On PopSense, staff writer Alexandra M. Svokos details the “Top 10 Films That I Watched in 2008.” Included on the list is The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, about which he writes:
Don’t stop at the movie either: read the book. You will find more appreciation and love for life in those quick 132 pages than [...]
Posted at ComicBookMovie.com
I am a big Frank Miller (comic book) fan, his style is unique, his dialog is unique (sometimes annoying, or a bit too much, he has a thing about repeating certain lines), but overall, I love his style and his sense of humor, etc.
This movie was essentially a Frank Miller comic book … [...]
“I didn’t know the book,” Revolutionary Road director Sam Mendes admits in an interview with indieWIRE.
“It was Kate (Winslet), my wife, who gave me the book and said, ‘I really want to play this part.’ I read the screenplay and read the book in quick succession. And I liked the screenplay, but I didn’t fully [...]
Rick Bentley, writing for McClatchy Newspapers, describes how Twilight author Stephenie Meyer negotiated a movie deal that would guarantee the film had some resemblance to her story:
“…when upstart film company Summit Entertainment called and asked to take a crack at the project, Meyer gave them a written list of what she expected: no fangs, no [...]
FFFearlesss post on Dec 16, 2008 at 3:18 pm
on the skepchick blog
I know this is sacrilege but “A Clockwork Orange.” I read the book and thought “wow, this would make a really cool movie.” Then I heard, oh there is a movie. So I watched and said, “He read this book and came up with [...]
posted on Morgan’s Madness blog
Why do film adaptations of classic stories if you don’t use the proper ending? In that version, the title doesn’t make sense anymore! I am Legend? In what sense? I challenge anyone who never read the book (and didn’t Google it) and only has this movie to go off of to [...]
posted on Wolf’s Musings… blog
I was NOT impressed with the movie. I didn’t like the changes made to how we have defined vampires for forever pretty much…and I just felt it lacked a lot of plot and explanation. B was disappointed at the lack of vampire action (guess we should have done more research into [...]
posted on the books i done read blog
…you know how usually you’ll read a book and then go to watch the movie, and WTF they’ve cut out whole raging chunks of it? I saw this movie a few years ago because it was on tv in the middle of the day when I figured it [...]
posted by Krissy Godek in the Independent Mail of Anderson, South Carolina
There were many similarities between the book and the movie, but even more differences. In the book, the Cullen house was described as being in a large field in the middle of nowhere, yet you couldn’t even see the ground, there were so many [...]