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Post by RacetrackRejects on Jul 21, 2009 8:43:26 GMT -5
Has anyone read the book? I have been watching the previews for the movie and it just looks so amazing. I'm debating reading the book before the movie, but I don't want to ruin the movie for me and I worry that the book won't hold me as well since I don't normally read that genre.
Can anyone out there give a review of the book?
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Post by Bara on Jul 21, 2009 12:13:47 GMT -5
Yes, it's a great book. I don't know the answer to 'book before film' or vice versa.
I tend to go with book before film.
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Jul 21, 2009 12:21:08 GMT -5
I found the first 104 pages of the book online and I am in love with it. Could not read it fast enough!! Now I am dying to get the rest of the book.
Typically, if a movie is from a book, I try and watch the movie first because while the movie might be fine on it's own, they usually are not as good as the book. I watch the movie first so it has a chance for me to like it, then I read the book..lol.
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Post by niaru on Jul 21, 2009 15:55:58 GMT -5
I loved that book. I'll probably rent the movie when it's on Netflix.
I do book then movie, sometimes if I really, really loved the book I don,t even bother with the movie because I'm almost always disappointed with the movie, lol. My solution is to read the book first, then once enough time has passed, and I can't remember all the details in the book, THEN I watch the movie.
Speaking of which...I bet when/if they make a Edgar Sawtelle movie, they'll change the ending...
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Post by Bara on Jul 22, 2009 0:54:41 GMT -5
..  . And I bet they change the title to 'Edgar and Almondine' or something - which it SHOULD be! Yes, if I've loved a book, I don't go to the movie. I'm still emotionally scarred from discovering that not only did Winnie-the-Pooh have a squeaky voice and not a growly one - but HE HAS AN AMERICAN ACCENT!!  Now, that probably seems perfectly normal to you guys. And you expect Yogi Bear to have an American accent. You know that Paddington probably speaks Peruvian English - but POOH?  |
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Post by adcooper on Jul 22, 2009 14:11:43 GMT -5
I am another fan of Time Traveler's Wife. I guess the book was cinematic--so visual--but I wonder how they'll do all the time shifting on film. LIke Claire, I'll watch a movie after I've gotten a bit vague about a good book, but I wonder if Hollywood will play up the violence and fail to capture the characters' internal lives. Should be interesting. Who's in it?
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Jul 22, 2009 14:54:05 GMT -5
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Post by Einstein on Jul 23, 2009 10:54:09 GMT -5
I read the book years ago I think, LOVED it, am a little worried the movie won't live up to it.
I was the same way about the Horse Whisperer too. I usually read the books first because I'm always reading, and sometimes get realy disappointed in the movie. But I bet this will be a good one, I can't wait to see it.
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Post by adcooper on Jul 23, 2009 12:11:46 GMT -5
Ooooh, just looking at the trailer...it's not what I would have expected. I saw the characters very differently. I'd love to hear what Audrey Niffenegger thinks of the way her book turns out in movie form.
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Jul 23, 2009 14:30:01 GMT -5
I saw the trailer before I read any of the book, so I had a preconceived notion about the characters. I see them as "glowy" and romantic and just fairytale love.
I'm curious to see how you saw the characters Ad. I've read reviews where readers thought that Henry was very selfish or self centered, but so far, I haven't seen him as that way.
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Post by adcooper on Jul 24, 2009 7:03:09 GMT -5
RR, I thought it was a darker love story than the clips suggest. Not quite Wuthering Heights, but moody and broody, if you know what I mean. And the actors are so pretty--I pictured the characters as striking, but in unconventional ways. Okay, these aren't the actors I'd cast, but you know how Dustin Hoffman is appealing but not really handsome? That's more how I saw Henry. And Clare would be beautiful, but not cute. She'd have to be more like a Redgrave or a Streep.
I think that the characters were so fascinating as I read the book, that the settings were sometimes rather hazy in my imagination, so the tremendous detail and richness of the sets in the movie startled me! I did, though, picture a lot of it in Chicago, in places that are familiar to me, so I probably just relied on memories of places I'd been on hazy days, eh?!
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Jul 24, 2009 8:01:41 GMT -5
I can see what you are saying about the actors. I think that Eric Bana is handsome in an unconventional way, but I think I could better see a Claire Forlani type in the Clare role, or maybe a Maggie Gayllenhall (yeah, i butchered that) type.
I think movie has some moody broody bits and I feel it hints at that in trailer, but having not finished the book yet, I have nothing to compare it to. I haven't read anything about the doctor yet, and I wonder if they ever cover what happened when Henry was in the meadow with Clare's father and brother later in the book as well.
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Post by diane on Aug 7, 2009 17:41:25 GMT -5
I just bought the book at walmart..
I cant wait to start it..
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Aug 17, 2009 10:39:26 GMT -5
Ok, so I've completed the book and, well, meh. If I had stopped reading 3/4s of the way through, I would have loved it. Yes, I knew *SPOILER* that Henry was going to die, I mean how could he not right? I also had a feeling that it was tied to the day in the field with Claire's parents, but I didn't like how it was led up to and how it felt rushed. I was also not happy with the image it left the reader, but meh.
I almost hope that the movie is more candy-coated.
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. And I bet they change the title to 'Edgar and Almondine' or something - which it SHOULD be!
