QOTD

[randy_byers]

"So I was surprised and intrigued when I heard that Anthony Minghella was adapting the book for the big screen. How would he translate this tangled web of memory, dreams, and drug addiction to the big screen? The answer was to very delicately pick out the tragic love story woven through the book and place it front and center. It was certainly beautiful and well done, but it was not even close to the same experience as the book. The result was also, interestingly enough, a film that 100% of my male acquaintances consider the most horrifying, time-stopping, hellish chick flick experience of their lives. It is the hellish chick flick experience by which all others are judged. 'So how was Atonement?' 'Well, it was harsh, but it was no English Patient!'"

-- Kati Irons, Movie Review: The Fall - Tarsem Singh Gifts Us a Masterpiece