Oh I don't know he has a bunch of tv crap. Also I would say The Shawshank Story Rita Hayworth was at the very least equal. It was a really big deal at the time. Also Apt. Pupil I would almost guarantee the story was better. And all his short stories. Not one single short story of his in any capacity was better as a film.
I genuinely love both. I hate that people try to compare the two, and act like the movie is some epic critique of the book or whatever.
Nah man, it’s just a cool movie with some names taken from the book. They’re both great.
from the commentary on the dvd it sounds like they wrote a script about fighting giant alien bugs and then licensed the book to avoid lawsuits as an afterthought. neumeier's first draft was actually titled BUG HUNT and had no connection to the heinlein novel.
A Scanner Darkly is only slightly better than the book. And I think if they did the Neverending Story today (like a straight movie remake but with updated effects/graphics), it could possibly surpass the book. I like Sebastian better as a character in the movie, but the limitations of the time for adding things like the storm that brought down Atreyu being elemental giants fighting would be awesome. But Sebastian is a horrible little bastard in the book.
I like both for what they are, one of the few that the book didn't make me hate the movie.
from the commentary on the dvd it sounds like they wrote a script about fighting giant alien bugs and then licensed the book to avoid lawsuits as an afterthought. neumeier's first draft was actually titled BUG HUNT and had no connection to the heinlein novel.
I never watched the commentary, that's pretty cool.
It's really not. It's considered a classic for a reason. And I'm not going to engage in one liner platitudes until you feel like revealing why you feel that way, youre just a dumbass.
Don't know about better but id say bladerunner is a better adaptation than a more faithful adaptation could ever be.
I like philip k dick but lead codpeices and mood organs and mercerism wouldn't have made bladerunner better.
Wrong. Reading the book actually made me enjoy Blade Runner less because they didn't cover so many interesting world details like the mood organ, the mutations and Earth's evacuation, also Deckard in the movie has nowhere the depth or character journey. Different stories really but the book captured the themes so much better.
Nah. There's nothing in the movie that isn't also in the book and all the extra scenes in the book, especially the ones that explore his backstory/family make Bateman a more developed character instead of "le crazy yuppie serial killer"
I’d have to disagree. It’s a great film, but something like the “I’m tired” scene couldn’t possibly match the book’s description through the chief’s eyes.
Fight club is almost identical to the book. Its a short read and the conversion to a screenplay probably took them a week to knock out. The marla's mom fat sidestory is the only piece of fluff that didnt make it to the movie
There's also that haiku tyler writes about queen bees being the slaves of the workers who can explore freely and his compromise with god at the end re: the value of humanity. They're both the kind of pointless zen that Chuck is always upchucking.
The movie is better for having brad pitt in any case.
I read Heart of Darkness and was mostly bored with it but was intrigued by its themes, which led to me watching the move. Apocalypse Now on the other hand is a goddamn masterpiece and does more justice to the original ideas and is what Heart of Darkness should have been.
Streets of Crocodiles
Hourglass Sanitorium
The Last Picture Show
Apocalypse Now
Barry Lyndon (and anything from Kubrick except e-girlta)
Godfather 1/2
City of God
Cool Hand Luke
Diary of a Country Priest (and anything from Bresson)
Marketa Lazarova
Zazie dans le Metro
Goodfellas
Mysterious Skin
Pierrot le Fou
Contempt
Bande à part
Weekend
Raging Bull
Most Stephen King adaptations, like the Shining, It, etc. Stephen King has some neat thriller and horror ideas, but his style of writing is so bland. Couldn't stand a single one of his books.
Imagine being so upset, that you can't even form a rational response to the original post, you just lash out blindly at anyone else supporting it. I'm trying to imagine how fragile an ego someone would need to do this, and I can't picture it. You should get a friend.
IMO truly great novels are impossible to adapt to film. Still can't imagine LOTR, Dune, War and Peace, crime and Punishment, etc. ever having amazing adaptations. LOTR is an exception, but even then the films do have their issues, but make up for them in a couple ways.
Easy, Fight Club.
