The Movie CAN be Better Than the Book or So Much Cheers...

The Saturday and Sunday portions of the weekend were filled with work, so I didn't really do all that much else. Saturday night after work (at 11:30pm) I went to my friend Dan's wedding social for a bit. I used to work with Dan at EB and hadn't seen him in a while, so it was great to catch up. I also ran into some of my other co-workers including my former boss who I had a little bit of a confrontation with when I quit. He was giving me these odd looks but was polite enough when I briefly talked to him. I'm not sure if there was some tension or not. The story of the quitting confrontation is a long one and I will talk about it some other time. The point is that I bumped into some people that I haven't seen in a while and it was pretty good.
I have been trying to watch my DVD of the second season of Cheers this weekend and I am almost done. I watched 3 1/2 hours of it yesterday alone. The more I watch it the more 2 things happen; the more I remember seeing the episodes as they actually aired, and the more I see how the show was such a great character show. That's not to say that I didn't always think that it was a great character show, because I did, but it's easier to appreciate now watching so many episodes at a time. The writer's did a great job of having the characters grow throughout the series. One thing that's odd in watching this season is that there are some side characters that they tried out who totally sucked and were eventually dropped. There was a guy named Paul (not the chubby Paul from later in the show) who would only insult Cliff. All he did was call Cliff names and it was super annoying. Luckily he was off after a few shows. Another thing that's odd is that they try way harder to have Boston accents. Almost all of the "no-name" people with lines have SUPER thick accents. Cliff also talks pretty thickly Bostonian. I guess after a while they just dropped the whole thing and moved on. I am looking forward to the later seasons to come out, because I like Woody and Rebecca WAY more than Coach and Diane. Oh yeah, and Robin Colecorde, Kelly, Paul... man, the later seasons ruled...
I also read the book "Fight Club" this weekend. Being a huge fan of the movie I figured that I should read the book it was based on. I must say that this was one time where the movie was better than the book, although the book was pretty good too. There were a lot of minor changes in the movie that made the narrative stronger in my opinion. Although for the most part they are EXACTLY the same, as the book is told from 1st person with lots of statements of philosophic intent. The reason the movie translated so well was the narration from Edward Norton. It was a rare example of voice over working. The ways in which the book differed was that Tyler killed people and was totally brutalized at the end. I'm talking tongue cut off, teeth pounded out, cheeks ripped open brutalized. Oh yeah, that and he ended up in a mental hospital. I kinda liked the end of the movie more, when they blew up all the buildings of the credit card companies. Oh well, you can't win them all...
In the 80's Markie Post was fucking hot.