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Best & Worst Books to Movies
TheFuriousWombat:
'The Bourne Identity' was a boring, poorly made film and an attrocious adaptation of a very good, well crafted thriller novel. I still can't get over how far off it was from resembling the book in any way other than the name of the main character and some other very minor elements.
The Harry Potter Movies are yawn inducing. I've never sat through an entier one.
'V for Vendetta,' apart from the final scenes, was crap. I hated almost every second of it. Another very poor adaptation as well.
I'm looking forward immensely to '300' and Wes Anderson's claymation adaptation of 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox.'
I never saw it, but I don't see how 'Catch-22' or 'Naked Lunch' could ever be turned into films. The former especially has such a disjointed, non-linear narrative structure that I simply cannot imagine a film even begining to capture what made that book so good or being in any way a faithful adaptation.
I kind of liked 'Sin City.'
thehoopiestfrood:
That's really weird because I was going to say that Catch 22 may be my favourite book to film adaptation ever. It's just utterly perfect in every way and just completely embodies the spirit of the book for me.
I think my problem with Hitchhikers is that it could have been done so much better. Ditto X3, there were ideas which were really good (BEAST!!) but it all just went to pot. I don't think I had any major problems with X1 and X2.
Rule for turning comics into films: secret identities are SECRET for a reason. Shame on you. Batman Begins was perfect apart from the whole shitty tacked on Katie Holmes love thing. Her character could have actually been not to bad but at the end it was just muh OMGFORCEDKISSINGSCENE. See the train scene in Spiderman 2 for more secret identity madness.
Oh, on that note, really bad adaption - Judge Dredd. I mean, COME ON! HE DOESN'T TAKE OF HIS MASK!! EVER!! SACK UP SYLVESTER STALLONE, NOONE WANTS TO SEE YOUR FACE ANYWAY.
Man, I am angry tonight, I think I will stop now. I'm sure there are so many more things I could mention but they have escaped my mind at the moment.
tomselleck69:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 08 Mar 2007, 14:32 ---I never saw it, but I don't see how 'Catch-22' or 'Naked Lunch' could ever be turned into films. The former especially has such a disjointed, non-linear narrative structure that I simply cannot imagine a film even begining to capture what made that book so good or being in any way a faithful adaptation.
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they worked, at least in my opinion. the way the plot was treated in catch-22 was kind of flawed, but i believe it succeeded because of how well they nailed the characters. i loved naked lunch. david cronenberg was saavy enough to handle it as it's own thing, and not try to make a direct adaptation (rare, one-in-a-million case where this was actually appropriate.) burroughs himself gave it his seal of approval. good enough for him, good enough for me.
anyway:
love:
naked lunch
dracula (francis ford coppola version)
titus
once were warriors
stand by me
have some contempt for the numerous omissions, changes, and general wanton disregard with which the source material was treated, but still enjoyed as films:
lord of the rings
dune (david lynch)
absolutely completely truly madly deeply juicily hate:
any and all films adapted from alan moore comics
Lines:
I HATED Cheaper By The Dozen. HATED it. Nothing like the book/play whatsoever and the movie wasn't that great anyways. I'm also getting a little disappointed with the Harry Potter movies, only because they keep cutting stuff out or switching things around that really shouldn't be. Eragon was also pretty much crap, which was sad, because I liked the book and I like Jeremy Irons and Djimon Hounsou, but man was that movie cheesy and boring. The Princess Bride and Lord of the Rings, however, were done very nicely.
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