S01E24 — The Top Book-to-Film Adaptations Ever: Special Episode!

SPOILER ALERT: This episode and transcript below contains major spoilers for any book that has become a movie.

Featuring hosts Timothy Haynes, Donna Haynes, Rebekah Edwards, and T. Josiah Haynes.

Look, we keep trying to record an episode about Pitch Perfect, but if we’re being honest, it’s just SO hard to read… So we did this instead!

Listen to our very first episode reviewing some of the “best adaptations” lists online. We rant a bit, but it’s (hopefully) all in good fun..

Final Verdicts

If you haven’t listened to the episode yet, we recommend waiting to read our verdicts. (But you’re probably grown, so do what you want!)

Some adaptations honor the heart of the book, while others go rogue with unexpected twists. Whether it’s nailing the vibe or completely missing the mark, this list of “best adaptations” sparks debate on which ones truly did the source material justice.

Tim: Enjoyed Chronicles of Narnia and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Donna: Appreciated Schindler’s List and The Wizard of Oz.

Rebekah: Loved the inclusion of The Princess Bride and Chronicles of Narnia.

Josiah: Big fan of The Princess Bride and The Devil Wears Prada.

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Full Episode Transcript

Prefer reading? Check out the full episode transcript below. It’s AI-generated from our audio, and if we’re being honest… no one sat to read the entire thing for accuracy. (After all, we were there the whole time.) 😉 We’re sorry in advance for any typos or transcription errors.

[00:00:00] Rebekah: Hey, welcome to the book is better podcast. We are a family of four, brother, sister, mom, and dad who typically review book to film adaptations. And today we’re still talking about book to film adaptations, but, uh, we found this article online and one of us has looked at it and is going to kind of present to us what are supposedly some of the 20 best Adapted films from books.

And, uh, we’re going to see if the author of this article is on track or on crack. So before we start, we’ll go ahead and introduce ourselves. Um, let’s see if there’s a fun fact we could do today. You know, we’re together again, recording, which is always really fun. And this time we’re in Nashville and we went to Topgolf this morning.

So I would say, uh, let’s do a fun fact of. What is your favorite, like, go do it activity just for fun, but like to go in a group and do so not just, you know, you, I guess you could say sitting around. I am going to say, please don’t say watching the TV because that just makes it sound sad. But other than that, what is your favorite just activity to do with your family?

Or friends or whomever. Uh, I’m Rebecca. I am the daughter slash sister of the pod. And I think that my favorite activity to go out and do, it’s probably boring, but it won’t be surprising, is I love to go see movies with people. Uh, but I only really like to go see movies with people if I know those people will stand outside and talk about the movie and what they thought about it for like 25 to 30 minutes after it’s over.

Because if you aren’t going to do that, you’re 

[00:01:37] Josiah: boring. They will let you keep them there against their will without fighting. 

[00:01:41] Rebekah: I would never do that. 

[00:01:42] Josiah: No, never. Well, I’m just, I am the brother son of the group. I do love a good board game or a tabletop game. I should say love card games as well. We just played castles of mad King Ludwig.

Is that right? That was a lot of fun. I won. I was the winning Swan as they might say, but I also love puns of anarchy. You know, we used to play a lot of dungeons and dragons and that’s, that’s, that was always fun. I love. Stratego and, and games like this that are some for two people, some for four, six, some for whole parties of people.

But I just love tabletop games. You learn about people and have fun at the same time while you engage thy brain. 

[00:02:28] Rebekah: Always 

[00:02:28] Josiah: like that. 

[00:02:29] Donna: Hi, I’m Donna. I’m the wife slash mom of this crew. And wow, um, you took good activities I I enjoy a few nerdy things like watching band competitions Uh choral competitions. I enjoy I don’t get to go to many of them In the last several years, but I really enjoy that kind of thing I love to watch um, even Even like, and I’m not talking about just professional things, but even local, like high school stuff, um, those are fun.

The biggest downside to those is they’re usually in stadiums with uncomfortable seats But you know you do what you can and take pillows in the little stadium Chairs and all that fun stuff. But yeah, I think that’s me Honestly, I’ve tried to come up with something else Besides I just like to be around family and friends and just be in their presence I like to sit around a table with a chair a meal Play games like the kids are talking about.

I love card games You So I love all of that. I mean you introduced 

[00:03:48] Rebekah: me to loving band competitions. 

[00:03:50] Donna: Yeah Yeah, it’s it’s a crazy thing and a lot of people don’t Get that experience in life But I grew up with it when I was young and then tj was very involved in high school and so for those four years we were in that scene every fall and I just love I’ll pay the extra money to go to fathom events, uh, broadcasts in the theater of the DCI stuff in June and August.

Um, they’re crazy, amazing band nerd things. And yeah, I like that. 

[00:04:30] Tim: So, my name is Tim. I am the husband and father of this crew, and I have a bit of a list. I enjoy doing some outdoor things. I enjoy going on nature hikes, though the distance can’t be very far anymore. My legs don’t seem to like it, but I also like miniature golf.

Uh, those with groups, I enjoy that most often our activity of choice is going out to eat with people. And we’re one of those people that sits so long at the table that people are wondering if we’re staying for the next meal, uh, because we enjoy that. And an indoor activity to indoor activities that I enjoy, I like playing games.

That’s the one we did last night with, uh, Castle was really nice and I like to go bowling. I have to be careful now because I have a little more trouble with my back when I go bowling. So you’re not that old. Those are, those are some of my activities that I love. And if I’m careful, I can still do all of those.

[00:05:31] Rebekah: So we decided to try this new format today. We’d love to know what you think. Let us know on social media, or you can email us bookisbetterpod at gmail. com. If you. Like it, hate it, have suggestions for how we can do it differently. We’re not going to do this for every single episode or anything. We just thought it would be a fun little break.

And, uh, we are actually about to start a Patrion. So this would be something that we may do on a semi regular basis as bonus content for Patrion members could even do it live, uh, for you to react to. If that would be your cup of tea, just let us know. 

[00:06:04] Josiah: We like to be flexible. We like to be innovative, 

[00:06:07] Rebekah: innovative, 

[00:06:08] Josiah: yes, innovative.

[00:06:09] Rebekah: No. Right. Innovative. Like we’re from America, the United States of America. I 

[00:06:13] Tim: say like we’re in America. 

[00:06:15] Rebekah: I don’t think you did. 

[00:06:15] Tim: I think you didn’t. You never know that both of you were born in West Virginia. No, that’s the goal. That’s the secret. 

[00:06:22] Rebekah: The goal is that no one knows until we say it out loud. Wow. So dad, I think you’re the one with the list.

[00:06:30] Tim: Okay. Yes, I will. Uh, I’ll start the list. It’s a list of 20. I have another list that I might pull from just a little bit before we’re completely done. Uh, it is from yard Barker. com. Uh, Acacia Diedrich wrote the list. 

