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Changes from book to movie.

posted 9 years ago by eternal_jinx
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I know they have to change stuff when they make a book into a movie, but what's the point of changing the names? Molly is now Bark Lee, Robert North is now Rojer North? Completely pointless changes, and annoying in my opinion

[–] HeavenSentCastiel 9 years ago

I agree, that really ticked me off. Also how Amy had a fake hand and Big Jim wasn't even in the movie! They also left out everything about Amy disappearing, including the "you know what" in Dave's tool shed, which was the answer to the riddle they actually left in the movie! Plus Molly's dead? What the hell. The trailer made it look like it fell in line with the book, but it was very misleading. Alone the movie's good, but in comparison simply too much was left out, to the point where I only knew what was going on because I had read the book. And I swear, I actually usually like movie adaptations.

[–] holmess7 9 years ago

The movie was good but the book is much better. I guess it was hard trying to fit everything into a 2hr film. I think this would of made a cool tv show.

[–] helenroscoe 9 years ago

Tbh i feel like this would've been a good anime or just some other animated series.

[–] chilone 9 years ago

"Bark Lee" was clever.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!