Day of the Triffids

[wafflycat]

Ah well. What a pile of inedible hen bottom offerings it is turning out to be. I can understand *some* adaptation to bring the story up-to-date but what the BBC has done has err... kept the character names and err... that's it. Total departure from the central theme of the original book. Bah humbug!

 

[Wigsie]

I am going to get another drink, please tell me if I miss anything.

Hilda is brown bread!

 

[Noodley]

Bill Mason is our only hope!

He must know where the plug is to stop this from going on...

 

[jonesy]

Ah well. What a pile of inedible hen bottom offerings it is turning out to be. I can understand *some* adaptation to bring the story up-to-date but what the BBC has done has err... kept the character names and err... that's it. Total departure from the central theme of the original book. Bah humbug!

I won't bother with the iPlayer catch up then...

What's the point of doing something like that? If they don't think a story is suitable for telly without being completely re-written into a different story, then why bother at all, why not write something new in the first place?

 

[Speicher]

Just shows how good Nevil Shute's On The Beach was and its adaptation to a film.

 

[Noodley]

It it me, or is every male dressed as if they want to go on a motor bike journey with Euan McGregor and Charlie Whatsisname....apart from Izzard.

 

[darkstar]

Well both my parents, my sister and I think it was a brillient adaptation, it needed to be bought up to date. Very enjoyable and I'm looking forward to the second part.

 

[Campfire]

Weird, I kept thinking I'd go and have a bath but sat and half watched. Spooky! Walking giant thistles.

 

[colly]

I've read the book.

It is Eddie Izzard.

A different take on it I suppose.

Another doom laden offering in these doom laden days.

Misses the obvious point that people without water would be dead within a few days, not wandering around in groups .

Why because people lose there sight does London burst into flames?

 

[bonj2]

you're obviously not really watching it if you're spending the time talking quite a lot of shite about it on here are you.
I watched it, it's pretty good - good scenery, quite a lot of politics going on, not too hard to follow - don't see why it has to be true to the book.

 

[Crackle]

Well I watched it. My son asked what happens as he was sent to bed before the end. I had to tell him I don't know because I've only read the book. It's a bit like that flu one, even the locations look the same: Dull.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Uncle Buck is on ITV3

Bugger, missed it Great movie.

 

[Globalti]

I've read the book several times and seen the original film a couple of times. I think it's a pretty good modern take on the story although the triffid farm and the idea of triffid oil saving the world from global warming is a bit too easy.

Where it does very well is in showing the triffids as having suddenly got the upper hand in the survival stakes, they're also much more unpleasant than in the original film. The action got a bit muddled towards the end with coup and counter-coup taking place and Eddy Izzard isn't nasty enough, he's too much the dandy whereas is real life he would be a whining chav trade-unionist with a flouro jacket and a rottweiler and an attitude. BBC writers need to go and spend a few evenings drinking in a place like Burnley to meet some really nasty scum. And what happened to all the London Asians and blacks? So far the cast is 99% white, which is curious considering the BBC is usually so PC and right-on. It looks as if they borrowed the cast from an episode of Midsomer Murders.

Anyway we enjoyed it and our son aged 10 made a big fuss about triffids afterwards, especially when I made a rattling noise in my throat and grabbed his leg.

Sadly we'll miss tonight's edition as we are going karting at Trashy Park then on to see the Hallé Orchestra.

 

[Slowgrind]

It's Survivors by another name!

 

[bonj2]

I've read the book.

It is Eddie Izzard.

A different take on it I suppose.

Another doom laden offering in these doom laden days.

Misses the obvious point that people without water would be dead within a few days, not wandering around in groups .

there probably still is water.

Why because people lose there sight does London burst into flames?

because a plane crashed, probably as did lots of cars.