Books or movies?
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Provided it's not the "book of the movie" that's fine. But generally speaking, "movie of the book"s tend to disappoint as well, if you read the book first. Anything by Dan Brown excepted, of course.
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Just completed reading the novel "Killing floor" from Lee child. Now I see books are more interesting than the actual movies with stunts, visual effects, etc when it comes to ACTION THRILLERS. For instance, there is a whole luxury of imagination of your own when it comes to a fight, chasing, the land mass, etc unlike the movies where you have to live with what is shown whether you like it or not. As this is only my first book on this genre I am not sure if everyone feels the same way as I do.
Books, most definitely. You can pack an awful lot of plot in a 500 page novel, and no special effects budget can match what a reader can imagine. The trick of turning a novel into a movie involves taking a hatchet to the story and cutting it down to fit two hours or less.
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6 months? 5 books? :omg: I read that many in a week... :-O
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Just completed reading the novel "Killing floor" from Lee child. Now I see books are more interesting than the actual movies with stunts, visual effects, etc when it comes to ACTION THRILLERS. For instance, there is a whole luxury of imagination of your own when it comes to a fight, chasing, the land mass, etc unlike the movies where you have to live with what is shown whether you like it or not. As this is only my first book on this genre I am not sure if everyone feels the same way as I do.
Nah, the answer is BACON. PS: probably the answer would have been another thing but this is The Lounge... :rolleyes:
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Harry Potter, LOTR -> beautiful movies !
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LotR - Beautiful movie, wrecked plot.
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Just completed reading the novel "Killing floor" from Lee child. Now I see books are more interesting than the actual movies with stunts, visual effects, etc when it comes to ACTION THRILLERS. For instance, there is a whole luxury of imagination of your own when it comes to a fight, chasing, the land mass, etc unlike the movies where you have to live with what is shown whether you like it or not. As this is only my first book on this genre I am not sure if everyone feels the same way as I do.
I've read all of the Reacher novels other than the last 2 or 3 as they are not as good. I also made myself watch "Reacher" with Tiny Cruise. Reacher is 6'5" and Cruise is 5'6". However, it wasn't that bad. It wasn't that good. But it wasn't that bad. :-)
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Books, most definitely. You can pack an awful lot of plot in a 500 page novel, and no special effects budget can match what a reader can imagine. The trick of turning a novel into a movie involves taking a hatchet to the story and cutting it down to fit two hours or less.
and my mind tells the same. This was my point when posting this question. :)
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I've read all of the Reacher novels other than the last 2 or 3 as they are not as good. I also made myself watch "Reacher" with Tiny Cruise. Reacher is 6'5" and Cruise is 5'6". However, it wasn't that bad. It wasn't that good. But it wasn't that bad. :-)
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mark merrens wrote:
I've read all of the Reacher novels other than the last 2 or 3 as they are not as good.
How do you know if you haven't read them? (I only ask as I am in the process of going through them now).
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Just completed reading the novel "Killing floor" from Lee child. Now I see books are more interesting than the actual movies with stunts, visual effects, etc when it comes to ACTION THRILLERS. For instance, there is a whole luxury of imagination of your own when it comes to a fight, chasing, the land mass, etc unlike the movies where you have to live with what is shown whether you like it or not. As this is only my first book on this genre I am not sure if everyone feels the same way as I do.
I prefer books to movies, especially when I've read the book before. I find the movie usually disappointing, there are exceptions to that rule, but these are few. But I have to admit, sometimes you just want to put your mind in buzz-mode and be entertained. That's when movies come in handy, don't think just watch. Oh, and you've picked a great book, I read that 6 months ago. And kept on reading the "Jack Reacher"-series. There were one or two I didn't like that much but I'm currently reading "Bad Luck and Trouble", book 11. So have fun and happy reading.
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Harry Potter, LOTR -> beautiful movies !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.
They were. But...they cut out a heck of a lot to get it in there! Even the first HP book lost a lot of detail to make the movie. The later ones were eviscerated!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I wonder where you store your books :omg:
Electronically, and at the Public Library! (There are probably less than 2000 books in this house: I threw out 5000 or so when we moved - couldn't even give 'em away :sigh: )
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I don't think so: to my mind, you are comparing apples and oranges. Try equating "Movie" with "short story" rather than "novel" and they work well. But they have to throw so much background in that can be covered in a couple of pages in a novel that they run out of space for the story... :sigh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Electronically, and at the Public Library! (There are probably less than 2000 books in this house: I threw out 5000 or so when we moved - couldn't even give 'em away :sigh: )
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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They were. But...they cut out a heck of a lot to get it in there! Even the first HP book lost a lot of detail to make the movie. The later ones were eviscerated!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
Did you ever watch the movie first? You might feel the movie is too long until you read the book first only to see the movie as the trailer of the book. Don't you see it as just a mind set?
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They were. But...they cut out a heck of a lot to get it in there! Even the first HP book lost a lot of detail to make the movie. The later ones were eviscerated!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
Yes, but the purpose is not the same ! If you assume that the movie has to render everything from within the book, then every movie would last 20h ! I see them as two different representations of the same story, and both are enjoyable to me.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.
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The Lee Childs books are not a good reference point for movies precisely because the protagonist is a 250 lb 6 foot 5 hero in the books, and Tom Cruise in the film.
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Electronically, and at the Public Library! (There are probably less than 2000 books in this house: I threw out 5000 or so when we moved - couldn't even give 'em away :sigh: )
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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6 months? 5 books? :omg: I read that many in a week... :-O
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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mark merrens wrote:
I've read all of the Reacher novels other than the last 2 or 3 as they are not as good.
How do you know if you haven't read them? (I only ask as I am in the process of going through them now).
Good point. I started to read a couple of them and think that they should not have been written: he had already taken the character as far as he should have. The last one I read felt like it was really stretching to tell the story. That's just my feeling: I may well be wrong. I really liked the earlier novels: Reacher is a very likable character.
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"Book of the movie" or "movie of the book" are not certainly different in my opinion. Two versions/views of the same thing.
I disagree. You can take an excellent movie (or even a good one) and produce a "book of the movie" - they nearly always stink! Normally because there isn't enough in the movie to make a novel, but they aren't allowed to invent material by the studio, so you do a "Dan Brown" and pad, pad, pad! There are exceptions: but you need a good director who will work with a good author to produce a good book, and that's rare (the only example I can think of is James Cameron and Orson Scott Card on The Abyss) "Movie of the book" goes the other way and throws out too much because the film would be a week long if they didn't! (A recent example is Enders Game: excellent book, hacked to death to fit in a film, and ends up poorer as a result)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
