*delurk* *wave* Greetings, all. On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:59:59PM -0400, Randi128 at aol.com wrote: > It is my opinion that fantasy and science fiction books do > not translate well to the big screen because of cost constraints when > designing sets and props. While I think that is certainly a factor, imo the main reason behind any bad sf/f movie (whether it is being made from a book or not) is the same reason behind a bad movie of any genre: crappy script-writing, poor plot structure, and the general disregard of audience intelligence by the movie production industry (i.e., "as long as this movie has enough action scenes, scantily-clad people, and cool one-liners, the audience won't notice the complete and utter lack of believable plot and cerebral value"). Kat