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Originally posted by Bulldog-Johnnie
Michael Crichton's bools rarely tranlate to the csreen every well. I had big hopes for this one but was left feeling a bit flat.
My suggestion is to read yhe book- It kicked ass!
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Hmm ... I would suggest the opposite. Crichton writes screenplays first and then pads in some extra stuff for the book. He's a movie-making franchise. Everything he writes is slanted for the screen in some way or another. I read "Timeline" years ago when it first came out. It totally read like an action movie screenplay. People were jumping around on rafters, doing super-human feats, narrowly avoiding capture/death over and over and over.
According to boxofficemojo, "Timeline" has made a whopping 16.8 million in two weeks. It cost over 100 million to make and promote. It will be lucky to make half that back in total revenue (including rentals, dvds, etc.).