Books to Movies

CeeCeeSugaPie · August 2015

I saw the picture below and just loved it and thought I would share. I do feel like that sometimes, when people ask me to see a movie and I want to read the book first, that they think I am being a snoot about it.
So true!

sassypants527 · August 2015

I also want to read the book first because 1. there is so much internal dialog that happens in the book and 2. movies never include everything that happened in the book and sometimes (ahem...HP...ahem) the movies don't make as much sense if you haven't already read the book.

angelashly · August 2015

I agree with this. I need to have my first time with characters to be in my head

Raeily · August 2015

I was trying to explain this to someone the other day. It's really important to me that I have my own vision of the book before I see the movie. I even get irked when they start selling the books with the actors on the cover if I don't get to it in time.

dutchgirl76 · August 2015

I can't stand books with the characters on the cover either, ruins my image of them. Some movies (eh hem Mr. Sparks) are so different from the books too. Plus if could ruin a surprise, Gone Girl was pretty much ruined for me as I read the book after the movie came out I kept hearing about the huge "twist" but I like to come across that on my own.

CeeCeeSugaPie · August 2015

Raeily said:

I was trying to explain this to someone the other day. It's really important to me that I have my own vision of the book before I see the movie. I even get irked when they start selling the books with the actors on the cover if I don't get to it in time.

Same here. That happened to me with Twilight. I had already starting seeing glimpses here and there of Robert Pattinson so I was already picturing him.

SusieBW · August 2015

But sometimes, when I see the movie first, I don't even want to read the book because I love the movie so much. Does anyone else have movies like that? The two that always come to mind are Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. I adore both of those movies, and I don't want to read the books and know any more or any different from what's in the movies. Am I the only one?

CeeCeeSugaPie · August 2015

SusieBW said:

But sometimes, when I see the movie first, I don't even want to read the book because I love the movie so much. Does anyone else have movies like that? The two that always come to mind are Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. I adore both of those movies, and I don't want to read the books and know any more or any different from what's in the movies. Am I the only one?

This happens to me sometimes as well. Bridget Jones's Diary, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, A Beautiful Mind. Also, OITNB, although not a movie.

dutchgirl76 · August 2015

I could see not wanting to read the book after the movie. I loved The Help, the movie was almost the same although they left out so much. I loved the Time Traveler's Wife movie and eventually want to read the book, but I think I'd be ok if I didn't read it since the movie was so good. A lady at my knitting group told me she always watches the movie before reading the book to avoid disappointment if they change or leave out too much.

I do agree though that you need to read the book to understand certain movies. I liked the narration in the Hunger Games, I was told to wait to see the movie until I read the book or else I wouldn't understand what was going on. I saw The Virgin Suicides before I read the book, while I enjoyed the movie, the book helped fill in a lot and made the movie make a lot more sense on second viewing.

SusieBW · August 2015

CeeCeeSugaPie said:

SusieBW said:

But sometimes, when I see the movie first, I don't even want to read the book because I love the movie so much. Does anyone else have movies like that? The two that always come to mind are Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. I adore both of those movies, and I don't want to read the books and know any more or any different from what's in the movies. Am I the only one?

This happens to me sometimes as well. Bridget Jones's Diary, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, A Beautiful Mind. Also, OITNB, although not a movie.

OITNB for sure! I picked up that book from the library when I finished watching Season 1, but never even opened it. I heard that the show embellished SO MUCH of the story that it became way better than the book was, even if the book is truth and the show is drama. So no book for me.

SnShne322 · August 2015

I've tried to read Fried Green Tomatoes a handful of times and I just can't do it. Nothing will live up to Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson and Marie-Louise Parker. It's just not going to happen.

SnShne322 · August 2015

OITNB is SO different as a book than the show. It's so loosely tied to the first season and that's about it. Also, I didn't really like the book much at all.

sassypants527 · August 2015

I hated the book Practical Magic but I adore the movie. Sally Owens in the book was a raging bitch and not likable at all!

dutchgirl76 · August 2015

Come to think of it...I loved the movie "Water for Elephants" but the book was painful, no character development, no description. Took me a month to read a book less than 300 pages.

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