Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
View Poll Results: Which do people prefer. Seeing the movie first or readding the book? | |||
Reading the book | 14 | 73.68% | |
Seeing the movie | 2 | 10.53% | |
Doesn't matter | 1 | 5.26% | |
Depends on the book/movie | 2 | 10.53% | |
Voters: 19. You may not vote on this poll |
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Movie or book first?
Which do people like more? Seeing the movie first and then reading the book or vice versa?
Think how many parts of the Bible have been made into movies? That's probably the most filmed book in the Western Hemisphere. Other book/movie combinations to recall and/or look forward to: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest MASH Gone with the Wind The Wizard of Oz Ben-Hur Catch 22 Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago War and Peace Mystic River No Country for Old Men Reservation Road The Godfather Band of Brothers What other movie/book combinations can people recall? I remember that at the Palm Harbor Library there was a woman volunteer whose son wrote or had something to do with the Road to Perdition book which was made into a movie with Tom Hanks. |
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Interesting poll. I started to say reading the book first but then I thought there are times when I see a movie and think it would be so much more interesting reading the book because who knows what lands up on the floor of the editing room. I know this happens a lot that many times the actors are very upset because the end result isn't what they expected. And then again, sometimes I read I book and am so disappointed when I see the movie. Anyway, I'm confused already (that's not new.) :dontknow:
That's just my opinion.
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I have had times when I saw the movie and then read the book and times when I have read the book and then seen the movie. There are also times when I have seen the movie and read the book and then reordered the movie and then the movie made sense.
There is no way that any movie can outdo the book. A movie does not have the time to get the in-depth look and thinking that the characters do in a book. I have yet to see a movie that does the book justice. Close but no cigar. That is just my opinion and I stick to it.
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Always try to read the book first and see if the movie lives up to my imagination. Rarely does, but that's okay, I usually still enjoy the movie.
And how could you possibly forget Harry Potter? HUMPH The Color Purple Flight of Eagles The Eagle has Landed The Bone Collector at least one James Patterson book, Kiss All the Girls (?) I Robot (book great, movie stunk) And I'm sure I'll think of several more before I go to sleep. Then there's the movies that have caused books to be written such as the Star Trek and Star Wars series.
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And you are right that sometimes the movie inspires a book to follow. |
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Oops, forgot my favorite author -- Heinlein's Starship Troopers. It really did amaze me that they basically turned a teen sci fi book into such a horrid adult movie. Fortunately, they didn't totally destroy The Puppet Masters.
And, of course, Hebert's Dune series. Asimov's short stories Bicentennial Man and Nightfall. Stephen King's books. Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Farewell to Arms; Grapes of Wrath; The Red Pony and so on for Messrs. Hemingway and Steinbeck. Dean Martin in the Matt Helm series. The James Bond movies. Okay, I quit -- at least for now. There are more that keep coming into my head but someone else should have a chance to name more. Right? BTW -- Do you get the feeling I like sci fi and gore? lol
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Army/embassy brat - traveled too much to mention Moved here from SF Bay Area (East Bay) "There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
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Reading the book A Beautiful Mind sure tarnished my images from the movie of the same name when I read the book second.
Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington are very good in American Gangster even if Washington looks very little like the real life drug lord Frank Lucas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_L...28drug_lord%29 |
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