I simply refuse to believe that anyone would make a movie that excludes a large part of the audience. They simply cannot expect that everyone has read the book. That seems not very - logical?
And from what you describe, it sounds like there may be almost too much science in the book for me... as I am always fond of saying, I am not really a science fiction fan... says the girl that somehow first slipped into "Stargate" (all Richard Dean Anderson's fault, nobody was more surprised than I was! It blew me away), then "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood" (which I still would consider "sci-fi light", same goes for "Eureka") and now has started to explore the "Star Trek" world. Still I never got into "Star Wars", for example, or any other TV shows that were set on a space ship. I hate space ships and space battles. I hate things set too much in the future. That was the beauty of "Stargate" and "Torchwood" for me - ordinary people in nowadays time, trying to deal with extraordinary things. I can relate to that.
I like science fiction when it is about people. For example, "In Time", the movie where in a future people don't pay anymore with money but with time, and the poor ones only have half an hour to live, while the rich ones have 100 years or more. I liked this movie as it was saying something about society and how it may evolve (hopefully not) and in the end gave hope for some change, some people trying to make a difference.
So, throw too much science onto me, and I am lost or get bored.
So I certainly won't poke at any plot holes, I won't even notice them ;)
As for writing on the screen, that sounds like an interesting effect, and I am very used to it from watching "Sherlock", where his thoughts are displayed on the screen beautifully. Granted, there I have the chance to rewind and look at it again. But sometimes it's not meant to be all read, rather taken in as a whole?
After I have seen a movie, I like to go to IMDB and read all the people's thoughts and all the behind-the-scenes and extra infos, and I learn a lot more stuff and all the things I missed that way. And then I can still watch it a second time and look for all those things.
My brother recently gave me the DVD for "Gravity". I did not expect to like it, and I always wondered how you could fill two hours with a woman floating through space... but I did like it. In the end, it is not about the science or the special effects - it is about the people.
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And from what you describe, it sounds like there may be almost too much science in the book for me... as I am always fond of saying, I am not really a science fiction fan... says the girl that somehow first slipped into "Stargate" (all Richard Dean Anderson's fault, nobody was more surprised than I was! It blew me away), then "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood" (which I still would consider "sci-fi light", same goes for "Eureka") and now has started to explore the "Star Trek" world. Still I never got into "Star Wars", for example, or any other TV shows that were set on a space ship. I hate space ships and space battles. I hate things set too much in the future. That was the beauty of "Stargate" and "Torchwood" for me - ordinary people in nowadays time, trying to deal with extraordinary things. I can relate to that.
I like science fiction when it is about people. For example, "In Time", the movie where in a future people don't pay anymore with money but with time, and the poor ones only have half an hour to live, while the rich ones have 100 years or more. I liked this movie as it was saying something about society and how it may evolve (hopefully not) and in the end gave hope for some change, some people trying to make a difference.
So, throw too much science onto me, and I am lost or get bored.
So I certainly won't poke at any plot holes, I won't even notice them ;)
As for writing on the screen, that sounds like an interesting effect, and I am very used to it from watching "Sherlock", where his thoughts are displayed on the screen beautifully. Granted, there I have the chance to rewind and look at it again. But sometimes it's not meant to be all read, rather taken in as a whole?
After I have seen a movie, I like to go to IMDB and read all the people's thoughts and all the behind-the-scenes and extra infos, and I learn a lot more stuff and all the things I missed that way. And then I can still watch it a second time and look for all those things.
My brother recently gave me the DVD for "Gravity". I did not expect to like it, and I always wondered how you could fill two hours with a woman floating through space... but I did like it. In the end, it is not about the science or the special effects - it is about the people.