what is everyone's favorite movie based on book? other than lotr :D
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what is everyone's favorite movie based on book? other than lotr :D
other than lotr... oh... thats a hard one... hmmm.... well Harry Potter series, cant think of anymore... right now, sorry..
Pride and Prejudice was pretty good...
i didnt like clueless which is based on Emma but the movie Emma with Gwyneth (?) Paltrow is good. the majority of stephen king's movies
I was disappointed with 'Emma' as some of the characters were very different from how I imagined them...
I really enjoyed 'Importance of Being Earnest'.
Has anyone seen 'Vanity Fair'?
For me it is definitely Dune (by David Lynch, unlike Dune 2000). I read the book first but when I saw the film it was exactly the way I imagined it. Maybe because Frank Herbert was on the set…
wasnt star wars based on books?
sadly no, Star Wars was not based on books, George Lucas is mean like that.
I am a huge fan of Stephen King, but his based on book movies never failed to dissapoint, it always went againts the world i created myself. With the only exception being The Shawshank Redemption ;)
i also find that with his movies that its only part of the book never the whole book
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I agree, the book was really good and I was kinda scared about seeing the movie cause I didn't want to be disapointed. But I loved it.
Do shows count in this? I just saw the last show of eight based on the book the long firm by Jake Arnott, and it was the best show I have ever seen. It couldn't have been better!
Harry Potter is pretty good. I was expecting a Rasputin for Snape, though.
Aunt Mame (with Rosalind Russell of course) is way better than the book. Now that I'm thinking about it The Thin Man was good also.
Most of the movies made after Shakespeare plays I thoroughly enjoyed, especially Romeo and Juliet (the older version, not the one with Leonardo DiCaprio), The Taming of the Shrew and MacBeth. Besides Shakespeare, I also liked The Scarlet Letter, surprisingly, Dracula, Silence of the Lambs, and the older version of Great Expectations.
I liked Much Ado About Nothing, the movie.
Green Dog... i actually was going to post Dune... but the newer one... because that's exactly how i imagined it....
*shrug* weird huh?
also: the movies based off clancy novels are pretty good...
hunt for red october, clear and pressent danger, etc etc
I'm afraid to go see one flew over the cukoo's nest, because it can't match up to the book, no matter how good it is.... i'm just avoiding it.
same with catch-22