I came to comment the same thing

That sounds like Meg Cabot, she also did Avalon High, all her books EXCEPT princess diaries are guilty pleasures for me.

I do think its ironic though, in both films (now mind you, I have not read these books) that while her grandmother and her mom are both very strong influences in Mia's journey and her transformation from clumsy, shy teenager into a beautiful, strong Princess, it is her father who really inspired her to accept her crown. She was ready to run away from it all until she found his letter and it was only after hearing her father's wisdom that Mia accepted her role. And then in the second movie, she was told she has to get married in order to become Queen....there is a moment in the throne room where she looks up at her father's portrait before telling her grandmother that she is going to do whatever it takes to become Queen.

I hope she enjoyed the checks as she only got two movies out of her books.

Same hahaha 🤣

yep. She's totally completely obnoxious and self righteous in the whole series.

Yeah, I hate her. Almost every single thing she does is the opposit to what a friend would do.

Oh god.......

Yup. I read the entire series and Lilly was genuinely horrible. She was selfish, self-righteous, mean... Actually, by the end of the series Mia had befriended Lana (the blonde, "mean girl") and she was a much better friend than Lilly ever was.

Maggie K Uh...what? Really? I‘m pretty sure I don‘t remember that from reading the series...maybe it’s been too long. I do remember her befriending some rich girl with a bodyguard that wasn‘t in the movie though...

Doesn't mean they're great stories. That's like saying Bella is relateable in many ways. Just because it's nostalgia talking doesn't mean their good, nor bad. It just means you remembered them. I'm not saying your opinion is invalid. What I'm getting at is that teen drama isn't a good format. That's why everyone saids it needs to stay in high school, because it's nothing but bullshit statements on both ends of the argument.

AnimeKandy27 and don't forget the trashy romance novel Mia wrote!

I find these books relaxing. After I've finished reading a book based on someone's experiences duiring Rwandan genocide or Mao's cultural revolution, it's nice to read light books like this where main character has no real problems.

Eh, I disagree. I was a young teenage girl once and I HATED Mia. I disliked things about my life, yes, and my appearance, and I hated trying to figure out social things - but not to this extent. I was self-absorbed like all teenagers but never that bad...I didn't like her then and didn't like her now. I have no patience for books full of terrible characters, that's what real life is for.

Can I say I never related that much with Mia. She was just the poor, poor woman whose grandmother was the very concept of a toxic grandmother - but had the glamour "justification they're royals, so it's okay her grandmother dictates everything a nearly-adult girl must wear and do". Even as a teenager, I rage quit the books because even poor, middle-class me with the WORST notion of self-esteem knew the grandmother/granddaughter dynamic was horribly toxic. I just wanted to call the social security on the woman, even just it was just fiction. The movies kind of soften that ,because hey, it's the same woman who played Maria from Sound of Music and Mary Poppins!

me too

Exactly. THIS is unmanaged bushy curly hair. I know, this was my hair until I learned about using the right products and avoiding brushes

@@fightingfaerie Avoiding brushes? Then how do you get rid of knots? (I'm genuinely curious, because my hair knots like crazy)

@@zzdaweirdo1120 Wide-tooth combs and lots of detangling spray. If you have curly hair, it is best to not touch it between showers. Detangle in the shower and do a detangle spray spritz and comb after the shower while its still wet to help it not curl into knots. Then try not to mess with it, and especially don't comb. Thats when it becomes frizzy and messy and you need to get it wet again to fix it.

@@fightingfaerie Mmnk, I will have to try that. Thanks. :)

***** well technically they are the same sicne you know knowing it was a book and not knowing it was a book is just whose side are you on...in this case i am on the side of did not know this was based on a book, or that there was a book series or that there were more then one movie in this series

Well yeah, even I couldn't believe Die Hard was a book originally.

I was the opposite actually, I read the books in middle school, about a year before I actually saw the movie

TreClaire Why does it matter that much that he wasn't the target demographic? Just because something is written with a teenage girl in mind it doesn't excuse poor writing, the over use of tropes, or plot holes (I'm not saying the book had those things, though it definitely had the second, I'm just throwing them out as an example). Should standards be lowered for books targeted at teenage girls?

The target audience shouldn't matter. Good is good, bad is bad. Not that it wouldn't be nice to have a woman that likes girly things review this but reviewers tend to be male or not like girly things.

