What do you guys think of books being turned into movies?

Well usually, people like the originals as books better before they were turned into movies. So should movies stay true to the books or is it okay if they deviate? What do you guys think? Any comment on this topic is welcome.

What do you guys think of books being turned into movies?
I like the movie version of books better... Usually.
Reply:Personally, I hate most books that are made into movies. Because the books are usually long, the movies butcher the best parts of the book i.e. the movie of Eragon by Christopher Paolini skipped the entire bonding scene. The 4th Harry Potter movie skipped the scene with the Sphinx. Stardust as a movie changed the entire plotline.


However, it is fine if the movies still make sense, but deviate from the book. Stardust's plotline may have been changed, but the movie still kept the aura of the plot.


Some books made into movies are very accurate, like the Da Vinci Code.


So, in an answer to your question, it really depends on what is changed and how the plot fits after the original storyline is changed. But, for the most part, Movies should stay true to the books.
Reply:I think movies should stay true to the books...no matter how long...the side story which sometimes isn't in the movie, usually accumulates the emotions and reason for which the climax will be made...and most of the time, the movie isn't that great because there's no side story...





A few books were great to be reborn into movies...yet some that I like weren't...if I have to choose...





I think it's better if stories in books should stay in books...unless there's a lot of action involved...(i.e. Lord of The Rings, Narnia)





Those four movies were greatly made...nothing but satisfaction...
Reply:well basically its Charitable but Original it is not..


its like Gossip the longer its dragged upon


the Less Conclusive it becomes


i rather read the Books.
Reply:It would be better in the long run if the movies at least stayed with the premise of the book. But like the movie Shooter, they totally destroyed the story of the book. I have heard that producers are starting to make movies that are based on books more like the books. So far, I haven't seen anything like that happening. The closest a movie came to the book in recent memory was the da Vinci Code. Most people said it didn't follow the book. Actually what it didn't follow was all the little instances that made the book so good. And if the movie did that it would have lasted about two weeks. You cannot compress the sum total of a book into a movie that last 2 or 3 hours, but you can at least follow the storyline. So, if the movie producers ever got their heads out of their collective a**es, the movies possibly could be made from the books and still be good. I am totally sick of remaking movies from old movies, especially if they used the technique I mentioned earlier, they could make movies from really good books. In my opinion only.
Reply:I think its goo to see a book turn into a movie( as long as they don't mess it up that bad) It kinda gets the book out to the public.
Reply:it really depends on the movie. all of Steven Kings....i liked the movie better because its hard to understand his books. as for The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe... i liked the book better because the movie really sucked!!
Reply:I don't mind it at all. Sometimes the plot or a situation of a book is so good that it ends up inspiring a movie maker and he feels restless till he has actually shown the world his interpretation of the book.I feel a movie reaches out to millions of people who do not sit and enjoy a book. It also helps to enhance the visual memory of some people who do not have a great imagination. As far as people like me, who love prefer a book to a movie any day are concerned, it gives us a chance to compare and criticise the version that we don't find appealing.
Reply:the movies always disappointed me because it does not protray my imagine of the characters or plot in the book, also they always add the corny hollywood ending.
Reply:I prefer books as they have more detail. In my opinion, I find most books that are made into movies very disappointing but you can't really blame the director or script writer whomever has to make the book into a script because it's almost impossible to get all the details of a book into a 2 hour movie. But...there are a few exceptions. Nora Roberts "Angel Falls" and Stephen King's "It" were pretty well done. There are a few others but I can't think of them right now.
Reply:I prefer books better. Whenever a book is turned into a movie it seems the plot is changed slightly and names are changes or characters are missing. If I see the movie first, I don't know the difference, but if I've read the book, I don't watch the movie. I'm always disappointed.
Reply:If I watch the movie before I read the book, it doesn't bother me that much.





But sometimes, after I've read the book, if the movie script is different or the characters aren't as I dreamed and pictured, it does make me sad sometimes.





I hear lots of people who read Ella Enchanted first really disliked the movie. I haven't read it [yet], but I enjoyed the movie. ^_^





Yet, I read The Princess Diaries before I saw the movies, and how they changed it around first made me a little sad, but I liked the characters they picked and the movies, even though they didn't stick to the book, were pretty good.





But I believe that if a book like Twilight by Stephenie Meyer becomes a movie and is not portrayed exactly like the book, I may freak out a little, hehe.
Reply:Well, if you're Smart enough to read the book, it would be preferable and better mental exercise to do so.
Reply:Books are always better than the movies. That is not opinion but fact or at least a major consensus. A extreme example is the movie Eragon; the way they butchered that book was disgusting. Although another example but the same point is the Lord of the Rings series. They were done very well, but still nowhere as good as the books. The less the director deviates from the book the better; Why? Because the less pissed off readers like me! Seriously though, it pleases the readers and 99.9999% of the time makes a better story if the director sticks to the book.
Reply:I think books are the best places to find movie ideas...you have your screenplay all ready for you and for many authors, having a book made into a movie is one of the best compliments an author can receive!





