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edit - Alternate version: Don't judge a movie by its book as requested by =Aquarior .edit - Changed the font.
I read that sentence into a Reader's Digest and I thought it would make a nice stamp.
Then I discovered that somebody had already done a similar stamp here , but I decided to submit this one anyway.
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edit - Thanks to everybody who faved this. I've stopped thanking you all on your profile because it was starting to take a lot of time.
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indeed. do you know how many times I fight with people that Dorothy's shoes are silver and not ruby red just becuse they only know the movie....but the books are wonderful!
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OMG Yes! Fucking ruby shoes! They became such a reference yet they were never red originally.
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The Lightning Thief...god that was mangled so much
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dear god, i hope that if my book ever gets made into a movie one day that it wont completey maim the original story :U
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That would suck. :C But as the original author, I think you'd have a say in the adaptation.
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i sure hope so <_> im not sure how that works and all, but im pretty positive that the ones making the film are going to do all they can to shape the story the way they want it to work, which makes me scared to think if anyone ever proposed that to me <.<
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omg no, they surely need to ask you for the rights. Take your place, I'm begging you. Just remember what they did to eragon. D:
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yes, keep it in mind 
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true stamp is true, all because they dont show the details from the book just to make the movie shorter
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you may be right but I simply do not have time for reading as much as I would like
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Eh, as long as you realize the movie story might be different from the book story and not to equate one with the other, I think that's fine.
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does this apply to Twilight too? (p.s. not a Twilight fan)
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To any book that has been adapted as a movie. Twilight fits the criteria.
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This is one of my favorite sayings! I quote it to people all the time.
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I totally agree. I've never read a book where the movie is better. Never.
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I'm glad someone brought this up. Jurassic Park is prime example of this.
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I didn't know Jurassic Park was a book
But I loved the movie! It's in my top ten favorite movies of all time
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Yes, the movie was indeed excellent! I still have one of the original VHS tapes of it! Its just.... after reading the book by Michael Crichton, the movie just didn't do it justice. n.n;
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Well, the special effects at times kinda sucked, especially with the velociraptors. But then again, I was absolutely obsessed with dinasaurs when I was really little, and I think it has partially stuck with me
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I was the same way! XD The other girls at school thought I was crazy because I loved dinosaurs!
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lol, I was obsessed until I was maybe.... 7 or so... I dunno. But I knew all of the dinosaurs names and everything. And I had a bunch of plastic dinosaurs. I had a plastic t-rex that I was scared of at night so I put it out in the hallway before I went to sleep 
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so true
(in my case, I'd say this about the Harry Potter books)
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Have you compared the diary of a wimpy kid book to the movie? the movie SUCKED I hated it. i agree with this stamp.
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I haven't read it nor seen it. I wanted to pick the books up at some point, but never got around to.
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=/ well, the movie still was horrible compared to the book.
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So true! I was like that with the harry potter film. My family hadn't read the books and they loved the films...they just made me cringe. 
Movies often ruin books, though sometimes they can be good movies in their own right.
I think the Narnia films did a very good job though. Voyage Of The Dawn Treader is the ONLY film that I have ever thought was actually better than the book, and where adding things not in the book actually improved it...
Wow I am rambling way too much ;_:
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The movie's always ruin my visions of the characters in the books. Because then when I read the books I see the movie characters... from movie's that weren't even good!
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True, it can totally ruin the mental image of them!
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Oh man, so many failed movies...Percy Jackson to name one. >.<
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Book has nothing to do with the movie.I have realised it a long time ago.And they dont have to be simular.Movie is the director`s vision mostly.And it is completely okey to be different from each other.But the book is the original.
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ha, I always judge a movie by it's book.
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To see if it was well adapted and if they omitted or added some stuff?
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Usually, yes.
I hate to see the movie first most of the time, because in my opinion it's usually worse than the book (except for the princess bride, both the movie and the book were very well done).
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It's been a while since you posted this comment but I just agree with you so much I just had to bother you to tell you just that.
I agree with you.
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OH MY GOD. THE CIRQUE DU FREAK MOVIE.
It's named the Vampire's assistant, which is the second book, but it's based off of the first three books (or at least that's what they say)?
They added in characters and took out a main character and changed the gender of another one and made all the characters look mentally disabled and they ruined Evra.
The Evra part really gets me.
I couldn't even get through the whole movie. I got about thirty minutes into it but got a nasty headache and tears were streaming down my cheeks. So I stopped it. And almost vomited. .-.
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