what is your favourite 'Book to Movie'?

[cacian]

-Gone With the Wind- is one to comes to mind

[Helga]

I rarely like the movie adaptation except maybe when it comes to a few classics but my favorite would be 'The Virgin Suicides' loved the book and loved the movie.

[Pensive]

Sisterhood of Traveling Pants

[Calidore]

The Wizard of Oz

I also liked the French film adaptation of Harlan Coben's Tell No One much better than the novel.

[Darcy88]

Gone with the wind is tops for me, while Fight Club is probably my second.

[The Comedian]

A River Runs Through It gets the prize for me. It's one of the few cases where, it think the book and the film are nearly equivalent in quality. Perhaps it's because the book was fairly short (a novella) -- I tend to think that film adaptations do better when they adapt and expand upon a shorter written work than when they contract and edit down a longer one. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, however.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Lord of the Rings is on the top of my list. I think it's better than the books.

[stlukesguild]

The book and the film are two distinctly different art forms. The goal of the film-maker is to make a great film... not to remain faithful to the "original". When I read a book, I never think, "Gee! This would make a great film!" Yet I see that this is the usual thinking of many. The Harry Potter novels sell like mad... thus we must have Harry Potter films and tie their marketing in with the books.

[stlukesguild]

Lord of the Rings is on the top of my list. I think it's better than the books.

How could it not be?:rolleyes:

[Desolation]

A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
Lord of the Rings
The Shining

I wouldn't say that any of them are "better" than the books because, as Stlukes rightly said, they are very different mediums and better is an irrelevant term. However, I would rank all of those as among my favorite movies, while I wouldn't rank any of the books as such. So the movies were a better example of their medium than the books were, in my opinion.

[PoeticPassions]

I agree with A Clockwork Orange... the book is spectacular, but Kubrick is one of my favorite directors.

Also agree with Fight Club (one of my favorite movies)

Capote was really good too. as was Of Mice and Men

It seems as though most movies these days are based on books... so I am sure there are a lot that I have found to be wonderful but for which I have not even read the book (ie The Descendants, Memento (another favorite movie but haven't read the book), A River Runs Through It, The Color Purple, and more...)

(btw, and I know most of you will gasp now, but I have never seen or read Gone with the Wind) !

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

(btw, and I know most of you will gasp now, but I have never seen or read Gone with the Wind) !

You're not alone. Neither have I.

[Veho]

(btw, and I know most of you will gasp now, but I have never seen or read Gone with the Wind) !

The film actually put me off reading the book for a good while because I wasn't too thrilled with it. I read it last year though and it's fabulous - one of my favourite books. It's about 1000 pages long but not one of those pages bored me even in the slightest bit.

I agree with The Lord of The Rings being great films. I'm going to buy the extended versions soon and have a LOTR marathon.

An Education which is based on a memoir is one of my favourite films too.

[aliengirl]

Parineeta- based on the 1914 Bengali novella Parineeta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.





btw, and I know most of you will gasp now, but I have never seen or read Gone with the Wind !

Same case here.

[Helga]

I agree with The Lord of The Rings being great films. I'm going to buy the extended versions soon and have a LOTR marathon.


I agree that the movies were good, they were great but not better than the books. They had so much more...

I watched them all with my son during the Christmas holiday, and we both loved it

[cacian]

Harry Potter anyone?
Would you say that was better or worse then the books themselves?
I have never read the books but was forced to the cinemas when the very first movie came out. I switched after 10 minutes and I had wished I had been forced to watch something I just did not like.

[jajdude]

Not sure there are many I've read and watched, but off the top of my head I'd say

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Angela's Ashes

A Beautiful Mind (maybe)

[Veho]

Not sure there are many I've read and watched, but off the top of my head I'd say

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Angela's Ashes

A Beautiful Mind (maybe)

One Flew... is a good choice. I'd forgotten about that. Jack Nicholson does an amazing job as McMurphy.

[Calidore]

I agree with The Lord of The Rings being great films. I'm going to buy the extended versions soon and have a LOTR marathon.


That'll be fun.

Evem more fun was last summer, when the studio hyped the release of the Blu-rays with theatrical showings of the extended versions of all three movies over three weeks. Can't beat the big-screen, big-sound experience for those films.

[Calidore]

(btw, and I know most of you will gasp now, but I have never seen or read Gone with the Wind) !

Thoughts on the movie; I've never read the book:

GWTW is the great American version of a British historical costume drama, only with big-studio money instead of a BBC television budget. This means that, for example, instead of the characters lamenting the burning of Atlanta while a fog machine puffs smoke in front of the camera, they built a bunch of facades over several abandoned sets on an enormous backlot and burned the whole damn thing down around the actors' stunt doubles. More money also means big, ornate sets that don't shake, plus Big Movie Stars.

