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roygerdodger
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 Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject: When you see a movie or TV show based off a book.... |
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Do you read it before or after you see it? I've been doing that for years.
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SamwiseGamgee
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If I've read the book before, I'll read it again before going to see the movie to refresh my memory. If I'm going to see a movie that I know beforehand is based on a book I've never read, I might find and read the book first if it's something I think I'll really enjoy, otherwise I'll wait and see if I like the movie before I bother looking for the book.
There are far more instances of me having seen a movie and later finding out it's a book and then if I really liked the movie I'll read the book.
The vast majority of the time the book is much better than the movie, which is why I usually try to read the book if the movie sounds interesting to me. Only once have I watched something that I thought was better than the book. |
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Skilpadde
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Usually it takes some years from a book is published to a movie or TV series is made, so if I get a book while it's new, I will read wthout even knowing that it'll become a movie/series.
| Quote: | | The vast majority of the time the book is much better than the movie |
Which is why I always see the movie/series first if I can. (If I discovered the book late enough).
If the book is already read, I prefer to wait a while before seeing it as a movie, so it's no longer so fresh in my mind and I can enjoy the movie better.
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SamwiseGamgee
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| Skilpadde wrote: | | If the book is already read, I prefer to wait a while before seeing it as a movie, so it's no longer so fresh in my mind and I can enjoy the movie better. |
I prefer to play the comparison game. I enjoy the movie while I secretly judge all the people involved in adapting it. 
A few years ago I discovered that a lot of my favourite movies at the time were based on books. I thought that was strange but then I started thinking about it and I think it's because when they're writing the movie they already have all the back story and stuff from the books so maybe it's easier to adapt. I don't know, but books usually make really good movies, the books themselves just tell a more in-depth story. |
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I usually read the book well before seeing a movie. This was the case with Nineteen Eighty-Four, A Clockwork Orange, Watchmen and so on. I think that there were two comics that I read after watching the movies, both Alan Moore comics: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta.
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GoonSquad
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| SamwiseGamgee wrote: |
The vast majority of the time the book is much better than the movie, which is why I usually try to read the book if the movie sounds interesting to me. Only once have I watched something that I thought was better than the book. |
Yeah, for me, that one time was Bladerunner--so much better than P.K. Dick's book. As far as I can tell, he's a very overrated writer.
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irishwhistle
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| Skilpadde wrote: | Usually it takes some years from a book is published to a movie or TV series is made, so if I get a book while it's new, I will read wthout even knowing that it'll become a movie/series.
| Quote: | | The vast majority of the time the book is much better than the movie |
Which is why I always see the movie/series first if I can. (If I discovered the book late enough).
If the book is already read, I prefer to wait a while before seeing it as a movie, so it's no longer so fresh in my mind and I can enjoy the movie better. |
Exactly what I do. Odds are good that I will not enjoy it as much if I've read it. It's tricky either way, though. I sometimes like to cast the roles in my mind when I read the book, choosing actors that seem to fit, but once I've seen someone else's choices, that's it.
An odd one was Lord of the Rings. I had of course read it before, and loved it, and when I saw the movies I was dazzled and thrilled and tended to be magnanimous about the changes. Even now, there are certain changes that I recognize as being necessary for the transfer to visual storytelling. That said, the more I see those movies, the harder they are to watch. All the unnecessary changes keep jumping out at me and bonking me over the head. Which is what I'd like to do to Arwen. Bonk! Bonk! Get back where you belong in the story, woman, and try to be regal already! And Faramir, you schoolgirl, what happened to you? You didn't bloody show your quality, did you? Aragorn! Quite whinging about being a King, you never did that! Elrond, Theoden, Denethor... since when were you all so pissed off at each other? And Sam! Bonk, slap, groin kick! Pull yourself together and stop behaving like a soap opera character, you silly sod! And Merry! And Pippin! One of you be a little sillier, the other show a little more strength! And pretend to be Frodo when the Orc grabs you! Don't you know how long I waited to see that on film? And Frodo... well you were pretty good in spite of making stupid bird noises after the Morgul knife incident and stupidly sending Sam away like some character in a tween sitcom... No wonder they didn't film the scouring of the Shire! No one would believe you lot could have pulled it off!
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And Eowyn, bless your heart, girl, go get Gandalf and Bilbo and come beat the crap out of the rest of them.
And Bombadil... yeah, I get that one.
Sorry, I always get carried away on that topic. I shouldn't have gone there. I rave about Star Wars episode 2, as well, for different reasons. Most of them are Hayden Christensen (or he-who-cannot-act), the way he utterly failed chemistry... on-screen. And tumbling over giant cow bugs, Lucas, really?
So yeah, I try not to read 'em until I see the movie, yup.
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Min27
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I'm really visual, so usually I'll only see the movie, unless it was based on a favorite book that I read in my early childhood (eg. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
| Quote: | | Usually it takes some years from a book is published to a movie or TV series is made, so if I get a book while it's new, I will read wthout even knowing that it'll become a movie/series. |
Harry Potter got made into movies pretty quickly. |
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