Vlog: Top Five Character Blunders

In which Jess tells you our picks for the most atrocious character defining mistakes.

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#56: Fashionably Early Kronos (Sea of Monsters film)

#27: Where is the Silver Lining? (Silver Linings Playbook film)

#39: Nothing to Get Green Over (Oz the Great and Powerful film)

Vlog: Five Worst Character Adaptations

In which our Adaptation hosts present our list of bad character adaptations. It’s a little skimpy for some reason, but we’re sure you can help us add to it!

Also, check out our list of Five Best Character Adaptations!

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Related Podcast Episodes:

#18: Living in a Powder Keg (The Silver Linings Playbook novel)

#27: Where’s the Silver Lining? (Silver Linings Playbook the film)

#51: Percy Jackson and the Bermuda Triangle of Monsters (Sea of Monsters the novel)

#54: TMI and Incestuous Canoodling (City of Bones the novel)

#56: Fashionably Early Kronos (Sea of Monsters the film)

#58: City of Inconsequence (City of Bones the film)

Adaptation #27: Where is the Silver Lining?

header027After seeing David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, Dorin and Kendyl discuss it’s merits and shortcomings as a film and in comparison with the novel its based on.

Also check out our episode on the novel!

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Adaptation #18: Living in a Powder Keg

In episode #18, Dorin and Kendyl discuss Matthew Quick’s novel The Silver Linings Playbook, the balance between optimism and realism, and the epicness of Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Also check out our episode on the movie!

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‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Trailer Starring Jennifer Lawrence

Coming this November, Jennifer Lawrence stars in a new comedy opposite Bradley Cooper. Silver Linings Playbook is an adaptation of the debut novel by Matthew Quick published in 2008. It follows the story of Pat Peoples (Cooper) after he is released from a mental institution and attempts to recreate himself for his estranged wife in the hopes of winning her back. Along the way he meets the widowed Tiffany (Lawrence) who has her own mental skeletons and the two form a uneasy friendship.

The film is written and directed by David O. Russell and also stars Robert De Niro and Julia Stiles. Watch the first trailer below:

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