Do you ever watch a movie and think “I’d rather read a book version of this” or vice versa?
My husband reads more sci-fi and horror and I’d much rather watch those genres in movie format.
I read more mystery thriller, historical fiction, and psychological thrillers. He would never read one of my books but loves to watch movies with a similar vibe.
This question came to me the other day when I finally read a book of my husband’s that he had been begging me to read. When it was over I just thought “eh I didn’t love it, but I would’ve watched the movie”.
by maknchezpls
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Interesting question; I’ve never really thought about it that much but I think my reading and movie tastes are strikingly similar. I like slow-paced, character-focused literary fiction best, and the films I like tend to mirror that: mumblecore, Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, etc. Books/movies in which not much happens, basically.
However, I would say that I have *much* more tolerance for plotty, pacey, action/adventure/sci-fi/fantasy type narratives in film than in fiction. *Lord of the Rings*, *Blade Runner*, *Jurassic Park*, that kind of thing, all of which I find unendurably boring to read.
Movies: fantasy, Disney, action films, romcoms… I like me a good dose of epic adventure or warm fuzzies
Books: very dense and probably super boring to almost everyone else books on history and politics and biographies live cheerfully alongside 90% fantasy,10% historical fiction, and 10% romance novels on my bookshelves.
… just goes to show ya, people have varied tastes lmao
I can enjoy stupid movies/TV more than stupid books.
Watching a bad horror movie, or something like The Room, can still be enjoyable. Whereas reading a book that has a predictable twist or weird dialogue or characters who behave in a forced way is just difficult to get through.