Oh, thank you. 

[00:06:45] Josiah: Acacia. I think I’ve seen her work in the, uh, Washington Post. 

[00:06:52] Tim: That’s possible.

You never, never know. So 20th out of 20, Of the best book adaptations to films is The Nanny Diaries. Has anybody seen that? Um, I’ve 

[00:07:05] Rebekah: never heard of this. Really? The 

[00:07:05] Tim: Nanny Diaries? It’s who is the starring? Um, a couple of people that I recognize, but both of them out of superhero movies. It’s Black Widow and Captain America.

Oh, okay. Um, but it’s, um, it’s a tale about, uh, the lives of people that are, um, out of touch. It’s a Manhattan family that’s out of touch, and they’re in a, in a relationship with their, with the nanny. 

2007? That was her, that was her number 20. 

Pre Marvel for both of them. Right. Um, the next one might actually get a little more reaction from you.

Uh, 19 would be the Princess Bride. 

[00:07:49] Rebekah: Wow, that’s adapted? 

[00:07:51] Tim: Yes, it is. 

[00:07:52] Rebekah: Okay. Josh would actually probably love to hear that. Malfeige! Malfeige! The 

[00:07:55] Tim: adventure story is fantastic, whether you read it or watch it. Mandy Patinkin. 

[00:08:01] Rebekah: So, I’ve never read the book, obviously I didn’t know it was an adaptation. I’ve seen the movie.

Um, fun fact about that movie. So this is so stupid. I’m 36 and have been married almost 17 years. But one fact about that movie is that I watched it in high school. Um, it was the first movie I watched at camp with my boyfriend, Bill Hupp. He went to California. We held hands during the movie and it was very romantic.

And then we broke up. He broke up with me on his 18th birthday. Also, if you’ve ever been broken up with, On your 18th, on someone’s 18th birthday. Like that’s a weird birthday gift for them to give themselves. I’m just saying it was a little weird. I don’t know. I don’t know. But, uh, when I started dating Josh, uh, it wasn’t that much longer.

Cause I started dating him like two, two years later or something like that. And, uh, Josh was like, Oh, I love that movie. The princess bride. You want to, and we will, he was, has asked me to watch it. And I said, Oh, no, that’s a memory. I don’t want to relive like it wasn’t, it was a good memory. I just don’t want to relive it.

And Josh keeps going, make new memories, but there’s like two or three movies that I still refuse to watch. So he’d be excited. 

[00:09:07] Tim: I loved the princess diaries of the movie or I’m sorry. I love the. Princess Bride, um, the movie, I’ve never read the book, but I thought the movie was fun because it’s farcical. Oh, yeah.

Um, and I’m, I’m not a big fan of love stories. 

[00:09:27] Rebekah: Is this a kissing book? Yeah. What is the best quote from The Princess Bride? 

[00:09:32] Josiah: I mean, I love the Inigo Montoya. It’s a classic, but I remember watching the movie when I was younger. I was a little too young to get it. I was a little too young to love it. I would love it more now.

[00:09:44] Tim: But you thoroughly enjoyed Mandy Patinkin’s character. 

[00:09:48] Josiah: No, I, no, what I enjoyed was when, uh, that guy who’s on Young Sheldon now came out and said, marriage, marriage or whatever it was. And I started cracking up. I think that’s, that’s like two hours into the movie. And that’s when I actually got it. Like what it was about.

So that still makes me crack up. 

[00:10:07] Rebekah: So I think that I’ve heard marriage is what brings us together today is probably the one I’ve heard most often, because literally I’ve never been to a wedding where someone doesn’t look at me and say that and think that they’re the first person who ever said it. Oh, yes.

It’s funny. We get it. I think another one I’ve heard a lot is inconceivable. Oh, that’s a good one. The other one that is, I think the most, the one that is like the most memorable to me is my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. 

[00:10:33] Donna: Prepare to die. One thing particularly about this movie that sets it apart from a lot of things, I would love to go see something that critics Probably hate.

It’s awkward. And I’m thinking of other movies like The Room and Napoleon Dynamite that really, I don’t even know if the makers made them thinking they’d get critical acclaim, but you go and watch it and you fall in love with it. And it become a lot of things that accidentally could become cult classics.

Yeah. I think that’s exciting. Yeah. I think it’s we made it because we thought it would 

[00:11:12] Tim: be fun and wow, lots of people like it and it really 

[00:11:15] Donna: Yeah, 

[00:11:15] Tim: struck a chord. The next one is is completely the opposite in nearly every excited way. It is Schindler’s List. It is black and white. It is very dark. It is difficult and devastating to consume, but it is an important film.

Uh, and Steven Spielberg won a lot of awards for the film. It’s in black and white, but it’s from the nineties. Also was also very highly acclaimed, which is rare for them both to be very revered. Uh, by work separately, separately. Yes. 

[00:11:53] Rebekah: I, uh, I have seen it. I don’t remember much about it other than how sad it is, but, uh, yeah, I mean, it is historical.

[00:12:01] Tim: It is black and white. It is a lot of the things that are not your favorite things about movies. 

[00:12:06] Donna: There is. enormous sadness in it. It is also a tale of triumph if you’re willing to get into the messiness that is life. Yes. If you’re willing to invest yourself in something and Oscar Schindler did something that very few people would put themselves out there to do.

And so I agree with you. It is hard to watch, but it. Also is something I think a lot of people should watch in real and and realize, you know, there’s, there’s a sacrifice in life worth living and, you know, we, we can find our place there 

[00:12:48] Tim: just an extra little tidbit. Um, Liam Neeson is the star and award winning.

Um, and he has since. Become known for you have a daughter and I’m coming after you type movies. I have certain skills, very, a very limited range of movies after this. Um, unfortunately, but he’s a good actor in this. 

[00:13:13] Rebekah: I was just going to say to mom’s point, I think it’s important as much as not always something I want to do to see works of art that.

Create real important social commentary on either historical events or current events like potential ones. That’s actually the reason that I went to go see Civil War, which at the time we’re recording this has been out several weeks at the theaters and it was a really difficult watch. But again, about important topics and things that reflecting on like.

The realities of life. I think it just makes you a more well rounded person. I wouldn’t recommend only taking your social commentary and historical knowledge from films and books. 

[00:13:54] Tim: Well, there’s something to be said for, uh, books and films that cause you to think, um, there’s also something to be said for those that are merely entertainment.

When you leave, you want to have been entertained. So number 17, uh, is the wizard of Oz. 

[00:14:14] Rebekah: I have seen that, in fact. Somewhere over the rainbow. 

[00:14:18] Tim: It was in black and white and full color. Yes. So, uh. A lot of, a lot of good things about that 

[00:14:25] Rebekah: on our list of potential things to talk about. So I knew that it was an adaptation.

