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Posted: 8/9/2017 8:55:01 PM EST

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Dune

The 80s version of the movie was hard to follow because the book is complicated. The movie is panned at times but does follow the book in dialogue and feel.

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I love the Lynch version of Dune but it went pretty far afield from the book in parts, especially the Weirding Module.

Plus it has an awesome soundtrack and young Sean Young in a tight rubber suit.

Posted: 8/9/2017 8:55:57 PM EST

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I thought "The Green Mile" was well done.

Posted: 8/9/2017 8:56:32 PM EST

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Throw the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls on that list while you're at it. Fucking awful, but I at least enjoyed The Hobbit trilogy.

Basically, that's what happens when they market and make something for kids that wasn't a kids' story to begin with.

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Actually, "The Hobbit" was a kids' story.

Tolkien wrote it as such.

Posted: 8/9/2017 8:57:01 PM EST

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Back Door Sluts 9

Posted: 8/9/2017 8:57:19 PM EST

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Where Eagles Dare

Posted: 8/9/2017 8:58:11 PM EST

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No Country For Old Men was good. McCarthy's books in general seem to translate very well to film.

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:09:32 PM EST

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The Feathermen / Killer Elite

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:28:08 PM EST

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Fight Club
Shawshank Redemption

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:30:56 PM EST

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Lord Of The Rings Trilogy.

OTOH, The Hobbit trilogy was better than the book -- neither of which was all that great.

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There is the door, you may use it. Good day, sir!

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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:31:16 PM EST

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The Hobbit

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Now this I know is sarcasm

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:31:46 PM EST

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The Da Vinci Code is damn near 100% straight out of the book.

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:33:17 PM EST

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Actually, "The Hobbit" was a kids' story.

Tolkien wrote it as such.

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Throw the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls on that list while you're at it. Fucking awful, but I at least enjoyed The Hobbit trilogy.

Basically, that's what happens when they market and make something for kids that wasn't a kids' story to begin with.

Actually, "The Hobbit" was a kids' story.

Tolkien wrote it as such.

For big kids, you mean.

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:33:58 PM EST

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Now this I know is sarcasm

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Sarcasm is allowed? Then I nominate The Sum of All Fears.

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:36:46 PM EST

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Blade Runner

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:39:36 PM EST

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A Scanner Darkly. -The only Philip K Dick movie that I've seen that was adapted scene for scene.

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:46:05 PM EST

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One flew over the cuckoos nest.

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:49:52 PM EST

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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:54:18 PM EST

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To Kill A Mockingbird.....the book was great, the movie was amazing.

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:56:58 PM EST

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The Mist

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:58:31 PM EST

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Dune

The 80s version of the movie was hard to follow because the book is complicated. The movie is panned at times but does follow the book in dialogue and feel.

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Yes. This is my choice too.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:01:56 PM EST

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Lonesome Dove

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:03:45 PM EST

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Lord of the Rings.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:04:34 PM EST

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I thought the whole thing about the ob/gy doctor fixing her problem in the book was interesting and should have been included.........In the book of Jaws Hooper gets eaten, in the movie not so much. Hell I'd have cheered if Dreyfus got eaten, he was beyond obnoxious.

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What part of Sonny's giant dong and Lucy Manzini's loose gaping vag didnt you enjoy?

Likewise for Jaws, did the book's description of the mafia angle and Ellen Brody/Matt Hopper highly charged sexual affair not entertain you?

I thought the whole thing about the ob/gy doctor fixing her problem in the book was interesting and should have been included.........In the book of Jaws Hooper gets eaten, in the movie not so much. Hell I'd have cheered if Dreyfus got eaten, he was beyond obnoxious.

I think in the book Ellen Brody got eaten too.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:09:18 PM EST

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The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers - the 1973 versions

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:16:25 PM EST

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Movies, as entertaining as they may be, can in no way measure up to a good, well written, book.

Books and movies are completely different things, and they engage the mind in completely different ways.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:22:38 PM EST

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Can't believe this hasn't made the list yet.

