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Do you like reading the book before or after seeing the movie?
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Jan 09, 2012 04:57AM

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ETA: Despite the actual vote results, I'm loving the great variety of answers! :)

I feel this way too. And, for me, it's often, "Wow, this movie wasn't that great, but the setting/idea has so much potential! I want to read the book so I can actually explore that potential!"
I am also enjoying the variety of responses in the comments. It's neat to see the reasoning for why things work for those they work for.




I'm the same way. I did an experiment this summer and found that I enjoyed both the book and the film if I waited to read the book after watching the movie.





Alas, some of the books didn't even make it into the movie.





Many times the movie's ending is completely different from the book's ending, so if you were interested in the book before you saw the movie, it is often fun to read the book anyway - you may be surprised!

If it's a book I read and they turn it into a movie, I will watch it.
If it's a movie I watched and later found out it's a book I will read the book if I liked the movie.
So it depends on the book/the movie and if I liked it or not. I'm not one that will rush out and get a book and read it if I know it's coming out to movie soon. I like going into movies unbiased and if you have read the book, you have imagined it a certain way and 9/10 you will come away with things that should have been in the movie but there wasn't time/movie/didn't fit in the plot that the movie was going.









If I read the Book before I saw the Movie, is the Film deeply disappointed.
I think better is to read the book and never seen the Movie.


If book is first than in movie I just notice what did they do different, or leave out, or compare characters to ones I imagined while I was reading.
I movie is first than I'm just irritated by images from movie that I can't get out of my mind and can't really get into story.
And I prefer to experience the original, so if movie was made by the book, than book first. If book was written after movie was successful, than movie. so it is quite difficult question.. :D
But, in general: BOOKS > MOVIES.


Of course then I'm less likely to watch the film, unless, in keeping with most of my film watching, it's so many years after it's released that I only remember the major events!
I remember at school watching "Far From the Madding Crowd" with Alan Bates...the entire class were picking up where it differed from the book. I don't think we appreciated the film at all!

just because I enjoyed the movie, two times now.. First after I watched "Flipped", and then "The Help".


Of course a book is going to have much more detail, especially those that include a lot of the protagonist's thoughts, which are so difficult to translate into movie action. For me, though, in addition to that, I tend to visualize when I'm reading, so it's very disappointing when the creators of a film don't share my "view" of how the characters, settings, etc. should look (and, worse, if their casting choices are significantly different than who I'd have picked for the roles!).


But I don't think I've actually seen a lot of movies based on books I've read. I purposely avoided The Time Traveler's Wife because the book blew me away and the movie didn't look very good and I didn't want the book ruined for me. And the actors looked nothing like Claire and Henry!
Then again with Lord Of The Rings I read the books first and the movie was so true to them, it never let me down. And it was so good it looked better than I imagined! And Aragorn looked the spitting image of how I imagined him so I was pretty happy with that.