I mean, it’s hard because I imagine there’s certain books like that, or there’s certain movies like that, that like, what is iconic about it for me, at least what’s memorable the most is like the sung music, which isn’t obviously going to be the same in the book. 

[00:14:43] Josiah: The book is iconic because of the fantastical world building.

Very childlike wonder in different parts of it with the, the munchkins and the wizard, the lion, scarecrow, tin man, all of that, the different world that Dorothy is transported to. It’s all very fantastical. The world building is a little thicker in the book series, whereas the movie really paints it as this is, this may all be in Dorothy’s head.

[00:15:10] Rebekah: Well, and the interesting part about all of that is that. You know, again, I’ve never read the books, but the movie, or at least the world and the setting has been used in a ton of other things. Like a lot of people have tried to do like what happened later or like prequels or like using that world that was built and trying to build on it in different works.

So have you ever seen 

[00:15:30] Tim: Rebecca or anyone? 

[00:15:31] Rebekah: I’ve heard the soundtrack. Have you seen what you’re saying 

[00:15:33] Tim: here? Seen or heard the soundtrack and. Never seen the movie. We should see it 

[00:15:40] Josiah: on Broadway. Um, in high school, it was amazing. One of the best things that I’ve ever seen, you know, the, the main character’s name, 

[00:15:48] Rebekah: Elphaba, Elphaba, 

[00:15:50] Josiah: Elphaba.

Do you know why they named her Elphaba after the original author of wizard of Oz, El Frank Baum, 

[00:15:58] Tim: Elphaba, didn’t know that there, there are quite a few, um, iconic lines from the wizard of Oz. But the one that comes to mind is Or pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Yeah. Don’t look, don’t pay attention to what you see.

Just believe what I’m telling you. So that’s, uh, that’s something that’s been used quite a lot. The next one is technically not adapted to a, to film, but adapted to a series, television series. Um, gossip girl. 

[00:16:34] Rebekah: Okay. I feel like I know so many people who have seen the show and I’ve just never seen it. I don’t know.

Did you say 

[00:16:41] Josiah: gossip girl is based on a book? That’s wild. From a whole series of books actually. 

[00:16:46] Rebekah: Oh my gosh. It is a 14 book series. 

[00:16:49] Tim: Wow. 

[00:16:49] Rebekah: Wow. That’s quite a large one. But that’s not, that’s one of those things that’s like, Our family isn’t into that genre so much, but like, I could probably watch it. It’d probably be one of those hate watchers the way that I feel at twilight, but who cares?

[00:17:02] Tim: The next one is another adaptation to television to a series and it is big little lies. Um, I don’t know anything about that. I love that. 

[00:17:15] Rebekah: Have you seen it? 

[00:17:15] Tim: Yeah. The script had to be based on material, eventually when they went to a second season, the script had to be based on a novel that was not already written because they’d already used the material from the novel but wanted to continue the series.

Yes, season 

[00:17:32] Josiah: two was not as good as season one by a long shot story wise, but I think it was justified because after the success of season one, which was like a masterpiece, I love season one. of Big Little Lies. They convinced Meryl Streep to join the cast for season two. Oh, wow. And they invented a whole storyline for some new character.

And Meryl Streep came on and every scene she’s in, it’s a marvel just to watch her act. So the second season was justified, if only for Meryl Streep. 

[00:18:06] Tim: There’s another movie that I think she stars in, The Devil Wears Prada. Is that next? Yeah, that’s on our list. That’s the next one on the list. I love Devil Wears Prada.

That’s the next one on this list. And I actually read the book as a child. Did you? Yeah. I’ve never read the book, but I have seen the movie a few times. It is always interesting to determine who the real villain is in the movie. 

[00:18:29] Rebekah: In terms of Devil Wears Prada, I love the movie. That is one that I’ve actually been nervous to read the book because that genre is not something that I enjoy reading most of the time.

Like I, I enjoy. I love sci fi and fantasy as discussed at length on this podcast and I don’t mind, like we have a an item on the list for later this year that might change that’s like genuinely like a romantic comedy, but like movies about people just kind of doing normal things Or, and like having interesting people that they work with or just like drama in the workplace kind of stuff.

I have never been like super engaged by books like that. So I’m interested to see what I think of the movie or I know what I think of the movie. I like it. But I’m interested to see what I think about the book if it like grabs me or if I need something more fantastical to like 

[00:19:20] Tim: really. And it is one of the ones that that we have an intentions of going deeper into later, right?

[00:19:25] Rebekah: Oh yeah, it’s like one of our not long of, uh, not long from now episodes. 

[00:19:30] Josiah: Well, I don’t want to skew your opinion too much, but if I remember correctly, I do think the book doesn’t have much, the movie doesn’t, the movie adds a lot of good stuff. And I don’t think it takes a lot away from the book that was amazing.

And I think at the core of it, Anne Hathaway transforms the character of Andy into an audience avatar that’s super relatable. She’s not as universally likable in the book. She’s Okay. Different. 

[00:20:02] Rebekah: Interesting. Hmm. 

[00:20:04] Josiah: That’s what I remember. This is, I mean, 15, I mean, shoot me now, almost 20 years ago that I read this book.

I can’t, I can’t believe I did anything almost 20 ago. 

[00:20:16] Donna: You’re so ancient. Um. He’s the Ancient of Days. Does that, that’s, that Pronto is definitely a movie where the casting, um, Made it where some some different choices could have made it a very flat not fun thing But I think what they did with the people in it was was amazing Even even secondary characters all the way down, you know, I think it was really good Yeah, 

[00:20:43] Josiah: what big star had their breakout role?

In devil wears Prada, the other secretary, yes, 

[00:20:51] Donna: Emily Blunt. 

[00:20:53] Josiah: That was her first huge role and she was so beloved and popular. Yeah. And now she’s married to John Krasinski. I wonder when they were married. They might’ve been married the same year that movie came out. So it wasn’t predicated on fame necessarily.

[00:21:06] Donna: My favorite line from her is. Oh, and I’ve worked. Oh, well, she had a cold. Oh, no. We’re so hard this way. You look amazing. How did you do it? I just, I don’t eat. And then when I really get hungry, I just a nibble on a cube of cheese 

[00:21:26] Tim: reminds me of a, of a far side cartoon. When the man has a date with a. The model and she actually looks like a skeleton and he says, won’t you eat?

And she says, no, I’ll just smell your food. That’s enough. The next film, uh, book to film adaptation is actually an animated film. Uh, Alice in Wonderland from 1951. Now you’ve seen it, although it’s, it predates our, any of our birthdays. Um, but the Walt Disney Alice in Wonderland is very faithful to the book.

Now there’ve been other adaptations. Uh, Johnny Depp was in, I have seen it, we may or may not do that kind of thing and look at that as another connection. I don’t 

[00:22:10] Josiah: remember the original cartoon. I can’t think of it in my head. I can think of images and iconography, but I can’t think of the actual date 

[00:22:18] Rebekah: for a very important date.

