Catch 22 was a disappointment for me but Cuckoo was pretty good. Jack is excellent.
Catch 22 was a disappointment for me but Cuckoo was pretty good. Jack is excellent.
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Pride and Prejudice is my favourite. I thought the characters were well represented, besides Lady Catherine! :-) I thought Jennifer Ehle did a great job!
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed." Romans 10:9-11
(Pride and Prejudice) are you guys talking about the old one or the new one? I loved the old and just rented the new one but haven't seen it. it appears to be a modern day one.
ok on the new one. it semi follows the book but the quality is no where near the old black and white version.I love that version. This one was so modern and Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia weren't even sisters. They are roommates in college I think. so that leaves out the parents totally and Darcy's Aunt isn't in no family but bingley's sister and Darcy's sister.
My favourite book to movie: Eaters of the Dead --> 13th warrior!
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well, to date, I like "The Piano"....( I believe that was a book.)..
"Lord of the Rings" movie version served Tolkein well...
there are others, can't think of them right now...
the piano teacher, a french film but an austrian novel.
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Lord of the Rings over all others for me.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
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Silence of the Lamb
Never that which is shall die -- Euripides
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Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
No movie has shown more respect for an author than lotr since Gone with the Wind, imo. Though I liked Jane Eyre. I also liked the movie of The Count of Monte Cristo, but only if I don't think of the book, because they butchered the story and made a new one.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
I read Gone with the Wind and when I saw the movie, I liked it . Usually my imaginery characters and the movie's are very different. I guess that's because of the actor, director and etc. Every book reader has a different movie in her/his mind. I think all of our minds are a different movie's director. So we get disapointed when we see the movie. It doesn't match to ours. I liked LOTR too, but I didn't read the book.
For some reason, while thinking of good movies I have not seen in some time, I thought of a movie I forgot that I enjoyed, based on a book: H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Well I love both movies
Also, Fight Club and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Pride and Prejudice, undoubtedly. And no! Not the modern version *makes a face*, the one with Colin Firthand Jennifer Ehle. It's my most favourite movie ever!
I also like: Sense and Sensibility (with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant...); Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh) and Hamlet (also Branagh); Little Women (Winona Ryder); hmm Anna and the King is good too (Jodie Foster, Chow-Yun Fat), it's based on Anna Leonowens' diary so I guess it counts too. Well those are my favourites, but there are really quite a few GOOD movie productions of books around...you just have to look...usually the BBC are best, they follow the book WORD BY WORD, it's almost like reading it just with moving pictures.A good example is Jane Eyre (Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton!).
I'm sure you've all had enough names by now!So off I go,
Miss Darcy
P.S. I also read somewhere that Bridget Jones' Diary is actually a very twisted version of Pride and Prejudice! Veeerrrrryy twisted. *Makes another face* lol
After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-W. A. Mozart
Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.
Not school, but life teaches us.
Seconded yours
How about The Age of Reason with Michelle Piefier (sp), Winona Ryder, and Daniel Day Lewis?
The Last of The Mohiccans is better to watch than to read IMO.
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