Movies based on a book which left you an emotional wreck… Go…
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Me before you ?
Not seen or read the book. Is it good?
Yeah I’d highly recommend x
Yes it’s amazing!! Best book I’ve read. I would read first then watch the film! I watched the trailer and then read the book so I pictured the actors who played them when reading the book, so when I watched the film afterwards I felt like it was really them!! If that makes sense? Don’t usually like films after I’ve read the book but I did that x
I read the book well before the film and I thought they’d done a really good job x
The reason I’ve steered away from it is that in all my years I’ve been with my ex husband I couldn’t ever get him to read one book. He meets another woman and bam, he’s reading her copy of the book. Kind of put me off to be honest.
I’d be the same
I’ve just watched Their Finest and I have to admit I’ve never cried at a movie like I did! I have a feeling it will be a long night for me as I just found it on overdrive so will be reading!
Me before you and the fault in our stars ?
i second this
Ps I love you ?
Me before you and the help
I loved the help. It was rather sobering.
definitely!!
War Horse ???
I don’t think I’ve seen it. We watched Sleeping beauty with my daughters and we were passing the tissue box around!
@Tala oh god it’s the saddest thing I’ve ever seen, I was a total wreck after ???
Added to list.
@Tala lights out and tissues movie
My sisters keeper. X
@Kelly was so annoyed with that as they changed the ending in the movie, the book broke my heart the movie was a big disappointment
Sense and Sensibility
Like Dandelion Dust x
Cold Mountain.
@Catherine no idea why I have never seen it but have just watched the trailer and it looks amazing! ?
@Anna I recommended this to you a couple of years ago when we were talking about civil war films!
@Catherine I have terrible memory it seems! But definitely going to watch this film now ?
The light between oceans
I have to admit I did find the movie a bit dry and didn’t continue watching it. Michael Fassbender is a brilliant actor but he scares me sometimes. ?
@Tala I’m not an emotional person with films, but I sobbed at the miscarriage scenes, the film was so good
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The fault in our stars
Me Before You xxx
The Time Traveller’s Wife, P.S. I love you and My Sister’s Keeper
Beaches
Honestly i know it’s not that popular but I got my first real cry from a book at ‘Me, Before You’.
I got so invested and I read it about 6 months ago and yet I still know the layout of the annexe in my head. Only book I’ve ever wanted to read again straight after.
@Charlie it seems to be very popular!
@Charlie it’s a very popular book!
Oh haha maybe just me I always seem to see people say it’s a borefest. I thought I was easily pleased ? xx
I think it’s my favourite book actually. I’ve never cried at a book like I did that x
Same here @Carmell I can’t seem to get into the next one though. Too much going on over Xmas I think xxx
@Charlie to be honest I didn’t enjoy the second one. My friend lent me the third one months ago but still not read it. She said it was better than the second so I will read at some point. For me though the first one was such a moving story, I don’t think it needed a second or third one. Have you watched the film? X
Yeah I watched the film and I enjoyed it but there were so many details that were left out that were so necessary to me and i don’t know about you but I had such a strong vision of all the characters and their families and the annexe and Nathan and all their voices I was like no that’s not right ? and I have never really felt that way before about book to movie. Xxx
See I watched the trailer for the film then read the book…. So I saw the actors from the film when I read the book. So when I watched the film it really felt like it was them. I remember after I read the book I watched the trailer again straight after and was sobbing ?
I agree that they missed some important info out. Like how much pain he was in and how it was going to get worse, and he had pneumonia regularly etc. I think all of that is really important to understand why he made the decision he made x
@Carmell that’s a really interesting way to take on a book to movie story. I might have to try that out next time I read one! Xxx
@Charlie I didn’t do it on purpose, I saw the trailer then remembered my friend telling me about the book. So I went and brought the book straight away. It was definitely a good way though x
Sleeping with the enemy. Amazing book and the film follows it almost to the letter xx
Another for time travellers wife / one day / me before you / the fault in our stars.
Walk to remember and the notebook. Both by Nicholas sparks
Birdbox, Benjamin Button, Me Before You, Phantom of the Opera. Cried my eyes out at the end of all of them!
@Wendy just finished watching Birdbox on tv and cried!
I thought BirdBox was more thriller?
@Tala definitely but also a very human element too ??
Will add to list.
Time travellers wife definitely. And The Green Mile
Captain Correllis mandolin
I’ve just watched wonder and cried a fair bit.
Me and my daughters did as well!
Wonder was our family read a few months ago. I cried so much at the end that my kids asked me if I wanted to pass over and they’d read it ?