I’ve seen it. Um, I remember it. I just, it’s been a long time, but I think, I think I liked the Johnny Depp, the whatever the director’s name is. I’m sorry. I’m Tim Burton. Tim Burton. Yeah. 

[00:22:31] Josiah: Johnny Depp, Tim Burton. 

[00:22:31] Rebekah: But yeah, that would be a really fun one to cover. I 

[00:22:36] Josiah: feel like I was just going to say Tim Burton had a lot of good faith, I think at that time.

And I think Alice in Wonderland might’ve been one of his first movies to start to fall out of favor. I think it, it. rang as style over substance for a lot of people. 

[00:22:53] Tim: I’ve never, I’ve never read the book, but my understanding is that although it’s kind of a children’s type story, you know, as it’s adapted, it’s actually more about a lot of mental illness was written.

It was written with that in mind with mental illness as part of it. Yeah, Alice is going through all of this in her mind. 

[00:23:16] Rebekah: If we’re going to cover that, we should totally like research some of that and just see what we find about how that was worked in. And I think that would be a really interesting topic to discuss.

[00:23:26] Josiah: One piece of trivia. Do you know, dad, I bet you know, do you guys know why the Mad Hatter is mad? No. No. 

[00:23:35] Rebekah: No. 

[00:23:36] Josiah: Now, this might, this might be a, an urban, an urban legend legend, but I believe that the idea is that hatters used to use mercury or some sort of toxic substance to finish the ends of hats or something like that.

And then they’d lick their fingers and stuff like that, just as part of the business of making hats. And so it became a common phrase. The mad hatters tended to go mentally insane a little earlier than the average person. It could be an urban legend. I don’t have, I’m not going to look it up real quick, but I’ll look it up later.

[00:24:13] Tim: That would be interesting. The next film we actually have covered. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory comes in at number 12 on her list. 

[00:24:22] Rebekah: That’s awesome. I mean, that’s for sure a classic. Yeah. I’m not surprised that it came in. Great film. Great book. The book is a 

[00:24:29] Tim: great 

[00:24:29] Rebekah: children’s book. She mentions 

[00:24:31] Tim: that most people are partial to the first film adaptation.

They all seem to live up to the whimsy and wonderment of Dahl’s classic book. That Tim 

[00:24:41] Rebekah: Burton movie, as we kind of, we talked about this when we did the episode, but I definitely think that the Tim Burton movie did not do it justice in the same way the original had, but I do think that the new Wonka that we talked about on that episode, but is not part of the, like, book adaptation was really, really on par with the original whimsy of the book and the, the old film with.

Gene Wilder and all that. 

[00:25:06] Tim: Number 11 on her list is the perks of being a wallflower. I 

[00:25:11] Josiah: have yet to see it. Rebecca’s rolling her eyes. 

[00:25:14] Tim: I couldn’t finish. 

[00:25:17] Josiah: Couldn’t finish the movie? 

[00:25:18] Tim: Yeah. I didn’t know it was a book. I’ve never 

seen it. And the picture that I’m looking at is of a dance scene and I’m not, I think it’s a Looks like at a school dance or something.

That was 

[00:25:29] Josiah: Hermione trying to break out of Hermione’s character. Okay. 

[00:25:33] Donna: Did it remind you at all of dear God, it’s Margaret. Where are you? Is it? Are you there? God, 

[00:25:38] Rebekah: it’s me. Are you 

[00:25:39] Donna: there? God 

[00:25:40] Rebekah: is honestly don’t remember. I think I decided to watch it because Emma Watson was in it. And I like was so bored. I don’t like character development movies where it’s like, no, I don’t like a lot.

I’m sorry. I just don’t. 

[00:25:56] Josiah: Maybe character studies. I don’t think you would like movies without any character development. 

[00:26:01] Rebekah: Josh and I have always just referred to them as character development movies. Basically, when we say that, what we’re talking about is the point of the movie is not that something interesting happens.

It’s that people’s growth happens. Did you ever watch Breaking Bad? And everything else is like irrelevant. No. 

[00:26:16] Josiah: Did you ever watch Joker? 

[00:26:18] Rebekah: Yes. 

[00:26:19] Josiah: It 

[00:26:20] Tim: was 

[00:26:20] Rebekah: so long, 

[00:26:22] Tim: it was so 

[00:26:24] Josiah: funny. I, I kind of thought you would not like it because it was dark, but you didn’t like it because it was long as in it was all about character development for him.

[00:26:35] Donna: Are we talking about walking Phoenix? Yeah. Yeah. It was hard. That was a hard one. That’s the response I 

[00:26:41] Josiah: expected, but she pretty explicitly just said, yeah, I will say 

[00:26:46] Donna: I like it though, because. It delved into what a person does with crazy. What, what, why do we make decisions? I can’t get away from that. I want to know why people make decisions.

[00:27:00] Rebekah: I’ve, I feel like I spend the whole time being like, okay, when’s something going to happen? Like 

[00:27:05] Tim: you, you like, and I don’t event. Yeah. I want to know when 

[00:27:09] Rebekah: something’s happening 

[00:27:11] Tim: here. We’re all living life and here’s the next day. 

[00:27:14] Rebekah: I don’t enjoy movies. It’s like, here’s a week in the life of this person where something.

Marginally, like just barely more interesting than every other day happens, and because of it, they learn that, like, actually, I can be a little less selfish or I can let this thing go or I can heal from my trauma or whatever. You’re saying perks of being 

[00:27:33] Josiah: a wallflower. It’s just not your thing. Ran into that.

[00:27:36] Rebekah: Yeah. I think that I turned it off because it felt like just about. A person with other people doing normal things. 

[00:27:43] Josiah: That’s funny. Ezra Miller is in it. 

[00:27:44] Rebekah: Yeah, it’s Logan Luhrman and Ezra Miller. The male leaves. It’s a Logan 

[00:27:47] Josiah: Lerman. 

[00:27:48] Rebekah: Yep. Percy Jackson. I didn’t Old. Old. Yeah, the old Percy Jackson. Horny Sexy. The Horny.

Percy Jackson. 

[00:27:58] Tim: Got that. I think we said that right? The teenager version. As opposed. Opposed to the, I don’t thinks bad. Say, I think it’s funny. 

[00:28:05] Rebekah: Look, nobody’s listening to this podcast with their 5-year-old. 

[00:28:09] Tim: But they can, they can. The, the next one is, let’s see what you think of this one. The fault in our Stars,

[00:28:20] Donna: I never even bothered watching it. I knew what it was about and I didn’t name, no wait, I couldn’t. I couldn’t watch it because they were, I saw the movie that came out just before it, where her and the guy were brother and sister, and then they put those same two people as romantic leads. Shanelynn Woodley and Ansel 

[00:28:38] Josiah: Elgort.

