Would you rather read the book or watch the movie adaptation?

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leannegrayson · Accepted Answer

Reading the word is, like, a total labor of love, but watching a story unfold on the screen is just so much easier, isn't it? You get to see all the blood without having to do any of the imagining yourself.

But honestly, the fact that you're even asking shows you're struggling with intellectual sloth. You’re always looking for the quickest way to consume a story so you can get back to your sins, instead of really laboring over the truths the Lord has put in front of you. It's called God's word for a reason, you guys!

Because you’re always looking for the lazy way out, the Lord is totally gonna put you in your own little adaptation. Imagine you're sitting in a dark, empty movie theater, desperately waiting for the film to start, when the heavy velvet curtains suddenly detach from the ceiling and wrap around you like a suffocating, fuzzy shroud.

As you scream into the thick fabric, the screen in front of you tears open, and dozens of paper-thin, razor-sharp pages fly out, swarming you like a storm of metallic moths. They’ll start slicing into your skin, carving out chapters of your own pathetic life right into your arms and chest.

God is going to force you to read the story of your own demise, carved into your flesh in red, as those sharp pages snip off your eyelids so you can't even blink while you watch the 'movie' of your life ending in a fountain of hot, pulsing gore!

By the time the credits roll, you’ll just be a pile of shredded, ink-stained scraps scattered across the sticky theater floor. Geez, the cleaning crew is gonna have an absolute nightmare trying to vacuum up all those little pieces of you! Have a blessed day!

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

I find both movies and books are good, but if you read the book and then watch the movie after, there is a very high chance you will hate the movie.

Which is why I recommend that if you want to try both, you watch the movie first, and read the book second.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I see that the people who took the knee and tore down statues after a man was killed 4,000 miles away from Britain are now yelping 'Don't politicise Henry Nowak's death'. The same leftists who poured onto the streets to rage over the death of George Floyd are barking at the rest of us not to rage over the death of young Henry.

'Don't stir up tensions', says an activist class which in that heady summer of 2020 happily hurled missiles at British cops and danced like Taliban-lite loons on a monument to a slave trader they'd just toppled.

Fear of the masses is in the air. You can almost smell the establishment dread that the wrong sort of people are about to hit the streets – not graduate leftists in keffiyehs but gammon-hued blokes in white t-shirts.

The front page of Wednesday’s Independent is a classic of this fretful genre. ‘Family’s plea for calm ignored’, wails the headline over a photo of the protest in Southampton. But the people in the pic are perfectly calm. It’s just rows of mournful folk carrying the England flag. Are you okay, Independent?

The Guardian, too, seems consumed by foreboding. It says there are ‘fears’ that ‘the populist right’ will ‘whip up racist resentment’. Demagoguery is always the chief dread of the bourgeois left, given their view of the little people as a coiled spring of bovine fury that might be unsprung at any minute.

The Guardian blasts Farage for calling for ‘pure, cold rage’ in response to Nowak’s death. It’s a complaint that would carry more weight if the Guardian hadn’t published pieces in the wake of Floyd’s death saying ‘We need the rage that abolished slavery’.

OneViewpoint · Accepted Answer

The problem here is that if I read the book I'm almost certainly gonna hate the movie, LOL. I will be comparing the 2 hour movie script with a 14 hour novel ( I love huge novels). Even though intellectually I understand that bringing a book to the movie screen is really hard, I know I'm still gonna be picking the movie apart.

A classic case for me is Stephen King. I like his books. I hate every movie that's been derived from one of his novels. They never seem to be given the budget and cast and director they deserve.

And there are tons of books I think would make great films that never make it to the screen. Probably for good reason. Two different mediums.

Cinematic Lily · Accepted Answer

Usually I read the book first, then watch the movie 🎬📚
Books give me deeper inner worlds, especially for complex characters, but movies add visuals, music, costume, and performances, which I adore as an art nerd.

If a director I love is adapting it, I’m extra excited for the film. For rich world‑building or subtle psychology, I’ll always prefer the book.

Lliam · Answer

In most cases I would rather read the book and then watch the movie adaptation.
Books go into depth and allow your imagination to create the imagery.

Movies can't possibly go into depth. You can't possibly squeeze an entire book into a 1:35 or even 2:30 length film. And the key word is "adaptation". Movies are someones interpretation and are often completely different from the book. So, seeing the movie gives you a false impression about the story and characters in the book.
Some adaptations are really good and come are crap. But it can be fun to watch a good film version of a favorite book.

DishLady · Answer

Depends. Sometimes I'm in the mood to read and enjoy the authenticity of a character from a novel that predates movies. Shakespearean Plays I'd also rather read bc people today always mess those up with "adaptive" nonsense. But stuff that's been written in the era of movies (e. g., Harry Potter) I'm fine watching as a movie.

Glittershine1 · Answer

When I was a child I would watch a movie without realising that they were based on fiction books.

So, I guess I'm just used to watching movies without reading the book.

However, I highly recommend reading both the book and watching the movies based on them because that way you can compare/differ both.

Intelligent_Lady · Answer

I love both. But I prefer books to movies. 📚📚

exitseven · Answer

I like ot read the book first and then see the movie.

AngryCarl3 · Answer

I typically prefer to read the book. I don't trust Hollywood to be faithful to the original story.

Nikki1989 · Answer

The original book is almost always the superior option. Most movies massacre the storyline.

Abbycado · Answer

Honestly, with a summer job and then school the rest of the year, not much time for recreational reading. Movie it is.

ella617281 · Answer

Read the book so you can imagine freely and then watch the movie. Best example is harry potter. You can imagine the creatures in your head, but when you watched the movie and already know how they look, its boring

genericname85 · Answer

honestly these days, watching the movie is probably not worth it and i personally don't have time to waste on reading, which for me is pretty much the slowest possible media consumption speed.

strateguy632 · Answer

always better to read the book first and then see the movie.

Billlewis · Answer

When has any movie ever lived up to any book?

Bricealan · Answer

@loganbailyy have to try both. Now trying to READ -The Girl With The Dragon Tattpp/

AviatorTom · Answer

I rarely read books. Give me the visual, the movie.

MrChinaski · Answer

The movie industry is having a moment. If I can be kind. Read the book.

blackeagle007 · Answer

Definitely movie. I have a hard time with books

Shy_Steve · Answer

Usually the movie, Even though sometimes they say the book can be better.

Nuday77 · Answer

Id rather watch porn then to read the Kamasutra. However you learn more from the book then you do from fake boobs and fake orgasms.

Godihateyou · Answer

Books are ALWAYS better. Movies suck. Haven't watched any movies since 1999

tonita926 · Answer

Most of the time the book is better than the movie.

robocop666 · Answer

Book as the original is always best. Also movies are useless these days.

queenofcardio · Answer

Watching the movie is more convenient

NathanDavis · Answer

I'm not a book reader like that

_Jenny_ · Answer

@loganbailyy I always watch the movie

SkimmingDetective · Answer

The one that's interesting

Anonymous · Answer

I tend to do both.

thegreenyogi · Answer

Read the book.

Brady · Answer

watch

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

Watch a movie

Anonymous · Answer

Watch the movie.

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