01-16-2012, 11:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-16-2012, 11:21 PM by Aurora Moon.)
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Do TV shows also count? because then I would count Animorphs amongst the list. that was my top favorite series to read growing up, amongst other things. But the way they did it for the TV series... oh my gawd. people who watch the TV show and hasn't read the book at all is going to think the book is shitty and isn't worth reading!
The book was somewhat dark for a young adult book series, and the author really dealt with the issue of kids being soldiers in an alien war, and not being able to handle it physiologically, really well. the TV show almost pretty much made it into this light-hearted superhero show. It was heavy on the comedy, not so much on the Drama. so the TV show pretty much missed the point of the whole book series-- which was this: A) Wars are brutal, B) gaining superpowers isn't always as cool as it sounds...sometimes it's actually nightmare fuel. C) Especially if you have to live constantly with the paranoia that the enemy could be inside ANYBODY, even your own loved ones.
Then there's the book "lovely bones" which turned into a okay movie but wasn't as good as the book at all.The Lovely Bones had the potential to be a really powerful film had Peter Jackson not pushed the plot and characterization of the movie to the side to make way for his love affair with visual effects.
The film version of The Lovely Bones was packed with capable actors and had the benefit of source material that had already proven to be emotionally impactful and commercially successful but the heart breaking story about a family overcoming the murder of their daughter/sister through the years following her death seemed to take a back seat to the visual elements of the scenes in heaven. This was completely flipped from the book version where heaven was far from the focus of the book. This is a perfect example of the problem with book-to-film adaptions. Instead of maintaining the integrity of the book and thus the emotional connection to the characters, someone obviously thought the imagery of heaven would sell more tickets than a story about overcoming the worst thing that could happen to a family.
The book was somewhat dark for a young adult book series, and the author really dealt with the issue of kids being soldiers in an alien war, and not being able to handle it physiologically, really well. the TV show almost pretty much made it into this light-hearted superhero show. It was heavy on the comedy, not so much on the Drama. so the TV show pretty much missed the point of the whole book series-- which was this: A) Wars are brutal, B) gaining superpowers isn't always as cool as it sounds...sometimes it's actually nightmare fuel. C) Especially if you have to live constantly with the paranoia that the enemy could be inside ANYBODY, even your own loved ones.
Then there's the book "lovely bones" which turned into a okay movie but wasn't as good as the book at all.The Lovely Bones had the potential to be a really powerful film had Peter Jackson not pushed the plot and characterization of the movie to the side to make way for his love affair with visual effects.
The film version of The Lovely Bones was packed with capable actors and had the benefit of source material that had already proven to be emotionally impactful and commercially successful but the heart breaking story about a family overcoming the murder of their daughter/sister through the years following her death seemed to take a back seat to the visual elements of the scenes in heaven. This was completely flipped from the book version where heaven was far from the focus of the book. This is a perfect example of the problem with book-to-film adaptions. Instead of maintaining the integrity of the book and thus the emotional connection to the characters, someone obviously thought the imagery of heaven would sell more tickets than a story about overcoming the worst thing that could happen to a family.
