I couldn't watch it
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
United States
September 7, 2018 6:40pm CST
Remember how I had recorded The Girl On The Train? Well, I couldn't watch it.
Not because it wouldn't play, or even because it was buffering a lot. It was doing neither of those things. No, the quality of the stream was perfect.
I couldn't watch it because I didn't like it. I got a few minutes into it and things were just different from the book. Well, atleast what I could remember from the book.
I told you I am weird when it comes to watching things I've read, and vice versa.
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@thislittlepennyearns (62929)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
8 Sep 18
I don't have any desire to watch it.I own the books too but I haven't read them
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
8 Sep 18
I've only read "The Girl On The Train", and I like it, but it was one of those books I won't re-read too much.
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@thislittlepennyearns (62929)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
9 Sep 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum I don't even know why I bought all of the books.
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
8 Sep 18
They never do movies the same as the books. Authors need to be more persistent in what can and cannot be changed when their books are made into movies.
I hadn't read the book so when I watched it, it was an unknown story to me. I liked it well enough.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
8 Sep 18
I think that some authors are so excited by the fact that their book is being made into a movie, and perhaps they also need the money that the movie will provide for them. I'm not sure. It could also boil down to their representative. Maybe the person representing them doesn't have a enough history with movie deals, or not a big enough backbone.
It could also boil down to the fact that the author is happy with the creative license the movie directors and writer's are taking.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
8 Sep 18
The Girl On The Train?
It wasn't that it started off boring, it was a few things that happened in the movie that didn't happen in the book.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
8 Sep 18
@LadyDuck Have you read the book?
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@LadyDuck (472060)
• Switzerland
8 Sep 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum I did not like at all the beginning of the movie, so I decided to stop watching.
@RasmaSandra (80784)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Sep 18
It happens. I have enjoyed both book and movie and then I have found that I enjoy a book better than the movie or the other way around.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
8 Sep 18
I think I get to vested in the storyline and so will not like the opposite. I read more books than I do watch television. There are times when I watch a movie and not realize it's based on a book until I've watched the movie.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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10 Sep 18
I enjoyed the film, but I haven't read the book. Afterwards I read that the book is set in London, which makes much more sense!
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
10 Sep 18
I bought the e-book when I saw it on a best seller's list a couple of years ago. When it was out in theaters, a friend asked if I was going to go see it. She had read the book as well, and I think she seemed to like the film.
I just could not get into the movie.
@Deepizzaguy (104153)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
8 Sep 18
The books that I have read that later became movies are different from the movies since the book give more details of the story that the movies.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
8 Sep 18
Exactly, which is why I don't like watching the movies.
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@Deepizzaguy (104153)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
18 Sep 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum That is true since movies usually do not have happy endings.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
8 Sep 18
If you see it on t.v., then by all means, give it a chance. I never do like the movie after reading a book. Or the book after watchign a movie.
@Iam_jauntyjen (5037)
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8 Sep 18
Most of the time the movies is different from the book. I watched the movie "Me Before You". I was disappointed by the movie.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
8 Sep 18
I agree, the movie has to cut things out from the book, and it just makes it bad.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
8 Sep 18
Exactly. I was only a few minutes in.
I watched the movie Sing! instead.
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