No, I wasn't lying, I really hate it when they ruin my wonderful books.
But I can't fucking wait to see the new Harry Potter movie. The preview looks so. fucking. good.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Ramblings In Bed
I am so sick of being ashamed! Of apologising!
Here is who I am, freely and unapologetically:
-I get hurt a lot--cuts, blisters, bruises, ingrown hairs, scrapes, burns, scabs--all of them can be found on my body ALL THE TIME.
-I am a girly girl. I like purple, weddings, flowers, frills, fairies, dresses, pink, berries, victorian houses, make-up, ballet, romance, mermaids, kisses, chick flicks, hair, the renaissance, Jane Austen--the list goes on.
-I like the flower power message. I'm not a "dirty hippie" but I believe in truth, love, freedom, happiness, peace, harmony. How can that be bad?
-I'm awful with money.
-I'm nervous, intimidated and jealous with new or existing friends.
*****
I don't want to want things anymore. I don't want to want gadgets, don't want to want to looka certain way, or need the "cool seats" on the bus. I don't want to be traumatised by children from my past who are now adults! I don't want to feel jealousy! I'm sick of jealousy!
I have so much!
I have the mail where I think I need the internet.
I have the outdoors when I think I need the gym.
I have love when I think I need stuff!
Here is who I am, freely and unapologetically:
-I get hurt a lot--cuts, blisters, bruises, ingrown hairs, scrapes, burns, scabs--all of them can be found on my body ALL THE TIME.
-I am a girly girl. I like purple, weddings, flowers, frills, fairies, dresses, pink, berries, victorian houses, make-up, ballet, romance, mermaids, kisses, chick flicks, hair, the renaissance, Jane Austen--the list goes on.
-I like the flower power message. I'm not a "dirty hippie" but I believe in truth, love, freedom, happiness, peace, harmony. How can that be bad?
-I'm awful with money.
-I'm nervous, intimidated and jealous with new or existing friends.
*****
I don't want to want things anymore. I don't want to want gadgets, don't want to want to looka certain way, or need the "cool seats" on the bus. I don't want to be traumatised by children from my past who are now adults! I don't want to feel jealousy! I'm sick of jealousy!
I have so much!
I have the mail where I think I need the internet.
I have the outdoors when I think I need the gym.
I have love when I think I need stuff!
NO, NO, NOOOOO!
So, a couple nights ago, I wrote a lot of things in a journal that I wanted to blog about. Then, the next day, I cleaned my room and forgot to bring it with me to this place where I have the internet. Lamesies. (definitely stole that word from Neenia.)
Instead of giving you the things I wrote before, I will give you this:
I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hate when people fuck with my books. It makes me scream. I can't watch the rape of my friends. Have you seen that episode of South Park? It's pretty recent, when Stan and Kyle and a bunch of the other boys keep bursting into tears at the memory of Speilberg and Lucas raping Indiana Jones. It's so so funny when you watch it, and then it's not funny when it happens to something you truly care about!
I love fantasy books. Mostly childrens' ones as I find adult fantasy is usually very poorly written. But there's this one grown-up series, The Sword of Truth, that I particularly enjoy and I've been dying for it to be a TV show, because then they wouldn't have to cut anything. Well, now they have made a TV show. They named it The Legend of the Seeker which is complete and utter bullshit--TO START WITH. I can't even go INTO the rest without wanting to throw everything and throw up! But I will a little, to show the kind of thing that pisses me off:
-The main character is not tall or big when that's always how he is described. And his eyes aren't hawk-like or grey.
-The main woman doesn't have green eyes or black hair, and her dress doesn't have a square-shaped neckline. Is that SO hard to make????
-The story is completely fucked. Like characters who were supposed to know each other for life are strangers until the first episode, they say that the wizard hid the seeker from birth knowing he was the seeker--not true!--and the father was supposed to be dead in the beginning!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH there's so much more! The magic is all wrong, the lines are all wrong, the bad guys are ALL wrong, they completely changed the story! The characters are on a different journey than the one in the book! There aren't even the fucking boxes of Orden for fuck's sake!!!
Okay. On to another obsession. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. The Sword of Truth series is for grown ups, not very well written, though captivating, and it ended horribly. So I can try to be okay with that. Nobody who hasn't read the books will watch it anyway. But Inkheart is for children. Kids who have read the books will not be strong enough to keep the memories of the REAL story, settings, characters and descriptions in their little heads, and all of their wonderful imaginations will be tarnished by the piece of shit movie! And little kids who are too fucking lazy to read will watch the piece of shit movie and think that's enough, think it's all right, but it's wrong. IT'S WRONG!
