I'd say it's almost always less annoying!
cool, thanks.
Princess Bride is on my A+ list. I liked the movie Slaughterhouse Five, I'm not sure what about it makes me not think of it as 'great'. Dangerous Liaisons would be A+ if not for Keanu. Were those really his best takes? argh.
High Fidelity was an extremely non-faithful film which worked pretty well, and I write as someone who adored the book.
I think so too. I thought it captured the spirit of the book quite well.
The book "The Outsiders" was much better than the movie, IMO. I still cried like a little baby eating lemons, but the movie can't hold a candle to the book.
The book "The Outsiders" was much better than the movie, IMO.
Also, Sodapop had BLOND HAIR!!!! Rob Lowe is no Sodapop!
And Dally had ice-blue eyes, unlike Matt Dillon! (I am glad I'm not the only one still carrying this stuff around....)
Apparently there are others who share my opinion.
When I think of great adaptations, I think of
Princess Bride, Fight Club,
and
Scott Pilgrim,
among others.
Movies that A) were true to the spirit of the book, B) used the media of film creatively, and C) even improved on some things here and there.
I can't really have an opinion about the quality of the movie, since it came out at a too-formative age for me. I still looooooved it.
I'm with Jesse. I think we were at the same, formative age.I just realized that I had mentally replaced Matt Dillon with Christian Slater as Dally. Weird.