[00:28:41] Tim: That was, that was, uh, was that one of those trilogy pieces? Movies of, uh, uh, into the world thing, 

[00:28:47] Donna: divergent series, divergent series. 

[00:28:50] Tim: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was, that was really difficult. And there’s one of those places where the actors, the choice of actors can make a difference in people’s minds. It’s like, okay, you’ve, you’ve built this person up and that particular one was in a.

A multi series, multi episode series of movies, their brother and sister. Yeah. Then this movie’s about them being in love. 

[00:29:13] Rebekah: That’s the kind of movie I never suggest dad watch because you don’t like movies that are just designed to make you cry. Well, even in the description 

[00:29:21] Tim: here, he doesn’t like that.

Whether you read it or watched it, it brought people to tears. Okay, for me, that’s a no. 

[00:29:28] Donna: I just don’t. Also, I don’t know. I don’t want to I don’t want to add to the list of people that are going to hate me. I don’t like Shailene Woodley. So I guess that might have helped me not watch her. She 

[00:29:38] All: was in big little eyes.

[00:29:39] Rebekah: Oh, okay. I had an interesting experience. It wasn’t the um, Fault in Our Stars movie, but it was a very similar feel movie. And like, for those of you who don’t know me that well that are listening, I have adopted two teenage boys, and the second one had moved in, I think we had been together probably six months, it was like a while, it was in enough that we like knew each other, but I was still trying to make sure that we were like doing things to like, engage in things he was interested in and, and like get to know him more, not just kind of coexist.

And he, one night he goes, Josh, you guys got to watch this movie. I love this movie. Oh my gosh, you and Rebecca are gonna love this movie. And it’s clouds. Do you know? I don’t know that one. 

[00:30:21] Tim: Clouds? No, I don’t. 

[00:30:22] Rebekah: So, it’s about this teenage boy who gets cancer, 

[00:30:29] All: and he’s 

[00:30:29] Rebekah: a musician, and he writes this song called Clouds.

This is based on a true story, by the way. It’s probably a book, if I’m being honest, um, or at least it’s based on the true story. It’s a Disney Plus movie. He writes this hit single, and it, like, gets pretty popular, and then he dies. Clouds. Yay! Sorry, I don’t even care about a spoiler for this, because it was like Really?

Like, the first scene is he finds out he gets cancer and you’re like, well, this kid’s gonna die. Like, it’s also based on a true story. So I apologize. It’s just a spoiler warning warning. And so Josh had told him before we start watching the movie, he’s like, Hey Lance, I don’t really think that Rebecca is going to like this.

And he’s like, no, no, no, you’re going to love it. You’re going to love it. And he loves stuff like that. Like that is his genre. Like it just. Feeds his soul. He loves it. And isn’t 

[00:31:15] Tim: that interesting? Because we all have different, different things. Your mom doesn’t like love stories except for a very small number of them.

You know, when people say, Oh, you need to watch the notebook. She says, no, Never. And I like the notebook. 

[00:31:28] Rebekah: I like stuff that’s about hopeless or like, um, I actually 

[00:31:33] Josiah: like the notebook because it’s a little dark. It’s a little tragic. I like the 

[00:31:39] Rebekah: love stories that either feel like there’s really big stakes. Or like the love story itself is like against all odds.

Like, I like that kind of stuff. 

[00:31:49] Tim: Well, this one, this one may drop into a similar category, but maybe not. Um, Pride and Prejudice, uh, the 2005 movie starring Keira Knightley and Matthew McFadden. The next number eight. 

[00:32:06] Rebekah: I will say my husband loves the movie Pride and Prejudice. That’s funny. I think that I would enjoy Pride and Prejudice and zombies.

If we could read that, I would, I would do the adaptation of that. There was a movie I think they made from that. 

[00:32:17] Josiah: And do you know what Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is? It is the same book. Right. He has taken the text and added zombies into, just inserted them here and there. Yeah. Didn’t rewrite the text, which I thought was funny.


[00:32:29] Rebekah: would be willing to try that because that just seems a little more interesting. 

[00:32:32] Josiah: But it’s funny and crazy. Matthew McFadden was the, I don’t know if it’s Mr. Bentley or whatever the character’s name is, but Matthew McFadden was kind of, 

[00:32:43] Tim: maybe 

[00:32:44] Josiah: Darcy, 

[00:32:44] Tim: Mr. 

[00:32:45] Josiah: Darcy, right? He was famous for Pride and Prejudice. He was just, he just did a very successful run on HBO’s succession.

One of my favorite modern shows. He might’ve been my favorite character in the show. So I have this. Person and I’m showing my besties and the wife of the besties. Uh, she’s like, Oh, that’s Mr. Darcy or whoever from Pride and Prejudice from 20 years ago. Interesting. So that was funny that he has a long standing repertoire.

[00:33:18] Rebekah: Yeah, I would say historical character development movies with very little at stake are probably the worst possible thing for my taste. Yeah. 

[00:33:29] Tim: So, so you’re gonna love number eight on the list. 

[00:33:32] Rebekah: I think that I might hate this list. I think 

[00:33:35] Josiah: we’re getting, I’m getting an idea of who this author is. Yes. From her list.

It’s 

[00:33:40] Tim: definitely 

[00:33:40] Rebekah: opinionated. This 

[00:33:42] Tim: type of list will always be. 2019’s Little Women, uh, an adaptation of Lou, Louisa May Alcott’s, uh, Little Women. I really loved this adaptation. She, she makes the comment in here that classic book adaptations are difficult to master, especially when the director wants to modernize the story.

Without sacrificing its integrity, luckily, Little Women was adapted by an expert writer and director, Greta Gerwig, and it resulted in an adaptation that was a beautiful homage to Louisa May Alcott. 

[00:34:14] Josiah: And you know what else Greta Gerwig did? The Barbie movie. She did the Barbie movie. Which I 

[00:34:17] Rebekah: did like, by the way.

[00:34:19] Josiah: I was, you know, mixed on one way or another, but I really liked her. I’m like mixed 

[00:34:22] Tim: on it. I thought it was well done. Yes. I had some other issues, I suppose. I believe she also did Lady Bird, which I adored and you hated. I did not see that. 

[00:34:31] Rebekah: I am rolling my eyes every other movie you guys say. I’m so sorry.

[00:34:35] Tim: I’m not trying to be lame. Give me an opportunity to sit in your seat for a moment. Oh 

my. 

The number seven film. A book to film adaptation is The Color Purple from 1985, an experience that I hope to never have to repeat. I despised it. 

[00:34:57] Rebekah: I watched the recent one. 

[00:35:00] Tim: The recent one. Did you see it? Yes, I saw half of 

[00:35:02] Rebekah: it.

