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A walk to remember!
It was a really touching movie.
I preferred the film for once rather than the book.
angels and demons movie is a good movie but missed some very key elements of the book
i.e. the development of the mysterious assassin and making the reader wonder about who was behind the killings and why the assassin a muslim was doing it..
or the role of CERN, the book makes the reader think thet modern day CERN is the stronghold of the illuminati.
or the part about the camerlango being the son of the pope.
i enjoyed the movie but really thought it missed some major points that made the book so much more engaging
Good thing I read I read the book about 5 years ago cuz I totally forgot all the details. I do remember that CERN had a major role--a big part of the book was located there. I liked looking at all the buildings and artwork instead of reading abt them. Bernini's wonders can only be observed. Would love to see Rome in real life
which one, the paki one or the indian one
I wanna say Pakistani
A walk to remember!
It was a really touching movie.
I preferred the film for once rather than the book.
OMG me too :)
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^Is'nt it? I mean the book just seemed boring infront of the movie.
Mandy Moore and Shane West did such a good job playing the roles.
Good thing I read I read the book about 5 years ago cuz I totally forgot all the details. I do remember that CERN had a major role--a big part of the book was located there. I liked looking at all the buildings and artwork instead of reading abt them. Bernini's wonders can only be observed. Would love to see Rome in real life
I agree seeing them is something else. I loved the book because I spent a term in Rome during uni and had been to the places they had noted, reading about them in the book had really brought back memories.
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I have begun to appreciate book turned movies as being just movies, I try not to relate them to the books anymore. Its too frustrating.
I loved Q&A by Vikas Swarup but I also loved the way they made the movie (Slumdog), lots of elements were completely different but I think the movie was good in its own right.
I think the Harry Potter movies are the same, to be appreciated as just movies.
I loved the way the BBC adapted Pride and Prejudice.
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^Slumdog was based on a book?
^Slumdog was based on a book?
Yes, Q&A by Vikas Swarup.
The book is very good but quite different from the movie. It's definately a very good read though.
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no one mentioned the godfather... ?
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Godfather..i liked movie more than the book maybe because of Al Pacino,my all all time favourite
and yes masoom(hindi) based on man woman and child by erich sehgal..i remember i cried a lot while watching it..
grrr… you loved the movies since you didnt read the books, and I hated the movies since i did read the books 
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I dont really think movies can do justice with the book. Since books have so much which makes them a world within themselves. Watching HP series after reading the books was altogether a devastating experience. Almost same goes for the Davinci Code. Worths for site-seeing though.
My comments regarding kite runner are reserved since I havent watched the movie. I guess it majorly related to the turn of experience as which comes the first. I watched the serial on Mohsin Hamid's Mothmoke before reading the book soe the play was more capturing then readin the book. And once you get to read a book frist, you wouldnt really find a movie doing justice with it since while reading you create your own world of imagination always remote from what you get to watch on the screen.
i second thee
Mostly, I prefer the books over the movies.
Sometimes the movies are nice adaptions of the books, often they are disapointments. Very rarely the movies are as amazing as their books and even more rarely are movies better than their books.
'Sense and Sensibility' is one rare example of a movie which I like slightly more than the book.
'Forrest Gump' is very different from the book. I've read them both and enjoyed them as much as the movie. There is more humour in the book than in the movie I think, but they were equally wonderful.
I read the entire Harry Potter series to my daughter and I've seen the films too with both my children. Personally, I think the books were much better than the movies, my daughter agrees, but my son likes the movies better, he's only heard parts of the books.
Same goes for LOTR movies, the books were much much better.