[Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Would Love To See Turned Into A Movie/TV Show]

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

In a perfect world, people wouldn't ruin books when they turned them into movies.  They wouldn't take a story and change things about it that make you wanna throw things at the huge movie theater screen when you go to see it.  I'm not one to care about the appearance of characters, give the role to someone who can act the part, I'll thank you later, but when you take a story that already works and you take things away or add things that weren't there, I just don't get it.  Honestly, if the actors and the movie don't look like what I pictured I don't care as long as the movie tells the same story that I love.  This doesn't seem to happen often, but if it did, these are the books that I would love to see on a screen in a dark movie theater.  So, now I'm gonna step off my soap box and clue you into the books!

Books That In A Perfect World (Where People Don't Mess Things Up) Would Make Great Movies!

 

 

•  "13 Little Blue Envelopes" by Maureen Johnson:  I think this one would make a great movie.  It's cute, you'd get to see a lot of cool places all over Europe and the romance is adorable.  Plus, it's got some tearjerker moments too!
• "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein:  This one would make a beautiful movie.  In the right cinematographer's hands this would be so visually stunning.  Plus the story would leave everyone in the theater weeping violently into their popcorn.  I saw this one like a movie in my head anyways when I read it!
• "Dangerous Girls" by Abigail Haas:  This book was a total mind eff!  If they did it right it would be a great movie, but I think it would make an even cooler mini series.  Not a whole TV show, cause then they'd drag it out too long, but a nice 3 or 4 episode mini series would be perfect.  I can only imagine what people would be talking about after it was over!
• "Gorgeous" by Paul Rudnick:  This would be the funny, raunchy "Mean Girls" of fairytale movies!  I can see myself laughing my head off.  It could also play off well as a TV show.  I see it appealing to fans of shows like GLEE and Ugly Betty!
• "If You Find Me" by Emily Murdoch:  Gosh this would be a tough movie to sit through, but this story is just so beautiful and heartbreaking that I would love to see it taken over by a really gritty Indie director and turned into something amazing and cinematic!
• "In the Shadow of Blackbirds" by Cat Winters:  I don't even know how you would turn this book into a movie, but in the right hands this would be one of the most epic movies ever.  The director would have to understand how to be extremely atmospheric and give people the chills.  Maybe Danny Boyle could helm this one?  Then again I think Danny Boyle should make every movie...
• "Sanctum" by Sarah Fine:  Speaking of movies that Danny Boyle should direct, Sanctum would be the perfect one for him.  This movie would be so intense and character driven that people would be crying and holding onto their chair arms with death grips.  They'd be crying with emotion, not because they were scared shitless (or both)
• "Splintered" by A.G. Howard:  Can we get Tim Burton behind this one?  I know that he already did an Alice in Wonderland, but lets face it, he should have waited so that he could make this movie!  Oooo, or maybe Baz Luhrmann?  I could get behind that too.  But seriously the world in this book is so colorful and well imagined, it would be awesome to see it before my very eyes!
• "The Trouble With Flirting" by Claire LaZebnik:  Cause after all those dark movies we need something light and fluffy and funny.  This would make one of those movies that Disney would helm and all of the world would fall in love with it and the characters, just like I did with the book!
• "The Ward" by Jordana Frankel:  Okay, so underwater stuff freaks me out, but I'd sit through this movie in a heartbeat.  The world building is so interesting in this book and the characters are all so strong.  I think it would appeal to a whole bunch of adventure junkie types!

So now that I've paired my favorite books with some of my favorite directors and the like, maybe I should tell them to make these movies?

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

[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!