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Best & Worst Books to Movies

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Liz:
Love:
Lord of the Rings- With books that size, the adaptations they ended up with are amazing.
The Constant Gardener- A vast, vast improvement on the book.
Left Behind- So I'm a nerd. I like the books a lot, and as cheesy as the movies are, I really like them as well.

Hate:
Harry Potter- Don't get me wrong, I love the movies and own all four, but they could just do so much better. Make the movies three hours long. The fans will love you.
Eragon- So I actually liked the book. I'll admit that fully. But the movie was crap. It wasn't even two hours long! Everything just go jumbled together into one big scene with no exposition. I was severely disappointed.
Jurassic Park, The Lost World, etc- Any movie based off of a Michael Crichton book has not done the author's work enough justice. Though I do hope someone makes a movie out of State of Fear. As long as they do it well.

Luke C:
Love:
300
V for Vendetta
New Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (except the lame ending)

Hate:
All other Rold Dahl movie adaptions although Matlida was ok-ish.

Stryc9Fuego:
i think that the way that hollywood makes scripts from good books is this: the script writer gets the book and reads it and says to themselves "that's a good book". then they eat the book. 3 or 4 days later they pass the script. at this point the editors and lawyers pick through the "script" removing any still acceptable nuggets. the remaining effluence they decide to film. this is best worked once the original writer has passed on so they can hook a generator up and power LA with the writer spinning in his grave.

They're not trying to make movies, they're coming up with cheap power.

Runs_With_Scissors:
Love:
Seabiscuit. One of the best movies from books. Though some parts were cut out, it was still really well made.

Hate/Love:

Black Beauty. There are some versions of it that are pretty close, but there is one in particular that is so far off  the book, I thought I switched the movies around.

Hate:
The Young Black Stallion. Shit movie. Good book.
The New Flicka. Just..no.

(Can  you guys tell I watch/read to many horse movies/books?)

SonofZ3:
Blade Runner: In my mind one of the greatest films ever made. I never get tired of watching it. The book it was based off of, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is fairly mediocre as far as sci-fi novels go. Deffinately a case of the movie being way better than the book.

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