Got Bit Once, I Bit Back And Now I Am Eclipsed By Twilight

I love me some “Harry Potter”, and I used to be a awesome bookworm-treat that my son got from me-where now he can chow down a book with almost 200 pages in a day.  That’s awesome for a 9-year old.  So I have the last four of the “Harry Potter” series, and the movies are great; but “Muggles” like me are not usually satisfied with the movie that comes out based on a book. 

Reading a book before or after the movie, gives you a lot of perspective and a wider approach to the movie.  You understand it better.  Characters are not that “stiff”, not shallow, are very wholesome and even lighter and easier to grasp.  Movies are very complex, there’s difference in styles in each movie director, background, and what to grasp from the book to put out there to millions all over the world.

I am one of the many that believe that the “Harry Potter” movie series would’ve benefited having the same director on all films.  I know for sure that Book 7, the final of the series, will be broken in two.  I don’t know if Peter Jackson (from the “Lord Of The Rings” series) will take the job.  I hope that the next director(s) honor J.K. Rowling’s masterpiece share with the moviegoers as much as they can from the books. 

Now I jumped into “Twilight”.

My curiosity as a mom, with all these teenagers at the mall, posters everywhere, jewelry, etc. of the main characters of the movie “bit” me.  I had to find out and rent “Twilight” to see what the fuss was all about.  So I watched it and all I thought about “Edward” was:  “Weirdo…weirdo…weirdo”.  Everything was so different, so dark, I couldn’t stand him.  Then, “Edward” kinda grew on me.  I cannot take “Bella” seriously since that’s my dog’s name, and the actress Kristen Stewart was not performing to my expectations.  Too serious?  Not much expression?  Not that happy?  Is the book really like this? 

When the second movie came out I thought it was just worthless to make those insanely long lines to watch it.  I knew it was another “Harry Potter” phenomena, and with “Harry” I was happy and content.  Now that “New Moon” came out, I decided to purchase it instead of renting it because I had the “hunch” that it would be way better than the first one.  And boy oh boy was I pleased!  Yep, I bit back.  I won’t spill anything here, of course, but the ending was so unexpected and stunning that I just thought, “Heck no, I gotta see what happened next”, therefore I bought “Eclipse”.  I am a very good reader and can finish a book in less than a week, but this one is gonna take longer than that, considering the thickness of it.  I am considering purchasing the “Twilight” book because of the movie vs. book differences.

And it’s gonna be a hard-to-read book, since I can tolerate so much romance in a book. 

-CN

Got Bit Once, I Bit Back And Now I Am Eclipsed By Twilight

I love me some “Harry Potter”, and I used to be a awesome bookworm-treat that my son got from me-where now he can chow down a book with almost 200 pages in a day.  That’s awesome for a 9-year old.  So I have the last four of the “Harry Potter” series, and the movies are great; but “Muggles” like me are not usually satisfied with the movie that comes out based on a book. 

Reading a book before or after the movie, gives you a lot of perspective and a wider approach to the movie.  You understand it better.  Characters are not that “stiff”, not shallow, are very wholesome and even lighter and easier to grasp.  Movies are very complex, there’s difference in styles in each movie director, background, and what to grasp from the book to put out there to millions all over the world.

I am one of the many that believe that the “Harry Potter” movie series would’ve benefited having the same director on all films.  I know for sure that Book 7, the final of the series, will be broken in two.  I don’t know if Peter Jackson (from the “Lord Of The Rings” series) will take the job.  I hope that the next director(s) honor J.K. Rowling’s masterpiece share with the moviegoers as much as they can from the books. 

Now I jumped into “Twilight”.

My curiosity as a mom, with all these teenagers at the mall, posters everywhere, jewelry, etc. of the main characters of the movie “bit” me.  I had to find out and rent “Twilight” to see what the fuss was all about.  So I watched it and all I thought about “Edward” was:  “Weirdo…weirdo…weirdo”.  Everything was so different, so dark, I couldn’t stand him.  Then, “Edward” kinda grew on me.  I cannot take “Bella” seriously since that’s my dog’s name, and the actress Kristen Stewart was not performing to my expectations.  Too serious?  Not much expression?  Not that happy?  Is the book really like this? 

When the second movie came out I thought it was just worthless to make those insanely long lines to watch it.  I knew it was another “Harry Potter” phenomena, and with “Harry” I was happy and content.  Now that “New Moon” came out, I decided to purchase it instead of renting it because I had the “hunch” that it would be way better than the first one.  And boy oh boy was I pleased!  Yep, I bit back.  I won’t spill anything here, of course, but the ending was so unexpected and stunning that I just thought, “Heck no, I gotta see what happened next”, therefore I bought “Eclipse”.  I am a very good reader and can finish a book in less than a week, but this one is gonna take longer than that, considering the thickness of it.  I am considering purchasing the “Twilight” book because of the movie vs. book differences.

And it’s gonna be a hard-to-read book, since I can tolerate so much romance in a book. 

-CN