I'm not a huge fan of either, but the movie is so much better done than the book. The book seems like a cliffnotes of the movie. And I really like Chuck Palahniuk's writing. But that one was bad.
I'm reading Fight Club atm and the film pretty much nailed the edgyness in a way the text couldn't. It also reads much more homosexual than than I thought.
I was excited to read the book but ended up struggling to finish it. Lost interest in watching the movie after that but eventually gave it a shot and thought it was pretty thrilling from beginning to end,
The Shinning. Carrie. The Green Mile. Most King movies really are more entertaining than the books at least.
Starship Troopers
Fight Club
The Godfather
Once upon a time in America
any movie based on stephen king book
I'll give you this based on Misery alone. But the original IT, the remake, sequel and book are all equally garbage
Misery is such a good example.
Objectively true but then again the original shrek is a literal child book with 10 pages.
Yeah it's a very accurate portrayal in general. Great movie
I love the movie, still there's some strange design choices and some of the poetry is snuffed out but still kino.
Silence of the Lambs
Oh I don't know he has a bunch of tv crap. Also I would say The Shawshank Story Rita Hayworth was at the very least equal. It was a really big deal at the time. Also Apt. Pupil I would almost guarantee the story was better. And all his short stories. Not one single short story of his in any capacity was better as a film.
Nah. Doctor Sleep was a good movie, but the book was better. The actress who played Rose did a great job, though; best part of the movie by far.
Drive
Goodfellas.
Full Metal Jacket.
the shining
The Shining
Rambo
True movie goes full 180 from books ending, so much better
The book is way better.
CLockwork Orange
Starship Troopers.
I genuinely love both. I hate that people try to compare the two, and act like the movie is some epic critique of the book or whatever.
Nah man, it’s just a cool movie with some names taken from the book. They’re both great.
from the commentary on the dvd it sounds like they wrote a script about fighting giant alien bugs and then licensed the book to avoid lawsuits as an afterthought. neumeier's first draft was actually titled BUG HUNT and had no connection to the heinlein novel.
Same
A Scanner Darkly is only slightly better than the book. And I think if they did the Neverending Story today (like a straight movie remake but with updated effects/graphics), it could possibly surpass the book. I like Sebastian better as a character in the movie, but the limitations of the time for adding things like the storm that brought down Atreyu being elemental giants fighting would be awesome. But Sebastian is a horrible little bastard in the book.
I like both for what they are, one of the few that the book didn't make me hate the movie.
I never watched the commentary, that's pretty cool.
The Silence of the Lambs
prehistoric gardens
Shoeless Joe is arguably less great than Feild of Dreams. Though Shoeless Joe would make a good series it wouldn't be as good as Feild of Dreams
Pretty much any movie that adapts shitty literature, genre fiction, all this stuff. Many horror movies for example.
Perfect Blue
The Godfather
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Parts of lotr.
Blade runner.
nah the story of the book is better, the movie is just so damn aesthetic that it doesn't matter
The story of the book is nothing special so simplifying the plot made the movie superior as the audience can focus on the atmosphere and aesthetics.
The book is still better
It's really not. It's a mediocre sci-fi story.
It's really not. It's considered a classic for a reason. And I'm not going to engage in one liner platitudes until you feel like revealing why you feel that way, youre just a dumbass.
Don't know about better but id say bladerunner is a better adaptation than a more faithful adaptation could ever be.
I like philip k dick but lead codpeices and mood organs and mercerism wouldn't have made bladerunner better.
Wrong. Reading the book actually made me enjoy Blade Runner less because they didn't cover so many interesting world details like the mood organ, the mutations and Earth's evacuation, also Deckard in the movie has nowhere the depth or character journey. Different stories really but the book captured the themes so much better.
Holes
Shrek
Unironically, American Psycho
Nope
Nah. There's nothing in the movie that isn't also in the book and all the extra scenes in the book, especially the ones that explore his backstory/family make Bateman a more developed character instead of "le crazy yuppie serial killer"
The Kissing Booth series
The Passion of the Christ
I, Robot
Fight Club
Momento. I remember reading the original serial and thinking it was shit. The movie was fricking high kino to come from it.
I think Fight Club the film was edgier and better than the book in a lot of respect.
