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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 … that moved. Similar characters and dialog to all of his previous works. The dumb henchmen, the cool hero, the hot babes, the old detective movie kind of dialog. Crazy ass characters. It was a Frank Miller comic book through and through, just on the screen … which I would say is why parts of it were a bit hard to sit through. When I’m reading his comics, I can go right through them at my own pacing, imagining their dialog how I want … sometimes it was just painful on the screen for some reason.

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“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 understand what the characters were doing until I read the book. I just loved the book. I’m not the first person, and I won’t be the last, to say that it’s a classic.”

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, and never read the interpretation of his classic novel about a suburban American couple in the 1940s by Mendes and screenwriter Justin Haythe. Yates’ daughters, however, daughters have voiced in their approval.

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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 one could die who had not died in the books, no coffins and some other items.

“Except for having to condense a few scenes and scatter some of the action, confined to the last quarter of the book, early into the movie, the film adaptation by screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg stays very close to the original book. “

FFFearlesss post on Dec 16, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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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 THAT?”

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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 tell me what the title means.  You can’t get it from this movie!  They should have called it “Last Man on Earth” or “Omega Man”!  And now they’re talking about a prequel!?!?!  Sigh…

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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 it), and on a whole we were both underwhelmed. But, I decided since I had seen the movie, I’d get the book to see if it was any better (and really, we all know that typically books are better then their movie counterparts).

So, I read Twilight. It was definitely better then the movie. But in my opinion, it wasn’t AMAZING and didn’t capture me the way some books have (you know when you absolutely cannot put the book down at all, and you feel sad when you are done because you have grown so attached to the characters?). I was disappointed with aspects of the book…the editing was atrocious, and there were many parts that were just plain confusing. But, I decided since I started the books, I might as well finish the series.

With each new book, I felt as if the writing got better, even though the editing it seems, did not. I was disappointed that in all, the series covered just about 2 years. I felt it could have been longer, and how much bad stuff can really happen to one girl in that short span of time? I don’t understand all the Team Jacob and Team Edward people out there…I felt as if there was never a competition…we always knew where Bella stood…but maybe that is because I had the luxury of reading all of the books at once (and I did read them pretty fast if you think about it…).

Overall, I am glad I read the books. Would I read them again? Probably not…

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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 wouldn’t freak me out (it didn’t, and side note: is not Shelley Duval the oddest looking person? She’s all eyes, and not in the way that slow lorises are, but in the way that aliens are), and, ok. I seem to remember creepy twin girls. I seem to remember a hedge maze. I seem to remember blood in the elevator.

None of these things are in the book, people!!! There has been some severe reverse-editing! But for all that, The Shining is awesome and freaky and an icon of scarityness.

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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 trees. It was supposed to have an outside painted white, but in the movie it was a dark and gloomy color. One good thing about the house, though, was that it was most definitely obscure.

In the restaurant scene after Edward saves her, Bella threatens to leave, which she never did in the book, because Edward won’t give any answers to her questions. The crystal-like skin described in the book looked nothing like the image my mind created, either. It wasn’t defined enough.

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