Musing Mondays: Movies

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about movies …

How do you react to movies made of your favourite books (or even not-so-favourite books)? Do you look forward to seeing them, or avoid them? Do you like to have read the book before seeing the movie?

I rarely watch movies, not because I do not like them but I can hardly find the time with my work, family and all! However, I do visit the cinemas once in a while and I am choosy over the movies I want to watch because it would be a waste of time and money if I did not do a little 'research' prior to watching (I google a little about the movie and read the reviews from papers and magazines). Sometimes, it would be a movie my husband wanted to watch and I will go along to keep him company (ended up I loved Iron Man, all the Batman and Spiderman sequels and a few others that I could not think of at the moment).

So what do I feel about movies made of the books I read? Generally, I welcome them! I think it is a great way in influencing the non-readers into reading the books after watching the film adaptations, but personally I am also worried that they would not live up to the expectations as we did in books. And another thing is, you would not get the details as much as you read the book so that is another issue I believe we all have with film adaptations.

Here are a list of some of the books I read before and after watching the movies:

• My Sister's Keeper (book first, movie to look forward to)
• The Twilight Saga (books first, movies second)
• The Harry Potter series (movies first, books second)
• The Lord of the Rings series (movies first, books to look forward to)
• The Devil Wears Prada (movie first, book in my TBR pile)
• P.S. I Love You (book first, movie to look forward to)
• The Kite Runner (book first, movie to look forward to)
• The Other Boleyn Girl (book first, movies second)
• Revolutionary Road (book first, movie to look forward to)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (book first, movie to look forward to)
• Atonement (book first, movie second)

I am sure there are a few others but my memory has failed me so I am thinking the above list will do.

What about you?