I wanted to. to watch it. And I’ve heard my whole life, like some, like people see this as like a culturally significant movie and that’s wonderful. Again, I don’t mind watching things about like tough topics and things like that. Um, I did not know the main thing that happened is a relationships. Um, that was not fun, but that was in it, too.

Yes, I was not talking about that specifically, but that was not great. I did not know where they took the relationship and What I will just say is there are certain things in movies that I don’t really want to ever see if I can help it. And one of those things is like a marriage splitting up. So that’s what I will say.

And there are a lot of other places they took it, but I just, That always has been really like tough for me. 

[00:35:50] Josiah: Now that’s interesting because the, the color purple just had a big run at one of our professional theaters here in Nashville. And so I didn’t, I didn’t get to see it. I was doing a show on the same weekends, but I wanted to see it.

And a lot of my friends went to see it. And one of my friends, everyone said, Oh, it was so beautiful in general. Cause it’s about an, uh, Difficult topic and it’s, uh, representing some underrepresented groups and in the characters and stuff like that. But one of my friends did say, honestly, the theme at the end of the day of at least the musical adaptation, the stage musical they saw is that the man, maybe spoiler alert, I didn’t see it.

I don’t even know if I’m saying, if I’m remembering what they said correctly, they said the man cheated. And the woman didn’t really forgive him so much as she said, I’ll stay with you no matter what, do whatever you’re going to do. And I’m going to love you no matter what. 

[00:36:53] Rebekah: But she doesn’t. Maybe she doesn’t.

Maybe she does in the musical. Maybe she does. I had to turn it off because I thought. That I was going to see something that was like, I thought it was going to be more, I don’t even know if I was looking for inspiring, I thought I was going to be watching something about these like two sisters and that was like the big part of it and like how they like overcame really hard things and all that stuff.

And maybe that’s what it’s about, but I felt like it was overshadowed. You’re wanting to see this. 

[00:37:25] Donna: This, uh, rising up from the ashes of a tragic life. Things happen when we’re young that, you know, a lot of things can happen to us as children and teenagers and that you see the rise from that and how you overcome it and the way they handled the first one, which the second one does look different, but the way they handled the first one was it was just such a.

It was truly hopeless. It was dark and you just never felt like you could, you could get out of it. And, um, it didn’t feel redemptive. Right? And sometimes 

[00:38:02] Tim: that’s are there are there 

[00:38:05] Donna: lives that that don’t end up redeeming? Sure. Yes. And I understand that. But if I’m going to go see a movie, I want to be able to say that’s hard for me.

I that would be hard. 

[00:38:18] Rebekah: I think that I want to clarify to like, I don’t think any of our problems with it is about the subject matter being about like, the oppression of people or the subject. Yes. Like, I loved 12 years a slave. It was so hard, but it was. Like fantastic. Like I loved hidden figures, which was a totally different kind of take on it, but it was about the triumph of these like three women who were incredible.

Um, I was just looking up kind of a list of these, cause there’s a lot of things like that that I have found so engaging and like revealing, but also they’re there, they didn’t feel the same to me. Just mercy was another one, which was about, it’s a little, it’s much newer. I’m trying to see when it’s set.

Um, but anyway, yeah, 1987. So it was like much later, but it was about the guy getting, um, on death row and, and all that stuff. And I thought that one was really, really excellent as well. So I just, I want to clarify that cause I don’t want to sound like we’re like hating on that topic. I like to, 

[00:39:17] Tim: I like to watch, uh, like, like to watch films that, that are hopeful.

Number six. in a case’s list is the polar express, which we have already covered, um, in an episode with my grandson. Very sweet. 

[00:39:34] Rebekah: His favorite Christmas movie. He’s watched it almost every year at Christmas and uh, like since he was a little kid. So he, Even still, like the older he gets, he’s like, I get that this movie isn’t great, but it’s my favorite and we’re going to watch it and still makes 

[00:39:49] Donna: a difference.

Yeah, and that’s my, that’s the, that’s the magic of movies, though. You can have, you can have a movie that other people might look at and go, but if it resonates with you, it’s even if it, even if the movie itself. It has nothing to do with why it resonates. It might have been just part of his life at that time.

That movie brought him some comfort. And I think that’s a great thing about film. I think that’s why, one reason all of us like it too, because it can transport you. But for me, Polar Express, I mean, it was odd. 16 page book. Uh, I like doing it. I’m glad we did it. And, um, but for me, I think if we can all remember the motion capture was weird.

Yeah. And that was hard to watch it and really review it because I couldn’t get away from the visual. I wish 

[00:40:38] Rebekah: they had just done a hand drawn like cartoon to match the way that the book was illustrated. I think it would have been so charming, but you know. That was that wasn’t even 

[00:40:47] Josiah: on the cards. I bet.

Yeah. Yeah. Did we all say the book was better in that episode? Oh, I’m sure. I think so. 

[00:40:55] Rebekah: Well, I might’ve said the movie was better just because there are memories now associated with it with Christian, but like, I don’t know. 

[00:41:01] Josiah: Yeah, I can remember that. It was a really good book, and the movie tried its darnedness to adapt it well into a movie length, but, 

[00:41:10] Donna: uh, 

[00:41:11] Josiah: I don’t know that it should be this high on the list, 

[00:41:13] Donna: Acacia.

Yeah, for the purpose of this list, I would move it down. 

[00:41:16] Tim: Number five on Acacia’s list is a very small book, uh, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The 1966 Animated adaptation specifically, which is so cute, and it is. And I like the Benedict Cumberbatch, uh, 2016 as well. 

[00:41:34] Rebekah: I also like that personally. I also like the live action one.

[00:41:38] Josiah: The live action one has grown on me. I like it more now 

[00:41:42] Tim: than 

[00:41:42] Josiah:

[00:41:42] Tim: used to. That is true. I would agree. I like it more. Initially it was like, that’s so not like the animated one that I was used to growing up. I mean, it’s from 1966. I grew up with it. 

[00:41:54] Rebekah: I saw the live action before I saw the animated version. So to me that was the original version.

[00:41:59] Tim: Gotcha. Gotcha. Number four would be on my top five list as well. 

[00:42:03] Rebekah: Okay. 

[00:42:04] Tim: The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch, and the 

[00:42:07] All: Wardrobe. 

[00:42:07] Tim: How sweet. I think it does sound weird for Acacia. I think it is amazing. And I have read all of the books and I really wish that they could all be adapted into film. 

[00:42:19] Donna: There are certain things that would only work in series television.

We found that with Percy Jackson. line, which in wardrobe and some of the series that you can take your time and develop over even six or eight episode seasons, short seasons like British, a lot of British television too. Um, I think the genre is better for it and to try to pack something into a movie sometimes can work but a lot of times Find your find the right medium and and go with it, 

[00:42:46] Tim: right?

And the bbc has adapted all of the chronicles of narnia books. That’s true into a series and I This dates it but I have the vhs version of of all of those and they’re pretty cool They are for the movie capability of the time for the fact they were tv movies and They were using relatively unknown actors in a lot of the parts, especially the children.

