Bout of Books 17: Movie Adaptations

Today's challenge is hosted by Writing My Own Fairytale and is all about book-to-move adaptations! Now, I am extremely lenient with adaptations. For the most part, I am able to go into them with fairly low expectations and can usually view them as something completely different from the books. Because of this, there aren't too many that I absolutely loathe. As an example: I enjoyed the Percy Jackson movies even though they were so, so different from the books. Pretty crazy, but that's just how I operate.


Favorite adaptation:

I recently watched movies 2-4 of the Hunger Games this year and, out of all of them, I felt like Catching Fire did an amazing job at staying true to the books whilst providing the *new* and *exciting* we expect when seeing something in movie format. The acting was great, the storyline was emotional and tense, the scenes were edited together nicely and I just felt like it was so much more than the first one. I absolutely loved it!


Least favorite adaptation:

Ah. As someone who is lenient with movie adaptations, this one definitely pushed the boundaries of my patience. I wasn't really a fan of the book to begin with (TMI is not my favorite Cassandra Clare series), but the movie offered nothing new or exciting, and took out everything from the books that could have salvaged the experience, to be honest. The acting was awful, the romances were even more cringe-y, and I didn't really enjoy it, overall.

And there you have it! What are your favorite or least favorite book-to-movie adaptations?

Top Ten Tuesday [November 10]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they update their blog with a list of ten things that have to do with a predetermined topic.



This week's topic is: Ten Book-to-Movie Adaptations I Cannot Wait For.


1. The Death Cure (The Maze Runner #3) — I really, really need this movie in my life. Like, now.

2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children — Not only is this book series one of my absolute favorites, but Asa Butterfield is playing Jacob! I can't wait to see how they adapt it to the big screen.

3. The 5th Wave — That trailer, though. So, so good.

4. Alice Through the Looking Glass (Alice in Wonderland #2) — I just saw the trailer for this the other day and FREAKED. OUT.

5. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

6. Ready Player One

7. Allegiant (Divergent #3) — I have yet to find the time to sit down and watch the first two movies, but I am super excited for Allegiant to be adapted.


These next few books are not being turned into movies but they should be:


8. The Archived by Victoria Schwab — The atmosphere, characters and story made this book extremely dark and tense and I think it would make a good movie. 

9. Across the Universe by Beth Revis

10. The Darkest Minds — If done well, this would be a really fun/exciting/tense watch.