Why I couldn't make myself love this movie

Rating: 3/10 (29 March 2014)

Recently, I just finished reading this book so I was pretty excited to see the movie. However, there are things in the movie that can't be overlooked by anyone who read the book. The acting was pretty good by most characters, the setting was spot on, and most of the costuming was good. However, there are more negatives I found to the movie than positives.
First off, the movie completely ignored the fact that Liesel did find Max in the crowd of Jews that were parading through the town. In the book, their were three parades total and Liesel was able to find Max in the last one. They talked and Liesel was thrown out of the parade. However, she went back and talked to Max but they were caught again and Max and Liesel were both whipped(Max more than Liesel). I don't understand why they would take this out of the movie as it was one of the most important parts in the book. It showed what happened to Max and the idea of the Nazis being bad that took place throughout the whole book.
Secondly, the movie had Rudy still alive at the end of it and die in Liesel's arm while telling her "I love you". In the book, Rudy was dead when Liesel finally found him after the bombing. I get that they needed to show that Rudy loved Liesel and had a crush on her but why couldn't they have done it like the book did? The book has Death explain that Rudy knew the moment he saw her he was going to marry her and that he always asked for a kiss. It also had a moment where they broke into his dad's shop and almost kissed. That would have been much better than doing the cliché scene that they choose to do.
The movie also ignored the fact that Rudy and Liesel joined a gang who stole things and that's why Liesel was brave enough to steal from the mayor's wife. I'm not going to explain anymore about this but that's all I have to say about that.
Lastly, which probably upset me the most, was that they had Liesel tell Rudy and have the other kid find out that she was hiding Max. In the book, no one found out about it and certainly not one of the leaders of Hitler youth. Max was kept a complete secret so it doesn't even make sense for them to add this. Especially because they never followed up or had it lead to anything.
Also, when they had the Jews parading through the town, they had the costuming all wrong. The Jews were coming back from work and should have been in a concentration camp uniform. Instead, they had them in jackets and what not.
So, the movie wasn't too terrible for the most part. However, being someone who read the book, I cannot overlook these key things that they missed. It makes the movie much less than it could have been and it should have been done differently.