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Movies That Were Better Than The Book 01/13/2012
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Twilight. Now before you attack me, please understand: isn't Bella kind of without an arc until about book 4? I mean, the story is cool, but weren't you a little over her whole woe is me act throughout the series. I thought the movie brought this story to life in a way the book didn't. 

Something Borrowed. One of my good friends loaned me this book, which I liked but found a little predictable. However, when I saw the screening of this a few weeks ago, I LOVED it. Talk about keeping all the important details and somehow making it better.

The Devil Wears Prada. Call me backwards, but I read this book after the movie. Now this movie is ranked really high on my list so imagine the disappointment I found when I found out that the stories weren't even the same. Nate is a teacher and Andy cusses a whole lot. I lost interest in the book and never picked it up again.

Dear John - Equal in cheesiness and bore. I think Nicholas Sparks books are simply porn for women - its cheap, easy and just unfulfilling.

Shop Girl by Steve Martin. You can't blame him for trying, at least HE probably actually wrote this, but when I read the first twenty pages of this, I thought it was bland. Lucky for him, he added Claire Danes to his cast for the movie and made it all better.

Fight Club. I'm not particularly in love with the way Chuck P writes. It's very vile and abrasive and truth be told I can only read it in pieces before the imagery starts to give me a stomach ache. He has a talent, just not one I'm a fan of. This movie, however, is one of my favorites and somehow makes his content tolerable. Then again, couldn't Brad Pitt and Ed Norton pretty much make anything seem good. :)

Are there any movies I missed?

Twilight. Now before you attack me, please understand: isn't Bella kind of without an arc until about book 4? I mean, the story is cool, but weren't you a little over her whole woe is me act throughout the series. I thought the movie brought this story to life in a way the book didn't. 

Something Borrowed. One of my good friends loaned me this book, which I liked but found a little predictable. However, when I saw the screening of this a few weeks ago, I LOVED it. Talk about keeping all the important details and somehow making it better.

The Devil Wears Prada. Call me backwards, but I read this book after the movie. Now this movie is ranked really high on my list so imagine the disappointment I found when I found out that the stories weren't even the same. Nate is a teacher and Andy cusses a whole lot. I lost interest in the book and never picked it up again.

Dear John - Equal in cheesiness and bore. I think Nicholas Sparks books are simply porn for women - its cheap, easy and just unfulfilling.

Shop Girl by Steve Martin. You can't blame him for trying, at least HE probably actually wrote this, but when I read the first twenty pages of this, I thought it was bland. Lucky for him, he added Claire Danes to his cast for the movie and made it all better.

Fight Club. I'm not particularly in love with the way Chuck P writes. It's very vile and abrasive and truth be told I can only read it in pieces before the imagery starts to give me a stomach ache. He has a talent, just not one I'm a fan of. This movie, however, is one of my favorites and somehow makes his content tolerable. Then again, couldn't Brad Pitt and Ed Norton pretty much make anything seem good. :)

Are there any movies I missed?
 


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