How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
June 7th 2006 08:57
Another book to which a movie was based on. I was bloody well surprised by this one!
I picked it up at work once when I was bored, this edition had the same cover as the film though and I thought to myself 'Bloody hell they'll novelise any piece of garbage these days' so I opened it up to see how bad it was and it was a collection of cartoons! That's when I realised that the film must've been based on the book and not the other way around (obviously it had been re-released with the film's poster as it's cover, as is the way it goes these days).
Okay, so the film isn't that bad, it's just your average romantic comedy. Okay, so Matthew McConaughey is one of the most useless leading men in recent years. Okay, so Kate Hudson is annoying and should probably die before she can pollute the screen any further. But the book isn't even a book! It's just a collection of amusingly infantile cartoons showing a girl stick figure doing inane and insane things to a boy stick figure. It would be very funny if I hadn't already seen or heard every single joke in the film. That's right, for an entire film script (complete with characters and narrative structure and all the other stuff essential for a formula romantic comedy movie) that is pretty much based on a series of nonsensical cartoons, it's actually amazingly faithful to it's source material!
I'm not really reccomending this book, it's just an oddity I came across and wanted to share with others. I'm not bashing it either, like I said - it's fairly amusing. But the film pretty much takes all of it's jokes and throws a whole bunch of boring stuff around it, hence spoiling the book. It amazes me what lengths Hollywood will go to to get a movie idea. Almost every half-baked idea is pulled out some kind of source nowadays - be it novel, comic, magazine article or extremely-short humour book. I'm still waiting for the Blue Day Book to be turned into an action blockbuster movie. Or maybe Huey Hewitson's latest cook book will get the big screen treatment.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days - The Book
I picked it up at work once when I was bored, this edition had the same cover as the film though and I thought to myself 'Bloody hell they'll novelise any piece of garbage these days' so I opened it up to see how bad it was and it was a collection of cartoons! That's when I realised that the film must've been based on the book and not the other way around (obviously it had been re-released with the film's poster as it's cover, as is the way it goes these days).
Okay, so the film isn't that bad, it's just your average romantic comedy. Okay, so Matthew McConaughey is one of the most useless leading men in recent years. Okay, so Kate Hudson is annoying and should probably die before she can pollute the screen any further. But the book isn't even a book! It's just a collection of amusingly infantile cartoons showing a girl stick figure doing inane and insane things to a boy stick figure. It would be very funny if I hadn't already seen or heard every single joke in the film. That's right, for an entire film script (complete with characters and narrative structure and all the other stuff essential for a formula romantic comedy movie) that is pretty much based on a series of nonsensical cartoons, it's actually amazingly faithful to it's source material!
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days - The Film
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A comic book, eh? That sounds better than a romantic comedy...