Books and movies. Just stop.

Okay so.

If you didn't know already, the differences between books and movies make me more mad then grammar and spelling errors. Which is a lot.

So I've realized that when I read a book before watching the movie adaptation of it, I'm furious at the movie. But if I watch a movie before reading the book, I'm furious at the book. Which is ridiculous, because the book obviously came first. But I become attached to a book and then the movie ruins it. And at other times I become attached to a movie, THEN I decide to read the book, and then the book ruins the movie. Because they are so different from each other, which I am never okay with.

My main argument is of course, the Twilight Saga. (shutUP). I think all of the actors and actresses are very fitting to the characters in the book. But it is not okay to completely MAKE UP scenes while you are shooting a movie. Like ummm hello, they did NOT go on a field trip to a greenhouse in the book. Just sayin.

And also, when the movie completely IGNORES an important part of the book! GAH! All I know is that if you are watching the movie and it feels like a completely different story to you than the book, it's obviously a bad adaptation. These are the main ones I have a serious problem with:

1) Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, (and probably Breaking Dawn, even though it has yet to come out. I just know it will piss me off. They'll continue to make up scenes and leave out things that should be in the movie.)
2) Charlie St. Cloud. (really, Charlie and his brother were a completely different age, and the way they died was different. These are important aspects to the book, and I feel like they should be paid attention to while writing the movie script. However, this is one of the books that I read AFTER seeing the movie. Which means I already fell in love with the movie, ((and Zac Efron, but don't tell anybody.)) But when I'm reading the book and the first paragraph points out a handful of differences from the movie, I'm instantly outraged.)
3) The Lovely Bones. (the movie was nicely done, but it was like they'd never heard of the book. I mean, yeah this guy raped and murdered this girl, but if I were to make a movie adaptation, I would have something terribly terrible happen to him. Like getting SARS. Or falling INTO the landfill that he put the girl in. Or getting poison ivy. Or splinters in his fingers. Yeah, SPLINTERS. That shit HURTS.)

and finally 4) Girl, Interrupted. (Fairly close, but the fact that the movie included Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie in the scene where Brittany Murphy killed herself (I'm not trying to be a dick here, she really hung herself in the movie). In the book, they were nowhere near her when it happened. In the movie it was like "hey we're gonna crash at your place! but we're gonna be really mean to you first! you'll probably wanna kill yourself in the morning!" (That's Angelina Jolie, she was very selfish in this movie.) And then the next morning they're all like "oh hey, where's brittany murphy?" "Yeah I don't know, who cares?" And then Winona Ryder walks upstairs to find Brittany Murphy hanging from her ceiling, and it's a very traumatic experience for her. But THEN in the BOOK, it's like "oh hey we found out that she's dead. We were upset a little bit." It's just the little things like this that piss me off.)


But ANYWAY! Enough about that. He is a funny picture of me and Schroeder.

Don't ask what we are doing, because like most pictures of us, I have no freaking clue.

And here is an inappropriate pictures of Gumby and Pokey.

Who would have thought that Pokey liked the taste of Spearmint? (That's what I think Gumby secretly tastes like. Spearmint gum. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he looks like a giant stick of spearmint gum.)

Also, Gumby is REALLY flexible!!! Look at that guy! He must do yoga a million times a day! Either that or he has no spine. Maybe he has no spine. Like Spongebob.

Goodnight! (Good Morning!)

-Jenny