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My Recent Posts · (04/02/09

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Overall, I would say most of them never come out as good as the book. But, I guess it's the curiosity that killed the cat...I just have to see what their like! What about you??

I think they did a pretty good job with Twilight...and I've always liked "Girl Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen's. I think Angelina Jolie did a great job portraying Lisa. Anyone have any other good suggestions?

My Recent Posts · (04/02/09

generally, only if I've seen the movie before I've read the book. I know there's been at least one exception for me, but I can't think of the title offhand.

For a while, I was anxiously awaiting Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series being made into a movie then I found out that Janet liked Sandra Bullock for the lead (although she thinks SB will be ancient by the time the movie gets made.) I so do not see SB in the role so that made me really rethink my enthusiasm for the idea. Same with Patricia Cornwell and Kay Scarpetta-seemed like the concensus was for Julianne Moore (last time I hecked the pollls) and she just doesn't impress me.
I haven't read the Twilight books so have no concept of story or characters.

My Recent Posts · (04/03/09

I too have been anticipating a few novels to turn into movies....I would love any of Tamora Pierce's Tortall books to be movies, especially Terrier. I'm dying to see what Rosto would look like. Also, any in the Nora Roberts series, because I've read them all.

My Recent Posts · (04/03/09

Well..the Nora Roberts series were turned into movies. Lifetime premiers one every Saturday night. This week is 'High Noon'. Can't wait, because I read the book a few months ago....love to see how it turned out. Here's a preview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qq_KJul044

My Recent Posts · (04/05/09

I generally don't like the movies that are made from books. Very often the author writes for a purpose, he has something to say or something for you to think about. Generally the ending of the book is changed in the movie and it changes the entire message of the book. Either that, or they cut so much out of the book that it's practically unrecognizable. As a film freak as well as a bookaholic I have an entire list of movies that piss me off, and only a couple that I think really live up to the books they come from.

My Recent Posts · (04/07/09

Sublimosa said it for me, "generally, only if I've seen the movie before I've read the book."

If I've seen the film and then read the book, I don't enjoy the book very much because I'm seeing the actors instead of the characters. My imagination is not fired up because it's filled with the film scenes.

I tell a fib! I saw The Poseidon Adventure and enjoyed it, and then read the book and loved it. There were differences but, as a teenager back in the mid-1970s, it didn't matter to me. Some of the scenes could not have been filmed because the action happened in pitch black.

My Recent Posts · (04/09/09

Movies tend to cut out a lot of the stuff that makes a book good. They are just summarized interpretations. Even if they are well made, you can never get same amount of depth as you would if you read the book.

My Recent Posts · (04/10/09

Nope. I actually think books and movie have different purposes. I like movies okay (not as much as I like books) but the ones I really enjoy are movies that were specifically written as screenplays to be filmed, not ones that are "borrowed" from books.

My Recent Posts · (04/11/09

You know, this question has stayed with me.
I agree that books and movies are written with different intentions.
Part of me wants to say (especially since I can't see the action any moore) that movies can never never do what a book can do. I will stand behind that because that was how I felt when I could still see all the action.
But, there are some scenes (TV as well as movies) that were so intense, so moving and I just don't think a written passage could equal them...
One of the most moving scenes for me was from a movie I didn't care for overall- Say Anything with John Cusak and some girl and John Mahoney as the girl's father. )John Mahoney played Frasier's dad in Frasier).
Anyway, there is this scene where John Mahoney's world has just crumbled arund him and they show him fully clothed in a suit, sitting in an empty bathtub. So simply, so deeply, so poignantly, so elegantly, his despair was shown.
I tend to think a book gives more power to the participant, but maybe that's not always the case.
They are different with each having their own strengths. I guess that generally we can all agree that it's hard for a movie to capture well what we have already divined from a well written book.
And you know, it's kind of crazy that we would expect the same things from both mediums--they excite and stimulate different areas of the brain, even if in some ways, the result is the same they are going about it through totally different mechanisms.

My Recent Posts · (04/18/09

Sublimosa, I hear you. A moment like that for me was Meryl Streep slumped against the hospital wall in The Hours, the weight of the world and the lives of others on her.

I agree with so much of the above, and I know that seems contradictory. My response varies, as some films interpret books so well, or distill the essentials so well that they can transcend the original material. Others are tragedies: the casting's way off, the liberties taken with story and character are too much, and so on. (Alec Baldwin as Dave Robicheaux in Heaven's Prisoner's is a shining example of how to get things terribly wrong.) Sometimes the elements will seem to be in place but the film still doesn't measure up to the experience of the book (ie The Golden Compass, which got some things so right that it's an even greater tragedy). Then there's the recent adaptation of The Children of Men that starts with PD James' rather odd and dated novel and takes it to a new place, courtesy of strong and credible visual design, a solid cast and a visionary director. But then, I do know people who loathe it and think it a travesty...

