Thursday, November 18, 2021

Thursday Movie Picks #384: Book Adaptations


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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Book Adaptations

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This is one of those themes that I have almost every year, so I'm picking movies that I like that I've seen the past year since the same theme last year.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Based off the memoir of a literary forger. This movie is soo good. It basically follows these unlikeable characters going about their sad lives and their little enterprise of forging letters of famous people and selling them as the real thing and it is such a sharply funny movie. Also good performance by the two leads.

The Invisible Man (2020)
This is a loose adaptation of H.G. Wells novel and I like the movie a lot. I though it was pretty clever of them to make the "invisible man" the main character's abusive ex-husband and the premise is on this whole thing of if the ex-husband really had the ability to become invisible and was stalking his ex-wife or is she so traumatized by his abuse that she is in constant paranoid fear and "seeing" him everywhere even when he isn't there, which is what the people around her believes.
 
Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021), Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021), Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021)
I grew up reading the Fear Street series of books (there were a  lot of them) and have always wanted to see an adaptation of the books. This is not a straight adaptation of any one of the books (at least I don't think so). It's more of they took the world building of the books and created a new story for these trilogy of movies. Anyway I still enjoyed these movies, I'm actually very surprised by how well they turned out...10 year old me is happy...that's not to say this a movie for kids, it definitely isn't...what I mean is that it manages to capture the spirit, style of the books.
 
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6 comments:

  1. I just watched the Fear Street movies and I think I would've enjoyed them more with better actors. The ones they had were mostly tragic minus Sadie Sink.

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    1. Really. I thought they were mostly ok at least the three lead girls were...however, the secondary actors in the second movie not as much.

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  2. I love the first movie and thought both leads were great. It shows how versatile Melissa McCarthy is although I love her in the comedies she has done. I have not seen this Invisible Man but have seen the original one and the horrible one with Kevin Bacon. I have not seen or even heard of the last one but I was a kid..um...long time ago.

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    1. Melissa McCarthy...she is funny here too in a dark humor way.
      I've seen the Kevin Bacon adaptation as well...can't remember its name...but it was very B movie.

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  3. I still haven't watched the Fear Street movies, but I did enjoy the Invisible Man movie, despite it getting quite a lot of bad reviews. I do love Oliver Jackson-Cohen in almost everything he does though. So him next to Elisabeth Moss was just a treat!

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    1. The Invisible Man - actually I saw quite a number of good reviews from major publications, which is in part why I saw it.

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