I was actually pleasantly surprised by "Band of Robbers"; it was far better than I was expecting. Especially when compared to the last Twain movie I saw, Val Kilmer's godawful fiasco. - B. Clay Shannon From: Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:04 PM Subject: Band of Robbers So I received my copy of "Mark Twain Journal" today and there on the cover was an image from a recent film of Tom and Huck in current day mofty. My wife has a client that pays for her Netflix account so I asked her to tune it in. I had never heard of this movie until the journal showed up but if it was deemed good enough to find mention I would watch it. Sorry, but I was not impressed. I could see where the writers/directors found inspiration from the Blues Brothers and from Raising Arizona but I could not see Huck. Granted, Tom was a dreamer caught up in trying to live fantasy scenarios, but poor Huck was merely a barely recognizable cipher tagging along through the plot. Injun Joe was given a brief moment of character development, but for naught. He ended up just a white bad guy firing his shot gun, running around in a fringed jacket. I think what bothered me the most was Huck was introduced as someone being release from prison. That's not an image of Huck I've ever had. I have not, as yet, read the interview published in the journal, and perhaps the absinthe obscured my viewing, but my feelings are that again Twain in cinema falls short. -- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. http://bscottholmes.com