Read a book read a book...

I promise this isn't an OH NOES HOLLY WOOD HAS SURPRISED BUTTSEXXORED MY CHILDHOOD post. (Mostly cause the stuff I'm about to get to I didn't experience until college.) It is a little bit of a whine about bad movie adaptions in the past year... (there were quite a few.)

Really I just want to call attention to two of them... one being Blood and Chocolate. Movie: cut rate Underworld. Complete with ripped off prevalent Blue Filter and a completely inexplicable moving of the setting to... Prague? What? Book: a nicely written YA novel about growing up, trying to fit in, when falling in love with the wrong person doesn't always work out ...and oh yeah. Werewolves. But it was decent! It wasn't Newbury award material or anything but it was a pretty good read. *facepalm*

The second... Jumper. Movie (which granted I haven't seen and don't intend to as the reviews roll in): looks like they kept the teleportation elements in, ditched the entire plot, and added additional jumpers and OH HAI ANIKIN SKYWALKER MACE WINDU IS HERE 2 PWNZ0RZ YOUR SOCKS OFF. Book: Also a YA novel, about an abused kid (kid, people. As in Zach Efron probably would have been a better bet, not, as one critic amusingly put it, half man half tree Hayden Christianson) who discovers his teleportation powers under duress and the adventures and mayhem that ensues. Considering there are also terrorists in the book, you would think they would have just faithfully translated it from the book but I suppose having a fifteen year old kid drop Osama Bin Carboncopy off a cliff wasn't cinematic enough or cool enough so they spliced in the script for FABULOUS: Ecks & Sever Go to Fashion Week and Blow Shit Up. (You can see why it was shelved.) Or something.

And while I did make fun of those who were all QQ about the Dark is Rising movie last fall (and will quite privately add my own eyeroll and WTF) I'm a little disturbed by how the movie industry is suddenly snooping around in the little regarded dusty world of young adult fantasy to butcher. (Spiderwick, anyone?). It makes me want to grab Kit and Nita** and hide them in an attic until Hollywood gets some got-damed sense. Unfortunately, that didn't really work out for Anne Frank either.

Anyway. In both cases cited above I think skipping the movie is wise, even if you're like me and will never turn down an opportunity to watch Sam L. KICKING EVERYONE'S ASS ALL THE TIME. But definitely read the books.


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