> > The only exception to this I've found is "The Abyss", which was written as a companion to the movie. One of the few cases where both movie and novelisation are really, really good and complement one another quite well.
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> Now, is this the director's cut of "The Abyss" or the theatrical release? In other words, does it have the horrible "Day the Earth Stood Still" ending Cameron intended, or the horrible "Huh?" ending that we all got in the theater? More importantly, is the ending of the novel *better* than that of either movie?
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> Ste "'The Abyss' is one of those movies that I both love and hate" phen

I don't know if this fits in this thread, but I hear that a script writer in Hollywood wrote a script about a killer tornado in a small town near Knoxville, TN, and just as they started filming, it happened. Mossy Grove (near Knoxville) was practically blown away by an F3 tornado.
Howard