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Posts: 6762 (03/06/09 19:41:08) No need for labels, right? Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None After seeing Watchmen, I thought of this poll. It's a discussion I have with friends sometimes about book-movie combinations. When you see a movie adaptation of a book, you tend to . . . (Result) Compare the movie's merits to the book. Rate or examine the movie somewhat separately from the book. Assume the movie is not as good as the book. See the movie instead of reading the book. Avoid seeing the movie version of the book. (something else)
Benoist Poire		#1	[-]
Posts: 2494 (03/06/09 23:06:41) Cuisinartist Iron Liege Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I try really hard to consider the movie as something completely different from the book. Sometimes I have a hard time not comparing, but I try to get over it (case in point: Lord of the Rings movies). Iron League - Seven Spires - Praemal Tales - Bare Thoughts Ptolus Code 0A2S-052508-061708-Y-W-33/1000-M
scribble		#2	[-]
Posts: 125 (03/07/09 09:27:24) What's going on? Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The first three answers are all true for me. i'm certainly going to compare the movie to the book, because it's fun and interesting to see what choices were made in the adaptation. When it comes down to deciding if a movie adaptation is good or not, i do try and treat it separately from the book as much as possible. And before i see the movie I always assume it won't be as good as the book - this is true at least 90% of the time, and it keeps my expectations from getting unreasonably high. ~scribble~
Kadh2000		#3	[-]
Posts: 3626 (03/08/09 23:39:28) Smarter than your average Klingon Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I watch the movie. Inevitably I'm going to compare it to the book, so I don't pretend to try not to. I also do tend to go with the assumption that the book will be better. If the book was bad, however, unless people I trust like the movie, then I am not going to see it. So, four different answers. Kadh, who doesn't think tetrachotomy is a word. "Cry woe, destruction, ruin, loss, decay; The worst is Kadh, and Kadh will have his day!"
Eldric IV		#4	[-]
Posts: 10136 (03/09/09 02:04:54) Resident Paladin Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I read very little fiction for being a gamer (I think I have read 2 fiction books in the last year not counting 'literature' like The Portrait of Dorian Gray or a collection of Poe's poems), so I will see the movie instead of reading the book. Final Words, before the battle with Demogorgon: My life does not matter. It was given to me to better the lives of my people. Please give the Pureblade to my son so that he may finish what I start here today.
JoeyJoeJoeJunShabadoo		#5	[-]
Posts: 1543 (03/19/09 13:40:23) That's the woist name I ever hoird Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I try to rate movies seperately, since they are different mediums with different strengths. However, when something like Harry Potter comes along and JK Rowling urges the movie-makers to show scenes exactly out of the book, and any form of cinematic storytelling be damned, I have to make an exception. While I enjoy the setting and the characters, I've yet to follow one without asking my wife why this or that is happening. I place it all on the fact that it's trying too hard to be the book. And in a situation like that, IMO the movie will never be as good as the book.
Mr Fletch		#6	[-]
Posts: 686 (05/03/09 16:23:41) Shadowy Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I used to compare movie directly to books and rate them based on how much of the book content the movies manages to convey. I have since, however, decided to take movies and books separately. I don't downgrade movies for not being as rich as the books on which they are based. It isn't fair. Movies and books are two different art forms, and it is much easier to think of them as existing in slightly different universes. I have expanded this to the difference between movies and TV shows. For instance, Star Trek movies and Star Trek TV series take place in slightly different realities as far as I am concerned. I try to take each on its own merits. I know I don't believe or at least I believe I don't believe, you know? - Dr. Faust, Wittenberg
DerekDyer		#7	[-]
Posts: 7219 (05/05/09 13:40:11) Just showed up Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Some movies I compare and some I don't, and it really depends on too many factors to list (some of which you're not consciously aware of). Though I will say that as a general statement the better the movie is the more I feel comfortable comparing it to the book. I always compared the first Harry Potter to the book, cause I thought both were excellent and felt they were very close to one another. However as the books got longer, the movies diverged more and more from the books, which resulted in Order of the Phoenix being my least favorite movie (by far). Thankfully the last book is being done as a two-parter which should help. It's also extremely interesting to me now that books are being turned into TV series' which makes even more sense IMO. I'm quite please with Legend of the Seeker, least of all with the name of the show and most of all in the casting. However that's a conversation for it's own thread (which I'm not sure why we don't have one on it).
madfox		#8	[-]
Posts: 6914 (05/06/09 03:07:58) That's a lot of posts. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well, I try to judge movies and books differently for all the stated reasons. I will admit though that doing so is easier said than done, especially if you really liked the book.