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Vent: My buddy insisted the 'Annihilation' movie was better than the book
He told me last month to skip Jeff VanderMeer's book and just watch the film. I finally read the book this week, and he was completely wrong. The book's weird, creeping dread is something the movie just can't capture with visuals alone. The whole 'Area X' feeling is totally different on the page. Anyone else think the book version of a story just hits different sometimes?
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diana1553mo ago
What did your friend say was better about the movie? I feel like the book builds this slow, quiet panic in your head that a film just can't do. The movie gave us cool visuals but lost all that internal weirdness from the biologist's journal. It's a totally different kind of scary.
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julia_jones723mo ago
Ugh, @diana155, that's just how ALL book movies go!
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walker.hayden1mo ago
Julia said "that's just how ALL book movies go." But that's not really true though. Some book adaptations actually capture the mood better than others, like The Road or No Country for Old Men. The movie for Annihilation did have cool visuals but the book is way more about the biologist slowly losing her grip on reality and what her husband went through. The movie threw a bunch of that stuff out and made it more about aliens and action, so it kind of missed the whole point of the slow dread from the journal entries.
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