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re: Worst Film Made from a Good/Great Book

Posted on 2/3/10 at 9:56 am to
Posted by Death Before Disco
Member since Dec 2009
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Posted on 2/3/10 at 9:56 am to
Sum of All Fears is probably the worst but Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was a good book made into a terrible movie.
Posted by dyslexiateechur
Louisiana
Member since Jan 2009
32181 posts
Posted on 2/3/10 at 9:58 am to
All Stephen King books except for The Shining, The Green Mile, and Shawshank.
Posted by Sophandros
Victoria Concordia Crescit
Member since Feb 2005
45218 posts
Posted on 2/3/10 at 10:20 am to
quote:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


This.

Posted by SJS Eagle 85
P-Town
Member since Apr 2009
5007 posts
Posted on 2/3/10 at 10:41 am to
The Lost World

Speilberg basically fricks Cricton in the arse when he turns the Rex loose on San Diego.
Posted by Tubedog13
Member since May 2009
3505 posts
Posted on 2/3/10 at 12:18 pm to
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The Lords of Discipline


and Friday Night Lights. The movie didn't touch half of what made the book so great.
Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
34497 posts
Posted on 2/3/10 at 12:51 pm to
Which is why I've never seen that movie. The trailers made it pretty obvious how different it would be from the book.
Posted by MississippiLSUfan
Brookhaven
Member since Oct 2005
12499 posts
Posted on 2/4/10 at 6:38 pm to
Battlefield Earth.

/thread.
Posted by Leauxgan
Brooklyn
Member since Nov 2005
17324 posts
Posted on 2/4/10 at 6:41 pm to
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Battlefield Earth.

/thread.


quote:

Worst Film Made from a Good/Great Book



criteria does not match
Posted by TideHater
Orange Beach AL
Member since May 2007
19706 posts
Posted on 2/4/10 at 6:48 pm to
Roots
Posted by TickledTiger
Down & Out
Member since Dec 2007
2837 posts
Posted on 2/4/10 at 8:02 pm to
Interview With The Vampire

Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
106352 posts
Posted on 2/4/10 at 9:07 pm to
quote:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
106352 posts
Posted on 2/4/10 at 9:09 pm to
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I also read Seabiscuit. Turned movie off cause it was slow and chronologically out of place with book. Everyone I know liked the movie, but after reading the book, I was disappointed since I was looking so forward to watching movie as I was reading book.


and this will probably shock people, but I hated BOTH the movie and the book
Posted by Soda Popinski
BRLA
Member since Mar 2006
1216 posts
Posted on 2/4/10 at 9:40 pm to
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Sphere was a better a book and a worse movie than Congo.


Right on. Couldn't put Sphere the book down, couldn't watch Sphere the movie for more than 15 minutes. Jurassic Park the movie was cool but the book wsa 10X better to me. The comments about Chrichton have been on the money. Even as far as Timeline goes - barely a decent book but the movie just made you want to Vomit, although it did feature Gerard Butler before he was a Spartan.
Posted by jw5587
Member since Nov 2009
920 posts
Posted on 2/4/10 at 10:13 pm to
Soda, you took the words out of my mouth. I read Sphere when I was 15. Read it in 3 hours, couldn't put it down and I've never been a huge Crichton fan either. The movie didn't have any of the mystery and curiosity of the book.
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