30 Books to Movies: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

The book

It is about the town of Chewandswallow, where the weather comes three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and is always food and beverages. The rain is juice and soup, the snow is ice cream, and the wind brings hamburgers. Because of this phenomenon, there are no grocery stores. However, when floods and storms of giant food come, the population is forced to leave Chewandswallow on boats made of bread, and adapt to their new lives in the world where the sky doesn't bring food. (source)

It is a kind of bed stories. But if someone read it for me or I read it for my self, I would not be sleepy, I would be hungry like hell. Nice, sweet and very imaginative. Like it and wanna eat it! ;p

The movie

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Flint Lockwood thinks he's a genius. But none of the things he invented are things that make sense or are useful. However, he has the support of his mother but when she dies, he's left alone with his father who thinks he should give it up. When the community that he lives in, is in an economic crisis because their primary source of income a sardine cannery was shut down, Flint decides to try his latest invention, a machine that can turn water into food. But something goes wrong and the machine ends up in the atmosphere. Later it starts raining food. And so the shifty mayor tries to use this as a way to help their community. But when Flint sense something's wrong with the machine, the mayor convinces him to ignore it. But as Flint predict chaos ensue. (source)

I was very starving in every scenes, more than when I read the book. The food looks so real and very YUM! I already downloaded the movie, but the file that I got corrupt and I just watched the first 20 minutes of the movie. How do you feel if watch a cheese-burger rain in row for hours? That is what I feel too ;p

My favorite scene is when cheese-burger rain. So so so so hungry when watch it. Of course, it because the fucking corrupt file. I thought I wanna eat burger right now.

I almost forgot about this, hehe

The lesson that I got from this movie is to get your dream and very give up. Don’t get angry or mind if other talking bad about you. Cause someday, they would be need you.

Which is the best? I choose the movie! :D

The song

30 Books to Movies: The Time Traveler's Wife

The book

The love story of Henry and Claire whose lives are punctuated by Henry's disappearance to different points in time--sometimes even back to visit Claire as a young woman. When Henry meets Claire, he is twenty-eight, and she is twenty. He's a hip, handsome librarian; she is an art student with Botticelli hair. Henry has never met Claire before; Claire has known Henry since she was six... (source)

Romantic and priceless.

The first word, it is because I thought before that the story about the time traveler or person can move to another time and places was story about superhero only. It is not like what I got here. Henry can take the benefit of it but he is still human and can not change anything he wants.

For the second word, Claire's faithful were not really exist in my life, of course in my opinion. To have a wife like her and accept everything in your life, your minus-plus point and even your past, one word from me priceless.

My favorite parts are when Henry visited the past and met the little Claire. There is something what makes me wondering. If he can not and not allow to tell anything that can change the future, how can he tells that he would be Claire's husband? It is not fair. Lets imagine if Henry was there but he don't try to talk with Claire, would he be Claire's wife in the future?

It was little boring. So hard to understand. But what you have to do is be a time traveler and back to the past ;p

The movie

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My eyes were opened to the max size when saw this movie at movie rental. It was feel like dream-comes-true. I couldn't hardly wait to watch it. Yet what I felt after watched it are . .

. . Confused and disappointed.

For the first word, perhaps because I watched it in low speaker and can not feel their intonation and expression. Little weird, uh?

And really disappointed with the whole story. Too fast, too flat and many missing plot. For this I certain that it is because I already read the novel in row and the story really glued in my mind and what I got from the movie was so different. The differences are always exist everywhere. I respect to it.

So I really am more like the book than this.

The song

30 Books to Movies: The Princess Diaries

The book

What? A princess??

Me??? Yeah, right.

Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra.

Is she ever in for a surprise.

First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance? (source)

You are suddenly become a princess and you hate it? Are you crazy or something? I don't understand where the world she thinking about. She was invisible. Actually she can get anything she wants if she is a princess. For this case, yes she is and she hates it. Maybe she is just too innocent.

I enjoy read it. Although, I was little bit confused with the opening, prologue or whatever it is. After it I love this book. But I didn't get any point. It just have-fun book.

I still have my favorite part. It is when Mia and Tina discuss the story from what Tina read currently. The themes were so so so last year. But I shocked, just a bit, when read this.

"The book was called I Think My Name Is Amanda, and it was about a girl who woke up from a coma and couldn’t remember who she was. This really cute boy comes to visit her in the hospital and tells her that her name is Amanda and that he’s her boyfriend. She spends the rest of the book trying to figure out whether or not he’s lying."

