Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for April 25, 2024

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They’re taking a leaf from the bars

The movie may have been better, but it is still 2 hours I will never get back.

The next movie to be better than the book will be the first one.

She liked Clark Gable better than Rhett Butler.

“But the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies were better!”

I find that seeing the movie before reading the book usually works better for me. Once I see the movie, I can usually separate my memories of the movie from the book. However, if I read the book firs, I think about the things that get left out of the movie.

The first rule of book club…

What? And forgo the free wine?

I’m not joining THAT book club.

I’ve seen a few movies that were true to the book in every detail, Atlas Shrugged a trilogy was cinematic artistry. I wondered before I started if they could be true to the Sci-Fi aspect of the novel. I was not disappointed.

Twister was one where the movie was much better than the book. I threw the book against the wall.

Sometimes the screenwriter does the job that the book editor SHOULD have done – eliminating unnecessary characters, and inane subplots – producing a stronger vision than the original source material. Jaws, The Godfather, Fight Club, and Little Big Man are some movies I can think of that were better than the books.

Like Water For Chocolate was a rarity — the movie and the book were both delights. I read the book first, loved it, and saw the movie with trepidation — but was more than pleasantly surprised.

Tough crowd.

Jurassic Park is a good book, but seeing dinosaurs on screen was worth making the movie.

This is a repeat. A great one, though! I saved it as a screenshot.

I read the book Forrest Gump some time after seeing the movie. I think that’s the only time I really thought that the movie was better.

She had trouble reading the room.

She’d feel kinda bad if she’d actually read the book.

I read The Lord of the Rings, saw all the movies and the extended versions, which I prefer over the first theatrical versions.

Never Judge A Book By Its Movie

I can remember two film I thought were better than the book. Goldfinger and Hunt For Red October.

1) I wish LOTR movies would have stuck to the way it really happened (it’s historical fiction, you know)2) Is that a MAOA (Middle Aged Orphan Annie ) getting bounced ( or perhaps Mad Magazine’s Little Orphan Melvin)

She’ll never be the same after they make her eat all that stale movie theater popcorn! :)

Funny, maybe true !

The redact power she had as moderator in the book club web forum didn’t translate to the real world with the same clout so some adjustments were made…

That cartoon is a repeat from 4 years ago.

“You mean the movie that took only the title and the color of her underwear from the original book?”

The very interesting movie Our Hitler: A Film From Germany ran about eight hours over three nights. The book was a whole lot easier to go through.

The only movie that equalled the book was Lonesome Dove.

Funny! She looks stunned.