>keanu, miagi, uma? sounds like a winner already!!

Sounds that way, but sadly, it's not. It suffers from Otter's Law of Books made into Movies - The quality of the film is inverseley proportional to the quality of the book. Always. In other words, the better the book, the worse the movie.

The problem is that it's an entirely different method of conveying information - and there's much more information contained in a book than on film. It would be like writing an essay about Beethoven's 9th Symphony - there's no way to convey the same info.

Since Cowgirls was a terriffic book, one of my top 5 favorites ever, the movie was, in accordance with Otter's Law, atrociously dissapointing. The script captured roughly 15% of the book's story. None of The Chink's history or adventures or pontificating was included - one line about 'the earth is alive, blah blah...' then fade to another scene. Very dissapointing. Especially because Pat Morita would have made a great Chink - had he been given the whole character to work with.

Don't get me started on movie versions of other great books. Starship Troopers? Mists of Avalon? Dune? Ulysses? Even LOTR had it's problems. I just hope and pray to the gods that no one ever attempts a movie version of Stranger in a Strange Land. Ugh.

Otter