Books or Movies

Can you read? Have you ever read a book? Have you ever seen a movie? When you answer yes to all three of these questions please realize that you are reading right now and that many of the books you have read in the past have been turned into movies. Whether books becoming movies is a good thing or not is up to you but please at least read this blog which is entirely opinion and not backed by fact.
The book Eragon written by Christopher Paolini was an amazing book in which there are elves, dwarves, and dragons at the same time. Unforgivably the movie was a piece of; for lack of a word I can use without getting in trouble, a piece of junk. This is just one example of a great book being turned into a horrible movie. On the contrary lord of the rings was an ok set of books and was turned into a set of amazing movies.
In grade 7 Mr. Pitt read The Lightning Thief to us. We all agreed that it was a great book and some of us went on to read the other four books in the series. When I went to see avatar in the theatres one of the ads in the beginning was of The Lightning Thief being turned into a movie and well at least by the ad I think it will be a good movie. Though if it is a bad movie I have no power to make it better I hope for the best. As long as there are a lot of explosions and good special effects it, at least in my mind is a good movie, even if the characters are shallow and the plot pathetic.

While in the past there have been horrible movies as well as great ones I still think that reading a book and the movie about the book is a horrible idea. If you read the book, great. If you match the movie, great. But please just don’t do both. It will ruin it for you and please remember that you are reading right now.