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Anyone read the book??

posted 13 years ago by XNSuper
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i remember when this movie came out and i randomly saw it and really liked it. Then i found out it was a book went straight to the library and finished it in a week.

*book spoilers ( guess lol)*

i really liked the book alot more,They explained the reason why they where going to that area in the first place (to find mathias brother) rather than just randomly going into the wild. I liked how the greek was the one whos back was broken, i wish they would have kept that in the movie instead of killing him off asap...his death was alot more saddening to by the way they explained his dreadful breathing and the fact that he couldn't communicate with anyone. Also the part where it wasnt the girl who cut her self open but her boyfriend, idk in the book it made it more dramatic that it was the man who was having the nervous breakdown. One thing i thought the book did great also was explain the evilness of the plant by it mimicking voices and starting that drama. when i saw the movie i didnt really understand. I also liked how everyone died in the end. I think it would have been better if they kept the original ending instead of leaving it ambiguous.

i keep talking how great the book was, it was good but the movie was awesome too. the leg cut part was gruesome lol

[–] lukasemory 12 years ago

Spoilers!

Just wanna say that in the movie, they do indeed go to the temple to meet up with Mathias' brother lol, so they didn't write out that concept completely.
But i'll agree with you, the book was a much better story. But i feel like the book and the movie are two different stories, just because there are quite a lot of differences. I dont really know how far into the movie/book you dug, but they seemed to have kept all the themes of human nature and such with different examples.
but the book ending was a lot better. i liked Jeff's attempt to escape. and i like that stacey is left. and then she has no idea what to do so she just gets drunk and slits her wrists and lets the vines take her. i loved that, they should have kept that as the ending. i feel like the movie, however, did a good job at just killed off Dimitri (pablo in the book). there wasnt much character development of him so i just didnt care that he died. but they should have did a better job at showing how miserable mathias would have been with the broken back.
in the end, the book is a great book, and the movie is a great movie. my favorite movie actually lol

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[–] XNSuper 12 years ago

oh they did? lol i didnt remember them going to look for mathias brother in the movie i just remembered them deciding to go. lol but maybe i missed it haven't seen the movie in a while. Yea it might have been harder to build a character development with the greek but something about how he couldn't communicate and was a cheerful before he broke his back made it sadder and more agonizing to me when he did fall. but ya know all good. great movie great book. never really hear anyone talk about it though.

[–] mr-murph 12 years ago

Agree. A terrific and fun read. I recommended it to a friend of mine who has since passed from cancer. She was a great horror fiction fan and loved the book. (How nice to know you made someone's life more enjoyable with a satisfying engaging read). Even in print, some of the scenes are "unwatchable." definitely gruesome and original fun.

[–] neJANIS 12 years ago

I liked the movie so i read the book. Now I think movie sucks it is very shallow movie based on truly great book. The book is one of the best book i have read.

[–] Jaquita-2 11 years ago

I've read the book and loved it so much that I checked out another book by the same author at the library(picked up the ruins at a thrift shop) After reading some reviews about the movie and even though it is supposed to be based on the book I read and the author did write the screenplay I'm not so sure I should see it... I know it ends differently than the book and has already been spoiled for me so why should I see it now? Not many book adaptation sent to screen are ever almost exact and the book's ending was much "darker" i guess you could say but I don't expect everything to be all sunshine at the end
But if some truly wrenching emotional scenes are absent in the movie that were definitely influential in the book wonder why the author would leave them out...I think i'll just skip it now..it will probably air again on syfy at a later time and I can catch it then (edited but i don't need the gore)

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[–] Ripshin 8 years ago

MILLIONS read the book.