The Ruins, the movie
So how did I enjoy watching a movie I had recently read?
It was a cool movie as gorey as the book was, but oh so very compressed. I understood why so much had to be left out, and maybe even changed, but I felt like I was being zoomed through the tale.
Positives: Two things I wanted to happen in the book did (why don't you just throw the thing at them? and why doesn't anyone make a run for it?). Also! Less leaps of logic are required to watch the movie than to read the book. That's always nice.
Unique horror movie. Although, I have to say, the book is still a great read, but it ended, and hard.
The movie, in contrast, might actually live on.


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