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Jul. 3rd, 2016 01:24 pmSo apparently, my pattern is that I read LJ on the weekends, catch up by Monday, then get too busy to read the rest of the week, leaving me drowning in posts on the weekend!
I blame some of these on the library and Summer Reading Club so I can't sneak a peek during the day LOL. Yes, I am bring forced to work at work all day! OH THE HUMANITY! (love my job!)
Anyway, I just went back some 300 entries on LJ and I think I am caught up now. YOWZA you guys were chatty (though there was some kind of LJ glitch that loaded a TON of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fragbert's posts from early June that I had never seen before and they were all on my flist...)
We're having a cookout today. Tomorrow is July 4th but we figured people may have plans with family, so we're doing a friends cookout, just a small group. Originally it was just 2 people, but then Tim extended an invite to Mathew and I mentioned our friend Zac and we have two other "maybes" so who knows, might be a mini-shindig! Though only the original two are committed for the full evening hehe. Shenanigans may ensue.
THAT BOOK MEME #17 What do you think about movie/tv adaptations?
I'm fine with them as long as they are GOOD LOL. Honestly, sometimes I think the movie has an opportunity to improve upon the books, if done right.
One of my secret wishes is for Harry Potter to be redone, maybe 30 years from now, and done as a mini-series, with more detail, maybe fixing some of the more obvious issues...kinda like they did with LotR.
More often than not, the movies butcher the books but what can ya do? I'm a big believer in reading the book first. There are only 3 movies I can think of that are better than the books (Jaws, Whip It, and Me & Earl & the Dying Girl) (The last two are good books, the visuals of a movie just make the stories better...the jaws book is AWFUL!!!!!!!!)
And if it wasn't for Jurassic Park being made into a movie, I never would have become a Michael Crichton fan!
How about you guys? Any movie/tv adaptations that you LOVE just as much/more than the book? Any that you would like to see wiped from cinema history?
I blame some of these on the library and Summer Reading Club so I can't sneak a peek during the day LOL. Yes, I am bring forced to work at work all day! OH THE HUMANITY! (love my job!)
Anyway, I just went back some 300 entries on LJ and I think I am caught up now. YOWZA you guys were chatty (though there was some kind of LJ glitch that loaded a TON of
fragbert's posts from early June that I had never seen before and they were all on my flist...) We're having a cookout today. Tomorrow is July 4th but we figured people may have plans with family, so we're doing a friends cookout, just a small group. Originally it was just 2 people, but then Tim extended an invite to Mathew and I mentioned our friend Zac and we have two other "maybes" so who knows, might be a mini-shindig! Though only the original two are committed for the full evening hehe. Shenanigans may ensue.
THAT BOOK MEME #17 What do you think about movie/tv adaptations?
I'm fine with them as long as they are GOOD LOL. Honestly, sometimes I think the movie has an opportunity to improve upon the books, if done right.
One of my secret wishes is for Harry Potter to be redone, maybe 30 years from now, and done as a mini-series, with more detail, maybe fixing some of the more obvious issues...kinda like they did with LotR.
More often than not, the movies butcher the books but what can ya do? I'm a big believer in reading the book first. There are only 3 movies I can think of that are better than the books (Jaws, Whip It, and Me & Earl & the Dying Girl) (The last two are good books, the visuals of a movie just make the stories better...the jaws book is AWFUL!!!!!!!!)
And if it wasn't for Jurassic Park being made into a movie, I never would have become a Michael Crichton fan!
How about you guys? Any movie/tv adaptations that you LOVE just as much/more than the book? Any that you would like to see wiped from cinema history?