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Best & Worst Books to Movies
BillAdama:
Best:
LoTR (Also duh)
First 80% of Minority Report
Children of Men
Worst
Last 20% of Minority Report
I Robot
The Human Stain (Seriously. The main character is a black guy who is light skinned enough to pass as a Jew, so he spends his life posing as white. Then he gets fired and betrayed by his friends because he's accused of racism after using the word 'Spooks' which he meant in the 'ghost, phantasm' sense, and didn't know was an obscure racial slur. Who did they cast? ANTHONY HOPKINS. Worst. Casting. Ever.)
A Beautiful Mind (It's not even a bad movie. It's just awful how they romanticized John Nash to make the audience like him more.)
I also hate it when a movie comes out for a book, and it becomes impossible to buy the book without pictures from the movie on it.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: BillAdama on 23 Mar 2007, 15:16 ---
Worst
I Robot
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You have to keep in mind that they did not intend for it to be a book-to-movie thing. They had said from the beginning that it was only loosely based off of the book, it was never trying to be like the book. It did borrow a few important parts, sure, but it was still mostly its own thing. Doesn't mean it didn't suck, though. Have we ever seen Will Smith in a movie where he's anything but arrogant?
Trollstormur:
clearly I'm the only person here who thought the Dune movie was good. I'll defend it now, I guess. Sure, it wasn't a particularly faithful retelling, and sting was in it, but I thought lynch's slow, muted style really worked for the story. It's like his only film I can watch, actually.
and it gave me one of my favorite sayings when dealing with women: "THE BENE GESSERIT WITCH MUST LEAVE"
thegreatbuddha:
I'm with Troll on Dune. The one with the half hour introduction is great (Director's Cut I think).
Worst: Rising Sun. Sean Connery wasn't bad in it, but Wesley Snipesas the other detective threw me for a loop. Also, I think they removed one of the major players (Eddie Nakamura) from the movie, but I haven't seen it in so long I could be wrong.
tomselleck69:
--- Quote from: Trollstormur on 25 Mar 2007, 01:18 ---clearly I'm the only person here who thought the Dune movie was good. I'll defend it now, I guess. Sure, it wasn't a particularly faithful retelling, and sting was in it, but I thought lynch's slow, muted style really worked for the story. It's like his only film I can watch, actually.
and it gave me one of my favorite sayings when dealing with women: "THE BENE GESSERIT WITCH MUST LEAVE"
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One of two people. I said I liked it!
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