op 5 Sundays is a weekly blog meme created by Larissa at Larissa's Bookish Life.
Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.
This week's topic is: Best Books Turned into Movies!
Rules:
1 - Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
2 - Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
3 - Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it bellow)
4 - After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
5 – If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)
This week's topic is: Best Books Turned into Movies!
*in no particular order
Funny, since this was the Friday's hop topic! And I usually am not a total fan of books turned to movies since the movies don't always get it right. But I'll give it a try! Never thought 5 would be so many this week!
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE
Harry Potter is without a doubt one of the best books turned to movies! The movies did incredible! They stayed pretty true to the novel, all though I did have a few issues with movie 4, when Dobby is replaced with Neville,but it's okay, they are still awesome!
UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS
All right, this one requires explaining! Greg Cox wrote Blood Enemy which was a prequel to Underworld, his version of how the war was started with the lycans and vampires. It's a little different than what the movie did, but I still thought it was awesome! That this book that was made after the first movie--might have--inspired there to be another one years later!
JAWS
I saw the movie about a million times before I was old enough to read the book, and I thought the movie was actually better! There were a few things I didn't like in the book, but Steven really brought Peter's book to life I thought! Even if Bruce--what he nicknamed the mechanical shark--was a pain the you know what!
SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN
This was another good one! Although the endings are totally different and opposite! Think I actually liked the movie one better! But yeah, besides that and from what I can remember, the movie was pretty true to the novella!
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
Yes, a kid's book because this was an insanely hard Top 5 to do this week! This was probably my fave Dr. Seuss movie and in honor of his birthday this past Friday, I choose this one! It's been years since I read the book, but I do remember most of the story and I thought Ron Howard totally created an awesome movie here! Jim Carrey was the best Grinch ever! It's definitely in my top 5 Xmas movies too!
