| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Comfortably the worst book of the series, but one of the few best films. |
Movies that are better than the things they are based on • Page 2
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Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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drhcnip 6,573 posts
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Registered 12 years agoim mixed on the whole lotr thing...love the books & the films, though would echo the comment above about getting past rivendell, the council of elrond chapter kills me every time....
and agree on game of thrones....love the tv series but found the first book really hard going (with the number of names involved its like a whole fucking novel-length version of the council of bloody elrond...) and have never read any further..... -
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Registered 15 years agoUnited 93 -
pk1980 1,231 posts
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Registered 5 years agoFilms involving a plumber. -
eshy76 210 posts
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Registered 12 years agoI'll put forward the movie Arrival, which is based on the Ted Chang short story Story Of Your Life.
The story was pretty good, but some things were not fleshed out as well as they were in the movie and the movie's end packed a bigger punch. Still worth a read, but I preferred the film. -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSome of the adaptations of Stephen King's short stories fall into this category; The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me (adapted from a short story called "The Body") in particular.
That said, most of King's full-length novels tend to be better than their adaptations (Salem's Lot and Pet Semetary in particular).
The Shining is likely to divide opinion. Book and film are actually pretty different beyond the superficial level. -
anephric 5,274 posts
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Registered 14 years agoTo Live and Die in LA
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Malek86 12,331 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI can't really say whether I prefer The Shining in book or movie form. They are both very good in different ways.
But I think the book gets gradually worse once the supernatural stuff is introduced (a problem which plagues Doctor Sleep from start to finish), whereas the movie generally holds better throughout its entire run. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe Mission: Impossible films are better than the Mission: Impossible tv show -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSame with The Addams Family films when you compare them to The Addams Family that was on the television -
Cappy 14,393 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe Thing (1982)?
It's pretty close, the 1982 version is actually a pretty faithful adaptation of the novella. The part that really edges Carpenter's adaptation ahead for me is the ending, Who Goes There? offers closure with the thing destroyed and the base still intact, meanwhile the ending of The Thing is rather ominous the base is in ruins and we're unsure who has been assimilated. As McReady and Childs await the inevitable end as temperatures tumble we are left with a sense of unease. -
dominalien wrote:
What. The soundtrack alone puts it above the book.
Clockwork Orange the movie is absolutely awful, the book quite not nearly as bad as that. -
drhcnip 6,573 posts
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Registered 12 years agoCappy wrote:
The Thing (1982)?
It's pretty close, the 1982 version is actually a pretty faithful adaptation of the novella. The part that really edges Carpenter's adaptation ahead for me is the ending, Who Goes There? offers closure with the thing destroyed and the base still intact, meanwhile the ending of The Thing is rather ominous the base is in ruins and we're unsure who has been assimilated. As McReady and Childs await the inevitable end as temperatures tumble we are left with a sense of unease.
oh, good shout, also better than the original film from '51... -
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Registered 12 years agoPassion of the Christ. Way better than the book. -
neilka 24,021 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTrainspotting -
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dominalien 10,703 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDrStrangelove wrote:
That is true. The book has awful sound.
dominalien wrote:
What. The soundtrack alone puts it above the book.
Clockwork Orange the movie is absolutely awful, the book quite not nearly as bad as that.
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Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThe crow -
anephric 5,274 posts
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Registered 14 years agoTonka wrote:
Indeed. The comic is a scuzzy, pretentious bit of wank.
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Registered 15 years agoGuybrushThreepwood wrote:
Fuck off, Heart of Darkness is fucking brilliant
Apocalypse Now. The Conrad (I think) book was pretty forgettable.
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Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years agoFab4 wrote:
Agreed. Heart of Darkness is a classic. Apocalypse Now has some fantastic moments, but is also a complete mess in places.
GuybrushThreepwood wrote:
Fuck off, Heart of Darkness is fucking brilliant
Apocalypse Now. The Conrad (I think) book was pretty forgettable.
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Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Decks 31,013 posts
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Registered 6 years agoIn the words of Alan Partridge, Jurassic Park. -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@Decks Funny thing is, I'm torn on Jurassic Park. At the time, I didn't think the film was a patch on the book. But I rewatched the film and re-read the book after Jurassic World came out, in an effort to reassure myself they hadn't been a colossal pile of wank all along (I wasn't a fan of Jurassic World).
The film's actually aged quite gracefully and is pretty much Spielberg at his popcorn-best. The book's technobabble, on the other hand, seems very dated now. -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoReally? I kinda like the way plot lines differ in the book, but Crichton was not a great author. And a trick he repeated in the Lost World was just reams and reams of computer code and output, alongside streams of DNA sequences. Bleh! -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoShit - just noticed you talked about the technobabble! -
Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI'd hesitate to put The Shining up there, because the film is really nothing like the book. It's actually a pretty terrible adaptation, and I understand why King hated it.
(though the versions he approved of were absolutely dreadful, so there's that) -
Malek86 12,331 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI loved the JP book, still one of my favorites. Lost World is a different matter though, the second movie is better than that (and the second movie wasn't great to begin with).
Edited by Malek86 at 21:08:11 19-11-2017 -
@Malek86 Yeah, the book version of The Lost World is utterly dull. The movie is pretty dumb, but at least has some entertainment value if you turn your brain off.
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