Mean Girls is one of my favorite movies, and it's based off of the book "Queen Bees and Wanna Bees". It stars Rachel McAdams, Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, and many other stars of Saturday Night Live. Mean Girls is about a new girl named Cady who goes to a public school for the first time. She meets the 'plastics', a group of girls who are mean and awful to each other, but they're the queens of the school. Cady begins to be friends with them in order to sabotage them and embarrass Regina, the 'queen bee' in front of everyone. The comedy in this is horror of what teenage girls do to each other. Tina Fey wrote this to show how awful girls are, but she did it in a hilarious way. 130
The Notebook is another great movie based on a book. The story of Allie and Noah is sweet and very sad. It's a total chick flick which is why my friends and I watch it all the time. Rachel McAdams is the star in this movie too and she is one of my favorite actresses. I love how the story goes back and forth between the present and the past. I'm a sucker when it comes to a good love story, and Noah and Allie are meant to be together, even after seven years apart and having other relationships. 89
My Sisters Keeper is one of the saddest books I've ever read, and the movie is the exact same way. Abigail Breslin is one of the best child actors that are in Hollywood, and she really gets into her roles. She really took on the part that had so much to it and rocked it. In My Sisters Keeper, Anna (Breslin) is trying to get medical emancipation from her parents who make her do whatever her sister, who is dying of cancer, needs. They make her do that because she was a test tube baby made to match her sister perfectly. This movie is sad, but I also love that her sister, Kate, finds love. 115
The Cat In The Hat has a fantastic cast, with Dakota Fanning, Mike Myers, and Spencer Breslin. It's the movie based on the famous book by Dr. Seuss. Mike Myers is this 6 foot tall talking cat that comes to the house of Sally and Conrad's house and gives them only one rule- not to open the crate in the middle of the room. Of course the kids open it, and when they do, pure fun pours out of the box and messes up their house. They need to find a way to fix their house before their mom gets home, but the cat is not helping one bit-he's actually making everything worse... in a funny irresistible way. 119
Of course you knew this was coming. It only takes one word.. TWILIGHT! The Twilight Saga is an addictive series of books and is turning out to be phenomenon of movies. Stephenie Meyer is a genius in the world of movies. Twilight is a thriller, a romance, and a fantasy. There are vampires, werewolves, love, all of which defy stereotypes that we have come to know. Edward and Bella are really brought alive and make a perfect on screen couple that is believable. Emmett and Alice are the siblings that everyone comes to love, Charlie is the awkward dad that adds humor, and Esme and Carlisle are the nurturing parents that support everything. This hit movie wouldn't be complete with a twist that I'm sure you know. Bella is in love with a vampire! Edward wants her blood, but resists, and comes to save her when James, the sadistic vampire tries to kill her. Love and grossness all in the same movie just might be why Twilight was a blockbuster hit. 171
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I like the subject matter and would like to see you extend it to movies based on books you have to read for school. A discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and Macbeth would fit quite nicely here.
ReplyDeleteYour Cd to Cm ratio could use a swing in favor of the Cm side of things. Lose fifty percent of the summarization, and offer the insight into what makes the films and books work, and the choices the film-makers made. See how your Mean Girls paragraph is eighty percent summary? I'd rather it be twenty percent summary.
Watch out for possessive trouble! (Sister's Keeper!)