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  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    RaceBannon said:

    BearsWiin said:

    I found the book oddly uncompelling. Dunno how they'll make the movie what the book wasn't, especially since it's so rare that the movie turns out to be better than the book.

    It will be like a horse race movie with heart tugging music and overcoming drama and evil Nazis. You can make drama it up and they will
    Great. Seabiscuit. On the water. In Berlin.

    I just figure that they'll tell a story that's already been told so many times over.

    As for uncompelling, there was just a sense of inevitability to the whole book that yeah, OK, they win here, then they win there, they have trouble finding their magical stroke, they win again, win in Berlin yippee. My favorite parts of the book were the bits about Pocock and boat innovation.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,050 Founders Club
    I fell asleep during the American Experience on it
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    RaceBannon said:

    I fell asleep during the American Experience on it


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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,856 Founders Club
    RaceBannon said:

    I fell asleep during the American Experience on it

    It was pretty boring.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,809 Standard Supporter
    YellowSnow said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I fell asleep during the American Experience on it

    It was pretty boring.
    They rushed that one out. It could have been so much better.

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,856 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    RaceBannon said:

    BearsWiin said:

    I found the book oddly uncompelling. Dunno how they'll make the movie what the book wasn't, especially since it's so rare that the movie turns out to be better than the book.

    It will be like a horse race movie with heart tugging music and overcoming drama and evil Nazis. You can make drama it up and they will
    Great. Seabiscuit. On the water. In Berlin.

    I just figure that they'll tell a story that's already been told so many times over.

    As for uncompelling, there was just a sense of inevitability to the whole book that yeah, OK, they win here, then they win there, they have trouble finding their magical stroke, they win again, win in Berlin yippee. My favorite parts of the book were the bits about Pocock and boat innovation.
    I was more into the Depression era history and stuff like Pocock's innovation than the actual race narratives. Joe Rantz had a damn interesting life story. Dude helped build Grand Coulee and beat Nazis.
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