The Fault In Our Stars Movie?!

The Fault In Our Stars Movie: thoughts on it and the book 

The publication history and success of John Green's novel, The Fault In Our Stars.

• The book rose to #1 on Amazon and Barnes and Noble bestsellers lists in June
• John Green promised that every pre-order would be hand-signed 
• He signed 150,000 books in a variety of Sharpie colors
• The Fault in Our Stars debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Chapter Books and remained in that spot for seven consecutive weeks. And not too recently made it back on the New York Times Best Seller list 
• Was the #1 book of 2012
• Film rights were bought in 2012

The Fault In Our Stars movie!

The fans of this book, myself included, all have different views on it. Some say, it's good. Some say otherwise. And I have to admit, this movie, is going to be, really, damn sad, especially with the director after seeing a little of his last movie, I know he is going to do an amazing job with it.

With the casting of Shailene Woodley as Hazel Grace my attention has been captured by the TFIOS movie adaption. As a bookish person, I'm always complaining about how the book was better than the movie--in fact, I have it in mind, I should just wear a shirt whenever I go to the movies that shows that mentality well, and after constantly being disappointed by Hollywood and film-ish people, the fact that TFIOS is going to be a movie is at the top of my head. 

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that this heartbreaking book is going to be turned into a movie? That, my friends, is the question. 

Though, I find, a fairly pointless one. Of course it is a good thing. This book was amazing--and I feel that many people would benefit from seeing Hazel and Augusts story. 

The entire process of turning a book into movie is hard, I know that, and though I say the book is always better than the movie, I do, in most cases think the movies are pretty good--or in the case of Harry Potter--freaking awesome. And I personally think that TFIOS is going to be another freaking-awesome-heartbreaking-why-are-you-doing-this-to-me movie--to explain, I think that the book will be adapted well. 

You see, despite my review of this book, there were some--few aspects of it I didn't really like--of course the heartbreaking ending kind of overloads you to the point where you forget everything you didn't like or thought could have been improved upon in the book. 

There were some things that I felt were missing in the book--description was one of the biggest things I missed in this book, I felt that it was lacking in a clear message as well--I mean there were just so many my brain went into overload. 
There were so many competing messages and morals in this story that they all kind of got jumbled together--making the sole message of the book unclear. But in some ways that adds to its mystery, after all, every time you read that book you'll find something different in it. Besides, it's reminiscent of life in that way. Beautiful, crazy, and messy. 

I have to admit that I am reluctant to even mutter anything negative about this book because I can see the hoards of Nerdfighters and John Green die-hards with their pitchforks and torches coming to set me straight, but that's how I feel. The description wasn't very descriptive at times, and the book went fast, there were some pretty big things about Hazel's life we just didn't see. BUT that is exactly why I am thinking this movie is going to be so awesome. 

Everything that was missing in the book, or that the book lacked would, I think, be represented well within a movie. I think with a movie they will have the opportunity to really expand on the description, (and by that I of course mean the setting and the mood in the film). 




And, I have to admit the casting is pretty close to how I envisioned Hazel Grace within the book. 

In conclusion  I'm excited for the movie. I loved the book--love the book, sure I feel that the description could have been expanded on, I felt that there were so many morals and messages within the book that they did have a tendency to get tangled up in your head, but well, given what he was writing about I'm not surprised that the messages and little truths you find in this book became frazzled and entwined. 

I do hope though that fans of the book will refrain from starting up on all of the "true fan" non-sense that usually comes from book-to-movie adaptions. 

"Because I read the books first, I'm a true tribute!" 
"You're don't love Harry Potter as much as I do because I read the books first!"

Though I will not deny taking part in--at least--the Harry Potter fan-non-sense, (I was young, give me a break), I hope that everyone who has read the books, and who sees the movie will realize that obviously the story can mean a hell of a lot to whoever reads/watches it. So please guys, try to refrain from doing all of that non-sense. 

And the director, judging by his previous movie, Stuck In Love, is going to really capture the essence of this book. 


To see the trailer for Stuck In Love follow this link: Stuck in Love
To see my review of John Green's novel go here

The Dark Knight Rises * Spoilers*

Masterful.

The Dark Knight Rises is the final part of Christopher Nolan's epic trilogy.
It was pure cinematic beauty.
The story of Batman and Bruce Wane are so intricately woven together, yet are distant from each other.
Bruce has to deal with the backlash of lying to the city; Batman has basically been crucified and held up as the supreme villain in Gotham.

It is the second part of the Dark Knight, but the third and final in the series.

In the first part of the movie, The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent is an up and coming leader.
A political warrior against crime; strong, and sure.

He became Gotham's hero; while Batman slowly became the villain.

