Hi, everyone! It’s Lisa -- one half of the iconic I Hate It, Let’s Watch It duo -- and we like to give movies a lot of crap for being terrible but did you know that some of these movies were based on
equally terrible books?
It’s always going to be difficult to make a movie that is just as good as or better than the book it’s based on, but when a movie has glaring plot holes, weak character development and thousands of
unanswered questions, I have to wonder…is this the movie’s fault or the book’s fault? Was the book just as poorly written as the movie script? Could the book provide answers that the movie fails toanswer? Or did the movie successfully translate the original content to the screen?
I have now read quite a few of the books behind the movies we’ve covered so far on IHILWI, and I can tell you that the answers to those questions are all over the map. Sometimes the book provides
much needed answers, like Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water which gave me a thorough education on snail sex. Other times, the book is even more unhinged than the movie, like Blanka Lipinska’s 365 Days which asks its readers to just accept the fact that the male love interest implanted the female protagonist with a GPS tracker to keep tabs on her.
But in all cases, my enjoyment of the movie has been greatly improved by reading the book it came from. And if you don’t have the time or patience to do the same, at least take 5 minutes to read this
companion blog, where I will be discussing the similarities, the differences and the new insights uncovered by going straight to the source. In the end, I’ll give you my honest opinion about whether
or not it’s worth checking out yourself because at the end of the day, some things are still Better Left Unread.
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