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eveisdawning:
I second The Princess Bride--so much fun! I adore the movie and the book.
I hate, hate, hate the Hitchhiker's Guide movie. I really couldn't stand it. I thought the book was hilarious, but it just didn't translate to movie-funny for me. I don't really know why. Another hate: White Oleander. I enjoyed the book. I was not a fan of the movie.
_cG:
More hate for the Hitchhiker's Guide movie. God that was just... it was bad. Bad, bad, bad! Half of the humor of the books is in the narrative. That's the problem with a lot of movies adapted from comic novels, most of the humor can't really be translated to the screen.
Gotta throw some love to The Maltese Falcon. Good mix of being faithful and departing to make it work.
BrittanyMarie:
The best novel to film adaptation I have ever seen is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It has Jack Nicholson, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Brad Douriff, Louise Fletcher AND (if you look really hard) Anjelica Huston (I thought it was funny-she's "woman in crowd on pier"). It also won five Oscars; Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture, making it the first film to sweep the Academy Awards (and rightly so). It'll break your heart just as easily as the book does.
Lines:
That's a fantastic movie and an amazing book.
Fiddler:
To Kill a Mockingbird was a really amazing movie version of that book. I remember watching it back in high school and actually enjoying it, which would be rare for the crap they would show in class.
And on the Hitchhikers guide, I have to say that I actually enjoyed it. It wasnt at all the same as the book, but Adams had the habit of making things happen to his characters based on how he was feeling. I.e. if he was sad, he made sad things happen to them... in a funny way of course. The movie was changed because a lot of the melancholy stuff was taken out and we got a nice happy ending with Trillian and Arthur and all that. I like to think that most of that was Adams being a little happier with life. Yeah I know that he didnt complete the script but still, he did work on it.
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