Good to know! "Read the book after the movie" is my usual MO, but usually it's because the book is better, not because it's essentially a different take on the same story.
We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.
Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'
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Zenkitty - Sep 23, 2015 6:31:49 am PDT #29400 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
SuziQ - Sep 23, 2015 6:38:00 am PDT #29401 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
We recently watch Mazerunner: The Scorch Trials and Insurgent. I had resisted seeing Insurgent because the trailers made it look like it went completely away from the book while the trailers for Mazerunner: The Scorch Trials didn't ping in that direction.
Boy was I wrong. Mazerunner: The Scorch Trails had K-Bug and I looking at eachother in WTF-ness at just about every scene. I'd be curious of the opinion of someone who hadn't read the Mazerunner series. The changes in Insurgent were much easier for me to handwave away as artistic license while still following the basic story.
All that to say, maybe I shouldn't try to a book before a movie comes out. Without those expectations, maybe I'd like the movies more and then appreciate the detail in the book separately.
Una - Sep 23, 2015 7:12:13 am PDT #29402 of 30000
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
So glad to hear that about the casting, because I read the book right after the first trailer came out, and so Matt Damon was my mental image while reading.
The white fonted decisions for the movie make a lot of sense.
OMG I NEED THIS MOVIE IN MY VISUAL CORTEX.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2015 10:11:12 am PDT #29403 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
OK, so Roland Emmerlich had asked audiences not to pre-judge Stonewall as whitewashing the events based on the trailer. Now reports from critics seem to indicate the trailer showed the film in a better light than viewing the whole thing, which might has well have been titled Cute White Savior.
Zenkitty - Sep 23, 2015 11:35:44 am PDT #29404 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, fuck Roland Emmerlich with a stranger's diseased genitals.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2015 2:32:34 pm PDT #29405 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
But hey, at least Emmerich does let a black character hand Jeremy Irvine's ahistorical twink protagonist a brick so the latter can be the one to spark the riots. I know when I'm boiling over with outrage at an injustice happening before my eyes my first impulse is to look around for the nearest handsome teenage boy so I can pat him on the back and say "go get 'em, Tiger!"
Gris - Sep 23, 2015 4:25:41 pm PDT #29406 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I listened to The Martian on audiobook for at least 50% of it and the reader sounds nothing like Damon, so even though I knew he was in it I escaped the image. The book is really amazing, and the audiobook made the sciency parts a bit easier to follow I felt (though I am a math and science teacher and an engineering major so my perspective is not everybody's.) Definitely a worthwhile read. And it was my first experience with buying a kindle book that had the cheapish Audio narration addition that auto magically syncs with your reading spot, which is my new favorite thing.
Vonnie K - Sep 27, 2015 5:01:40 pm PDT #29407 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Just came back from the latest Mission Impossible movie and had a whale of a time. I mean, of course it's all ludicrous nonsense, but it's slick, fast-paced, super-fun nonsense. A+ entertainment, will watch again!
I particularly loved Rebecca Ferguson, the actress who played Ilsa. I heard her name being thrown around as the potential pick for the Captain Marvel movie and gotta say, the lady can kick ass like nobody's business and has charisma to burn.
Among the trailers shown before the movie: Michael Bay apparently made a movie about Benghazi. Good lord.
-t - Sep 30, 2015 6:55:42 pm PDT #29408 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Seeing Iron Giant: accomplishment unlocked. I did not stay for the preview of the making of documentary or whatever, because I really am tired, but I'm glad I saw the movie on the big screen.
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2015 1:49:05 pm PDT #29409 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
We saw The Martian today, and I was impressed with how well it was adapted from the book. It's a credit to Jeff Daniels that it took me until the very end to think "Hey, that's the Dumb and Dumber guy!"
Also, I secretly think the only reason the movie got made was so that they could use "I Will Survive" over the closing credits. (I laughed a lot throughout the movie, but that probably got the biggest laugh from me. Well played, movie. Well played.)