Sometimes a film will introduce me to a new writer. After seeing No Country For Old Men, I raced to the nearest bookshop and stocked up on Cormac McCarthy. I wasn't disappointed. Same for Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, one of the best film adaptations I've seen in quite a while. The film did leave out subplot and some supporting characters but still managed to be everything the book was, so stark and beautiful while deeply unsettling.

My Recent Posts · (04/20/09

It's a common practice of book-lovers-elitism to complain about the movie adaptation of a book going wrong. But movies are a very different format than books, and they have to change things. I think movies should be judged on how well they meet the demand of their form, and books the same. Not how well one lives up to the form of the other.

My Recent Posts · (05/05/09

It depends. I realise that you have to make changes when you adapt a book into a film but if the film is so totally different that it is totally unrecognisable from the book then what is the point (artistically)? I like the adaptions of "Dune" (both the film and the mini-series) but there are significant changes. For example, in the book (as I recall) the Atreides army is small but feared by the Harkonnens/The Baron because they are so well trained and so loyal and because Duke Leto is a great leader etc. In the film the army is feared because they have "wielding modules" (a sound weapon). These were an invention of David Lynch as he did not feel in a film it would be possible to show a better trained army etc. (as I recall). They were not in the book. In the film this explains how a small army can overcome a big army because they have these better weapons. The "heart-plugs" were also not in the book. Also, Paul Atreides/the Kwisatz Haderach has many abilities but making it miraculously rain is not one of them.

My Recent Posts · (05/06/09

I love books made into movies. Sometimes I'm disappointed when favorite scenes are changed (but it's interesting to see a new interpretation) or passages that are left out altogether (I just fill in from memory). So generally, I do enjoy following up a good book with the movie version.

My Recent Posts · (05/08/09

Violanthe wrote:
It's a common practice of book-lovers-elitism to complain about the movie adaptation of a book going wrong. But movies are a very different format than books, and they have to change things. I think movies should be judged on how well they meet the demand of their form, and books the same. Not how well one lives up to the form of the other.

I recently read Q & A by Vikas Swarup, filmed as Slumdog Millionaire. I enjoyed the book, which I read before watching the movie. I agree that things have to change, but the film version was unrecognizable from the source material. That it won an Oscar for adapted screenplay remains a mystery to me.

My Recent Posts · (05/08/09

Most times the movies aren't 1/2 as good as the book. For instance, I read the Book Tribute by Nora Roberts. The movie came on 2 wks. after that. They left out alot of thing. The main idea was there but the book contained so much more substance.

I heard that My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult is being made into a movie. I also read that the ending is way different than the book. Not sure if I'll see the movie. Most likely, it'll ruin the beauty of her books for me.

My Recent Posts · (05/09/09

so far the only ones that are better than the book are the chronicles of narnia ones,

and the ones that were just as good.... or the one, the golden compass I loved just as much as I did reading the book.

so far I haven't watched anything as good as the book or better

I have to say though Eragon movie was HORRIBLE. lol

My Recent Posts · (05/14/09

Depends...I read The Stand long before it was made into a movie, and though there were changes, it didn't disappoint. Now Cujo on the other hand (rarely do I like to watch a King novel turned into a movie...)

As someone mentioned before, movies will sometimes introduce me to an author. Message in a Bottle and The Notebook introduced me to Nicholas Sparks and though his books seem to differ from the movies...I'm not disappointed, but then, I've seen the movies before reading the books.

My Recent Posts · (05/17/09

Two of the worst movies stemming from great books I'd read - The First Wives Club and Practical Magic

I will say, I saw Angels and Demons this week and really enjoyed it, as I did the book. Hanks played Langdon 10 times better in A&D than he did in DaVinci Code.

My Recent Posts · (05/21/09

Nope

My Recent Posts · (05/24/09

I've read quite a few film/book tie-ins and the quality is varied. I read "No Country For Old Men" after seeing the film and the two don't match. The same events are there-very much so-but the ambience is quite different. I enjoyed the film more.

The same with "Wonder Boys" , the novel being by Michael Chabon. The film is brilliant but takes a lot of liberties with the book. I have Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" on my reading list-next to me on the bookcase, actually.

My Recent Posts · (06/01/09

I love Wonder Boys..both the book and movie...but the movie is quite different and has a Hollywood happy ending. I do have a weakness for movies shot in my city. His other book Mysteries of Pittsburgh was great but the movie has kind of flopped.

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