Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday – we plan to!?? :)?? I have a GIRL for the holiday season this year – wooohooo.?? Hit some pre-black Friday sales today and got some cute stuff at Pumpkin Patch and Children’s Place.?? I love tights – striped and polka dots especially.?? Got some cute pairs for Tori.
Went to see Twighlight with Jodi and Aimee this week.?? Totally fun girls night out.?? I really liked the movie and it made me anxious to re-read the series again BUT…..books are always WAAAAYYYYY better than movies.?? They did a good job packing a lot of scenes into the movie but I thought it made it pretty choppy by doing that.?? I think the casting was pretty good for the most part but not stellar.?? I wasn’t a big fan of Edward in the beginning but the actor won me over by the end.?? The thing with this movie in particular though is that the book is heavily centered on dialogue and emotion.?? You really really KNOW the characters.?? That is just impossible to portray in the same fashion in a two hour movie.?? SO if you go see the movie and you like it – READ THE BOOK!!!?? I just bought Brisinger to read on our trip.?? It’s the third in the Christopher Paolini Eragon series.?? Another example of a book that is tons better than the movie…TONS.?? Though, in this case, I liked the movie enough to search out the book after the fact.?? What is more fun??? Reading first than watching or watching then reading??? Not sure I have an opinion on that.?? :)?? Surprising isn’t it??? LOL.?? Me??? Running short on opinion??? I must be coming down with something.?? 😉
P.S.?? The sleep through the night trial in her crib only lasted about 30 minutes.??Since she has a cold, I decided to wait.
3 responses to “Thankful”
i love that picture!!!
you’re making me curious about the movie and books.
ps – jas saw this post and the last one and he thinks she is just BEAUTIFUL. 🙂 (he might want to snatch her up!) 🙂 🙂 🙂
Always, always, always watch the movie first, then read the book. The problem is that your mind is so much more creative than a movie can be. Besides, you always end up creating the character’s look in your mind, and then the movie casting rarely matches the image you have created. I don’t even want to watch Twilight because Edwards character is so vastly different than what I had imagined.
And, I agree, a 2 hour movie can NEVER match all the subtle nuances of character development that a book has. Unfortunately, the Twilight series was quite popular before the movie, so it would probably have been difficult to not have read the book by the time the movie came out.