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Posted: 9/2/2005 7:11:55 AM EDT
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Cold Mountain
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Posted: 9/2/2005 8:38:54 AM EDT
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, I would say.
There is no way you could actually film EVERYTHING in those books, but Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Phillipa Boyens did a fantastic job adapting it, and I would say, IMHO, that the extended edition trilogy is the greatest movie masterpiece as far as depth and story and sheer beauty ever made, possibly ever to be made. Just my opinion though.... |
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Posted: 9/2/2005 8:48:36 AM EDT
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The Client (Grisham) - IMHO, the truest translation of any of his books to the screen.
The Quiet Man - a lot had to be added/fleshed out (it was a short story), but the film is very true to the original work, a true "classic," and one of my very favorites. The Grass Harp - true to Capote's semi-autobiograhical original. (And I'm not just saying that because I was an extra in it  , but I probably never would have read it otherwise.)
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Posted: 9/2/2005 10:02:50 AM EDT
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The Virgin Suicides - book by Jeffrey Eugenides, movie directed by Sophia Coppola. Very well done, and solid proof that she should only direct and stop ruining Godfather movies.
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Posted: 9/2/2005 11:16:47 AM EDT
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The paisley lounge at the Circus Circus melting comes to mind. The request to throw the tape machine into the bath tub at a particular point in White Rabbit, the waitress afraid of knives - I thought it was all very well done. ___________________________________ http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/dolomite1911/cowbell1sz.gifThe Original Dolomite® – Arfcom Refugee |
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Posted: 9/2/2005 12:16:37 PM EDT
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Band of Brothers.
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Posted: 9/2/2005 12:37:28 PM EDT
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What did you do dude? |
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Posted: 9/2/2005 12:39:19 PM EDT
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Have you read the books? I've done this rant so many times, I'm even tired of hearing myself. |
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Posted: 9/2/2005 12:40:03 PM EDT
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Charlton Heston - The Ten Commandments [
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Posted: 9/2/2005 12:59:28 PM EDT
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Yeah, I have, and am currently re-reading them. I think they did a masterful job bringing it to the screen. Costume and set decoration was incredible. Allan Lee and John Howe helped every step of the way with design. They had to do some condensing and rework to keep it from being 120 hours long. Now I wouldn't have minded that...but it wouldn't have made any money, and it would have NEVER been made therefore.... |
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Posted: 9/2/2005 12:59:56 PM EDT
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I've read the books - multiple times each, in fact, over the years (first way back in grade school). I completely agree with pzjgr's comments (including the qualifier with which he began).  Not to mention the millions of new readers the movies have/will bring to the books...
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Posted: 9/2/2005 1:15:05 PM EDT
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I was told that this was done at the request of the surviving families that they don't include the parts of the book that involve the families receiving notification that their husbands were killed or watching the bodies being dragged through the streets on CNN. I thought this was an emotionally powerful part of the book, which is similar to what they put to film in We Were Soldiers. My wife read Band of Brothers and said that the books, while more detailed, transferred very well to film as well. Silence of the Lambs was a good movie adaptation. |
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Posted: 9/3/2005 1:40:24 PM EDT
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I thought the adaptation of The Hunt for Red October was pretty damn good. Of course they cut a lot out of it but I thought Alec Baldwin was great as Jack Ryan and Connery was terrific as well. I remember thinking "Damn, I forgot what a good fucking movie this is!" when I saw it on tv a few months ago.
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Posted: 9/3/2005 1:42:04 PM EDT
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Yeah, when I heard they were going to make a movie of it, I wondered how it'd be possible to adapt it. |
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Posted: 9/4/2005 4:18:53 AM EDT
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It's the only Tom Clancy movie that's been done anything like the book it's based upon. Of course it's almost three hours long.. 
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Posted: 9/4/2005 1:55:50 PM EDT
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I thought The Postman was done fairly well. Could have been closer, but compared to most hollywood butcher jobs it was good
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Posted: 9/4/2005 9:04:17 PM EDT
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And it has one of my favorite lines... "I'm a politician, which means when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lolipops." I'd still love to see Red Storm Rising (with the appropriate budget) and Rainbow 6. Clint Eastwood is directing Flags of our Fathers and my gut tells me that it will be pretty well done and close to the book. |
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Posted: 9/4/2005 11:29:42 PM EDT
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Rainbow Six is going to be made, and it's going to be directed by Zack Snyder, the guy who directed the Dawn of the Dead remake. imdb.com/name/nm0811583/ Looks like he's making a movie about the battle of Thermopylae, too. This young guy came out of nowhere and is helming one kick-ass project after another. |
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Posted: 9/5/2005 12:54:11 PM EDT
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Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone.
