Mazes and Monsters

[Menard]

To get back on topic about the movie...er...sort of, I wonder if anyone here has read the book and can offer a comparison input. I have not read the book, but I have a friend who read it when it was first published and commented that the mousy character seemed the best cast by his interpretation of the characters in the book. I remember him also commenting at how close the ending of the movie was to the book, even to the point where it almost followed word for word.

In an interesting sidenote, I read that Rona Jaffe was anxious to get the book finished to keep someone else from jumping the gun and beating her to publication; as the book was influenced by the MSU incident and was certainly topical for the time it was published. Trying to remember back, I don't recall another book (fiction; I am not including the PI's non-fiction recounting) on the subject at the time. Does anybody remember if another author did a novel about roleplaying going too far?

[Andrew]

What I have noticed (my impression) is that Menard tends to come across pretty aggressively when he disagrees with something or does not understand why someone would come to a certain conclusion.  I know that when I read the first post it surprised me, though that was only briefly until I thought about my above-stated observation.

I have not seen this movie in many years either.  I think that, perhaps the reason so many reviews explore the "skewed aspect" used by the movie to depict the gamers is that the writers find it so different from their experiences.  You could see the same thing if someone made a movie about a burger place and the movie made it out that the food was terrible.  People (who liked the burgers) would fixate on the fact that the bad food was incorrect, possibly ignoring the movie's other flaws.  Their experience directly contradicts a fact of the movie, so that is what they focus on.

[daveblackeye15]

All I can say is that I've been busy menard. I'm going to classes and working a job. I'm trying to save up money for traveling abroad.

And for the record I'm going with gamers. In fact I wish I could join a group but I don't have the time. I am a big Knights of the Dinner Table fan.

[Menard]

All I can say is that I've been busy menard. I'm going to classes and working a job. I'm trying to save up money for traveling abroad.

I'd like to save up money for a broad too, but I just can't afford them. Oh...wait...you meant going overseas; my bad.

And for the record I'm going with gamers.

What? You are dating them all?

[daveblackeye15]

I meant I'm okay with gamers. I thought that at the beginning the idea was that the creater was 'anti-gamer' and that you disliked him because you were a gamer. I figured out that there were some misconceptions on both of your parts or something like that. I was just making sure that I was defending him but not because I was an anti-gamer. (I'm not.)