Stop letting people pick books based on movie adaptations

My book club did The Martian last month and half the people just watched the movie and showed up pretending they read it. It completely killed our debate because nobody wanted to discuss the actual writing style or the journal format choices. We spent 40 minutes on plot points that weren't even in the book. Has anyone else's group been ruined by the movie-first crowd?

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felix4783d ago

Forty minutes on plot points NOT in the book? I would have walked out right then, that's absolutely INSANE to me.

max3883d ago

My local theater had a 20 minute intermission where the guy next to me tried to explain the lore from the wiki to his girlfriend, so I feel your pain. I almost walked out myself but I was too busy pretending to care about his lecture.

elliot_harris253d ago

Forty minutes on plot points NOT in the book" is wild... I mean, that's not even a movie review at that point, that's just a full-on lecture. I would have been checking my watch every 30 seconds, trying to figure out how to escape without being rude. Honestly, I probably would have just stood up and walked out during one of his sentences, like "gotta use the restroom" and never come back. It's bad enough when someone spoils stuff from the book, but making up new lore for forty minutes? That's a whole different level of crazy. I don't know how you survived that without snapping...