down a path to develop a new weapon of mass destruction. In 1942, the United States began a highly classified program to research and develop bioweapons, its first in a series of steps that took the U.S.Shades of ''Dreamgirls'' and ''Ray''! In the grand tradition of backstage musicals and show-biz biopics, cable's G4 network presents ''X-Play: The Musical.''īilled as the most expensive musical about video games in the history of mass entertainment, this cast-of-dozens extravaganza offers a fresh twist on the network's ''X-Play,'' which for three years has reviewed and explored video games through the eyes of co-hosts Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler.įor their musical edition, Webb and Sessler count down the best video-game soundtracks of all time - while joined by the X-Play Dancers in performances of five original songs, including ''The Devil Went Down to X-Play'' and ''A Game is Born.''.In comparison, Angels Fall made a much better transition from book to screen in that it didn't have as much ground to cover and could afford to have some parts dropped without losing the essence of the story. It would have allowed the characters and the events to be fleshed out and evolve as they deserved. I couldn't help but think as I read 'Montana Sky', then watched it, that the novel would have been much better adapted to a mini-series. Nathaniel Arcand played a convincing 'Adam'. I guess it made sense that 'Nate's' occupation was changed from lawyer to sheriff and Aaron Pearl was good in the re-scripted role. He had the perfect personality for 'Ben', though in real life he's a good ten years or more older than the character he portrayed. I so adore John Corbett, he was one of the reasons I looked forward to the movie. As to the actors: Both Laura Mennell as 'Lila' and Charlotte Ross as 'Tess' fit the concept I had of them, but although Ashely Williams did a wonderful job, I couldn't see her as the 'Willa' I imagined in the book. Other than the names of the characters, hardly anything, including the events, how they unfolded, and how they were resolved, resembled the original story. Only the barest of bones of the story were touched on and even those were rewritten and reworked. The basic premise packed three relationships, four, counting the sisters themselves, over a year's time, along with all the mysterious happenings within that period.

I wondered how they were going to pack all of Roberts' truly great 'Montana Sky' into two hours.

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