Blog Post 4: Movie adaptation

     One of my favorite book series is the Harry Potter series. I started reading it when I was younger and I have liked it ever since. It has already been turned into a movie. I enjoyed the movies very much and I have seen them all, I like that the movies become more serious as the series progresses. I also like the actors that play the main characters. From what I remember the movie didn't really change anything major from the book except for a few minor details. I like the first movie a lot but I thought that the series really got good through the third movie and after. The movie that I liked the least from the series was The Deathly Hallows Part 1 because I thought that the last book could be made into one movie and Part 1 dragged out too long. That would be one of the only changes I would make to the series. I like the movies after the second movie because they became darker and more serious and less like a kids movie. My favorite movie of the series would have to be the last one, The Deathly Hallows Part 2 because It was a very epic conclusion to a series I have enjoyed my whole life.
     I don't think I would have done much differently if I directed the movie, It was actually pretty close to how I imagined the book. This usually doesn't happen for me with book to movie adaptations. I think the people cast to play the main characters in the movie did a very good job at playing Harry, Ron, and Hermione.  I don't think I would really add or take out anything from the movie. From what I can remember they put every major detail of the book into the movie, which I loved because this usually does not happen very often with movie adaptations because everyone sees the book differently in their own head, but for me the movie looked just like how I imagined it to be. I really enjoyed the movie adaptations of the Harry Potter series.
     

Post 3: Why I chose my first book

     The book I chose to read was Catching Fire. I chose to read this because I have read the first book, The Hunger Games. I really enjoyed reading the first book and I thought that I would like the second one also. Another main reason I read this is because the movie adaptation of the book was coming out soon and I really wanted to read the book before the film came out.
     I have read many reviews of the book, mostly they were from (goodreads.com), and most of them were good. Some of them were bad but this can be expected because not everyone can like the same thing. This is also why I read it, since the first one was good and the reviews on the second one were all close to five stars. I really hope that I will like this book as much as I did with the first one and I can't wait to read it.