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re: Worst book to film adaptation
Posted on 7/7/11 at 4:01 pm to OMLandshark
Posted on 7/7/11 at 4:01 pm to OMLandshark
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It's just a blatant ripoff of Star Wars
Which was just a blatant ripoff of The Hidden Fortress and other Kurosawa films. I'm sure The Hidden Fortress was a ripoff of something else. Saying something isn't original should no longer be a valid criticism since very few if any ideas are truly original anymore.
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Posted on 7/7/11 at 4:04 pm to turkleton
quote:Lawnmower Man
faithfulness to book
Posted on 7/7/11 at 4:39 pm to OMLandshark
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The problem I have with War of the Worlds is the ending. Next to oxygen, food, water, and travel, virus protection should be extremely high on the checklist when invading a planet. Seriously the aliens must be ridiculously, ridiculously stupid in order to be defeated like this. Its really as if the people from Idiocracy invaded a planet and just forgot that minute little detail.
Yeah, but its in the book, so whatcha gonna do? I do agree the edning is the weakest part of War of the Worlds, but the on-the-ground panic is just great filmmaking. It's such a paranoid and bleak film. The ending is what drags it down, I agree, but that is "faithful" to the source material.
Posted on 7/7/11 at 4:50 pm to Baloo
One I just hated was Hostage. The book by Robert Crais was really good, and the movie was nothing like it...was really disappointed.
Posted on 7/7/11 at 7:21 pm to americanoutlaw
the left behind movies.
If I had a ton of money I'd make these the right way.
If I had a ton of money I'd make these the right way.
This post was edited on 7/7/11 at 7:26 pm
Posted on 7/7/11 at 7:33 pm to Kafka
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Bonfire Of The Vanities
The book made me laugh. The movie made me cringe.
Posted on 7/7/11 at 7:40 pm to adammwilson
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the left behind movies.
Great call
Posted on 7/7/11 at 8:02 pm to Roaad
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Worst book to film adaptation
I have two I can think of...
Purple Rain and Slap Shot
Posted on 7/7/11 at 8:13 pm to Zamoro10
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Dune - terrible.
SUCH a bad movie, such an AWESOME book!
Posted on 7/7/11 at 9:10 pm to americanoutlaw
Battlefield Earth
Posted on 7/7/11 at 9:25 pm to TxHillsTiger
true blood
Posted on 7/8/11 at 2:23 am to TygerTyger
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Everything Stephen King ever wrote that was adapted to film except "Stand by Me", "The Shawshank Redemption", and "The Green Mile
I would like to add Misery to that list but even that isn't all that faithful. I recently read Pet Sematary and thought about how much better the movie could be.
Posted on 7/8/11 at 3:07 am to Zamoro10
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A Passage to India
Book is sort of a classic if you like EM Forster but the movie is one of the worst films ever made.
I loved the book, but didn't make it very far into the film before chalking it up as a loss.
Posted on 7/8/11 at 7:37 am to Dead Mike
the worst faithfulness to book series has to be the Bourne series. Bourne Identity is somewhat like the book for the first 30 minutes...Bourne Supremacy is nothing at all like the book, and Bourne Ultimatum was just a name they slapped on.
In the first book, he found out everything he found out in the third movie...Supremacy and Ultimatum weren't about him trying to find out about his past, but killing other assassins and protecting his family(which he never had in the movies)
but that said, I enjoyed the movies
In the first book, he found out everything he found out in the third movie...Supremacy and Ultimatum weren't about him trying to find out about his past, but killing other assassins and protecting his family(which he never had in the movies)
but that said, I enjoyed the movies
This post was edited on 7/8/11 at 7:38 am
Posted on 7/8/11 at 8:30 am to saintsfan92612
I loved the book Eragon, but HATED the movie. It was almost unwatchable. There's a reason there's only one movie in a trilogy of books. Or did they try to incorporate the other books in to that one movie, I don't give enough of a shite to even remember. Trash.
Posted on 7/8/11 at 9:28 am to americanoutlaw
As far as faithfulness to the source material the one that springs to mind (that I actually enjoy) is Starship Troopers and the Bourne movies. They bear little resemblance to the books.
This post was edited on 7/8/11 at 9:29 am
Posted on 7/8/11 at 10:39 am to americanoutlaw
What character was left out of angels and demons?! I never noticed but it was a couple in between reading and viewing
Posted on 7/8/11 at 11:02 am to TxHillsTiger
I agree with everything on this thread. Angels and Demons was really bad.
Posted on 7/8/11 at 11:20 am to trex1230
Dream Catcher by Stephen King
Posted on 7/8/11 at 11:23 am to ellunchboxo
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You can lump all of Chrichton's books together with the exception of Jurassic Park.
Eta- I forgot about Rising Sun. I do enjoy that movie.
I have to disagree with this, regarding Rising Sun. They took WAY too many Hollywood liberties in this adaptation.
Dune was horrific.
And as much as I like Kubrich's movie, The Shining, it is a terrible adaptation. That being said, the one that King directly oversaw in a made for TV production, it was very close to the book but made for a shitty movie.
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