It's pretty easy to enjoy the movie with no previous knowledge of the book. Without having read the book you had the pleasure of seeing an entertaining zombie action flick. As a Zombie action movie, it works great but to be called World War Z is blasphemous because it bears little to no semblance to the book. It's World War Z in name only not story or execution.

Granted, I thought the execution of World War Z as a movie was a particularly perplexing idea. The Book is a retelling of survival by different people. A collection of stories that had been collected by a journalist. It really should have been made into 9 or 10 part mini series in my opinion. At least with that medium, they could have done the source material the proper justice it deserves.

As for Gatsby, well...Let's say I won't be falling over myself to see that one. I hated the book with every fiber of my being. I'm aware that my previous dislike of the book, and subsequent write off of the movie because of it, I'm potentially robbing myself of seeing some very good set pieces and performances.

Come to think of it, maybe the issue is with the way Hollywood adapts these books into movie and they perhaps change far too much at times. Sometimes that change is good and others it's bad.

The Wlaking Dead has changed things up alot from the source material. Sometimes it's good change and others it's not so good at all. Under the Dome is a great series but again, they;ve changed so much up about it that it just feels different and I couldn't even recognize many of the characters.

I think that's what really gets people's dander up.