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Yeah but The Amazing Spider-Man is better because I like Garfield and Stone fare and away more than McGuire and Dunst.

My friend said Maleficent was really fierce and he likes a good female lead so.. it probably wasn't hard for him to develop a bias.
 
My girlfriend and I were supposed to see Maleficent yesterday but as soon as we were about to buy the tickets from the machine, Bam! No more seats lol T^T

So instead we watched Blended which was good, gave me some good laughs :3
 
I just saw Maleficent yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. It was really cute and Angelina Jolie was the fiercest I've ever seen her, and had me on the edge of my seat during most of her more serious appearances. Loved it, really.
 
Antemortem said:
I just saw Maleficent yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. It was really cute and Angelina Jolie was the fiercest I've ever seen her, and had me on the edge of my seat during most of her more serious appearances. Loved it, really.
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But weren't you bothered by the pro-radical feminist messages in the film and how it didn't stay true to the story of the original Disney adaption (this is suppose to be a retelling of that adaption through the perspective of the Mistress of all Evil after all).
 
Pinkie-Dawn said:
But weren't you bothered by the pro-radical feminist messages in the film and how it didn't stay true to the story of the original Disney adaption (this is suppose to be a retelling of that adaption through the perspective of the Mistress of all Evil after all).
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Nope. It was made to be a cute movie and I don't read between lines for any agenda Disney of a corporations might be pushing. I didn't love the perspective, no, I agree with that.
 
How much weight do you guys put on reading a book before going out to see the movie? A few of my friends have gotten quite riled up when hearing of people at our school going to see The Fault In Our Stars without reading the novel. Personally, I could care less, but I think it's always good to have read it beforehand, to familiarize yourself with what the original story line was supposed to be like. Usually in movies, they can't include every detail from the book, and while cutting it down to size, the story loses some of its depth.
 
sometimes, a great movie can be made from a ♥♥♥♥ book, or a ♥♥♥♥ movie can be made for a great book. (unrelated point) I don't give nine ♥♥♥♥s if you watch, say, A Clockwork Orange without reading the book (which is what I've done). people can do what they want, it's silly to get all pent up about it.
 
It really makes little difference. Books and movies have their own different forms of storytelling, and going in to either one expecting it to be like the other can cause problems. People might even hate the book/movie for not being like the movie/book.

People can read both to get the full experience, but no one should get really angry over people not wanting to read a book before seeing a movie based on it.
 
The picture of the Harry Potter book with the little circle out of it that states how much of the story is lost in transition from book to movie is accurate in almost every case. It just depends on whether or not you care that you're not getting the full experience because no matter what, if you don't read the book at some point, you're not getting the in-depth experience.
 
I believe that when you're reading, you're imagining the scenarios in your head yourself while in the movies, they show the scenarios to you instead of you imagining it. So that kinda plays into it also, making you think that some stuffs in the book happened in one way, while the movies says it happened in this way instead.
 
Movies that look like they might really appeal to me are ones that make me want to read the book first. I know that if I see the movie first then I'll always have those images in my head as I read the book and I feel like I'm missing out on the chance to imagine things my own way when reading the book.

Plus I like to see how things get adapted, what changes are made, and that sort of thing.

And Maleficent was a pretty great version of the story. Retellings and reimaginings of fairy tales are great stuff.
 
Antemortem said:
The picture of the Harry Potter book with the little circle out of it that states how much of the story is lost in transition from book to movie is accurate in almost every case. It just depends on whether or not you care that you're not getting the full experience because no matter what, if you don't read the book at some point, you're not getting the in-depth experience.
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I wouldn't say it's an incomplete experience though. Just a different experience.

Movies aren't just about what happens, they're about how it happens. Aspects like the visuals and the music (especially music) combine to create a very different experience.
 
TRIFORCE89 said:
I wouldn't say it's an incomplete experience though. Just a different experience.

Movies aren't just about what happens, they're about how it happens. Aspects like the visuals and the music (especially music) combine to create a very different experience.
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A different experience doesn't necessarily mean a full experience. Regardless of how the story is told and how the visuals/music look in the movie, if you read the book after the fact, you're taking what you saw in the movie and completing it with the rest of the book. :P

EDIT: Let me be more specific. It'll be incomplete in the eyes of someone who read the book then saw the movie, as they're the ones who will be harping on those who just saw the movie. And that's why they have a problem with it, or the majority.
 
Okay, someone plug Maleficent for me because it looked to me like an attempt to cash-in on an older-than-dirt villain (literally, Sleeping Beauty was like, what, 1950's?). Give me several reasons why I should go see it and give the evil corporation Disney my hard-earned money.
 
Lance said:
Next movie for me is Transformers, probably. Next movie I'm excited for is Deliver From Evil. The trailers look completely terrifying. It's like this year's The Conjuring.

Didn't see Maleficent... :o
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It looks terrifying in the sense that The Possession looked absolutely terrifying in its trailer, but the movie was actually high end suspense at best, like how House at the End of the Street with Jennifer Lawrence was advertised as horror but it really was just a suspenseful movie. I'll definitely end up seeing it with some big group of people though because it's almost tradition that my friends see the latest scary movies.
 
Man, I've seen pretty much everything that looks decent right now. That means Godzilla (not as good as Final Wars) and X-Men.

Everything else looks boring or terrible.
 
CarcharOdin said:
I don't do cute. Unless it's cats.

Also, if Pinkie-Dawn's comments on the radical feminism holds any weight, then no thanks.
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If you're someone that picks apart a movie when you see it, then maybe it holds water as a shout to radical feminism, but really to me... that's a little extreme.
 
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