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Do You Have a Rule For Movies & Books?
Comments (23)I love history books, bios on people I admire and instructional books on garening, DIY of just about any kind. Humor has to be my absolute favorite tho, even if they are corny Here's a reading list my son in law sent me a few months ago and I've read them all a few times, lol "The Lion Attacked", by Claude Yarmoff. "How to Write Big Books", by Warren Peace. "The Art of Archery", by Beau N. Arrow. "Songs for Children", by Barbara Blacksheep. "Irish Heart Surgery", by Angie O'Plasty. "Split Personalities", by Jacqueline Hyde. "Under the Bleachers", by Seymour Butts. "Desert Crossing", by I. Rhoda Camel. "School Truancy", by Marcus Absent. "I Was a Cloakroom Attendant", by Mahatma Coate. "I Lost My Balance", by Eileen Dover and Phil Down. "Mystery in the Barnyard", by Hu Flung Dung. "Positive Reinforcement", by Wade Ago. "Shhh!", by Danielle Soloud. "The Philippine Post Office", by Imelda Letter. "Things to Do at a Party", by Bob Frapples. "Stop Arguing", by Xavier Breath. "Come on In!", by Doris Open. "The German Bank Robbery", by Hans Zupp. "I Hate the Sun", by Gladys Knight. "Prison Security", by Barb Dweyer. "Irish First Aid", by R.U. O'Kaye. "My Career As a Clown", by Abe Ozo. "The World's Deadliest Joke", by Theophilus Punoval. "Here's Pus in Your Eye", Lance Boyle. "My Life on Skid Row", Titus A. Drum. "I Didn't Do It!", by Ivan Alibi. "Why I Eat at McDonalds", by Tommy Ayk. "I Hit the Wall", by Isadore There. "The Bruce Lee Story", by Marsh Larts. "Take This Job and Shove It", by Ike Witt. "Rapunzel Rapunzel", by Harris Long. "How I Won the Maraton", by Randy Hoelway. "Songs from South Pacific", by Sam and Janet Evening...See Morebooks vs movies
Comments (72)One of the many problems I had with this movie (Vanity Fair) was how they portrayed Becky Sharpe. In the book she was a complete shrew. In the movie they tried to make her look like she did what she did simply to survive. A few weeks ago I rented some movies and was lucky enough to find a few 'book based' ones. I saw The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and it was BEAUTIFUL! It started Toby Stephens and Tara Fitzgerald (both played in the new Jane Eyre too). I have yet to read the book, so I will not comment further. Did you think this movie was true to the book? I also saw Emma, with Gwenyth Paltrow. SIMPLY GASTLY! I did not launch anything at the screen this time, but I did find at the end of the show that I had been chewing on the corner of a magazine in agony. It was all wrong! The costumes, the dialogue, everything! And who did they get to decorate the scenes? Van Gogh? What was with all the bright colors? The characters were all horrible. The worst was Mr. Knightly. He looked 'Americanized'. A straw hat?!? He could have been one of Tom Sawyer's gang just floatin' along the Mississippi... The Emma movie with Cate Beckinsale is amazing! It actually made me appreciate the book more. I just posted a thread about a new book based movie. It is on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Strange Case of Benjamin Button'. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchette are starring in it. CMK...See MoreGood Books/Bad Movies
Comments (17)They are often totally different, which I think is sometimes necessary, to change what is an interior experience to a moving one. Sometimes the essence of the book is retained very well. But sometimes not and sometimes the movie becomes something totally different. One example of a fail, IMHO, was "The Orchid Thief" which was a movie about trying to turn a book into a movie. I hated the distortion by the movie of what that book was about. I hope Susan Orleans got a hefty check for that one! My dislike for the movie, "And Then She Found Me" caused me to get and read the book by Elinor Lipman. Wowza, not even in the ballpark with the plot of the movie vs the book. However, I didn't much care for the book either. My next attempt will be "Republic of Love" which I sort of liked as a movie but it was sorta weird so I'm gonna try the book by Carol Shields. Two books that I love both the movie and the book are "Dr. Zhivago" which benefits some from the 3D fleshing out of the story, and for me, "The Great Gatsby." The one with Robert Redford, not the newer one. Both books are a totally different experience from the movie, but it is cool to have both the exterior setting and real people living out the experiences in front of you, and then also the experience of their interior lives that you get from the book. In that vein, I liked the movie "Cold Mountain" better than the book. The book got a little too much for me and I didn't have much sympathy for the characters but I did in the movie. Oh and I adore both the book "Auntie Mame" and the movie with Rosalind Russell, even though they are quite different. As a side note, when I was a kid, I ended up enjoying Dr. Doolittle and Mary Poppins as books way better than movies, but the movies did get me into the books. And both Willy Wonka movies were kind of let downs, but the Tim Burton one was especially bad IMHO....See MoreBook and Movie for dog lovers and those who mourn them
Comments (27)This is my standard reply I am posting everywhere regarding that stupid over edited video. My words: I watched several times before commenting. That dog was being recalcitrant but there was no terror in his body language. Ears were up, tail waving, leaning into his trainer. He was being more willful and just maybe a wee bit anxious about going in but there was zero terror or anything close to it. Anybody who works with larger dogs would know this. Sometimes they just balk. Just like kids will balk even thought they are normally fine with something. Once in she's a happy camper. The video is highly edited to play on the emotions of average people that don't work with dogs in advanced training or agility....See Morevee_new
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