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 Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:51 pm
but you guys gotta admit, the golden compass was exactly the same as the book! and they actually made it perfect, every detail flawless! and the way the animals morphed was awesome!
however, i did hate the fifth harry potter movie. i wanted to see them meet their second year teacher in the hospital. and then when fred and george stole their brooms and ran away from the school, it never even showed that the brooms were taken away, much less that there was even a quitich match that year! i hated that!
please excuse my spelling errors. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:56 pm
When I watch books-turned-into-movies, I usually regard the movie as something totaly separate from the book. It also helped that I hadn't read Narnia or the Lord of the Rings for a few years before I watched the movie. But with Eragon, I had just read the book, so I couldn't help but to compare the two, which ruined the movie.
I don't think that making a book into a movie ruins the experience, I think actively comparing the two during the movie ruins it. My parents, who have not read Eragon, liked the movie. My brother and I did not and we had both read the book.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:37 pm
I'm slowly developing a list of movies that were better than the books they were based upon, in my opinion. So far I have the following:
The Princess Bride
The General's Daughter
Breakfast On Pluto
Howl's Moving Castle
I've realized lately that I'm not too particular about the film adaptations of more contemporary books, yet anything found on the classics bookshelves proves to be a little more difficult for me to relinquish the need to compare. Although I'm pretty easy when it comes to Dumas' works, except for The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:30 pm
Personally, I tend to like the book and the movie. Although I hate seeing a movie then finding out later it was a book. Like Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. (On a side note, my theatre teacher said once that you have to read the book for the Hitchhiker's Guide to make sense. I told him I saw the movie first and understood it, and he, in essense, called me weird. rofl )
Anyways, my favorite book to movie adaptation would have to be Holes. The book and the movie were so similar. It made me very happy!
You just have to take the movie and the book as separate entities, usually. It's like going to see Wicked on Broadway, then reading the book. (Nothing alike, I'm told.)
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:59 pm
Kaizoku-sama [love] Personally, I tend to like the book and the movie. Although I hate seeing a movie then finding out later it was a book. Like Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. (On a side note, my theatre teacher said once that you have to read the book for the Hitchhiker's Guide to make sense. I told him I saw the movie first and understood it, and he, in essense, called me weird. rofl )
Anyways, my favorite book to movie adaptation would have to be Holes. The book and the movie were so similar. It made me very happy!
You just have to take the movie and the book as separate entities, usually. It's like going to see Wicked on Broadway, then reading the book. (Nothing alike, I'm told.) The thing with holes was... that I the book led me to believe he was a. overweight and b. black. I dislike movie books. I just do. Some are better than others but, to me, being unable to actually experience the author's words kills it. Take, for example, Terry Pratchett. Most of the hilarity from his novels comes from word choice or parodies- the only kind of movie that that would work in is one with a narrator; Winnie the Pooh anyone?
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:26 am
If you are to do a movie out of a book you need to use your brain not just do exactly as the book except for bad actors and cutting out the best parts you have to think about the feeling of the book and try to capture that the only movies I have seen that did that was the lotr movies and bladerunner everything else (that I have seen and read) is awful. gonk
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:30 pm
"Chocolat", "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "Flowers for Algernon", "The Golden Compass"... ooh, it makes me so MAD!!! scream I love movies, but I hate it when they wreck books. Whenever people say, "I haven't read the book, but I saw the movie", I just want to tear their throats out! It's not the same, people!!! crying
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Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:45 am
Guys, aren't they making Twilight into a movie? stare
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Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:54 pm
I hate book goes movie.
They nearly always ruin a good story,
and then they have to make a crappy video game (for every system)
to go along with it...
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:00 am
Eoinda To make a book into a movie is like killing it most of the time I liked lotr though but apart from that... I don't like the narnia movie, harry potter, Eragon (trowing up) but I think it's the same when they make a movie into a book it totally ruins the movie so it goes both ways
Every now and then I like to see a movie that was originally a book JUST for character appearance. Otherwise, they butcher things. Couldn't even finish Eragon. I was disgusted.
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