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Books into movies
< on 12/15/2004 7:34 PM >
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*Books that have been made into movies, which version is better?
*Books you want made into a movie.
*Does you hate/love books being adapted to the big screen?


It's insanely common for books to be adapted to a movie, but one that stands out in my mind is "Under the Tuscan Sun". I read the book years ago, before there was even talk of making a movie. I thought the story (which is made up of true events) was interesting, and traditional Tuscan recipes are sprinkled throughout. The movie version, was pure dribble, packaged to appeal to the the middle-age female, 100% chick-flick stuff.




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Re: Books into movies
< Reply # 1 on 12/15/2004 11:17 PM >
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I'm sure there's more, but off the top of my head the only movie adaptation I can think of that's actually better than the book would be "The Shawshank Redemption."

For an example of an adaptation that was much worse than the book, the first that comes to mind is "Queen of the Damned." That has to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen, adaptation or no.




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< Reply # 2 on 12/17/2004 6:01 AM >
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For an example of how things should NOT be done, compare the book and movie of Starship Troopers. There is a rumor that Heinleins widow, who was hired as a consultant, walked off the set in protest to what they were doing. It is an OK movie by itself, but as a conversion? HELL no!

One that I am looking forward to is Enders Game, if it ever gets out of the script-writing stage.




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Re: Books into movies
< Reply # 3 on 12/17/2004 11:17 AM >
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The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs was adapted for the screen by David Kronenberg, and both renditions are great. The Ice Storm by Rick Moody was a fairly acclaimed book which I didn't think too much of, but the Ang Lee screen adaption is one of my favourite movies. I smashed my face into the ground about an hour ago, and I'm a little ugly right now. Could you rub some of this powder on my lips?



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< Reply # 4 on 6/20/2005 3:48 AM >
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I normaly dont like books being adabted to movies.

But i did love the book fight club. And the movie turned out great as well.

I would love to see the book choke turned into a movie.




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< Reply # 5 on 7/22/2005 12:21 AM >
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I'm quite excited about the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton. Haven't been to see it yet, but I think that judging from the stuff Depp and Burton have done together before, the dark humour and weirdness of Roald Dahl's book will be perfectly interpreted. Here's hoping I'm not wrong when I actually go see it, because I would be quite surprised and very disappointed if it weren't incredibly good.




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< Reply # 6 on 7/22/2005 3:29 AM >
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CRASH, by J.G. Ballard. Movie by David Cronenberg. The book was fantastic. The movie was plodding (sorry David).

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Movie by David Cronenberg. Brilliant book. Brilliant movie. Or at least a watchable movie from an almost unreadable book (sorry William). Movie made some sense of a weird, drug-addled (though brilliant) literary mind.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. Movie by Terry Gilliam. Brilliant book. Brilliant movie. Movie made some sense of a weird, drug-addled (though brilliant) literary mind.




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< Reply # 7 on 12/16/2005 4:45 PM >
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Breakfast On Pluto, by Patrick McCabe, was recently made into a film by Neil Jordan. Of course it is an adaptation and so there are some subtle differences but they were fitting. It deals with the humor and the seriousness of the story really well. Worth wathing.

The recent Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, directed by Garth Jennings, was pretty good too. I think that the acknowledgements to DNA were great, maybe even softened me up to the film. There was a lot of slapstick humour though, which didn't sit well with me.

Personally, I tend to always like the book better, which is why there are not books that I would like to see adpated. Not since Battlefield Earth happened--who knows what could be worse than that. o_o




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< Reply # 8 on 1/23/2006 12:00 PM >
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Johnny Mnemonic was a great short story by William Gibson. It introduced his best recurring character, and established a lot of background continuity for the rest of the 'sprawl series'.

The movie?

sh!t




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Johnny Mnemonic was a great short story by William Gibson. It introduced his best recurring character, and established a lot of background continuity for the rest of the 'sprawl series'.

The movie?

sh!t


That's that Keanu Reeves thing where he sticks things in his neck, right? Filmed in Montreal, I think...correct?

Total shit. 2 hours I'll never get back.




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< Reply # 10 on 1/24/2006 10:20 PM >
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J.G. Ballard's Crash.

David Cronenberg's Crash.

The book was decent. The movie was shit.



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< Reply # 11 on 1/25/2006 7:37 AM >
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That's that Keanu Reeves thing where he sticks things in his neck, right? Filmed in Montreal, I think...correct?

Total shit. 2 hours I'll never get back.


Yeah. Read the book and you'll be even MORE pissed off that they did that to it! (It's the first title in a short story collection called Burning Chrome)




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< Reply # 12 on 1/25/2006 3:17 PM >
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A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick, has been adapted to film by Richard Linklater (Waking Life).

It does have Keanu Reeves in the lead role, but so long as he isn't required to act it should be pretty good. "Just look confused and frown a lot".

They've also got some kind of film grain style going on. I'm not sure if I will dig that. We'll see, whenever it is released.




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< Reply # 13 on 3/19/2006 6:39 AM >
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When I read Catcher in the Rye I had a lot of ideas about how things would look and how I would film/develop the story if I made it into a movie. But even if I was a famous director (hah! I wish), I doubt I'd touch the book. It'd be too "sacred" and open for interpretation and criticism that I wouldn't want to ruin it.




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Steven King's Christine made into a movie by John Carpenter.

The book is great! I've read it several times and am not bored of it.

The movie was okay. I can watch it but I like the book a lot more.




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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was an brilliant novel by Ken Kesey, which was adapted into an excellent film by Milos Forman.

The movie won 5 academy awards, which was pretty much unprecedented in 1975. It's also quite possibly Jack Nicholson's finest ever performance on film.




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I agree. Kesey also had an epic novel called Sometimes A Great Notion, which I believe is one of the most underrated American novels ever, that was turned into a pretty disappointing film with Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, and Lee Remick.

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I agree. Kesey also had an epic novel called Sometimes A Great Notion, which I believe is one of the most underrated American novels ever, that was turned into a pretty disappointing film with Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, and Lee Remick.

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Kesey has some great stuff. If you're interested in him read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. Talks about Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. On topic, Fear And Loathing was quite excellent. I'm excited to see the Rum Diaries.




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< Reply # 19 on 3/31/2009 3:29 PM >
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i like michael crighton's works.. timeline and sphere are great books, but the movies are lacking.. jurassic park was a good movie but a little different from the book (in the book, john hammond refuses to leave the island at the end and dies at the attack of compy's)




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