Really, it may not be Shakespearean writing, but you have a complicated, tempestuous romance between two complex characters (plus numerous side stories involving a large supporting cast) that takes place in the South during the tumult of the Civil War, all filmed with Golden Age lavishness. Plus unknown-here British actress Vivien Leigh acting to the back rows in good Shakespearean fashion as Scarlett. It's all the best kind of excess, and I can't recommend highly enough seeing it at least once.

[The Comedian]

You're not alone. Neither have I.

That makes three of us. :cheers2:

I've never read the Harry Potter books either. I think I've seen a couple of the movies, though.

[Francie]

I'm quite proud to have never read any harry potter or seen the movies.

Some of my friends are obsessed though.

My choices would probably be:

One flew over the cuckoo's nest
The hours
Barney's version

[BookBeauty]

Stand By Me is pretty good adaption, I think. I'm not a big fan of King, though. And it's more of a short story, I think.

[Darcy88]

Stand By Me is pretty good adaption, I think. I'm not a big fan of King, though. And it's more of a short story, I think.

I saw that movie just last night for the first time and must say I really enjoyed it. It was clever and genuine. The kids all did a superb job acting as well.

[RicMisc]

It's been said a few times now but it can't be said too many times; The Lord of the Rings films are my favorite, I've seen those so many times! My favorite play turned into a film is The Phantom of the Opera (2004 version), I've seen that one so many times I can mimic almost every scene and I know every song by heart.

[hawthorns]

Brideshead Revisited
The Foresyte Saga
Poldark
I, Claudius
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Smiley's People
Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth)
A River Runs Through It

[hazelk]

The Great Gatsby

http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae10/imaginaryparachute/MOVIE/Great%20Gatsby/gatsby2.jpg

[hazelk]

Another great book and also movie "The Reader" by Bernard Schlink.

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp187/DaVansler/the-reader_us.jpg

[Delta40]

Will you guys hate me if I say I think they did a good job with Pillars of the Earth? (I'll hide in some dusty, unused forum if you like?)

[Emil Miller]

This is as close as it's possible to get to filming a novel. Richard Burton gives, in my view, the performance of his career. Only those of us who knew what it was like to cross the checkpoint into East Berlin can relate to the veracity of this portrayal.

http://youtu.be/DAHuDg3DQF4

[Calidore]

http://youtu.be/DAHuDg3DQF4

I have to ask, what's this youtu.be thing?

[Emil Miller]

I have to ask, what's this youtu.be thing?

I find it hard to believe that anyone doesn't know what Youtube is since it is possibly the most important invention since the moving picture.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I think he Ctually means the URL, I.e., the "youtu.be."

[Calidore]

I find it hard to believe that anyone doesn't know what Youtube is since it is possibly the most important invention since the moving picture.

I'm not talking about Youtube, as in youtube.com; it's the youtu.be url I'm wondering about.

Edit:

I think he Ctually means the URL, I.e., the "youtu.be."

Oh, yeah, like he said.

[Emil Miller]

I'm not talking about Youtube, as in youtube.com; it's the youtu.be url I'm wondering about.

Edit:


Oh, yeah, like he said.

I've no idea, I never take any notice of URLs.

[Motherof8]

The Notebook.

[williamholt]

my favorite book to movie is MOON LIGHT.i really like the love story

[Inky]

- Lord of the Rings (Just as good as the books; in some places, better)

- To Kill a Mockingbird (One of the most masterful adaptions of all time)

- The Godfather/Godfather part 2 (I actually prefer the movies over the book)

- Gone With the Wind (Excellent adaptation for such a massive book)

- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Better than the book)

- The Silence of the Lambs (Really brought the characters to life...I prefer it over the book)

- The Exorcist (Best horror movie of all time, and better than the book which wasn't scary at all and somewhat dull)

[The Highwayman]

Water for Elephants was a faithful adaptation.

[JuniperWoolf]

I have to ask, what's this youtu.be thing?

Hi Calidore from over a year ago. That is an example of URL shortening (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening).

[Calidore]

Hi Calidore from over a year ago. That is an example of URL shortening (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening).

Thanks, Juniper from last night! :thumbsup:

[neilgee]

The English Patient

[cacian]

The Notebook.

never heard of the notebook :)

[mona amon]

Doctor Zhivago
Lord of the Rings
The Remains of the Day
Howard's End

[presun]

Harry Potter anyone?
Would you say that was better or worse then the books themselves?
I have never read the books but was forced to the cinemas when the very first movie came out. I switched after 10 minutes and I had wished I had been forced to watch something I just did not like.

i would have to say the movies were horrid! absolutely did not do justice to the books.. the harry potter series made me skeptical of all book to movie adaptations (of course that was till i fell in love with the lord of the rings movies)

[presun]

a walk to remember. also, love story.
romance novels just make better movies, i think.

[tanveer shah]

These are my favorite books to movies.But i love the host both movie and book.

[jlb4tlb]

Here are a few

Jaws
The Godfather
The Maltese Falcon