So I saw this movie, because why not. It turned it to be what happened in the trailer and then long periods of just really boring dialogue.

I really thought that this would be more of an interesting film, especially coming from director Ridley Scott. I do know most of his last movies were fairly unimpactful, at least the ones that I have seen. But here is the catch, his film House of Gucci I found to be an absolute great movie to watch.

I didn’t even know that this movie was based off a novel. It requires you to almost fill much of your own story. I think that type story, that is rooted in internal monologues don’t work well, the only exception is The Handmaids Tale, where the internal dialogues and narratives are spoken overtly instead of relying on you to fill in the blanks.

I guess this is the bigger problem that some directors face when they are trying to adapt a novel to the big screen, it’s a different medium.

I actually had the same kind of argument over on X (aka Twitter) about adapting video games to movies, and how people don’t hire video game writers to make the movie, as if that is why the movie doesn’t succeed.

But that isn’t the issue, the issue is that you are taking a different medium where people enjoy a different experience, and then you are taking that experience and trying to make it play as well as if you put the a player in a different sport, and expect him to do well also..

Michael Jordan, the famous NBA player, had switched to baseball after his fathers passing. But it wasn’t meant to be, he was hitting far below batting average, had a very high strikeout rate and wasn’t very effective as an outfielder as well. When he had decided to leave Baseball and return to the NBA, Terry Francona, Jordans manager with the little league, AA team that Jordan had played for, believed that if Michael Jordan had committed to 3 years of serious training, that he could be a Major League player.

So there you have it, it’s not as easy to just take one thing that is really successful in one area, then take that and put it into another area. There are a different set of rules, and yes there are transferrable skills at not everything is unique; yet, as the level increases the differences start to maximize.

I also see this mechanism at work right now as I am doing my Human Biology degree and it is asking me to obtain organic chemistry, The student environment and the type of knowledge that is required of the upper year chemists is not something that is required in my biology labs, in fact it’s almost foreign. The cultures are vastly different, and it seems that these department heads don’t seem to know either, nor do the students.

When I come out of a university environment, and talk to people who haven’t studied at that level of precision that I have, they assume all sorts of things that I would never assume. Like take for example the short film that I saw The Loneliness of Lizards, they were saying that the film is portrayal of isolation.

Well anyway, The Dog Stars sucked, and I won’t be doing that again. Hopefully I have better luck with TIFF tickets. I only got one movie in the Pre-sale, the worst part is that it has subtitles, I hate subtitles.