(NEWSER) - Willing Davidson knows his complaint isn't original. But he can't help asking in Slate, "Why does Hollywood take our favorite novels and turn them into crap?" In Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, readers see their own hopes within those of his characters; in the movie, character replaces plot "and the result lands with a wet flop." This is typical: "There's so much plot to get in that there's no time to tell the story" (even if 2 hours feels interminably long enough). More»