Hello! I hated Harry Potter. It was good at the first few movies, but it just got worse. I have lost interest. Unforunate Events was good, I liked it. It was funny, but in the movie the wedding play was supposed to be before they moved into Monty's house. Otherwise, it would have been better. If you would like to say which book should be a movie, say it here or share your comments of the movies that are already out. I like books converted into movies, but the novels thay come out with for the movies are weird. Most have 8 SCREENSHOTS FROM THE MOTION PICTURE! or, the books into movies made after the movie is like NOW A FEATURE FILM! It's so annoying, I hate it. Post your say here. This is the third of the movie related topics that I have done, and probably I will find more so I could make a collection!

OK so i actually really like most movies that were made from books. First of all, both of the movies filmed from the book Dune are amazing. The older of the two, obviously is little but more out there but that has to do with the technology at the time the movie was filmed. However, the newer of the two follows the book amazingly close and is extremely well done.

Another good book made into movies was the Chronicals of Narnia. Before the one released by Disney the BBC release the first 6 books in movie form and they were really good. I grew up with them and i still love them (in fact i now have them in DVD). The Disney version also was really good since it was more realistic but it did change a few things which i didnt like but overall it still was good

Now, the Harry Potter movies. We all know the books are amazing but i would have to say that some of the movies were better than the others. Overall, the movies werent bad either but since the books were so long it was hard to make them exactly the same

Finally, there is the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I would have to say these movies rocked just as much as the books. Thats about it.

I have not seen much movies based on the books, although most people like watching those kind because they could compare if the movies have been faithful to the versions from the book. They would usually react violently when the movie version is not as good or interesting as the book version.

While some would congratulate the directors and the screenplay for not following the book. They like it because the ending would be different, though not entirely, from that of the book's.

One of the from-the-book-movie coming is the The Da Vinci Code.

The only book into movie I think I've liked so far is LOTR, and only the first two. The third wasn't great. They lose some of their imaginative quality when transfered. You don't get inside the mind of the characters, get to know them or their relations with others as well, and you miss a ton of content.

Movies into books are just bad. They leave for a lack of imagination since they have some sort of basis they MUST go buy.

Now, books into TV series is GREAT, provided the writer of the series isn't intent on making it a series longer than the book provides for. They can capture it all in any amount of necessary time. You still lose a lot of the "in the mind" bit, but you don't lose any content. I wouldn't recommend watching it as a series if you didn't read the books fist. That way you already have an idea of what is going on in their minds.

Movies to books are just... for money? ;)

Anyway, I only bought StarWars books (not extended universe but movie books) becasue Im a fan :)

But, I felt like reading the movie script... not a book feeling... what a waste of my money...

LotR is a great movie, a great convert (I agree, not the 3rd one)
But, PeterJackson added somethings that against Tolkien's world,
such as Gimli being a fool or Elves coming in aid to HelmDeep :(

I havent read Harry Potter and only watched 1st two movies.

Do you know Stephen King's Dark Tower serie... That book can be a great TV serie...
Like you know Hercules or Xena but with a deeper story line not pure action :)

Many times when movies are based on a book, the movie does not end up like the book did. One book (which I cannot remember the title of) was made into a movie that so many people loved. The only ones who seemed to hate it were the ones who read the book and saw the movie afterward. They complained that the movie was nothing like the book and should have been changed. I later found out the author just signed a few papers and wasn't involved in the movie while it was being made. Maybe it is just about the money for most of them so they don't care if their book is completely reveresed when it is made into a movie.

Books to movies are horrible and so is movies to books. I think they should just leave it the way it is. But heard from somewhere that they are making a da vinci movie out of the book. They said that it was pretty good too. The thing that I hate about these conversions is that, if you read or saw anyone of those, you begin to expect certin things which the directors won't put in. That just makes the conversion unwatch/readable.

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HArry potty i think is overated, what happened to all the other stories about wizards and magic, what is so special about Harry Potter that everyone lines up to get the book and wait there overnight. The book is pretty long but isn't exactly that special, the movie's are pretty horrible too with bad actors