I need to get to the library for something to read. In the meanwhile . . .
I don't really think that when books are made into movies they turn out super great. Dear John is the most recent book to film and I'm debating seeing the movie - mostly because I like looking at Channing Tatum. Lots of Nicholas Sparks' other books have done this, but I think the Notebook is the only one that was okay. A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, Message in a Bottle are the others - all very average.
When the Harry Potter movies came out, I refused watching them. Those books were great and I already had my own images in mind for Hogwarts and all. I only got through the first 4 books and now that they've played the movies on tv I've watched them. I like them. Maybe because the special effects get better with each one?
I've read a lot of Jodi Picoult's books, but not My Sister's Keeper. I think I've decided I might just watch that movie and skip the book. Waiting for The Time Traveler's Wife to come out on dvd (maybe it is already?). After reading the book I'm interested to see how everything gets put together in the movie.
The one thing I dislike is when the movie shifts the timeline of the book. Events in the book are brushed right over or squished together or completely changed. I think that Into the Wild is one of the most guilty. The end of the movie suggests something different than the book. Hated it.
I love the Twilight books. The first movie was awful. The second movie was better. The last two better be great.
I realize that concepts for movies need to come from somewhere. And there's many many movies that I've seen and enjoyed that have been based on books I haven't read. I'll enjoy this ignorance.
