July 25th, 2009
Sell-Out
Far be it from me to do more hate-mongering on the internet, as it is already one of those scary places where I am one of the few people left asking if we could ‘Give Peace a Chance’, but I do have to finally and openly express something that I truly hate more than anything else, and that something is Movie Tie-In Covers.
Go to your nearest bookstore (print this entry out if need be) and start looking at book covers. Notice, for the most part how pretty they are, they’re supposed to entice you to buy the book by expressing the whole essence of the book in a single image. It is debatable as to how successful a process this is, but at the very least the cover tries to sell the book based on its own merits as a piece of fiction.
So when they slap a movie poster on the cover of a perfectly good piece of fiction I get irrationally angry. The movie is never as good as the book, and really the poster serves to identify the good looking actors in the movie (who don’t appear in the book, only the characters do–a bit of a let down for some I’m sure).
The exception is Sookie Stackhouse, she can KEEP her movie/TV show tie in covers.