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Don't Judge A Book By It's Movie

It seems that more and more movies are just film adaptions of books. "Lord of the Rings", "Stardust", "Narnia", "The Golden Compass", "Blood and Chocolate", and God help us all..."Twilight." A large majority of the filming industry has been taken up by making a book, into a movie. What do you think of this whole idea? Are people more willing to watch a movie, then read the book? Is it a good idea to turn every book into a movie? Or should the entertainment industry try for a little creativity in creating movies without relying on books?


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I liked "Where the Red Fern Grows"
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In response to tyiqoqibfiobao At 04:35 pm WaterSheerie Said :
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I saw the LOTR cartoon...it was one reason why I was scared to see the movie. The cartoon was just atrocious. Fortunately the movie turned into a pleasent surprise, but nothing can really ease the remembered pain of the cartoon.
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In response to ralicia At 04:33 pm WaterSheerie Said :
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Lord of the Rings was just plain awesome. And I loved how they were able to fit The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen in there, which was originally a short excerpt in the glossaries of Return of the King.

They destroyed The Mists of Avalon?. Nothing is sacred anymore.
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At 08:47 am tyiqoqibfiobao Said :
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well you also have to remember that with visual effects now they can actually make alot of the fantasy books now alot of movie makers have wanted to turn books like narnia and LOTRs into movies for a long time but they had to settle for some really bad ones before they had the visual effects to make the current adaptations i still have nightmares about the old LOTR cartoon uck terrible
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At 08:44 am ralicia Said :
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Well books are simply a movie in your mind and artists are inspired to paint scenes from books so why wouldnt directors and screenwriters who are also artists desire to turn these books into their own artworks? The lord of the rings trilogy was exceptional in my mind even though it left a lot of the story out, it still remained true to the story and was the book realised in pictures. Some adaptations simply blow though through the script and choice of actors. The Mists of Avalon was a huge dissapointment for me in all regards cause the director or scriptwriter or whatever missed the point of the movie and left all the important bits out and the casting was appaling.
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At 08:24 am AlexINTJ Said :
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I still can't get over the film version of one of my favorite books as a kid. Regardless of the fact it wasn't a great piece of literature, Ella Enchanted was entirely ruined by the first utterance of a medieval mall. The charming memory of reading that book as a young girl will forever be sullied because of that pile of goo.
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At 08:03 am WaterSheerie Said :
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Lets not forget graphic novels being turned into movies, like Sin City and 300. Also another book-turned-movie that I forgot to mention, Horton Hears A Who. That was another good book that managed to survive in a good movie.
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In response to cheetor357 At 10:24 pm WaterSheerie Said :
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They made a movie out of the Darwin Awards. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried those Dummies books...
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At 10:19 pm WaterSheerie Said :
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I think that perhaps we need to focus a little more on movies not based on books. Every freakin' book that comes out now, has to be turned into a movie. It's ridiculous. On some occasions, the movie actually does the book justice. Lord of the Rings and Narnia are good examples. Other times, the movie simply mangles the book, Blood and Chocolate. Plus there is this disturbing suspicion that people would rather watch a movie, then read a book.

Stardust was a great movie...but I feel really bad in that I didn't like what little I read of the book. And I'm a big Neil Gaiman fan. I guess it was just the abscence of Robert de Niro's 'gay Captain Shakespeare' character that diminished the book for me.
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