It may have only landed in third place in the official comScore chart on its opening weekend, but teary chick-lit adaptation Me Before You is sitting pretty at the summit for its second session, as rivals including Warcraft: The Beginning and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows fall away.
And Adventures in Nonfiction, Argumentative Writing, Literary Theory, Major American Authors, Brit Lit 1 and 2, Film and Literature Adaptation, Grammar, Young Adult Lit, Comparative Lit, and two creative writing classes.
— Macy Halford With the smashing box-office success of the "Sex and the City" movie (from the Times: "The female audience has seldom showed its potential in the way it did this weekend"), we're sure to soon be wallowing in a glut of chick-lit adaptations.
By Macy Halford August 12, 2008 With the smashing box-office success of the "Sex and the City" movie (from the Times: "The female audience has seldom showed its potential in the way it did this weekend"), we're sure to soon be wallowing in a glut of chick-lit adaptations.
I'm excited because everyone's told me how great this is and, with its smog-bound London streets and gas-lit vistas, this beautifully filmed adaptation is certainly 'cinematic'cinematic
It feels like an adaptation of a chick lit novel you'd be ashamed of reading or a loose remake of Beaches, aimed purely at the least discerning of female viewer.
Like this season's other adaptation of a kid-lit favorite, Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are," "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is more concerned with naturalism than most movies with talking creatures.
Despite the fact that we're dealing with all too real and relatively recent events, the entire film is given a brightly lit, cartoonish feel as if we're watching an adaptation of a gaudy graphic novel.
The novels' association with their generally sappy film adaptations has only fed Austen's image as a purveyor of insubstantial chick lit.
