Things you wish you could say

[Nabiki]

Compared with some other movie/book pairs, I suppose that might be true.
It didn't seem all that close to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi,_a_Life_in_the_Woods
Wikipedia has a plot summary that is a fairly close match to what I remember of the book.


I read that one too. As far as I can tell, they kept the title and not much else.

Not a Disney movie, but "How to Train Your Dragon" is a book too. I think it's the most different book/movie pair I've personally encountered. The movie kept the title and the names of a few main characters, and changed everything else. (Book has domesticated dragons as a main feature of life, and the main character has a baby dragon that is the smallest and weakest anyone has ever seen. Movie has a everyone fighting wild dragons and no-one ever considered training one, then the main character tames/trains the toughest and most dangerous of the wild adult dragons.)

That is one of the few where I liked the movie over the books. I did not enjoy the How to Train Your Dragon books at all. Neither Hiccup nor Toothless are likeable in the least in the books.

 

[member 655102]

Compared with some other movie/book pairs, I suppose that might be true.
It didn't seem all that close to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi,_a_Life_in_the_Woods
Wikipedia has a plot summary that is a fairly close match to what I remember of the book.


I read that one too. As far as I can tell, they kept the title and not much else.

Not a Disney movie, but "How to Train Your Dragon" is a book too. I think it's the most different book/movie pair I've personally encountered. The movie kept the title and the names of a few main characters, and changed everything else. (Book has domesticated dragons as a main feature of life, and the main character has a baby dragon that is the smallest and weakest anyone has ever seen. Movie has a everyone fighting wild dragons and no-one ever considered training one, then the main character tames/trains the toughest and most dangerous of the wild adult dragons.)

I’ve always enjoyed reading stories that have a real twist to them. For example: Anne Rice, R.L. Stine and Stephen King novels.

 

[Amer]

Compared with some other movie/book pairs, I suppose that might be true.
It didn't seem all that close to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi,_a_Life_in_the_Woods
Wikipedia has a plot summary that is a fairly close match to what I remember of the book.


I read that one too. As far as I can tell, they kept the title and not much else.

Not a Disney movie, but "How to Train Your Dragon" is a book too. I think it's the most different book/movie pair I've personally encountered. The movie kept the title and the names of a few main characters, and changed everything else. (Book has domesticated dragons as a main feature of life, and the main character has a baby dragon that is the smallest and weakest anyone has ever seen. Movie has a everyone fighting wild dragons and no-one ever considered training one, then the main character tames/trains the toughest and most dangerous of the wild adult dragons.)

Agreed.
The HTTYD books are much better, though I appreciate the movie went its own way instead of a cheap copy of the books. I wish they didn’t steal the names though. Entirely different characters, entirely different plot, same names.
I do lots of fan art.
Fiddlesticks, (Hiccup’s cat) Hiccup, and Fishlegs

 

[Amer]

That is one of the few where I liked the movie over the books. I did not enjoy the How to Train Your Dragon books at all. Neither Hiccup nor Toothless are likeable in the least in the books.

Nah, you tripping
The only time I liked the movie better was the Hunger Games. I just couldn’t picture the action scenes well in my head, I think they were poorly written.

 

[R2elk]

Some people would say "same difference".

New Zealand's dark secret:

 

[member 655102]

Nah, you tripping
The only time I liked the movie better was the Hunger Games. I just couldn’t picture the action scenes well in my head, I think they were poorly written.

The hunger games was stupid to me.

So was twilight.

 

[sourland]

New Zealand's dark secret:

Paternal lineage traces back to New Zealand. Explains a lot.

 

[R2elk]

Paternal lineage traces back to New Zealand. Explains a lot.

I read it as parental lineage traces back to Australia.

 

[R2elk]

So do you. Does Africa ring a bell?

My DNA shows no traces from Africa. The most exotic is a tiny bit tracing to Sardinia.

 

[Nabiki]

Nah, you tripping
The only time I liked the movie better was the Hunger Games. I just couldn’t picture the action scenes well in my head, I think they were poorly written.

To each their own. I thought the books were poorly written and the characters unlikeable. I didn't finish the series. I do feel that when movies seriously change the plot they should change the title, though.