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BEING HUMAN (UK Supernatural Drama-Comedy Series)
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DOLLHOUSE (US Science Fiction Series)
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EASTWICK (US Supernatural Fantasy Series)
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FRINGE (US Science Fiction Series)
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LOST (US Science Fiction Series)
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MEDIUM (US Supernatural Drama Series)
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MERLIN (UK Fantasy Drama Series)
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STARGATE UNIVERSE (US Science Fiction Series)
STARGATE UNIVERSE S1 EPISODE 1 & 2
STARGATE UNIVERSE S1 EPISODE 3
STARGATE UNIVERSE S1 EPISODE 4
STARGATE UNIVERSE S1 EPISODE 5
STARGATE UNIVERSE S1 EPISODE 6
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SUPERNATURAL (US Paranormal Drama Series)
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TRUE BLOOD (US Supernatural Drama Series)
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V (US Science Fiction Series)
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Vampire Diaries (US Supernatural Fantasy Series)
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Book Vs. Movie Comparison
BOOK VS. MOVIE: BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE
Vivian Gandillion is a member of the loup-garou: a werewolf, a shape shifter. She and her pack have just moved after the people of the town they lived in discovered what they were and burned down her family’s house, with he father inside. Now she has to adjust to life in a new place, with no firm pack leader. On top of that she’s met a human boy, who is very interested in werewolves…
OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: DREAMCATCHER
As children the four boys save and befriending Douglas “Duddits” Cavell, a child with Down syndrome. Duddits gift in return, the power of telepathy that links the four together forever. Many years later, the friends have grown up and live separate, but equally problematic ones. Now the friends have to band together against an alien invasion and a near psychotic army Colonel, Abraham Kurtz.
OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE GOLDEN COMPASS
“The one thing that drew her out of her boredom was the alethiometer. She read it every day, sometimes with Fader Coram and sometimes on her own, and she found that she could sink more and more readily into the calm state in which the symbol meanings clarified themselves, and those great mountain ranges touched by sunlight emerged into vision”
OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
One of the most popular Christmas movies ever, How the Grinch Stole Christmas almost didn’t get made. At first, Dr. Seuss was reluctant to animate the Grinch. But once he began seeing the animation and hearing the songs, he began to get excited. Some lines have been added to lengthen the movie, but Dr. Seuss wrote the extra lines and song lyrics, so they stayed true to the book. Dr. Seuss teamed up with Chuck Jones (Bugs Bunny fame) to animate the classic book for the new audience of children. Boris Karloff narrates, with Thurl Ravenscroft (who was also the voice of Tony the Tiger) singing the iconic theme song.
OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this sun at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE PRINCESS BRIDE
“Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”
OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: A SOUND OF THUNDER
In the future, there is a time machine. The super rich can now pay to go back in time and hunt the greatest game that ever lived: dinosaurs. You just have to make sure you don’t change anything in the past, otherwise you’ll change the future. Even the smallest change, even a tiny bug, multiplied by millions of years, can change everything…
OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE TIME MACHINE (2002)
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year A.D. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity—the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist’s time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.
OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE
“There’s a playground at the end of the block and I run to the swings and climb on, and Henry takes the one next to me, facing the opposite direction, and we swing higher and higher, passing each other, sometimes in sync and sometimes streaming past each other so fast it seems like we’re going to collide, and we laugh, and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment”
When Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix to Forks, Washington, a damp and dreary town known for the most rainfall in the United States, to live with her dad, she isn’t expecting to like it. But the level of hostility displayed by her standoffish high school biology lab partner, Edward Cullen, surprises her. After several strange interactions, his preternatural beauty, strength, and speed have her intrigued. Edward is just as fascinated with Bella, and their attraction to one another grows. As Bella discovers more about Edward’s nature and his family, she is thrown headlong into a dangerous adventure that has her making a desperate sacrifice to save her one true love.
Movie Reviews
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| Avatar | Babylon A.D. |
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| Batman Begins | The Breed (2006) | Carriers | The Cell | A Christmas Carol |
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| City of Ember | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
Constantine | The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons |
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| Dante 01 | The Dark Knight | Daybreakers |
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| Dead Snow | The Descent | Donnie Darko | Dungeons & Dragons |
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| Echelon Conspiracy |
Eden Log | Eragon | The Evil Dead |
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| The Fourth Kind | Gamer | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past |
Grace |
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| The Green Mile | The Haunting in Connecticut |
High Spirits | House on Haunted Hill |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
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| I Am Legend | Infestation | The Island | It’s Alive | Legion |
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| Mimic | The Mist | Moon | The Mutant Chronicles |
New Moon |
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| Next | Night Train | A Nightmare Before Christmas |
The Objective |
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| Pandorum | Paranormal Activity |
Passangers | The Princess and the Frog |
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| Saw VI | Sherlock Holmes |
Silent Hill | Sleep Dealer |
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| Spaceballs | Splinter | Stardust | Surrogates |
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| The Thaw | The Time Machine (1960) |
Vampires | What Dreams May Come |
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| Where the Wild Things Are |
The Wolfman | X-Men Origins: Wolverine |
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