As you may remember at the end of the Dark Knight, Harvey becomes enraged and insane by rage and grief at what had happened to him and Rachel. He blames Police chief Gordon for Rachel's death. A sympathetic character even as he turns into a monster.

Murdering, both criminals and police--building to the climax when he takes Gordon's son. Gotham needed a hero after the tragedy the Joker had instilled on the city. And even after Batman stopped him, and saved Gotham and Gordon's family, it wasn't him.

It is a selfless act of courage.

Batman and Gordon agree to lie; Batman takes the fall for Harvey Dent's murders.

The movie picks up eight years later, Bruce Wane has become a ghost in his house; more like a legend. Every year on Harvey Day, he holds a party in Dent's honor. The city hates Batman--despises him for killing Dent.

While Bruce is grieving for the loss of Rachel and Batman, Gordon wrestles with the choice he made eight years prior to the day. Gordon clearly wrestles with the decision, wanting to tell the truth, not wanting to honor the monster who nearly killed his son.

All of the characters person stories have so much depth to them.
Alfred, Blake, Seliena Kyle all go through extreme transformation while they are on their own journey.

This movie was written so well, everything was executed perfectly; the graphics were amazing and the story held so much depth. Christian Bale did an amazing job as Batman, and Anne Hathaway was amazing as Catwoman; her story was much more than the surface value.

Blake, the up and coming Detective, or "Hothead", was one character I enjoyed watching.

Gordon goes on his own journey; after years of dealing with the guilt and losing his family, he never stopped fighting the bad guys. The climax with him was when he finds out who Batman is, that scene was touching.

Though it was easy to figure out what was going to happen, in respect to Blake, they did a good job hiding it until about the end of the movie. It was an exciting and awesome movie.

If you enjoyed the first movies, you will love this one. The ending was satisfying for the viewers and hints there may be a spin series with the newest character.

It was great.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Movie review 

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire hunter


The sixteenth president of the united states had a secret.

The title and obvious images that flood to your mind probably make you want to turn away from this movie. I'd understand why, at first I thought it was the stupidest thing ever.

After all, it sounds like it would be in the same row of the gently used movie section beside giant octopus vs. Godzilla.
Something stupid, and goofy that really shouldn't have been made.
Well, if you come to this conclusion, may be missing out on something awesome.

It was almost a perfect success in my book, everything I expected it to be, minus wooden teeth (which by the way, I was expecting and was disappointed). Don't get me wrong, there were some parts I laughed at.

For anyone who has ever seen a tree cut down, you know it does not go boom. Trees do not explode, that part, along with many others were done clearly for the amazing 3D affect it would create. That I know. And it was amazing. But it still made me laugh.

There were some painfully dumb parts in it. The obvious scenes that bugged me were the ones that were enhanced and prolonged because of the cool affect. Like I said, it was cool, the graphics were amazing. If you can, I'd see this in 3D. It is one of those movies that would make it look really good.

I was stunned at some of the images that were created. Some of my favorites were their version of what a vampire is, it was refreshing. Finally a new, unique vampire image!

I first seen the trailer for it, I thought it was so stupid. But as I seen it a second time, my interest was peaked. I mean the trailer looked amazing, and there is something so awesome about putting a president in the vampire hunting role. Unexpected. And awesome.

It was done really well. Tim Burton was the producer, some of the images in this; eg the graveyard scene after he kills his first were very familiar for someone who's watched plenty of Tim Burton movies.

The cast and directors and everybody did such a great job in this movie. The graphics were done really well.



The second leading man, Henry, was a very cool character. Also, at least when it came to me, I figured out what his big secret was as soon as I seen the 'wine'. One of my favorite characters in this movie.

Watching this movie I'm actually more curious about the famous hat man then I was before I watched it. Mostly because I want to check the writers facts. And see how much of the politics part of his life was true, that and taking away the vampire from the movie, the basic events (if they are at all similar) seem very interesting.

I am a snob when it comes to wanting a completely ridiculous and unreal world, to be as realistic as it can possibly be. Nothig can just explode without reason, the lead female can not randomly wear clothing that wouldn't even let her breathe, let alone defeat overwhelming forces.

For example, the tree scene.
My reaction: wow.
Please.
Sure the anger and years of pent up frustration and guilt would come out, but would it cause a small explosion inside the tree?
No.

Among other things I also seen that this was based off of a book, which I may add to the chapters list.

The whole concept of this movie is pretty brilliant if you ask me. I'm sure it did extremely well in America. I'll probably check out the statistics later on. After all, a seemingly ordinary president, plus a grudge against vampires can only come to same conclusion: one action packed movie.

And it did not disappoint. It was good, I enjoyed every second of it. The end was awesome as well. I will leave comments about that out though, for fear of spoiling it for others.