Can you name a movie that was just as good as the book it was based on?
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Fight Club. "You can only speak in vowels with the barrel of a gun in your mouth."
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another boleyn girl.
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The Green Mile
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We were soldiers.
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2001 a space oddessy
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The English Patient
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Hogfather and The Colour of Magic, film adaptations of Terry Pratchett's books. VERY well done! The Harry Potter movies have also been delightfully true to their books.
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" To Kill a Mockingbird " - - though I'm finally becoming more and more accustomed to looking at both a book and movie as separate entities and trying to not 'demand' that the movie be exactly like the book. Though the " Mockingbird " movie very successfully captures the spirit of Harper Lee's novel in my opinion. +5 I thought director Brain DePalma's film " Carrie " was a successful adaptation of Stephen King's novel, too.
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Twilight
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Linda Joy I strongly disagree! Did you read Midnight Sun?
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I think Robert Ludlums Bourne Identity was well portrayed in the movie version with Matt Damon
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"Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas"
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Most of the stephen kings
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I personally thought the movie the Shinning was better than the book. The book has long tangents that lead to nothing. The first thirty pages are great and then it goes on and on and on about Jack Torrance's personal problems. It doesn't pick up until around p 275 when the kids gets in trouble. I think its an overrated book. -
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The Shinning.
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Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby. The Shining (Stephen King wouldn't agree though). Certainly Shawshank Redemption is better than King's novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Peter Benchley's Jaws (this basically makes the book almost irrelevant).
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roots
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Lonesome Dove
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Lolita. And that was quite a task. A great book and a great Kubrick film. +4
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Victorine
The later version of Lolita did a much better job staying true to Nabokov than Kubrick's version did, owing to heavy censorship of the latter. Kubrick said he wouldn't have made his film if he'd known how much censorship would be involved. In addition, Sue Lyon was just too mature looking to play Lolita. The nature of Humbert's obsession and transgressions was obscured by that fact. She was 15 and looked 18, whereas Lolita is about 12 when Humbert meets her.
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Pride and Prejudice. Great book and several different versions of the movie have been pretty true to the book. :)
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the hunt for red october
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'Joy Luck Club' and 'Through a Scanner, Darkly' because of the faithfulness of the adaptation. . 'Blade Runner' because of the lack of faithfulness of the adaption.
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The Notebook! mmmm My Sister's Keeper - even thought it wasn't exactly the same at all. it was still a great movie. The Kite Runner was a great movie and an excellent book. I have read The Time Traveler's Wife and I look forward to the movie that is coming out soon! I love reading! good question!
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"To Kill a Mockingbird"
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Misery by Stephen King.
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The 'Human Stain" with Anthony Hopkins. Obviously he in real life is a white male, however in the movie he portrays a black male that is of a very light complextion and decides to pass for white. He's tormented emtionally for doing so. It is sad, but was done by some and maybe still is. I was glad to see the Movie was just as good as the Book "The Human Stain"
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Jaws.
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The Bridges of Madison County
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway. Spencer Tracy is great in it and I think its better than the novel. 😌
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No. I've read quite a bit, and in my experience not one movie that was based on a book was anywhere NEAR as good as the book it was based on.
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Stand By Me based on a story by Stephen King is the best. The Godfather parts 1 &2.
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No, I've always thought the books to be better when I've read and seen both.
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