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Posted: 9/5/2005 7:01:54 PM EDT
[#20]
Silence of the Lambs was pretty true to the book
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Posted: 9/5/2005 8:11:48 PM EDT
[#21]
Socereror's (sp?) Stone |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 2:20:19 PM EDT
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In the UK, it goes under the original title, the Philosopher's Stone. It was changed to Sorceror's Stone for the US market, because they didn't want to confuse or turn off potential readers who might think the book was about something dull like philosophy and not magic. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:15:06 PM EDT
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Yep! Wait till you read:-
Harry Potter and the Kings Illegitimate Offspring....... heh Nah, just kidding, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was a pleasant read. looking forward to taking the missuss to see it! |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:25:36 PM EDT
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"Leather Nuns from Phobos"...I thought that the director captured the essence of the book qute well.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:28:30 PM EDT
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I got to tell you that I really got screwed by basing my book report on the movie version of the Scarlett Letter. How was I supposed to know that she didn't really run off with the Indians in the book?
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Posted: 9/7/2005 5:14:39 PM EDT
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I dug Catch-22.
By Dawn's Early Light was almost completely the same as the book (Trinity's Child). |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 10:54:49 PM EDT
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I'll add
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High"  In fact they improved it in a couple of places. [after Spicoli wrecks Jefferson's car]
And Forest Whitaker as Charles Jefferson One of the movie’s funniest scenes was the football game with Jefferson destroying Lincoln High School. Spicoi sure fixed the car right. |
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Posted: 9/8/2005 5:50:35 AM EDT
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Spoken by a real-life politician, no less. (It's one of my favorite lines, too.)
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Posted: 9/9/2005 8:51:16 AM EDT
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the clancy book that i'd love to see brought to the screen-done well ( to the quality of hunt for red october) is without remorse. |
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Posted: 9/9/2005 3:12:18 PM EDT
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Are you thinking of senator Fred Thompson? He was the captain of the carrier. My favorite line by the NSA was at the very end where the Soviet ambassador asks him for help to find Tupelov's submarine. "Yuri, don't tell me you lost ANOTHER submarine." |
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Posted: 9/11/2005 7:52:10 PM EDT
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Lonesome Dove.
But that has more to do with the flawless casting than the teleplay. |
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Posted: 9/11/2005 7:53:37 PM EDT
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And as to the '300' movie....I guess I have to go read the Miller novel, but I hoped beyond all hope that "Gates of Fire" would be the book-to-movie about Thermopylae. Even has the perfect title.
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Posted: 9/11/2005 8:00:32 PM EDT
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Yeah, except for that and the character who was removed at the Army's request it followed the book pretty closely. I think All Quiet on the Western Front was the first good film adaptation of a book. |
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Posted: 9/12/2005 5:45:50 AM EDT
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Yep - for some reason I thought that line was his, but it sure didn't make sense given the role he was playing. I can even picture/hear him saying it in my mind... oh well.
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Posted: 9/12/2005 7:56:31 AM EDT
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This is one of my favorites too, and the casting was incredible, but also the fact that it was brought to the screen as a mini-series, and not a two hour movie allowed them to stay closer to the book than a lot of movies |
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Posted: 9/12/2005 9:12:10 AM EDT
[#36]
Good call. |
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Posted: 9/12/2005 2:11:30 PM EDT
[#37]
BIG +1 to that. |
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Posted: 9/12/2005 9:00:30 PM EDT
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I would love to se red storm riseing althought it would be kinda hard to pull off as lot of people don't remember the reds I would have to guess it would have to start out saying this is 198X and history is going to make a dramatic change I thought rainbow six blew and it was writtin with movie/video game in mind Without Remorse would make a good movie (decompression chamber heh) |
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Posted: 9/12/2005 9:04:47 PM EDT
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Yes it is the best book of the bunch and JK did a terrific job with the cliffhanger man Im 30 and cannot wait for the next book I think that will be a hard movie to make and keep PG Im guessing PG 13 with as much death,monsters and violence is in it |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:07:12 PM EDT
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"The Shining"
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:58:30 PM EDT
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Kubrick's version of The Shining was BETTER than the book, which was really tedious in many places. The more recent made-for-TV Shining was almost as dull as the book except, of course, for Rebecca DeMornay.
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Posted: 9/21/2005 9:52:11 PM EDT
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"The Day of the Jackal", with Edward Fox as the Jackal.
It followed the novel exactly. Steve |
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Posted: 9/22/2005 4:36:14 PM EDT
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That was an excellent movie. The remake sucked Rosie OD. |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:56:34 PM EDT
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come on, no one's mentioned Das Boot yet!
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Posted: 9/26/2005 12:26:26 PM EDT
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LOTR
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Posted: 9/26/2005 1:29:59 PM EDT
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"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" |
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Posted: 9/27/2005 1:12:58 PM EDT
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Fight club except for the ending and Bringing out the dead, watching the movie pretty much was like reading the book.
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Posted: 9/27/2005 1:45:49 PM EDT
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Last of the Mohicans.
while it blended plot elements from all three books it wove them into a congruent and cohesive story that remains just as good now as it was almost 15yrs ago when it came out |
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Posted: 9/27/2005 1:53:44 PM EDT
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What about "Patriot Games"? It was pretty much the book, taken word for word, except for the last five minutes. |
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Posted: 9/27/2005 1:59:44 PM EDT
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Blade Runner was better than the book that the screen play was based on.
Do Androids Dream of Electic Sheep. |
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