The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Lerman was fantastic. Brought out the depth of his character perfectly. Emma Watson was...well...Hermione-ish, sorry can't help it. Her acting, while decent, wasn't great enough to surpass her legendary on-screen image she's created. Pretty good teenage film, and didn't stray away from the book much either but some plots/charaacters were underdeveloped. Like the Buddhist girl Charlie goes out with, wasn't developed as she was needed (in the book you get a very clear picture of her character and Charlie's discomfort around her, in the movie the line was more blurry). I was satisfied with the Patrick-Brad angle, they didn't screw it up much from the book. As for Charlie's angst and introversion, Lerman did his part so well that it surpassed even the original material, I will say.
7.5/10
The Help - 8/10 - A decent-to-good adaption of the book, but glosses over many little details and subtle nuances that really "made" the book so touching. Many thematic ideas and symbolism were also lost. The film lacked many emotional touches, and turned many of its characters into complete caricatures (the book also portrayed the characters as pretty stereotypical and eccentric, for comic purposes, but unlike the book the film missed out their psychology to create well-rounded characters). Some of the comic scenes, unlike the book, was borderline annoying. The cast was its strength, with Viola, Octavia and Stone being the highlight, (Also the actress who played Hilly was fantastic, even if as a caricature). There were many scenes missing that they could have added, but then it's an adaption, it's not meant to be a copy-and-paste job of the book so yeah. Overall a fine movie but can't rate it higher after reading the book.
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