@Emily it’s such a moving book, I’m not surprised at all. What a nice idea to read it together ❤️
My kids may not be babies anymore, but I still treasure our bedtime stories! ? (Also,means you can have natrual chats about any issues / queries etc) Wonder, The Christmasouras and The Lion The Witch and the wardrobe have been our faves this year.
@Emily we always do bedtime stories here too, it’s a great time for those chats isn’t it?! We haven’t upgraded to ‘proper’ books yet though as Violet is not able to follow just yet. When Violet was younger we did read Alice in wonderland together. I need to find some in-betweens slightly longer for the older girls but short enough to read over a few evenings do violet doesn’t loose interest. Scarlett’s reading the secret seven currently to herself after I do the bedtime story ?
We loved:Penny Dreadful,
The pirates next door (chapter books),
Oliver Moon,
Seriously Silly stories and of course Roald Dahl (George, Mr Fox and Pelly).
Helped bridge the gap of one being a super reader and one where it just hadn’t ‘clicked’.
@Emily thank you! Great recommendations ?
Very Welcome ?
I can help if you ever want to come and have a browse 🙂
@Andrea thank you very much ?
Ps I love you – the hubby wondered why I emerged from the bedroom all blotchy eyed and sniffing and I had only watched like half an hour of it!
And time traveller’s wife!
Beautiful film xxx
@Jen I read the time traveler’s wife when it first came out and I was eagerly awaiting the movie. Both made me cry.
So beautiful, both the film and the book! I must try to reread and rewatch next year! X
The fault in our stars was the first book I ever cried at. I finished it at 2am downstairs alone and hubby had to come and check on me I was crying so much ??♀️
Aww.
I mentioned this on another thread, but Brokeback Mountain broke my heart.
I’ve seen it ages ago. I don’t remember what effect it had on me. ?
@Tala oh no that one absolutely crucified me. Anything where the loss is pointless.
That’s 99.9% of loss, eh? ?
@Tala not really, for me in a book or movie if someone is trying to save someone, or or its an accident or natural causes it is sad but doesn’t get to me the same way that war or violence for instance. It’s the same with loss due to the ignorance of society such as Brokeback Mountain, it doesn’t have to be that way so it is more heartbreaking for me.
The English Patient, I sobbed for an hour afterwards
@Sue oh yes!!! That one has me sobbing too!!
The Green Mile + The Memory Keepers Daughter to name but a few ?
LOTR, The Two Towers, the death of Haldir gets me every time! I must have watched it more than a dozen times, but it still gets me!
Definitely!
The notebook
I live this. The only film I’ve watched more than once. Simple beautiful
@Keira I sobbed, both at book and film.
Fault in our stars , and one day
Nobody else going to mention Deathly Hallows Part 1 ?
*Not a spoiler*
Mystic River. Both the book and film made me sob!
My fave book was turned into a movie this year (the little stranger ) was left emotional in a bad way as in angry lol what the hell did the do to that story?! Terrible :/ please don’t let that crap put you off reading if you haven’t already ? X rant over ?
Brooklyn ??
Me before you, I ugly cried at the film and the book ? hubby didn’t have a clue what to do with me ?
The color purple
My sisters keeper ?
@Becky hated the movie ending!!
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Lion
The last song
A Thousand Splendid Suns made me cry so much!
@Natasha me as well!
Gone Baby Gone
Still Alice
The Notebook. I still cried more at the book, but both had me sobbing.
The lovely bones
Watership Down
The Green Mile. Ugly sobbed at both book and film!
@Emily same! ?
@Emily and me!! Couldn’t even watch it when it was on the other night…. ?
Ps I love you – it fully broke me x
Room
Marley and Me
Bridges of Maddison County
A Dog’s Purpose ???
Oh goodness I cried like a baby at this one ?
Marley & Me
My sister’s keeper
The fault in our stars
@Anna My Sister’s Keeper…. will never forget this!!!!!
The Green Mile. Every time!
The Notebook!
The colour purple. Amazing book and film
Last snow of spring, but that was about 40 years ago wether i would still feel the same i don’t know xx
The Little Prince made us cry a fair bit as well.
A monster calls ?
The Shining
I’ve watched it so many years ago, I don’t recall how it affected me.
Beaches, I’ve read and watched the film that many times that I cry at the beginning of both now as I know how sad it gets
The Green Mile
The Shack
Bridges of Madison county
Sophie’s choice kramer v kramer terms of endearment
Les Miserables ???
@May agreed ????
Room
Lion
Lots of one word title films apparently! ?
The Time Traveller’s Wife
@Natasha yes!