Right--I mean, there's probably plenty of little things that are great in books that are somehow linked to movies. But one art form should never just be trying to be another.

I almost put in a bit about theater that way, actually. I'm finding more and more that I much prefer plays that just embrace their theatricality and use it. All those big splashy musicals, usually made of movies, are so often seeming to just want to be a movie. Like Sunset Boulevard started with this amazing looking recreation of the opening scene in the movie, but really the cool thing about it was just that they recreated the movie. It's like watching the Flintstones movie just to say, "Oh look, they made the bird phonograph in live action."