That is what exactly I dreamed about him! Goood! It means that I was so last year?

I got a new word: flunking. I didn't search for the meaning until I finished read the book. Now I know :)

The movie



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When I watched it I thought about ' it is just another teen-drama-romantic-comedy film'. I can't blame it. Maybe it because I watched it now, when the film like this is everywhere. Look at Josh. I never ever like or even date a guy like him now days. But it would be different if I watched it years ago. Sometimes love is so crazy and blind.

But it nice to watch with your girlfrieds or even your boyfriend. Perhaps he would realize that he already has a princess by his side :P

ps. I just realize that Mandy Moore played a role as Lana here!

Joe: This is between a waltz and a tango.
Mia: It's a wango?

The song

It was quite difficult to decide which the best. Mia's mom seeing Mia's teacher make the story more complicated but I can not ignore how nice it is to spent a weekend with your grandma and skip a princess-to-be class.

Gosh, I think I love both of it :)

30 Books to Movies: Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The Lightning Thief

The book

The gods of Olympus are alive in the 21st Century. They still fall in love with mortals and have children who might become great heroes, but most of these children meet horrible fates at the hands of monsters by the age of twelve. Only a few learn the truth of their identity and make it to Half Blood Hill, a Long Island summer camp dedicated to training young demigods. Such is the revelation that launches young Percy Jackson on a quest to help his real father, Poseidon, avert a war among the gods. With the help of Grover the satyr and Annabeth the daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction - Zeus master bolt. Along the way, they face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop them. Most of all, Percy must come to terms with a father he has never known, and an Oracle that has warned him of betrayal by a friend. 

It was quite confusing for me. I didn't have too much knowledge about Gods. I also took time longer than I expected. Bored. At the same time, I was really busy at campus. But I continued read it day by day. Slowly I found how I enjoy this book. Funny enough.

I passed many paragraphs, actually :P

My favorite part is when they stay at Las Vegas. I can't imagine that games made people forget anything. I am not such a gamers or something, so I didn't know well.

The thing that I love from this book is the ending. It was really awesome to put a clue about the next story there. I was so excited! But I don't think to read the second book.

The movie

Already wrote the review about it here

The song

The book is the way better but I prefer the movie though it's seems silly :D

30 Books to Movies: Confessions of a Shopaholic

The book

Becky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it—not any of it.  Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. And lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters from the bank—letters with large red sums she can't bear to read—and they're getting ever harder to ignore.

She tries cutting back. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky's only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something....

Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life—and the lives of those around her—forever. (source)

Hilarious! Everything that she did, every line that she lies and everything that she brought, make her life turn up and down. Actually she is smart. She just too careless and choose the simple way that she likes.

So easy to hide our problem and pretend to live like nothings wrong. Like she did. I can't believe her thought such as her own solution to solve her debt. When I read it I doubt it would be easy as she thought. She run here, run there. But at the last she have to face it, alone.

My favorite part is the tons of credit card bills or letter or something. Funny to know what she did to keep the bank shut the hell up.

What i get here, it's about manage our life, not only manage your money.

The movie

I already wrote about it before here


The differences are always exist and so here. If the book prefer that Becky shop anything beside clothes, in the movie, Becky seems like obsesses to shop clothes only. It makes the movie look similar as The Devil Wears Prada. So, I am totally choose the book. For me it's way better than the movie =D

The song

30 Books to Movies: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The book


While standing on a British railway station, awaiting their train to school after the summer holidays, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie are magically whisked away to a beach near an old and ruined castle. They come to realize the ruin is Cair Paravel, where they once ruled as the Kings and Queens of Narnia, and discover the treasure vault where Peter's sword and shield, Susan’s bow and arrows, and Lucy’s bottle of magical cordial and dagger are stored. Susan's horn for summoning help is missing, however, as she left it in the woods the day they returned to England after their first visit to Narnia. Although only a year has passed in England, many centuries have passed in Narnia.

