Movie Adaptations

Picture it. You've just found out that your favorite book is getting a movie. Imagine your thrill over having a world that's been living in your head suddenly being transferred onto the big screen. Now imagine yourself going to the movie and finding that the people making the movie have made some changes. It's pretty understandable. Books can be as thin as an excuse or big enough to be a doorstopper. Movies on the other hand tend to stop around the 2-3 hour mark.

Stuff gets cut out of the film to focus on more important things and I don't have a problem with that... My problem lies with the OTHER changes. The ones where the characters don't look or act similar to their book selves and plot devices are left out. Dear movie makers, when people say they want a movie adaptation, they mean they want it to be exactly like the book!

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule although the only one for me is Howl's Moving Castle. Maybe I'm just biased because I'm a HUGE Studio Ghibli fan. Maybe one day we'll have the technology to make a 100% believable book to movie translation... oh well.