On The Road - Movie trailer

[David Morris]

Expecting to not like the movie because you're not a Kerouac fan is
vastly different than because of it being "derivative."  Was Kubrick's
Lolita too derivative?  Or John Houston's Moby Dick?  Remaking a movie
(or even a TV show) is also vastly different that adapting a novel or
memoir to film.

I've not yet read any Kerouac.  Don't know if I ever will.  But if the
movie is good, I might...

David Morris

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:
> i don't know ... in an era when hollywood refuses to release nothing other than films based on something else (tv shows, novels, comic books) - it just looks like more of the same crap to me. and i've never been much of a kerouac fan. burroughs is the only really beat writer who pushed beyond the limits of the genre into something universal.
>
> but, you know, i'll probably see it anyway.
>
> PG