Pen to Film

This is probably the hardest movie to place. While they added a whole new story, it merges new perfectly with the actual tale in the book. Let me elaborate, the movie seems to focus on the journey of an unnamed girl who's life has already been planned to the letter by her overprotective mother. She meets the pilot from the book, who lives next door. He then proceeds to tell her his story. The story in the book with very little change, Although I did miss the Prince talking to the lamp post lighter. As the movie progresses it has the little girl learning how to accept loss (a theme in the book), make her own plans, and to grow up without loosing her childlike wonder. The story, and ending really just extend the themes of the book while making it to relatable to modern kids. I loved the music, there were even a few songs in French! Relalisticly I will put this movie under medium, but I want to call it a half minor/half major movie.

The second movie moves even farther from the book. Bringing in scenes that don't occur in the book itself, but in other notes by Tolkien if at all. I like Beorn and think he was portrayed well, but only the extended edition saves how the party of Thorin meets him for the first time. I'm not going to touch much on Tauriel let's just say she should have stayed in the woods. Same with Legolas, but I did love the banter between him and Gloin father of Gimli. The whole trying to take down Smaug scene was interesting to watch, but still a major change. I also didn't like how Smaug saw Bilbo for their conversation. In the book Bilbo is never seen by Smaug, but I'm assuming they had Bilbo be visable to help viewers follow and avoid other complications. Finally when did the ring wraiths make morgal arrows? And why give them to an order, albeit it was Bolg, but still it seemed much to akin to the Lord of the Rings. In the end though as I like to think if you consider the Hobb...

This is my least favorite out of all the Narnia movies. Honestly it's very hard to place, but I think it can be put in the medium category. Because while you regconize the story despite all the changes, they did something I consider unforgivable. They changed a character's personality. There are times in movies where the storyline must change to better fit movie format. Also you might not get to know a character in a movie as well as in the book because the book was in first person. But in Prince Caspian they made Peter do the exact opposite from what he did in the books. I know that it is reasonable to usume that after years of being the high king going back to boyhood would be degrading, but when Peter gets back to Narnia there was no power struggle between him and Caspian. In the books Peter understood that it was not his Narnia anymore and he actually says to Caspian, "I haven't come to take your place, you know, but to put you into it." An essential part of P...

The Hobbit movie trilogy is literally a sliding scale. The Unexpected Journey is not very different from the book, only with a few  (in my humble opinion) a not so great plot changes that get worse as the trilogy goes on. Such as in the battle of the mines of Moira they have a big fight between Azog and Thorin. But in the actual history of that battle Dain ( who comes in the third movie) cut off Azog's head in that battle. It seems a bit shallow for Azog to be holding a grudge against Thorin for cutting off his arm when it could have been Blog avenging the death of his father. Also Azog backing down after loosing his arm seem lame considering Lurtz had both his arms cut off was stabbed through and still dragged the sword deeper trying to bit Aragon's head. Ok, so as you can see anything with Azog in it isn't cannon for the rest of the movie. Him aside I love the beginning with Frodo (a cameo done right) and while I'll miss seeing Thorin at the bottom of the pile, I won...