Little Children

Little Children by Tom Perrota is one of those fabulous novels that have been turned into better movies. I had seen the movie back in 2008. The movie starred two of my all time favorite actors; Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson. The movie revolves around two stay at home parents who have completed degrees in higher education. They have both conformed to the lives of the "dominant spouse" and when they find themselves they begin a romantic conection. The problems being to arise with the arivval of a knonw sexual offender.
This is where the movie and the book begin to defer.
The movie takes the character of Ronnie the sexual deviant into a more subdued manner, they don't acuse him of murder nor is he as repugnant as he is described in the book. Also the scene where he goes on a date is also thankfully excluded.
The truth is I really liked the movie and the ending was much more powerful, in the book the end was almost laughable. I mean you got the mom who has been a pseudo intellectual now playing Cinderella, the dad who has been for the most part a pretty face who was riding on his luck taking a turn for the better attempting to be a hero. Then you have the secondary characters the "perfect mom" riding in to finally break her own rules and quits becoming a conformist and the sexual deviant who just lost his mom becoming sympathetic to someone besides himself. The really is an asshole all throughout the book while in the movie you don't exactly forgive him or understand why he did what he did but you can sympathize with his character.
All in all the book was a quick read, but I would rather watch the movie.

Insidious 2

Insidious  2 was freaking awesome. I was really in doubt about the previews I had seen about this movie. I was quite skeptical that it could produce the same effect of the first one. I was wrong! Oh so wrong! This movie was not only really good it was cohesive and well thought out. I mean for those of you who have seen the first one you know that obviously it was going to come with a sequel but what you couldn't expect was the story behind the veil. Then it ties in oh so well with the first, I mean its, just ughh,.... I don't want to say anymore. Trust me that's its really good and you should watch it if you enjoyed the first one. I can't wait for chapter 3, I'm pretty sure there will be one but without the main characters of the first and second installments but do not fear, if the writers remain the same then we shall having nothing to fear but fear itself. The only thing I didn't like about the movie was that it was badly marketed.. well it seemed less interesting but I guess in retrospect I kind of like it because you really were in for a  surprise.