Showing posts with label the mortal instruments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the mortal instruments. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2016

Bout of Books 17: Movie Adaptations

Bout of Books

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?

Monday, August 8, 2016

Shelfie [August 8]


Shelf #2: Cassandra Clare

Normally I do not section my bookshelves off by authors but, like Rick Riordan, I seem to have acquired quite a few Cassandra Clare books and the collection only appears to be growing. I will admit that I have kind of fallen off of the bandwagon with her work—I have yet to read the final book in her Mortal Instruments series or the first in her The Dark Artifices series—but she still remains one of my favorite authors and I love looking at all of her books together on one shelf!

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Movie Review: The Mortal Instruments



The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

Directed by: Harald Zwart
Screenplay by: Jessica Postigo (based on the book by Cassandra Clare)
Starring: Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan


[PG 13]

Action, Adventure, Drama




Let us just ignore the fact that this review is two weeks too late, shall we?

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