what you like in a book or a movie?

Question

Like I know a good plot but what is it about and whta happens in it.

Answer 1

Interesting characters and dialogue, and a moral/ethical dilemma at the crux of the work.
But also a good mixture of tragedy/comedy.

Answer 2

I love books because they give you so much more, a good example is Stephen King's "The Stand". It was made into a movie that was great in it's own right, but in the book you get to know what the characters are feeling and thinking. You understand why the pyromaniac is the way he is. You can understand motives better.
Just in general, say someone is out to murder his boss, in movies it's the boss was a jerk, fired the guy. He goes out to kill him, as he goes he's thinking about all the stuff the boss has done that's illegal. In a book you know all that, in the movie they don't have the time for him to be thinking all this stuff. They will shorten it to something like him saying out loud, "maybe I wont kill him once he finds out what all I know he'll give me back my job. At that point your saying what? What stuff? I've learned over the years if the movie looks real good I'll go see the movie then buy the book. I get the best of both.

Answer 3

If the book flows. I mean it doesn't jump around all over the place so that you lose a sense of what you're trying to read, that turns me off, so do movies that do the same thing. Now, some books go from present to past to present, yet they still follow the storyline and are great reads. Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader is one such book. You might try it. And so are some of his other works. Matthew Reilly accomplished this when he wrote TEMPLE.

Answer 4

I think a lot of people like stories and books with situations they can relate to in their lives. Personally I don't, makes me feel normal.

Answer 5

IN A BOOK I LIKE TO SEE MYSTERY AND ROMANCE. IN A MOVIE I LIKE DRAMA