One of my favorite books ever is Island of the Blue Dolphins. One summer I think I read it 30 times, I knew I liked it so why try something new? Mom was kind enough to find the movie for me and I was disappointed with it (it was made in 1964 so it was obviously dated, but add to that the lack of conversation and things went down hill from there...). But I still have the VHS and during some reorganizing I ran across it again and decided to watch it tonight. Archer wanted nothing to do with it, he was really pushing for Beauty and the Beast. But I got my way cause I'm the mom and my vote counts more than his.
After watching the movie drag on for an hour and a half and finally end, I turned to Archer. "Archer, that was long and really boring. What did you think of it?" His answer? "I thinked it was boring when it was still in the box." There you have it - he told me so.
P.S. I still love the book and hope to read it to my kids when they're old enough to sit still for it. Some books just shouldn't be movies.
1 comment:
i agree! kind of like the whole 'return of oz' movies??!!! ;)
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