I don't think this is about "lowering your standards" at all. Scope of entertaintment is really vast, and just because two people like movies/books/music does not guarantee that they would like the same types or genres. There is just too much to choose from. I have loved and cherished the Princess Diaries book series as a teenager but have not read it since. Yet, I would still maintain that it was good literature based on my opinion then, even if I do not enjoy it now if I ever decide to pick up reading it again. My point is, a piece of entertainment could be definitely only relevant to a niche audience but that does not make it unworthy.

true but there are a lot of good horror movies out there but i would not discribe them as good because i dont like the genre. just because its good doesnt mean people wont have a problem with it.

+NeverlandHunter The quality of a book is not purely objective - there are subjective elements, which can counterbalance or reinforce the more objective aspects. If a stereotypical teenage girl reviewed some literary classic and pointed out that it was full of dated and obscure vocabulary, that it neglected or minimised the role of the working classes in the smooth functioning of the upper class society the book focuses on, and that the entire plot rested on two characters never effectively communicating with each other until (almost) too late (though probably not phrasing her objections in quite those words), her objective criticisms would not invalidate the novel's classic status - she's not in the target audience (to be fair, the original target audiences for most classics are long dead) so she perceives the negatives more clearly and gives them more weight. Put it another way: teenage girls have different standards, and a book can meet those without also meeting a literary critic's standards - and vice versa. Also, there is a known phenomenon where a mainstream critic happens upon a work of genre fiction, and, because they are unfamiliar with the genre, their review ends up making that fact painfully clear to anyone who is - pointing out accepted tropes of the genre as unique flaws, and praising the originality of tired old genre cliches. If you want an example shibboleth from the science fiction genre, ask a critic or reviewer their opinion of the use of a sheet of paper and a pencil to explain hyperspace jumps or wormholes - in case you're not familiar with the genre, the standard explanation takes the paper and pencil, marks two dots some distance apart on the paper, points out that traveling from one to the other along the surface of the paper is a long way, but! - and here the paper is folded or bent so that the dots touch - by folding space through some higher dimension, the trip can be made (almost) nothing. If you're not in the target audience, and you aren't familiar with the genre, then that matters - it means you're not qualified to comment on some of the most important/relevant aspects of the work (the ones that will/won't appeal successfully to that target audience) and you're not equipped to judge it in the context of its genre. That's why it matters.

NeilSonOfNorbert That's because Holes was made by Walden Media, and the movie was written by the same person who wrote the book.

I remember being impressed by the adaptation as a kid. You made me want to look up Holes on TV tropes, it's been ages since I thought about Holes.

the music bugged me, but it wasn't terrible

The only major difference I can remember is that Stanley was described as being very overweight at the start of the book and lost the weight due to the hard labour of hole digging, but the director didn't want to have to put a young actor through such rigorous physical changes, and since the weight wasn't integral to the plot, they just decided to go with a thinner Stanley from the beginning.

They also left out the part about the two different translations of the song but that's kind of a minor point.

Believe me when I say that Anne Hathaway being in not Alice in Wonderland is the extreme least of that films issues.

Oh I know, if anything she's a tiny saving grace but it is odd the correlation between her and almost completely unfaithful adaptations.

Thats an interesting take which i sort of agree makes sense.

Shanster Goodheart I think Alice is excused purely because it's intended to be a sequel to the original story. I'm actually quite fond of the first Burton Alice in Wonderland but I'm in the minority there.

Les mis

Although she seems to have lost this voice by the latter books. The series died aftet book 10

Frankly, from the description, it looks like Brienne of Tarth went to high school in modern California and had a crusty punk for a friend. Couldn't wait for the bit when she would skewer her fiance with her big-ass sword.

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The therapist was great

Actually, the suggestion of a diary to be kept by Mia is given to Mia's mother from a therapists' suggestion. Also they leave out and its not mentioned that Lilly and Michael's parents play a bigger role in the books as they are psycho analysts as well. I loved the Dr. Moscovitzs how they sometimes made things uncomfortable for their children and Mia when trying to analyze them.

@@rachelmills5774 Wait wasn't her name Amelia in the movie?

Yes in both the books and movies her name is Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi. But she never really wants anyone to call her Amelia.

@@rachelmills5774 Oooh ok, thank you sm, I was really confused hahaha

Same. I really liked Julie Andrews as the Queen.

Gola245 She played catwoman in the last nolan Batman movie.

Yes she did, and honestly I don't think it was deserved. She can sing very well, I'll give her that.

It's a nice flick, whoever cast the movie did a great job of getting actors with chemistry who gave the roles personality. It might be a bit of a generic feel good movie but I like it too. I read the books cause I liked the movie and the movie is definitely better. The books are kind of obnoxious (the characters are more exaggerated and annoying in the book)

Same - it was one of the first books I read in English, rather than the translation (I felt so smart... :') )

aurielMoon that is... strangely accurate

Hahahahaha that's very true

Except Izma is still nicer.

