Books vs Movies
By Silverchic
@Silverchic (396)
Australia
January 10, 2007 8:27pm CST
I'm an avid reader and would quite happily wile away hours of my free time with my nose stuck in a book, but I also enjoy watching a movie a couple of times a month...
I've found that I will really drag my heels about watching a movie when I've read the book. I've been so disappointed with so many movies (compared to the book) because they just drop so much extra information out (so you don't end up with an 8 hour movie probably!). Jurassic Park was the first one I remember - I'd read the book probably half a dozen times then watched the movie...there was soooo much missing! Whole chapters had been cut!
Does anyone else get bothered by this? Or even just notice it?
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7 responses
@trihknittee (124)
• India
11 Jan 07
Yes, being a good reader myself I've been through that myself.
But then again, to make a film based on a 300 odd pages book is pretty difficult without cutting out parts. esp when films are not suppossed to be long and if they are people tend to get bored. Also films visulaise what the director imagined while as book lets us imagine what WE wanna see. I've had so many oh-this-is-not-how-i-thought-it-would-be situations while watching a movie.
I've read this somewhere, " Don't judge a book by its movie"
True,huh? :D
@Silverchic (396)
• Australia
11 Jan 07
Going back the other way (watching the movie then reading the book) works well...you get the main gist of the story from the movie then the book fills in the little gaps! lol
Yes, that is so true! And I've learnt the hard way about the other saying "Don't judge a book by it's cover"! A series of books that I now love I didn't want to read a couple of years ago because the covers just didn't interest me! =)
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@sesha1240 (303)
• India
11 Jan 07
yes,
even i faced the same situation like u.
whatever we read ni the books are not seen in the movies.
did u watch the movie harry potter series and the da vinci code..
theres so much missing..the story has many "cuttings" in it ..when t comes to the movies
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@Silverchic (396)
• Australia
11 Jan 07
I have watched the Harry Potter movies (and loved them!) but have never read the books...I've looked at them but they just didn't really catch my attention.
And I haven't watched the Da Vinci Code yet - but I definitely plan to! I probably won't read the book as it isn't really in the genres that I like to read, so I would probably get bored with it...
But it's nice to know I'm not alone in this opinion! lol
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@chikkadee (372)
• Australia
15 Jan 07
ITs funny, some movies are just as good as their books, some are completly different from the books and some are worse (mostly worse).
I just finished watching man on fire recently and thought it was pretty good as a movie (I LOVED the book) but it was so utterly different that you couldn't really make a comparison between the too. This is how I think it should be done because, as its been said before, you cant fit an entire book into a movie.
And saying that though I couldn't stand the da vinci code, whilst the book read like a movie I just didn't like how it was done, even just as a standalone movie rather than an adaptation.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
13 Jan 07
I was dissapointed with "The Da Vinci Code", and "The Beach". Great books, poor movies.
@Adversa (406)
• Australia
19 Jan 07
Dont see a movie based on a book after you have read the book. You will be disapointed. There simply isnt time in a movie to put the whole story in, so its rather cramped. You never gt to know the characters as well as you do in a book like you do in the film.
But your right, reading the book after the movie makes more sense - you can fill in the gaps.
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@Silverchic (396)
• Australia
21 Jan 07
But also I've found when you read a book you get your own idea of what the characters look like - then you watch the movie and you are sitting there saying "That's not right! Such-and-such doesn't look like that! He's meant to be a lot taller" or something like that....
@andy_baex (428)
• Indonesia
11 Jan 07
yeah i agree with you, i always read the book before i waych the movie, have different way to understand,so many missing in movie and that's bother me, good luck friend
