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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is:
Top Ten Best/Worst Book to Movie Adaptations
As booklovers, I think a lot of our first instincts are to say "the book was better!" Usually, well, it's true! But there are some film versions that were pretty damn close..... And others that I would just like to forget about entirely. Let's start with the 5 best adaptations, shall we?
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I'm a huge fan of the Harry Potter series, and I feel like the first film was nearly perfect. It gave such a wonderful, magical look into the wizarding world, and helped me to properly imagine the settings throughout the remaining books. The actors were all well cast, and sigh, I just loved this film- and book.
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I was admittedly worried about this one. I mean, it's a book about children murdering other children. But I have to say, the violence was more implied than brutal, the acting was good, and it stayed relatively true to the book plot. I can't wait for Catching Fire.
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And of course, there's the Lord of the Rings series. I think the scenery is beautiful, the actors are beautiful. I fell in love all over again with these books once I saw the movies!
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I love Rooney Mara. That's pretty much my views on this in a nutshell. Granted, there were some changes. But I found both film adaptations to be better than I anticipated.
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I wasn't a huge fan of The DaVinci Code, so I was hesitant to see Angels & Demons. I was impressed and enthralled, and must have reread the book at least three times after going to see it.
And then there's the not so good......
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This was my favorite book in the series.... And my least favorite film. I was actually in tears when I left the theater. It was over acted and chopped to bits and almost made me give up on the franchise all together.
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I really, really, really just don't understand the hype around this series. The movie somehow managed to be worse than the book, since it merged characters and changed personalities. I want to like this series, really I do.... I just can't.
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I'm not afraid to say that I enjoyed the book, Twilight. But the movie? No. So much no. The acting is bad, the effects are bad. Taylor Lautner was my only saving grace throughout this first film.
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This book scared me to no end while I was reading it. But the movie? Laughable. I am a complete weenie when it comes to horror movies, and this movie still bored me.
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I don't want to talk about it.
Honorable mentions for book-to-films that I loved: Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Outsiders, Interview with the Vampire.
How about you?
I loved Hunger Games as well! The cast is great and they did a good job bringing that world to life.
ReplyDeleteI love Stieg Larsson's trilogy, but I prefer the three Swedish movies to the American one. Roonie Mara did a good job but Noomi Rapace has my heart ;)
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I think if I would have seen Noomi's performance first, she probably would have been my favorite Lisbeth haha
ReplyDeleteThe Exorcist was a book first?! OMG, BRB looking for it on Amazon.
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It's a way better book, in my opinion!
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