[Top Ten Tuesday: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Books To Movies]

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup hosted by The Broke And The Bookish!

This week we were asked to talk about our books that have been turned into movies!  I love book movies, but I feel like a lot of them don't hold up, that is unless I didn't really like the book to begin with.  So many of the movies on my lists are favorites of mine, but I didn't actually care for the book.  Though a few of them make the exception.  And then on the flip side, sometimes I really liked a book, was extremely excited for the movie and then got pissed off after I saw it.  And so here are my lists!

P.S. all of the titles link to the flim's IMDB page.

The Good (I loved the book and the movie!)

"Warm Bodies"

     This movie blew my mind.  I mean it's a zombie love story!  I loved everything about it.  It's full of classic zombie movie gore, but also a ton of humor and heart.  I read the book after I took myself to see the movie and I loved it just as much.  They are primarily similar, but the book definitely has a darker edge to it.  I highly recommend both!

"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"

     I can't remember if I saw the movie or read the book first, but I'll tell you one thing I love both.  I think this was one of my first contemporary books that I read that I really liked.  The travel and sexy Greek man might have something to do with my love of both the film and the book.  Maybe?

"The Importance of Being Earnest"

     Oscar Wilde is one of my literary heroes.  I know for a fact that I saw this movie first and that is what caused me to fall in love with his plays and writing.  I was the teenager carrying around falling apart books of plays and laughing my head off as I read them.  I'm actually a fan of all of his plays turned films!

"Stardust"

     Can I tell you how much I love Neil Gaiman as an author?!  He's seriously one of my favorites.  I have to admit that Stardust wasn't my favorite book of his, but I still enjoyed it.  The movie, however is one of my favorites!  I'm a total sucker for movies like this.  Willow, The Princess Bride and Labyrinth have been constant favorites, and this film reminds me of those! 

"Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"

     This book was one of my favorites when I was younger!  The film wasn't that great, but I remember really liking it when it came out.  It's just good fun.

The Bad (movies I hated born from books I loved)

"Ella Enchanted"

     How did they miss the mark on this one?  The casting was perfect, the story was pretty much the same and yet it just didn't work.  This was the book that I clung to when I was younger, so when I went to see the film and it didn't live up to the book, it crushed my soul.  Yes this movie was a soul crusher!

"The Host"

     Once again, what happened here?  This is such a cool book with so much awesome imagery and character conflict, but when it hit the stage I wanted to hide in hole just like all of the characters in the film.  I really wanted to like this one, and parts were cool, but not enough of it.  While were at it let's just add all the Twilight films to this too.  I guess Stephanie's books just shouldn't be put on the screen, but it's too late now.

The Ugly (movies I love that came from books I can't stand)

"Emma"

     I feel like people are going to throw things when I say this, but I'm not a huge Jane Austen fan.  I think that all of her books make way better movies that books.  Her wit and charm shines through on the screen better than on the written page.  In my opinion at least.  Which makes me fully appreciate what she's done even if I don't like to read, but rather watch her stories.  Emma is one of my favorites, but I like all of them!

"The Princess Diaries"

     Gah, I love this movie so much!  So many good things came out of this flick.  Finding actors and musicians that I would respect for years and finding a story that I connected with in my teen years.  Seriously Mia was my homegirl and I adored her story.  Then I read the first book and DNFed it.  Thank you Disney for making a movie that I loved/love so much out of something that I couldn't stand!

"A Walk To Remember"

     I can't stand Nicholas Spark's books.  They are all the same and I don't get it.  I did love this movie to pieces though.  It's so sad and I love me some Mandy Moore in it.  I guess I liked odd duck characters in high school, but who doesn't?

*Honorable mentions of book and movies that I love.  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", "Little Woman", "Gone With The Wind" and "Coraline".

Well there's my list!  What's on yours?  I wanna know.  Leave your link below or tell me in the comments!