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If you really loved the book, I can see why you'd dislike the movie. They were different in a lot of ways.

I was meh about the book, and I loved the movie.

Rational, conciliatory reply conclusion: It's a matter of taste, OP.
Not-so-conciliatory conclusion: I'd sympathize more with you if you weren't being so hostile and dismissive of everyone who disagrees with you. Get over yourself.

I guess I'm just wrong then. I liked the book, but I found it a bit choppy and piecemeal in places. The movie did a great job in taking the gist of the story, fleshing out the characters and even it more of a "quest" feel.

There were little bits and pieces of the book that I missed (such as the whole "two Mondays" prophecy), but for me it's the film all the way.

I like the book's ending more, but I like literally everything else about the movie better than the book. Sorry, OP. I don't think your preference for the book is WRONG. We just happen to have different tastes. The movie was more to my taste, the book was more to yours.

"People are liking things I don't like!"

It's been forever since I read the book but I thought DeNiro was awesome.

The book is one of my favorites ever, but I did like the movie too. Agree with other anon who said it was a matter of preference/taste/what-have-you.

+1 I really like them both.

I loved the book. Then I lost my copy, so it had been a long time since I'd read it when the movie came out; I remembered some bits clearly, and other bits fuzzily. I saw the movie and loved it, but I viewed it as more or less its own story (that was similar in many ways to the book's story). I enjoyed the bits of the movie that were the same as the book, but I didn't expect it all to be the same, because storytelling in the two different media requires different demands. Both were good, even though they weren't the same.

"I viewed it as more or less its own story..."

Same here. I also did this with Howl's Moving Castle.

Well. I may not be able to read properly before with the other one, but I think this is probably a troll. It's over-the-top.

Gaiman fans are pretty much the most over-the-top people I've met. I buy it.

It's funny because I flat out refuse to read the book because I love the movie so much and I don't want to end up not liking the movie as well.

Now I gotta watch the movie.

Man, Stardust is such a great movie.

The movie had Robert de Niro in drag being awesome. Your move, OP.

You sound bitter that people like the movie more than the book. Sorry, the book was shit. It didn't feel like it flowed all that well.

To be fair, both the movie and the book are terrible.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-03-25 01:15 (UTC) - Expand

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gondremark - 2014-03-25 03:56 (UTC) - Expand

mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com - 2014-03-25 10:06 (UTC) - Expand

We have actual taste

You realize the author adores the film right? If anything the film improves on the book.

if this is a real secret I'll eat my hat. I mean the movie is HOW OLD now and your only getting around to posting this now? if it is real: get over it already.

gondremark - 2014-03-25 03:57 (UTC) - Expand

Whatever else you may think about that movie, Mark Strong was absolutely flawless in it. Tsk. No taste.

I meant to make a somewhat similar secret because it surprised me how much people liked the movie over the book. The book has its problems, but the movie made me squirm with secondhand embarrassment in parts. Mostly Robert DeNiro's role and how ridiculously slapstick it was. :(

Haha! Yes! I LOVED the book. The movie was sorta OK I guess? It was lame.
One of the best things about the book was the way everything was described, and that's something that can't possibly carry over to film. Heck, the Stardust movie demonstrates a lot of the reasons why I like books better than movies in general.

Tastes vary, and so I'm not quite as acerbic about this as OP and I don't hope your favourite books gets ruined by a movie.
But yeah, I'll take the Stardust novel over the movie a hundred times over.

I remember the graphic novel being pretty great, too, but it;s been years since I read it and I don't remember much about it, just that I liked it.

Edited 2014-03-25 03:53 (UTC)

(Anonymous) - 2014-03-26 11:51 (UTC) - Expand

I'm confused about what was so incredibly different about the film that it destroyed everything that was good about the book. Because they weren't really *that* different...?

Relax. It's not as if it's that all that good a book in the first place.