Gettysburg.

Almost redeems Ted Turner for Jane Fonda. Almost.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:26:44 PM EST

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IMO the movie was better than the short story.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:29:48 PM EST

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The Day of the Jackal, the movie with Edward Fox followed the book scene for scene.

The Bruce Willis version, not so much.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:30:47 PM EST

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Of the Tom Clancy screen adaptations, I thought that Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and Red October were all good.

The Sum of All Fears was a disappointment.

I still think that Rainbow Six and Without Remorse should be filmed.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:37:46 PM EST

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The Hunt for Red October and Lord of the Rings.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:40:40 PM EST

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I love the Lynch version of Dune but it went pretty far afield from the book in parts, especially the Weirding Module.

Plus it has an awesome soundtrack and young Sean Young in a tight rub
ber suit.

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"I AM THE QUIZNOS HAT-RACK!"

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:47:34 PM EST

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Mother Night

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:47:41 PM EST

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Out of Africa

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:47:59 PM EST

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Most Stephen King novels made shitty movies but his short stories did well. But Green Mile was great, and Firestarter, Misery.

Master and Commander, though it took from multiple books and tweaked the bad guys from American to French.

The Martian

Flight of the Intruder

Dirty Dozen

Jurassic Park

Harry Potter (fuck you, I've beem to war I'm allowed to read what I want)

Bunch of Tom Clancy books turned movies

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:49:17 PM EST

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:50:00 PM EST

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Of all the books I've seen turned into films only one stands out as reliably transitioning to film. That would be Steven King's Pet Sematary. Kind of freaked me out how stuff matched what was in my mind's eye from the book. That freaked me out more than the story, actually.

Note: I stopped enhancing that weirdo-commie's fortune with my hard earned cash after reading "It".

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:50:23 PM EST

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. For all intents and purposes, they're completely the same.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:51:38 PM EST

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read the book... hilarious. need to catch the movie

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:51:51 PM EST

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Lord Of The Rings Trilogy.

OTOH, The Hobbit trilogy was better than the book -- neither of which was all that great.

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No. Just no. The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien was a masterpiece of the fantasy genre. The Hobbit by Peter Jackson was three movies of throwing the source material into the fires of Mordor and replacing it with communist propaganda.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:52:17 PM EST

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The Silence of The Lambs

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:53:18 PM EST

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Obviously the biggest issue with turning a book into a screenplay is time allotment. The second issue is taking the descriptions and making them translate to film with the same impact.
I know there is more, but I'd like to suggest two. These are books I've read and enjoyed, and I think the movies were damned good. I don't know if watching the movie without being familiar with the book would make a personal impact, however. That's the magic of a good book.
1. Of Mice and Men-1992 version.
2. On the Road-2012. Yes, I know it's the Twilight chick. But watching her give a dual handi-J, cross country skiing style was some of her most convincing work.

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The Karate Kid - it was a book adaptation of the movie, so the movie was made first and then the book was written. I read it when I was a kid so I thought it was awesome.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:55:12 PM EST

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Jurassic park.

Posted: 8/9/2017 10:55:46 PM EST

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Lonesome Dove

Posted: 8/9/2017 11:03:26 PM EST

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Robert Wises (Producer/Director) version of Shirley Jackson's book "The Haunting Of Hill House".
It was released as "The Haunting". Pretty much the best "Spooky Movie" ever made (AFAIC).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQxyaI74v7U

Posted: 8/9/2017 11:29:15 PM EST

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Hardly. The story had to be re-written for the movie so it can fit in a 2 hour time constraint and so the general public can follow the plot and not get lost. Compared to the book, the movie sucked.

Posted: 8/9/2017 11:34:19 PM EST

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The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead)

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Winner.

Posted: 8/9/2017 11:36:09 PM EST

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Dune

The 80s version of the movie was hard to follow because the book is complicated. The movie is panned at times but does follow the book in dialogue and feel.

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The SciFi channel miniseries of dune was wonderful. Special effects were lower budget, but the screen adaption was great. Children of dune miniseries was also great.