Okay, so yesterday I went to see The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones. If you’ve been reading my recent posts you’ll know I’ve been excited about seeing it after getting completely stuck into the book last week. (I’m going to stick in here that the second book isn’t nearly as good, I was quite disappointed with it really – rather than droning on for a whole post. However, I’ve been told the third book of the series, City Of Glass is the best one, so I’m forced to continue on.) Anyway. The film.
I’m going to keep this short and mention here that there won’t be any spoilers in this review. That way, I’ll keep it simple and short. If I go into too much detail and include bits that spoil the film/book if you haven’t seen/read it, then this shall end up a really really long blog post and I can’t really be bothered to write that much now.
So. Here we all were, me and my two friends, and my mum on either side of me. We were all really looking forward to it, having all read the book fairly recently and loved it, even my mum. The film started. We watched in anticipation as we waited for our favourite scenes of the book to come up. It started in a different place to the book, and a lot of the scenes were in a completely different order to the book and things were revealed much earlier on than they were in the book which I think took away the ending a bit.
The casting wasn’t too bad, the character for Clary and her mum was ok, Jace was good, Simon wasn’t geeky enough… my mum even thought that Simon struck her immediately as hotter than Jace although that’s not how the story is meant to go. Simon is supposed to be Clary’s typical geeky best friend, not at all attractive. Luke wasn’t at all how I pictured him in my head, and Valentine was completely wrong.
And then they started bringing in part of City Of Ashes into it and that threw us all. Some of the action took place in the wrong setting too, and everything was just so unbelievably different it was just so far away from the book I’ve never seen a film like that.
Now despite all that, the film was actually amazing! Like, after me saying all that, you’d expect the film to be bad, but no, it was actually really good. Anyone that hadn’t read the book would’ve probably thoroughly enjoyed the film and wouldn’t have known any better, and then there was us four at the back talking through the majority of it and trying to work out if anything had actually stayed the same. I don’t think much did… There was a couple of bits that just completely confused us, so maybe they got some of the other books (there are five in the series) in there too, who knows? And since they messed this one up a bit, I’m wondering if they’ll get to do any other films to follow. There was too many stupid little things that just weren’t right and ah… It’s conflicting because it wasn’t a bad film it was just too different and I don’t really know how to feel about it. Any other opinions? Has anyone read the book and seen the film and agrees/disagrees with everything here? Please share what you thought!