absolutely ruined books

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1. Beowulf

this one will be released in november and has almost NOTHING to do with the real story

this one was released in 2005 and showed so much promise in the trailer but the film just kind of went way off course.

2.the dark is rising
AHHHH! this one really gets me folkses. the book is a fantabulous second installment of the dark is rising sequence by susan cooper. the story is set in a 1960/70ish time period whereas the adaptation takes place in current times along with an urban setting versus pastoral and a “dorky boy that becomes awesome” theme versus just a plain boy in a large family. also, will should be an 11 year old, not 14!! probably worst of all is that they got merriman all wrong. he’s one of my favorite characters in the series and, while the actor appears good, he’s not at all how merriman is described in the books. boooooooooooooo! it reminds me of those $1 titles you get in the walmart assorted bin.

POSSIBLE NON-SUCK MOVIE ADAPTATIONS (i know, rare but possible)!!! these films appear to actually follow the story lines quite closely and also appear to look very similar to what my imagination came up with.

1. the spiderwick chronicles
i luvvvvved these books. holly black is one of my favorite writers and did such a great job on this 5 series set of books with toni diterlizzi. i was really upset to see a poster of the upcoming nickelodeon film, but then i saw the trailer and don’t think it will be so bad. it looks like they are using all 5 books in the film which makes me happy. also, freddie highmore and mary louise parker are in it (and martin short as thimbletack!) so it shows promise.

2. the golden compass (us title)
i <3 lyra and this film actually has a little girl that could do her justice.

what makes me so annoyed with movie adaptations of the books is that they tend to only take a little bit of truth from the story then hollywoodize it till it no longer follows a comparable story line. they should say that the films are inspired by such and such book but shouldn’t say the ARE that book see?