[QUOTE=Hamsterjuice;28759674]I'm not much of a book person, but back in school we had to read the book The Outsiders, and it was actually pretty good
Then we had to watch the movie, and it was I think one of the poorest film adaptions I've ever seen. The entire film was a jumbled mess of scenes that made no sense unless you had previously read the book[/QUOTE]
Fun fact: I actually live in the town where it takes place, and I have been to a school that was in the movie, and I had a substitute teacher once who said she got to play as a background character in the movie.
Thinner. Mostly it was bad, like most book based movies, because they left out a lot of the thoughts of the main character and some dialogue, which REALLY made Thinner awesome.
Horton Hears a Who
[QUOTE=McNab;28776741]Horton Hears a Who[/QUOTE]
Uh no, that movie was awesome.
Eragon, that can't be stressed enough. Seriously. An entire thread could be made around that.
But I digress. How about "I Am Legend"? Not only does it ruin the entire fucking point of the title, [sp]He's a legend because he is actually the one that is the monster, not the vampires. He is the mythical beast of legend.[/sp] But it actually convinces everyone I hear talking about it that the monsters are [i]zombies[/i] and not vampires. :smithicide:
[editline]23rd March 2011[/editline]
As a stand-alone movie, it was decent enough I guess.
Burning books makes you look like a idiot. No matter how you hate it.
[QUOTE=Saren;28778623]Burning books makes you look like a idiot. No matter how you hate it.[/QUOTE]
Someone didn't read the thread.
[sp]This thread is about good books that were turned into terrible movies. Therefore, the movies should be burned. Not the books. We love books here.[/sp]
I have a good excuse, I'm tired. Go to bed you say. Rest up she said. But don't worry I'm hanging strong. My mistake.
There was another one that should burned called Da Vinci Code. Don't taze me, bro on this one.
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;28756861]Some new-agey Romeo and Juliet I remembered seeing was absolutely terrible. Everyone had firearms instead of swords, and there was helicopters involved somehow.[/QUOTE]
i really liked that version.
probably cause they had a radiohead song or two play during the movie and im in love with leo dicaprio :3:
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;28778883]i really liked that version.
probably cause they had a radiohead song or two play during the movie and im in love with leo dicaprio :3:[/QUOTE]
I laughed when Juliet shot herself in the head at the end. It's just so un-Shakespearean. (<--recognized as a word in Firefox.)
Am I a terrible person?
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This made me so unbelievably sad.
I grew up reading those books over and over again, and it was such a crushing disappointment to see the film.
[editline]24th March 2011[/editline]
The film was cast perfectly, mind you, it just wasn't executed right.
[QUOTE=HomelndSecurity;28778744]Someone didn't read the thread.
[sp]This thread is about good books that were turned into terrible movies. Therefore, the movies should be burned. Not the books. We love books here.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Yeah we do love books!
[editline]24th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Jack_Thompson;28779587][img_thumb]http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290482272l/119322.jpg[/img_thumb]
This made me so unbelievably sad.
I grew up reading those books over and over again, and it was such a crushing disappointment to see the film.
[editline]24th March 2011[/editline]
The film was cast perfectly, mind you, it just wasn't executed right.[/QUOTE]
That book even made me cry :unsmith:
[QUOTE=I Broke The Sun!;28756510]Twilight. It's just really bad. The effects are horrible, and the story is bland.[/QUOTE]
I would say the movie was actually better because in the book, every line is Bella masturbating over every thought of Edward. Seriously, i get it, you love him, but calling it padding would be an understatement.
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The casting was good for the most part, Alan Rickman being Martin and Stephen Fry narrating and the special effects were amazing for that budget. The film was enjoyable but if you've read the book you'll be disappointed.
[QUOTE=HomelndSecurity;28778300]Eragon, that can't be stressed enough. Seriously. An entire thread could be made around that.
But I digress. How about "I Am Legend"? Not only does it ruin the entire fucking point of the title, [sp]He's a legend because he is actually the one that is the monster, not the vampires. He is the mythical beast of legend.[/sp] But it actually convinces everyone I hear talking about it that the monsters are [i]zombies[/i] and not vampires. :smithicide:
[editline]23rd March 2011[/editline]
As a stand-alone movie, it was decent enough I guess.[/QUOTE]
Keep in mind, dude, there are like three film adaptions including that one, and they have all taken different stances. If you want to see a more accurate rendition watch The Last Man on Earth or something. It would be tired to repeat what a book and a movie has already done.
[QUOTE=darcy010;28763049]
[b]Angels and Demons[/b]
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Gotta disagree with you on that one, it changed a fuckton from the book, but it was still good in my opinion, maybe that's just because I was comparing it to the Da Vinci Code movie.
