"I read that book"

My favorite thing to see at the movies beside the actual movie are the previews. I am that cliche person in the audience who leans over after each one and says, "I wanna see that." Movies are huge in my family, but I am obsessed with books too. Luckily with today's culture, I often see a combination of both. So I will be at the theaters and I love it when I see a trailer for a book I've read. It's like re-experiencing the book. 

Okay so I think many people will agree that seeing a movie that you originally read can be a double-edged sword. You may have loved the book and were really excited about the movie, but the movie might have in reality disappointed you. In retrospect, the movie could have amounted to all expectations-even surpassed them. Look at the movie Holes: although I have not personally read the book, all my teachers and friends said the book was a long mess and the movie put it together. I love the movie Holes. 

Creativity of movie creation is rare. Most nowadays are based off popular books. Just think: The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, The Lovely Bones, Twilight saga, The Giver, The Maze Runner...yada yada. And that is just what is paying in the movie industry. Hunger Games: Catching Fire had a grossing of $424,668,047. So if that's what's paying the bills, I'd say directors and screen writers are in the money. 

The point is that half of the viewers don't even realize the movie is based off a book! It's culture-shaming. Years ago, people would ask "that's a movie?" instead of "that's a book?" How many people read Twilight only because of the movie? I read the books years before the movie and can't go anywhere near either simply because how overworked the movie was. Or Harry Potter, those books turned a corner in fiction. The movies were best-selling and I loved them, but my brother always had an obsession with the books. Everyone always said it was missing some big details. So the problem with book-inspired movies: the beauty is in the details and that is often forgotten.

Okay, go look at this link and tell me which ones are books and out of those how many have you read. Were you surprised? Did it bring up a bad taste in your mouth from a bad book-turned movie? Lemme know. 

 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/past365.htm