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 Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:13 pm
Recently I've been seeing trailers that they're making the book into a movie.
I read the book two or three years ago when my aunt sent me the series saying she loved it when she was my age but I only read the first book and really disliked it so I sold the rest of the series.
But about the movies, from what I've seen from trailers and from what I remember from the books, the trailers don't look like anything I remember at all.
What do you guys think who've read the book or seen the trailers or both think?
[I wasn't sure what forum to put this in since we've had specific books to movies threads in the main forum before. >.>]
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:06 am
I read the books a long time ago (and loved them), but haven't seen any trailers. Where might I find them?
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:17 am
I haven't seen them on TV yet but I happened to be going to the movies a lot lately and I've been seeing them at the theatre. Here's two I found on youtube though: [x][x] <--That's the one I keep seeing.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:49 am
I read the first book in like the fourth or fifth grade. I remember liking it, but no being able to find the rest of the series in my schools library.
I seen the trailer for it last time I went to the movies, I think the movie will be really good, and it will make the books popular again.
As for it following the plot of the book, I don't think you can tell that much from a trailer not to mention I have read at least a half-million books since then. rofl
Edit: They changed the time period for sure. Maybe it is really different.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:24 am
I know they changed the time period for sure but I don't remember the kid having a brother in the book for one, I'm pretty sure it was a sister. I may just be getting books confused now though since it was a while since I read it too.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:41 pm
Judging by what I could tell from that trailer, the movie is not going to be completely like the books, but then they never are.
I read the series a couple times, because I really enjoyed it. The kids of the first book were a family of four (two girls and two boys) another book had a boy that was an only child, and the one that that movie is to be based on had a much larger family (he was special because he was the seventh son of a seventh son... I think he may have had a sister as well).
That's what I can remember anyway, and I hope I get a chance to see the movie, so that I can compare them.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:30 pm
Ironically enough, I was just thinking about rereading that series. I know, though, that what they have in the trailers is really different and the movie will be a total flop compared to the series. You just can't get the right depth with just one movie. But I know for a fact that Will had at least one or two sisters, one named either Martha or Mary, and that the signs were all quartered circles made of different substances and found in different places and times. I, for one, had never seen/heard of the trailers before now.
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:27 pm
I should probably go reread it as much as I didn't like it since I can't recall any of what's being said about the book. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:22 am
Zizzykitty I know they changed the time period for sure but I don't remember the kid having a brother in the book for one, I'm pretty sure it was a sister. I may just be getting books confused now though since it was a while since I read it too. I thought in the book Will had a whole bunch of siblings (and he was just the youngest). I'll have to check at work tomorrow.
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:04 pm
I finally got my hands on the book (it keeps getting checked out!), and scanned the first page. On that page alone, Will is talking to one brother about how they have too many people in their family, and mention two sisters by name, while referencing other sibs.
I know Under Sea, Over Stone and Greenwitch involve another family, composed of two brothers and two sisters, as GirlPuck has already stated.
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:07 pm
OliviaFalconer I finally got my hands on the book (it keeps getting checked out!), and scanned the first page. On that page alone, Will is talking to one brother about how they have too many people in their family, and mention two sisters by name, while referencing other sibs. I know Under Sea, Over Stone and Greenwitch involve another family, composed of two brothers and two sisters, as GirlPuck has already stated. Wow, I guess I really need to reread it then. o_O
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:24 am
Did you even see the movie to compare to the book? I loved the book, but I'm afraid of how the video will be.
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:37 am
I still haven't had a chance, and I don't think it even came to the theatre here, so I completely forgot to look for it to rent it. Now I'll have to try to find it, because I really do want to see it.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:38 pm
I watched the movie, and it is really different. The signs are all wrong, the plot is weird, and Will is 13! For crying out loud, he's only 11 in the books. Sheesh! And in the movie they acted like the ending of the movie ended the whole thing. Wrong! And I realize that Will did have a twin brother who died, but in the movie, the Dark had stolen Tom as a baby and Will 'rescues' him and brings him back home. Grrr!!!! It made me so MAD!
Thus ends my rant.
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