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KRCummings

KRCummings

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The Princess Bride thread made me think of this.

I'm going with To Kill A Mockingbird.
Fuck what you say. I'm right.
 
my father swears by spencer's mountain (by the dude who created the waltons. yes, my father is weird. he watches chick flicks and used to believe that the moon was a spaceship. i'm not kidding)

me? no idea. what do you mean by best? i think 2001 was pretty good, but there are huge differences between the book and movie even though they were written at the same time. fight club was decent and made me want to read chuck mylastnameisdifficulttospell and the changes weren't really that big.

beyond that i don't know. no country for old men is great, but i still haven't read the fucking book, so i have no idea if it's a good adaptation or not.

so, yeah, i just felt like rambling and this thread offered me the perfect opportunity to do so. you're welcome.
 
The crow. Its not a literal translation but at the time it was the closet thing to a comic book made for adults to be made into a movie.

Spider man 2.
Lord of the rings trilogy
 
pointless said:
my father swears by spencer's mountain (by the dude who created the waltons. yes, my father is weird. he watches chick flicks and used to believe that the moon was a spaceship. i'm not kidding)

me? no idea. what do you mean by best? i think 2001 was pretty good, but there are huge differences between the book and movie even though they were written at the same time. fight club was decent and made me want to read chuck mylastnameisdifficulttospell and the changes weren't really that big.

beyond that i don't know. no country for old men is great, but i still haven't read the fucking book, so i have no idea if it's a good adaptation or not.

so, yeah, i just felt like rambling and this thread offered me the perfect opportunity to do so. you're welcome.
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No Country for Old Men is near word-for-word with the book until then end and they decided to cut off a good chunk. It didn't hurt anything but you understand a bit more if you read it.
 
Nipples Mcgee said:
I liked Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy myself.
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Movie wasn't nearly as good as the book.

My personal favorite might be Fight Club.

Depends on what you mean by "best"

Most accurate adaptation or best movie adapted from a book?

Is this just novels and short stories or graphic novels as well?

If it includes graphic novels I would also say Road to perdition.
 
KRCummings said:
No Country for Old Men is near word-for-word with the book until then end and they decided to cut off a good chunk. It didn't hurt anything but you understand a bit more if you read it.
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good to know. i really should make it a priority to see if they have it at the library after i take the books i have now back. i really do like that movie. i still watch it occasionally. that's a good sign.
 
Nipples Mcgee said:
I liked Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy myself.
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Then you must not have read the books. The movie was great, I loved it, but it was so far from the books that calling it an adaptation is like calling Mel Brooks' History Of The World an adaptation of the Bible.
 
Anyone else wish someone would make a movie version of The Stainless Steel Rat?
 
tinylittlegnat said:
The crow. Its not a literal translation but at the time it was the closet thing to a comic book made for adults to be made into a movie.

Spider man 2.
Lord of the rings trilogy
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Since when was Spiderman 2 a book first?
 
KRCummings said:
No Country for Old Men is near word-for-word with the book until then end and they decided to cut off a good chunk. It didn't hurt anything but you understand a bit more if you read it.
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Interesting you mention that.

I just read it to see if I "get" the author because I sure as hell don't know why The Road got a Nobel.

No Country could be a script for the movie. And Tommy Lee Jones is the only one who could have played the part - it was written for him. Having said that, I read the book in small chunks and that diminished it, I think. It should be read in one or three settings in order to get the real feel for the book. It's melancholy, aloof, visceral and philosophical. Better, for my money, than The Road, which I need to reread at a higher level, I think. Bah.
 
The Green Mile
The Godfather
The Talented Mr. Ripley
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 
tinylittlegnat said:
Since 1963
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Huh? That's when the Spiderman character debuted. Spiderman 2 was not adapted directly from a book. I think Spiderman 2 is the second best comic book movie ever made, but it was not adapted directly from an original work. Characters from the comic book series were adapted from the comic book to a story developed to be a movie.
 
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