It even answers some niggling little fangirl questions like "Why did they do a casting call for a certain character who doesn't even show up in the film? What did they cut?"

While I'm pleased that ADF has finally gotten things "right," though, I find myself wondering why the heck he couldn't pull things together for the earlier novels. And also wondering why he felt the need to change Simmons' first name from "Reginald" to "Seymour" as well as Epps' name from "Robert" or "Bobby" to "Raymond"....

Comments

[hoshikage.livejournal.com]

So what you're saying then is that I should read the book instead of watching the movie? :)

[sakon76.livejournal.com]

No, you should watch the movie for the pretty and then read the book to "fix" it. ^_^

[tiamat1972.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to figure out why Simmons was Seymour in the movie. Even said so on his shirt. The thong shot was a bit much though.

[oni-gil.livejournal.com]

*suddenly pops in out of nowhere* I noticed that too! It was much better than the others. MUCH better.