• Why are movies based on books almost always terrible?
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[IMG]http://a.imageshack.us/img807/7231/jurassicparkcover.jpg[/IMG] I beg to differ, OP.
^ This. Also, the [b][i]1984[/b][/i] movie is great as well.
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;23337266]Surprised no-one mentioned Jaws.[/QUOTE] I bet most people who read that book after seeing the movie first will have the same reaction I did- "wtf?!?" It was like two entirely different stories.
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;23337266]Surprised no-one mentioned Jaws.[/QUOTE] Because Jaws is bad
Well it is true that even great films don't seem so great if you read the book first. Solution: stop reading books
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;23296727]Forrest Gump Die Hard Children of Men The Bourne Films (although the links to the books get increasingly distant) The Shining 2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange I doubt many people would call these terrible.[/QUOTE] 2001 was.
[QUOTE=BmB;23326351]It's the director's job to, well, direct everyone else and keep the vision integral isn't it?[/QUOTE] it really depends on the director. Some prefer total control, some treat it as more of a collaborative process.
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It's hard to change words that was written by a writer, all on things that they see in their twisted fucking minds, and put it in the hands of hollywood producers that believe that CGI can change any book into reality. How do they know exactly what Hogwarts looks like, they go based off what hollywood wants it to look like. [editline]06:00AM[/editline] Fight Clubs the best book turned into movie or Shawshank Redemption, but even then they both don't follow the books or look completely like how its described in the book.
Most movies that are extremely successful are based on books. As previous posters have mentioned, Godfather, Shawshank, Forrest Gump, Lord of the Rings, fight Club, Jaws, Jurassic Park. Even The Green Mile is based on a book.
Jurassic park was gold. Though the book and movie differ [i]alot[/i]. And what cracked me up is this one website that pointed out flubs in the movie. I.E. that cliff that appeared out of nowhere.
[QUOTE=Trexmaster;23373424]Jurassic park was gold. Though the book and movie differ [i]alot[/i]. And what cracked me up is this one website that pointed out flubs in the movie. I.E. that cliff that appeared out of nowhere.[/QUOTE] That wasn't flub, check out this link [url]http://www.jplegacy.org/home2.php?load=jurassicpark/ffjpking.shtml[/url]
[QUOTE=Hobo4President;23373532]That wasn't flub, check out this link [url]http://www.jplegacy.org/home2.php?load=jurassicpark/ffjpking.shtml[/url][/QUOTE] TL;DR I get the point I'm an idiot and the film was right :eng99:
Believe it or not, in June 2005 they released 3 War of the Worlds. One was based entirely on the book, had terrible CGI, a tiny budget and was totally unheard of outside of IMDB. The other was higher budget, but still p. bad. And then there was that other one.
[QUOTE=JaegerMonster;23296634]Eh, the first one was great. Second was personally didn't like all that much, but can understand how it is a great film in it's own right. The Third however, is a steaming pile of shit that had me bored to tears and clawing at my face in boredom with it's 5 hours worth of conclusion points. It just... would not... END. And as an aside: Sam and Frodo are totally gay for eachother.[/QUOTE] Get the fuck out.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a pretty awesome movie, and that was based on a book.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;23294635]The Shawshank Redemption? Book. Fight Club? Book. Silence of the Lambs? Book. American Psycho? Blade Runner? Children of Men? Minority Report? Artificial Intelligence? The Godfather? All based on books. The list just keeps going.[/QUOTE] Shit, Fight Club was a book? I really did not know that.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;23373630]Believe it or not, in June 2005 they released 3 War of the Worlds. One was based entirely on the book, had terrible CGI, a tiny budget and was totally unheard of outside of IMDB. The other was higher budget, but still p. bad. And then there was that other one.[/QUOTE] All of those adaptions make HG wells' corpse rocket into the sun from spinning in his grave at 100000 rpm.
[QUOTE=zpiscool;23379889]Shit, Fight Club was a book? I really did not know that.[/QUOTE] They actually did a decently good job at adapting it into a movie. They Fight Club book goes into more detail about certain things, of course, though.
[QUOTE=BCell;23301047]Starship Troopers was based on a book but it was much different in the movie[/QUOTE] They didn't even know until midway through scripting when they saw the similarities and bought the rights to adapt it. [editline]05:19PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Drasnus;23302247]Die Hard. I rest my case.[/QUOTE] That started off as a [I]sequel to Commando..[/I]
Kick Ass was based on a comic book, turned out to be a good movie.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Green Mile yet. That's a damn tear jerker toward the end
[QUOTE=Das Bo Schitt;23392548]I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Green Mile yet. That's a damn tear jerker toward the end[/QUOTE] At first My eyes were normal. As the ending: [b]I made a river out of my tears![/b]
Some of my favorite movies were originally books. Shutter Island and Mystic River topping the list.
they did not suck they just were not as good as the book
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;23296727] 2001: A Space Odyssey [/QUOTE] They were written alongside each other though...
[QUOTE=Mister B;23303675]I felt the movie did Watchmen justice. But I wish they could have fit [B][I][U]everything[/U][/I][/B] into it. I'd sit through eight hours or however long it took.[/QUOTE] The comic is really, really long or I should say a lot of stuff happens that connects each part of the story. Movie would be too long. Series with few episodes would be a better idea in my opinion.
I think movies are generally better when you havent read the book because the book is always better. In other words. If you read a book then watch the movie you'll probably dislike the movie. But if you had never read the book you'd probably have enjoyed the movie a lot more.
The Impostor is really great, and that's based off a book.
actually shawshank is a goddamn short story which makes it awesome for being such a great story/movie
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