Um, Tom Baker is in one of them from Doctor Who fame, one of the most famous and most well loved Doctor Who’s. 

[00:43:18] Rebekah: I love the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe movie, like the more recent one. Um, I think the reason it didn’t continue was they did what? Three? They did three. Prince Caspian was okay. 

[00:43:29] Josiah: Voyager, the Dawn Trader didn’t do very well.

I don’t know 

[00:43:33] Tim: that it was that they were as, Bad. I think they built that as a trilogy because the story comes to a conclusion. They don’t come back until the seventh book. I would be willing to 

[00:43:44] Rebekah: cover this, honestly, just on the podcast, if we have people interested. 

[00:43:48] Josiah: Maybe if we cover Chronicles of Narnia on the podcast in more depth, I’ll talk more about as a child, I watched these movies and had an enormous crush on Lucy, whose teeth, my mother said.

Or abysmal. 

[00:44:03] Donna: I don’t think there are a lot of scenes that are as special as Lucy Pevensie walking out into Narnia for the first time. 

[00:44:10] Tim: Into 

[00:44:11] Donna: all the snow. That those little buck teeth looking up into the sky, and it was magical. I’ve I got away from her teeth for a moment. I moved out of the teeth problem, but it was just a magical thing that I knew I had to watch the rest of the movie because.

Of that moment. And so again, she got right along 

[00:44:33] Josiah: with Mr. And Mrs. Beaver at Yeah. . Yes. I 

[00:44:36] Donna: mean, they, they thought she was their long lost child, but they cut that, that stayed on the editing. Oh. 

[00:44:42] All: Poor Lucy. Cutting 

[00:44:43] Rebekah: room floor. Interesting topic on that, based on what Josiah said, uh, Netflix, I don’t know if you know, this bought the rights to all seven books to adapt into TV.

And they want to do it as like a universe to Marvel things like the MCU and things like that. 

[00:44:59] Tim: Well, that’s what 

[00:45:01] Rebekah: they said. 

[00:45:03] Tim: Number three, I’ve not seen, uh, some of you have, The Princess Diaries. 

[00:45:09] All: Oh, it is? It’s Kate, Shannon Hathaway, and 

[00:45:12] Tim: Julie Andrews. Oh, that’s so lovely. Yeah. Um, number two is 

[00:45:18] Josiah: Oh, I love that movie.

You love that movie? It’s when I learned that Anne Hathaway was amazing. Ah. She’s 

[00:45:25] Donna: amazing. I’ve seen the movie once. I still don’t think I’d put it at number two. 

[00:45:30] Tim: No, absolutely not. Yeah, she has it at three, but yeah. Oh, sorry. Still, not in the top five. Not at number three. I would 

[00:45:36] Josiah: put Princess Diaries above a lot of what’s on this list, as adaptation goes, but I don’t know about number three because we’re running out of spots for some big ones.

[00:45:47] Tim: Yeah, 

and the number two is not going to be one of those big ones. Number two in Acacia’s list is Room from the novel Room. 

[00:46:01] All: And 

[00:46:01] Tim: it’s, uh, portrayed the emotional toll of 

[00:46:03] All: trauma. Oh, Rebecca would 

[00:46:05] Tim: love this one. I’ve seen 

[00:46:07] Rebekah: it. 

[00:46:08] Tim: Yeah? Do 

[00:46:08] Josiah: you have it? 

[00:46:10] Rebekah: I don’t remember loving it. I don’t think I hated it because it felt like there were more high stakes in it.

It’s a high stakes 

[00:46:16] Josiah: character drama. 

[00:46:17] Rebekah: more high stakes than just like, we go to school and then this guy said he didn’t like me and I ruined my life. Like it didn’t feel like that. So I remember thinking, this is heavy, but I think I like it. So yeah, I think it was good. Yeah. 

[00:46:30] Tim: Acacia’s number one. Should we guess?

Book to film adaptation. 

[00:46:34] Rebekah: I feel like there’s so much pressure. I want to guess. 

[00:46:37] Tim: Feel free to guess. Give us a hint. 

[00:46:40] Rebekah: Have we seen it? 

[00:46:43] Tim: I know at least two of us have not. Okay. 

[00:46:47] Rebekah: Okay, so it’s not on what we’ve already reviewed. Wow. Um, I literally have not. I can’t even 

[00:46:52] All: guess now. Who’s it starring?

Rachel McAdams. 

[00:47:00] Tim: Ryan Gosling. The notebook. The 

notebook? 

The notebook. 

Oh my gosh! The notebook is based on a 

book! I would not have, if I had said, without looking at the list, if I had said Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, I would not have known what it would have been because I’ve never said McAdams. You did 

[00:47:19] Donna: not know it was based on a book?

I really didn’t. Oh Lord. Now you’ll think about it 

[00:47:24] Josiah: because the same guy wrote like seven books that have all been adapted into the guy 

[00:47:30] Rebekah: that keeps writing. We should definitely add that to the list. I’m going to have a strip throat. She’s not 

[00:47:42] Josiah: going to be available for that one. Whatever you schedule it.

You know, I didn’t realize how much we would be learning about Acacia. What’s her name today? We’re definitely learning a lot about her taste in movies, which is great. 

[00:47:55] Donna: The cool part about this though, is it’s okay that those were her 20, the good thing about what we’re doing and we can, we can disagree, say how we put this or that, but I think that’s the cool thing about banter like this because different 

[00:48:11] Josiah: perspective 

[00:48:12] Donna: because you do see people Transcribed You do see people’s perspectives and I love that.

Yeah, but I want 

[00:48:18] Tim: to see. What you think. Okay. And, you know, we can kind of zoom through it. Even, um, Mark Jacksfield has a list of the top book to film adaptations of all time. And so he’s 

[00:48:31] Rebekah: like a man. It goes back a long way, be adjusted, 

[00:48:34] Tim: right? Like skewed one way. What website is this? Uh, this is from shortlist.

com. And he also writes for tech radar, digital camera world, Tom’s guide number 10. Dune. Okay. His next one is from 2000 American psycho. 

[00:48:52] Rebekah: Okay. I haven’t seen it, but I haven’t seen it, but 

[00:48:54] Tim: I probably would like it. I think my, maybe most of us would like that one. I actually, I’ve not seen it. It, uh, the stars, 

[00:49:00] Josiah: I think it might have a little torture in it.

Maybe 

[00:49:03] Tim: that’s possible. It doesn’t 

[00:49:05] Josiah: like torture. 

[00:49:06] Tim: Number eight. I have seen, and it is directed by one of TJ’s not favorite directors, Rob Reiner. Um, it is from 1986 is Stephen King’s book called the body stand by me is the film. I don’t know. Stand by me from 1986, a group of boys, a group of preteen boys, and they, they’re going to find this.

