I think you've articulated my feeling about many book-to-movie/TV adaptations: could be good, could be bad, but do I need to see a film version? In this case, I'm not sure I do, but I'm curious and everyone I know is going to see it and talk about it... A lot of my wonderings about adaptations of things do stem from the fact that there are a lot of adaptations of books where the major striking thing about the book was the narrative voice -- put it in third person, and you've lost a major aspect of what made the book compelling. (This is why, after having put The Time Traveller's Wife into the Netflix queue, I took it out again; I don't think I do need to see that, even if it's not horrible, which it sounds like it isn't.)
There's also the issue of overwriting my visualizations with the movie version -- which is a funny thing for me to say, because my visual imagination is extremely weak and vague. Even so, I have the "no, he doesn't look like *that*" response to movie adaptations...And Song of Ice and Fire has a *lot* of visual description in it.
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Date: 2011-04-22 08:52 pm (UTC)I think you've articulated my feeling about many book-to-movie/TV adaptations: could be good, could be bad, but do I need to see a film version? In this case, I'm not sure I do, but I'm curious and everyone I know is going to see it and talk about it... A lot of my wonderings about adaptations of things do stem from the fact that there are a lot of adaptations of books where the major striking thing about the book was the narrative voice -- put it in third person, and you've lost a major aspect of what made the book compelling. (This is why, after having put The Time Traveller's Wife into the Netflix queue, I took it out again; I don't think I do need to see that, even if it's not horrible, which it sounds like it isn't.)
There's also the issue of overwriting my visualizations with the movie version -- which is a funny thing for me to say, because my visual imagination is extremely weak and vague. Even so, I have the "no, he doesn't look like *that*" response to movie adaptations...And Song of Ice and Fire has a *lot* of visual description in it.