Hahaha as soon as I heard his description of her I came here to say "Book grandmother looks like Yzma??" But you were three years ahead of me 😂

Scary beyond all reason?

I think every makeover made her feel miserable. Except the one when she is depressed and cant feel a thing. I love books 8, 9 and 10 the best for that.

Like it was so disappointing seeing the movie, after reading the book I love the book please do better this book deserves justice.

I think one reasons why Mia acts the way she does and puts her self down lot is because of the impact of her childhood because when she was little her dad wold have different model girlfriends. One we things that are not good it has it lowers our self-esteem if my dad was a Prince that had supermoe girlfriends andI would have low lowself soesteem as well

I personally always loved how in later books she talked about the movies and how much they got wrong about her life.

Yessss and she may have influenced how much I dislike Anne with an E. Ahahahahabab

Huh, I was gonna ask about that, as I'd really enjoyed the movie and wondered how the book compared.

That's a good point. And Narnia wasn't exactly changed as much as, say, The Little Mermaid either. Holes and Narnia were both prodiced by Walden Media.

Dustin Compton -- It's been a while since I read the book, but if I remember correctly, the only major difference is that the protag is heftier at the start. There's also a couple things that may not have been directly stated in the movie but are implied.

That apparently has a legal reason why they made the change. Shia was more than willing to gain weight and lose weight, but child labor laws prevented him from doing so as he was under 18 when they made the movie.

Ooh, now I gotta watch it. Never watched the movie, but I loved the book when I was in elementary school.

Yes that would be a great one to do.

Oh god yes!! That was my childhood!

YAAAAS

Dew it!

Arthur Yates-Butler I scrolled down looking for someone who asked this. i totally agree, love the book, don't hate the movie but couldn't have been much different!

Yes please do Stardust!

lol probably not

DafuqImmaDoing "Star Wars"?

DafuqImmaDoing "Alien"?

Well played sir. Well played.

Indiana Jones, E.T, Ghostbusters, Lilo & Stitch, Kung Fu Panda, Everything from Pixar

Cherry Bomb Studios I totally agree

Seriously! It was an older teen book and I'll never forgive my elementary school for carrying that book but not allowing us to read Bridge to Terrabithia because of language!

i found them in the school library when I was 8 and became obsessed despite obviously not understanding a lot of that stuff

Yes please to Mary Poppins

Yeah but... I read the book, it doesn't lend itself well to a film without a lot of changes. Its more episodic with no real overflowing narrative. And I can't get over Mary Poppin's being a bitch. I just can't, she wouldn't be endearing on film if she was like the book version. Well we got to start a new counter. The amount of times Julie Andrews softened a book role for the film version.

arent all the animals slightly scared of her in the books

79.03.13 Yeah they are.

if he does do Mary Poppins he needs to include how Saving Mr Banks is a H U G E L I E Travers was so much more meaner and bitchyer

Lainey R. I hoped someone would mention the meta thing

Cool! Hector Elizondo is an excellent actor.

You can use a rocket ship it wont make a difference...

I don't think even Terence can think of a spell to make that thing fly closer to the movie.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-(continues for eternity)

Well Holes is an exception to that probably the only accurate Disney adaptation

Kyle Campbell huh, I'm sure the Dom will find something. I would love to see him discuss that one

Rory Turing I've watched three versions of Hunchback of Notre dame and none of them where 100% faithful to the story especially the ending.

That book had me like this :-o for days. I couldn't believe how much Disney had changed it!

Problem is? The original book was over 1000 pages long, and the hunchback doesn't even get mentioned until halfway through the book. I would hate for Dom to have to suffer through that to make a video.

To be honest Lindsay Ellis kinda covered why the adaptations aren’t like the book and why it’s not really a major point to the book either

I suggest you watch the second movie regarding that...

Trust me, don't subject yourself to the 2nd movie!

The second movie barely scratches the surface of royal politics, but in general it's of course the fantasy of being a Princess that's the focus.

Sarah Walter perks of being a wallflower would be awesome :)

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LordManda2 I didnt know this movie was based on a book.

I do that for half these things.

I think that LordManda2 was trying to add the question mark to your thought bubble there, as simply stating "This was based on a book" is not the same as asking "This was based on a book?". Also, no, you weren't the only one who thought that.

Oh, that makes seanse, i thought it was because i miss spelled something. English is not my first language.

Me too, it’s hilarious 🤣🤣