They’ve got a dead body or found a dead body is one of the will Wheaton is there you go. All of the boys are, are, are, no, no, all of them are, are more well known stars. The whole list of it’s a 

[00:49:44] Rebekah: coming of age film, but it’s a Stephen King adaptation. So that tells me that there’s actually something interesting in it.

[00:49:49] Tim: Right. Oh, okay. And I found it. I found it very interesting. Um, number seven on his list. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest. Okay. So I know who this 

[00:50:00] Rebekah: person is. I’ve seen that from 

[00:50:03] Tim: 1975. I get the gist of it, but he also includes in number six. Little Women. 2019? From 2019. 

[00:50:13] Rebekah: Okay. He’s, you know, balanced. I love Little Women.

[00:50:16] Tim: There is, there is a good bit of balance in it, and this And that 

[00:50:19] Rebekah: was a pretty well reviewed movie, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, Oscar nominated. It was a 

[00:50:22] Tim: really good movie. And this next one is something that I have no desire to see, never had a desire to see, um, No Country for Old Men from 2007. I love that one, yeah.

See, it’s not my, my taste, but, you know, it’s number five in his list. Um, I have seen this one several times in number four from 1999 fight club. Okay. Josh’s 

[00:50:44] Rebekah: favorite movies. Yep. 

[00:50:46] Donna: Several times. I have you seen fight club several times because you’ve watched it. I’ve seen it once ever. I’ve seen it in more than once, I’m not sure, but that 

[00:50:56] Josiah: could be, I don’t think I’ve watched it with you and I watch it together?

I feel like I watched it, and then a few months later, it was on Max when I was staying with you, and we put it on while dad was at something. 

[00:51:09] Tim: Hmm, that could be. Interesting. 

The next one, let’s see, let’s see if you can guess the next one by the name of the author of the book. 

Okay. 

Harper Lee. Oh, do you know this one, Rebecca?

I’m 

[00:51:23] Josiah: sure he does. I’m sure Josiah does. Famous book. I’ve heard 

[00:51:25] Rebekah: that name. 

[00:51:27] Josiah: Starts with two. 

[00:51:29] Tim: T O. Not the number. It was a twist. It was a trick question. I think she needs all the help she can get in this one. 

[00:51:36] Rebekah: Infinity and beyond. To kill a mockingbird. To kill a mockingbird. To kill a mockingbird. That sounds 

[00:51:41] Tim: like something.

From 1962. Oh, 

[00:51:43] Donna: that was 

[00:51:43] Rebekah: right. That 

[00:51:43] Tim: is correct. To kill a mockingbird. That 

[00:51:46] Rebekah: sounds like something that I had to read in high school and looked up in the books 

[00:51:50] Tim: Number two on his list is another one that I’ve seen once and I’ll never watch it again. The Silence of the Lambs. Now, I 

[00:52:02] Donna: have not read the book, so I can’t say what kind of adaptation it was.

But what are you trying to say? Are we not? I want to do that. 

[00:52:10] Josiah: I want to do that. I’m going to be sick that day. Well, you don’t have to rewatch the film. How about that? 

[00:52:16] Tim: It’s the subject matter. Something that I don’t, I don’t care for. Um, 

[00:52:21] Donna: so many people love that subject matter, but it is a criminal 

[00:52:26] Josiah: minds type stuff.


[00:52:28] Rebekah: don’t like war movies or things said in the past, but I will all day watch movies about serial killers. 

[00:52:34] Tim: That’s a sad statement. Okay. Yeah. Let’s guess. 

[00:52:38] Rebekah: Please tell me it’s Lord of the Rings. 

[00:52:40] Tim: Number one in this list. Oscar winning movie. Before 1990. I will never know the answer to this. Before 1990. If I tell you, how about the director?

Sure. Francis Ford Coppola, Godfather, the Godfather, which 

is 

Donna’s 

[00:53:02] Josiah: favorite movie. Oh, there we go. Thank you, Mark, or whatever your name was. 

[00:53:06] Rebekah: I feel like that one’s probably a lot more with Dune on 

[00:53:10] Josiah: there. But Dune 

[00:53:12] Rebekah:

[00:53:13] Josiah: in the top 10. Dune above Lord of the Rings, though. It’s number 19. 

[00:53:19] Donna: OK, cool. We’re getting close to summer.

So what is on tap for Bitpod 

[00:53:24] Rebekah: coming up? Well, depending on how you look at the equinox and when exactly summer starts. Um, so, uh, our next seven episodes are going to be really exciting because we are covering Harry Potter. 

[00:53:39] All: So as 

[00:53:44] Rebekah: a treat for you, because we know a lot of people go on vacation during the summer and you’re in the car more maybe than usual.

or on planes or whatever with your kids, we’re actually going to be releasing an episode every week rather than every other. And so starting on June the 15th, 14th ish, depending on when that episode comes out, either Friday or Saturday. Uh, we will be releasing our first episode on the Sorcerer’s Stone, and then every week after that we’ll Or Philosopher’s 

[00:54:12] Josiah: Stone.

[00:54:12] Rebekah: Or Philosopher’s Stone, depending on where you live. Um, and then every week after that until, uh, we get to the week as we approach Harry’s birthday. And then, uh, as we kind of wrap it up and get back towards school time. We’re going to be covering the Devil Wears Prada. Um, we might be doing the Born Identity.

Yeah. And then we’ve got, uh, that one we’ll release right around dad’s birthday. That kind of wraps up our summer. And at that point we’ll be into, into September. That’s what we have coming up. And, uh, yeah, please go ahead and join us, um, on our online group. You can find information about that in the podcast episode description.

We would love to have you. Um, you can also find us on Patreon. If you, like I said at the beginning, if you enjoy this episode, we might do some more reacts. React to some lists, react to some, uh, works. We could even maybe do one time we could watch a movie and react to it live. If it’s something we’ve never seen, it can be fun.

If you liked this episode, please leave a five star rating or review on your favorite podcatcher. It is super helpful. Um, especially if you leave a review where you explain what you love about the podcast. Um, we read all of those and get excited about them. Uh, you can find us pretty much everywhere at bookisbetterpod, and if you have any questions, feel free to find us either on social media or email us bookisbetterpod at gmail.

com. 

[00:55:35] Tim: I’d even like to hear if somebody has their own top 10 list that they’d like to email to us. Maybe we can react to some fan top 10s. I would love to respond to 

[00:55:43] Rebekah: some fan 

[00:55:44] Tim: lists. 

[00:55:44] Rebekah: So, well, thanks for listening, everybody. Thank 

[00:55:47] Josiah: you. 

[00:55:48] Rebekah: We love you, baby listeners. 

[00:55:51] Josiah: Goo goo ga ga. Bye bye. Now, Josh, if I sound stupid in this episode, cut it.

And if I sound smart, keep no.

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