OT WOTW [Was Re: [LUG] Martian source]

[Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Midgley wrote:

> In the opening years of the 21st century, few suspected that our planet
> was being observed by intelligences vast, and cool, and
> unsympathetic....
>  
Ahh a fellow follower of true literature :)  
http://www.online-literature.com/ if you like more :)

> What Spielberg did to a rather good story was quite inexcusable, but
> some of the effects are passable.
If you look on www.imdb.com I think you find several people who have not 
even been quite as kind in their descriptions.  Sadly you'll also find 
one idiot who says, and I quote "M Night Shyamalan's gonna be 
[expletive]ed", alleging they pinched the idea from "Signs".  
Yesssssss..... that ranks right up there with the petition to get The 
Two Towers renamed because some pillock in America claimed it was in bad 
taste after 9/11, and which petition contained the famous phrase "Who 
does this Tolkien guy think he is anyway?" ...... *sigh*

I'll leave you to ponder that one :)

Cheers,

Julian

PS.  Clue for those who may not know.  Tolkien died in 1973, the year 
the WTC was opened to the public.  Whether he died before or after I'm 
not sure.

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