Do androids dream
We’ll remember it wholesale
Fight club
American psycho (for the memes, and amazing acting)
I'm tempted to say One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, but I think the book and the film are both equally great yet in slightly different ways
I’d have to disagree. It’s a great film, but something like the “I’m tired” scene couldn’t possibly match the book’s description through the chief’s eyes.
I would say that the supporting cast of characters was better. Otherwise that book was a one and done. When I got up it was finished.
Fight Club
Godfather
first Narnia
Memento is an adaptation of the short story
Fight club is almost identical to the book. Its a short read and the conversion to a screenplay probably took them a week to knock out. The marla's mom fat sidestory is the only piece of fluff that didnt make it to the movie
There's also that haiku tyler writes about queen bees being the slaves of the workers who can explore freely and his compromise with god at the end re: the value of humanity. They're both the kind of pointless zen that Chuck is always upchucking.
The movie is better for having brad pitt in any case.
Yojimbo
Apocalypse now. Heart of darkness is kind of eh, whatever, but the images from the movie stay with you
I read Heart of Darkness and was mostly bored with it but was intrigued by its themes, which led to me watching the move. Apocalypse Now on the other hand is a goddamn masterpiece and does more justice to the original ideas and is what Heart of Darkness should have been.
Heart of Darkness is not an easily digestible book, but it’s incredibly well written and thematically rich. Apocalypse Now is also my favourite film
Gone With The Wind
Edge of Tomorrow
The Motorcycle Diaries
None. Zero. Zip. Noosh. Nada.
O Brother Where Art Thou is better than the Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
The Great Gatsby
Streets of Crocodiles
Hourglass Sanitorium
The Last Picture Show
Apocalypse Now
Barry Lyndon (and anything from Kubrick except e-girlta)
Godfather 1/2
City of God
Cool Hand Luke
Diary of a Country Priest (and anything from Bresson)
Marketa Lazarova
Zazie dans le Metro
Goodfellas
Mysterious Skin
Pierrot le Fou
Contempt
Bande à part
Weekend
Raging Bull
Jurassic Park
It definitely happens to Spielberg a lot. Of course Crichton and Benchley are justifiably acclaimed Summer fiction writers in their own right.
Most Stephen King adaptations, like the Shining, It, etc. Stephen King has some neat thriller and horror ideas, but his style of writing is so bland. Couldn't stand a single one of his books.
100% this
you mean...upvoted, Mr. Plebbit?
Imagine being so upset, that you can't even form a rational response to the original post, you just lash out blindly at anyone else supporting it. I'm trying to imagine how fragile an ego someone would need to do this, and I can't picture it. You should get a friend.
IMO truly great novels are impossible to adapt to film. Still can't imagine LOTR, Dune, War and Peace, crime and Punishment, etc. ever having amazing adaptations. LOTR is an exception, but even then the films do have their issues, but make up for them in a couple ways.
Under the skin
books unironically put me to sleep before I watched this
>plebian pleb.
Holy keyed
Lord of the Rings
stalker>picnic
Jaws
Easy, Fight Club.
I'm not a huge fan of either, but the movie is so much better done than the book. The book seems like a cliffnotes of the movie. And I really like Chuck Palahniuk's writing. But that one was bad.
I'm reading Fight Club atm and the film pretty much nailed the edgyness in a way the text couldn't. It also reads much more homosexual than than I thought.
Perfect Blue
Fight Club
Vertigo
Psycho
Jaws
Twilight
Jurassic Park
Die Hard
twillight
Shining
jaws
Stardust
Carrie
Stalker > Roadside Picnic
Solaris book > Solaris movie
The mist
Starship Troopers
Jurassic Park
The Gofather
The Children of Men
I was excited to read the book but ended up struggling to finish it. Lost interest in watching the movie after that but eventually gave it a shot and thought it was pretty thrilling from beginning to end,
Stalker
The Shinning. Carrie. The Green Mile. Most King movies really are more entertaining than the books at least.
Starship Troopers
Fight Club
The Godfather
Once upon a time in America
oldboy
Fight Club is the same between the movie and the book, but the end of the movie is superior.