Personally I feel that movies should stay true to the books the best they can (unless they need to cut out some scenes for length purposes). Also, I think if they are going to be made into movie and the author should call the shots so that their true imagination the author had intended can be brought to life.





I really enjoyed watching the "Joy Luck Club" on the screen and later read the book and enjoyed it just as much. Now I am an Amy Tan book addict! So far I have been impressed with the Chronicles of Narnia movies too, though I have read the books already. Harry Potter films just make JK Raw ling richer and richer!
Reply:Well, I agree that books are better than movies. And I also agree with you when you said that movies sometimes alter events whcih are written in the book. It's okay with me so if you've already read the book and you'll be watching the movie, you won't find it boring cause they added a twist in the movie. Get what I mean? =))
Reply:It's ok if they deviate. Sometimes they have to. Movies aren't generally supposed to go much more than 2 hours, so sometimes they need to trim the story to make it fit. Plus there are some things that come across better in books than in movies (like narration, and the characters' thoughts) and some things that are better in movies than books (like nudity!) so it makes sense to have changes because of that. But some changes are annoying. Like in the Lord of the Rings movies when they gave some guy a girlfriend that he didn't have in the book, just because they wanted the movie to appeal to women.
Reply:i think they should stay true to the book. i think the issue with staying true to the book is trying to meet time and budget requirements that production companies put on movies. for instance, trying to shove a full book with all of it's detail into a 2 hour movie so it will keep the attention of its target audience is sometimes difficult. especially if it's for kids.
Reply:i like it when books turn into movies so i can know how the author really interprets the story but sometimes the director changes too much out of the story line that it becomes a different one. i like it but they should stay true to the books even if the movie becomes longer
Reply:Movies are never as good as the books. Books are what make you like the story because you are doing the thinking for yourself, as far as what the characters look and act like, what the streets and buildings and so forth look feel and smell like. You get more involved with the characters because it's as though you are there. Books are more personal and detailed. Movies, though I don't think there is anything wrong with it, aren't usually as good as the book. They leave out a lot of details that they just couldn't portray well enough on the big screen. Sometimes, when you've already read the book and then watch the movie, it kind of ruins it. The story itself that is. The envisioning that you established for yourself by reading the words and details of the book are shattered in a way because they are different from what the book enabled your mind to create for yourself. As far as what you pictured the story characters to look like versus what the movie portrays and so forth. Oh what do I know? ha ha, I just like reading the books better than always watching the movies. Don't get me wrong, I'll watch the movies, but I prefer to read the book first to see what I'm missing before I miss it. For instance, i-robot... (with Will Smith←ring a bell?) the book is so much different from the movie! It has so much more detail and storyline, you actually miss a lot of that with the movie. Well, that's just my humble opinion and I could very well be wrong. Good question, and take care :)





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I think the movies should try to stay as true to the story as they can. Why ruin a good thing? A, if it's not broke, don't fix it kind of thing. Movies can't always stay true to the books though because there really is no way for them to portray that much intricate detail on film as you can on paper. ☺
Reply:Well, I think a movie creates a visual story of a book. It displays the character and their expressions, and many people find it helpful to watch the movie first and then read the book so that they can understand the visual of the book better-- or even just the book. On the other side of the debate, some students watch the movie instead of read the book for a book project, and the two are usually very different. Also, books-made-movies are another advancement in technology to create laziness.
Reply:man you guys just don't get it. books are better because they exercise the imagination and because books have no limits. books can go as deep into a characters psyche as it needs or wants to. books can more effectively display an abstract, like a dream sequence, because imagination is the only limit. don't get me wrong i love movies, but they pale in comparison to books. most people are just to lazy to actually read, because the pictures aren't already laid out before them. damn shame too.
Reply:I believe that books are almost always better than the movies based upon the books. However, for me personally, I like seeing the books visually presented after I finish them, so I love watching movies after I finish the book. But, it's sad because many people would rather watch the movie that read the book and, as we all know, the movies leave out or add a lot of subjects that the book presented. So, while it'd be better if the movies stayed true to the movies, it's still okay if they differ AS LONG AS the viewer accepts the fact that movies ARE NOT books.





*cough cough* That's especially aimed at high schoolers, who often watch movie-versions of reading assignments. They're not the same! *cough*