I just saw the trailer for Inkheart and they've DESTROYED everything in the book! It's well casted, I'll admit, and it looks cool, but that's just the problem--they have enough that's the same to pass it off as the movie version of the book, but IT'S NOT! IT'S A FUCKING MOVIE BASED ON THE BOOK!
And this is just after the trailer! The movie is going to kill me! It's hard enough with Harry Potter--do you know how many people don't read the books because they can "just see the movie?" One would be way too many, but it's so much more than one. It's probably more than half. More than half the people in the world. That's disgusting. When I say "Harry Potter" in any given situation, most people would say "seen it" in some way or another--AS IF I'M REFERRING TO THE MOVIES! AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
I can't stand it! What's wrong with making movie versions of the books without changing anything? Cut shit, I understand that, even add things for all I care--but why can't you keep them the same?????
They can do ANYTHING in the movies nowadays! I don't understand why people think it's okay to read something and say "it would be better if this happened!" Well, I understand that it's okay to say that--but not if you have the fucking rights to the story!!!!!!!!
I feel like no matter how many exclamations I add, or however often I use capslock, noone is going to understand how frustrated and hurt I really am. So I'll just stop now. With this plea:
If you go see a movie that is "based on" a book, read the book first, and if the movie isn't the same, hate it. And encourage others to be the same. Please.
Instead of giving you the things I wrote before, I will give you this:
I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hate when people fuck with my books. It makes me scream. I can't watch the rape of my friends. Have you seen that episode of South Park? It's pretty recent, when Stan and Kyle and a bunch of the other boys keep bursting into tears at the memory of Speilberg and Lucas raping Indiana Jones. It's so so funny when you watch it, and then it's not funny when it happens to something you truly care about!
I love fantasy books. Mostly childrens' ones as I find adult fantasy is usually very poorly written. But there's this one grown-up series, The Sword of Truth, that I particularly enjoy and I've been dying for it to be a TV show, because then they wouldn't have to cut anything. Well, now they have made a TV show. They named it The Legend of the Seeker which is complete and utter bullshit--TO START WITH. I can't even go INTO the rest without wanting to throw everything and throw up! But I will a little, to show the kind of thing that pisses me off:
-The main character is not tall or big when that's always how he is described. And his eyes aren't hawk-like or grey.
-The main woman doesn't have green eyes or black hair, and her dress doesn't have a square-shaped neckline. Is that SO hard to make????
-The story is completely fucked. Like characters who were supposed to know each other for life are strangers until the first episode, they say that the wizard hid the seeker from birth knowing he was the seeker--not true!--and the father was supposed to be dead in the beginning!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH there's so much more! The magic is all wrong, the lines are all wrong, the bad guys are ALL wrong, they completely changed the story! The characters are on a different journey than the one in the book! There aren't even the fucking boxes of Orden for fuck's sake!!!
Okay. On to another obsession. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. The Sword of Truth series is for grown ups, not very well written, though captivating, and it ended horribly. So I can try to be okay with that. Nobody who hasn't read the books will watch it anyway. But Inkheart is for children. Kids who have read the books will not be strong enough to keep the memories of the REAL story, settings, characters and descriptions in their little heads, and all of their wonderful imaginations will be tarnished by the piece of shit movie! And little kids who are too fucking lazy to read will watch the piece of shit movie and think that's enough, think it's all right, but it's wrong. IT'S WRONG!
I just saw the trailer for Inkheart and they've DESTROYED everything in the book! It's well casted, I'll admit, and it looks cool, but that's just the problem--they have enough that's the same to pass it off as the movie version of the book, but IT'S NOT! IT'S A FUCKING MOVIE BASED ON THE BOOK!
And this is just after the trailer! The movie is going to kill me! It's hard enough with Harry Potter--do you know how many people don't read the books because they can "just see the movie?" One would be way too many, but it's so much more than one. It's probably more than half. More than half the people in the world. That's disgusting. When I say "Harry Potter" in any given situation, most people would say "seen it" in some way or another--AS IF I'M REFERRING TO THE MOVIES! AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
I can't stand it! What's wrong with making movie versions of the books without changing anything? Cut shit, I understand that, even add things for all I care--but why can't you keep them the same?????
They can do ANYTHING in the movies nowadays! I don't understand why people think it's okay to read something and say "it would be better if this happened!" Well, I understand that it's okay to say that--but not if you have the fucking rights to the story!!!!!!!!
I feel like no matter how many exclamations I add, or however often I use capslock, noone is going to understand how frustrated and hurt I really am. So I'll just stop now. With this plea:
If you go see a movie that is "based on" a book, read the book first, and if the movie isn't the same, hate it. And encourage others to be the same. Please.
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