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Adaptations from books to movies


Scootalove

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Hello, I'm the reviewing critic.. I remember it so you don't have to!

 

We have all seen movies based on best selling books, there are some movies that do better than the book while there are movies that do worse than the book it is based on.

 

Stephen King's movies based on books for example, don't do so well as the book does. So we are here to look at the movies based on Stephen King's books.

 

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This is Stephen King's movie IT, which of course it is based on the book IT. The movie is about a clown who terrorizes children in a neighborhood, also this movie really tries to promote that balloons are scary. That is the first problem with this movie, secondly the movie isn't scary.

 

The clown basically turns into a fake CGI spider, then they just blow the spider up into ashes. So, yeah I wouldn't recommend the movie but I would recommend the book.

 

 

Now, lastly... let's look at another Stephen King book that turned into a movie.

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The Langoliers basically has bad special effects, bad writing, plot holes, and any other problems with his movies. So, that's about it. I'm the reviewing critic, until next time.. I remember it so you don't have to.

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I wish to point out, as one reviewer to another, that more detail would be very helpful in these reviews. You also need to remember how these movies were made, the era they were made in, and their budgets. Langoliers was made before CGI was a common thing and it was still a budding use in film. IT was restricted to Television ratings because this was before the time where we had television companies who allow shows like Game of Thrones or True Blood on the air.

 

I highly recommend you look at some of the other Books-tuned-movies based off King novels. TommyKnockers, Pet Cemetary, the Television adapted version of the Shining (four hour one) -  these did so much better.

 

However, I do disagree. Langoliers was pretty good. It just did not age very well over the years D:

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I wish to point out, as one reviewer to another, that more detail would be very helpful in these reviews. You also need to remember how these movies were made, the era they were made in, and their budgets. Langoliers was made before CGI was a common thing and it was still a budding use in film. IT was restricted to Television ratings because this was before the time where we had television companies who allow shows like Game of Thrones or True Blood on the air.

 

I highly recommend you look at some of the other Books-tuned-movies based off King novels. TommyKnockers, Pet Cemetary, the Television adapted version of the Shining (four hour one) -  these did so much better.

 

However, I do disagree. Langoliers was pretty good. It just did not age very well over the years D:

Well, thanks for the tip! I guess that will help me review things better. :)

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Of course :) For me, i always look at the following categories;

 

Visual

Story

Acting

Budget

 

Like, I would never put Sharktapus which has like a 150,000 budget against the visual effects of Avengers :D

 

Also, since you are doing movies based off books, why not also include the differences between the two? Like IT's ending was differnet in the book (from what I remember)

 

I look forward to more reviews!

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Of course :) For me, i always look at the following categories;

 

Visual

Story

Acting

Budget

 

Like, I would never put Sharktapus which has like a 150,000 budget against the visual effects of Avengers :D

 

Also, since you are doing movies based off books, why not also include the differences between the two? Like IT's ending was differnet in the book (from what I remember)

 

I look forward to more reviews!

You're right, I'll do that on my next review but with something different. Thank you! :D

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