The Bonfire of the Vanities became a pretty shit movie.
City Of Ember.
I found the trilogy of books much better than the film. The film seemed 'kid-ified' compared to the books.
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The casting was good for the most part, Alan Rickman being Martin and Stephen Fry narrating and the special effects were amazing for that budget. The film was enjoyable but if you've read the book you'll be disappointed.[/QUOTE]
I liked what they did with it. I read somewhere that Douglas Adams meant for every adaptation to be a little bit different. He wrote the screenplay, the whole John Malkovich Malkovich and the POV Gun thing was his idea. I loved the song.
If it had been a straight adaptation of the book, it probably would have been much too short, since they go straight to Magrathea in the book.
The only thing I didn't like was how the Heart of Gold was a teapot instead of a running shoe. :colbert:
I wish they'd made the sequels.
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The casting was good for the most part, Alan Rickman being Martin and Stephen Fry narrating and the special effects were amazing for that budget. The film was enjoyable but if you've read the book you'll be disappointed.[/QUOTE]
I thought it was great. It could have never been as funny as the books, sure, but it was worth the watch at least.
[QUOTE=PulpedFiction;28759775]1984, it just didn't do the book justice. The transferrance from story to screenplay took out so many of the intricacies that made it such an enjoyable read. I think it's just one of those works that is best left to it's original medium.[/QUOTE]
Which version? The '50's version or the 1984 from 1984? The latter was much better.
Personally I think Harry Potter, and Angels and Demons were bad movies. However I really liked the books that the movies were based off of (Only read book 1-4 on Harry Potter though).
[QUOTE=cdejong;28777216]Uh no, that movie was awesome.[/QUOTE]
the horton hears a who movie was borderline christian propaganda
think about it - horton discovers a tiny world and the nonbeliever (atheist) woman is constantly telling him it's impossible, to which horton believes 'just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't real'. and then at the end the nonbeliever lady leads everyone to hound horton for his beliefs and then it turns out there really IS a small universe on the dandelion and the evil atheist was wrong all along.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;28812808]the horton hears a who movie was borderline christian propaganda
think about it - horton discovers a tiny world and the nonbeliever (atheist) woman is constantly telling him it's impossible, to which horton believes 'just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't real'. and then at the end the nonbeliever lady leads everyone to hound horton for his beliefs and then it turns out there really IS a small universe on the dandelion and the evil atheist was wrong all along.[/QUOTE]
:foxnews: Avatar, the latest liberal propoganda film, tops the box office, meanwhile, Horton Hears a Who still severly under-rated for a movie of it's merit. More at 11.:foxnews:
[QUOTE=HomelndSecurity;28813175]:foxnews: Avatar, the latest liberal propoganda film, tops the box office, meanwhile, Horton Hears a Who still severly under-rated for a movie of it's merit. More at 11.:foxnews:[/QUOTE]
avatar sucks too
[QUOTE=Rusty100;28812808]the horton hears a who movie was borderline christian propaganda
think about it - horton discovers a tiny world and the nonbeliever (atheist) woman is constantly telling him it's impossible, to which horton believes 'just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't real'. and then at the end the nonbeliever lady leads everyone to hound horton for his beliefs and then it turns out there really IS a small universe on the dandelion and the evil atheist was wrong all along.[/QUOTE]
Wasn't that exactly what the book was about? (I haven't read the book in ages, nor did I watch the movie.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;28812808]the horton hears a who movie was borderline christian propaganda
think about it - horton discovers a tiny world and the nonbeliever (atheist) woman is constantly telling him it's impossible, to which horton believes 'just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't real'. and then at the end the nonbeliever lady leads everyone to hound horton for his beliefs and then it turns out there really IS a small universe on the dandelion and the evil atheist was wrong all along.[/QUOTE]
Mind = blown
[QUOTE=Rusty100;28813842]avatar sucks too[/QUOTE]
I liked it. Generic story, but I don't care. :colbert:
[QUOTE=cardboard_panda;28756657]Eragon made me not like the book series anymore.[/QUOTE]
This was the worse adaptation I've ever seen. They completely left out everything that ties the first novel to the second novel, even though the second one had already come out at the time. They could've read ahead and seen what they needed to have for continuity.
Also, A Series of Unfortunate Events was pretty terrible.
[editline]26th March 2011[/editline]
Entertaining, mind you, but nothing like the books.
Despite being good as a standalone piece of art, as an adaptation of a book, A Clockwork Orange.
But don't burn it, just add the last chapter. You know, the one where he grows up and stops being such an amoral twat.
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