That same day, they intervene to rescue Trumpkin the dwarf from soldiers who have brought him to the ruins to drown him. Trumpkin tells the children that since their disappearance, a race of men called Telmarines have invaded Narnia, driving the Talking Beasts into the wilderness and pushing even their memory underground. Narnia is now ruled by King Miraz and his wife Queen Prunaprismia, but the rightful king is Miraz's young nephew, Prince Caspian, who has gained the support of the Old Narnians.(source)

This is shorter that another book that I read lately. So I hope I can finished it faster than before. At the beginning it was so good. I like when Trumpkin tells about Caspian. But then I kinda bored. What they did just walk around the trees to meet Caspian and think about breakfast. I became lazy to finished it.

I too lazy to think which my favorite part is or pay attention to the words. I got no new word here to learn.

Well, I finished then. A little bit disappointed of it. I hope Caspian do better next time.

The movie

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This is it! I like it. I saw an ordinary plot here actually. They fight, they loose. They fight again and the miracle comes. Battle scene, that's why I like it. And also Lucy and Susan have more feed here. Especially Susan, who has crush on Caspian.

For their acting, I don't think so but they well good. I haven't watch the first movie. So I don't know. But they grown up, like what I see from first movie's photos and now. I love the British accent. Yet my English sounds American.

My favorite scene is Caspian meet the Pevensies for the first time. Caspian saw Susan and he was 'damn'! Kinda funny.

The movie is better and I choose it.

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The song

Peter and Susan will not come back to Narnia again. I don't know why. But I saw them in the trailer of Narnia 3.

30 Books To Movies: Jumper

The book


One evening, while being physically abused by his father, David Rice unexpectedly teleports (or 'jumps') and finds himself in the local library. The origin of this power is never explained. Vowing never to return to his father's house, David makes his way to New York City. After being mugged and discovering that he can't get a job without a birth certificate and social security number, David robs a local bank by teleporting inside the safe, stealing nearly a million dollars. He then begins a life of reading, attending plays and dining in fancy restaurants. At a play he meets a woman named Millie Harrison, and they spend some time touring New York before she returns to college in Stillwater, Oklahoma. David later visits her in Oklahome, and they begin a romantic relationship. David also manages to locate and reunite with his long lost mother, Mary Niles. Mary left the family after being severely beaten by David's father, and all her attempts to contact David over the years were interrupted by his father.
The New York police start investigating David after he saves a neighbor from an attack by jumping her abusive husband to a park, as the husband turns out to be a cop. The investigation drives David to move to Oklahoma, where he gets an apartment near Millie. One night while David is out, the police are in his New York City apartment when Millie calls, and Millie breaks up with him after learning that he is being pursued by the police.
Mary, who was on a business trip, is murdered by terrorists when her plane is hijacked. David then sets out to find Rashid Matar, the terrorist responsible for his mother's death. David starts jumping to Algeria to search for Matar, having to dodge the police almost every time he is there. While he is searching for the terrorist, he and Millie eventually reconcile. However, the National Security Agency, led by veteran agent Brian Cox, become suspicious when they find out he can get from Algeria to the United States in only a few hours. When he is questioned, David decides to jump out of the NSA office with Cox and several other agents witnessing his powers. Cox and the NSA then become determined to capture David so they can use his powers. After numerous failures to grab David, Cox takes Millie hostage in order to get to him. (source)

I took months to finished this. I was so busy and forgot my One-Chapter-One-Day schedule. I am a little bit uncomfortable with the issue too. So I sometimes forgot who is it? Why he did it? Sounds weird right. But I tried to finished it, I don't want to feel like have a 'stalker' inside my computer.

Davy seems fragile yet strong, because he hurts by his experiences. Kinda surprised that Millie is older than him. It's not a habit here. Well, sometimes it is but not much. In my opinion, the author set it because Davy need someone to raises him like his mother. My favorite part is when Davy and Millie recorded how he is jump. It is also explain what the jump theory. What I got from it is you may revenge to who's you loved, but you can't bring s/he back alive.

The Movie

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The story changed a lot here. Millie was his school mates. His mother is another Jumper and his father died then. So there is not terrorist issue here. But something here make me interesting that beside Jumper there also Paladin. They are member of a secret society dedicated to killing all Jumpers, who know of his ability and have the technology to disable him.

The film was good although it is not awesome. Nothing special with the places that Davy visited. The writer should visit Indonesia someday, if they want to film the second book later. Hayden Christensen play well but he still clumsy. He bet practice more.

My favorite scene is when Davy robbed the bank and brought the money to his room. So mad with money.

Which one I like the most? The movie. The Paladin make it better.

Curious? Watch it below.

The song