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Sophia Brooks - Nov 01, 2009 3:45:17 am PST #4780 of 30000

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Many of you will now stone me, but I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies more than I enjoyed the books (that I have never been able to get through).

I think Fried Green Tomatoes is an both a good book and a good movie, and I liked them both, although they are very different in tone.

I also think that the John Grishom books are OK books that make OK movies-- they are both enjoyable, although IIRC the movies tend to add a little more romance.

I tend not to become outraged at movies that are very different from books, even if I loved the books (except that third Anne of Green Gables movie, because it just made no sense).

Also, a book that does not translate well to the screen-- Clan of the Cave Bear. First, half of the fun of those books is the purple prose (Jondalar's Giant Womanmaker) and the world building. The other reason is that 3/4 of the book is Ayla with Neaderthals who can't speak but communicate in grunts and sign language, and have a signal that means a woman needs to bend over and prepare to be mounted!

Amy - Nov 01, 2009 3:54:22 am PST #4781 of 30000

Because books.

Many of you will now stone me, but I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies more than I enjoyed the books (that I have never been able to get through).

::sits with Sophia::

For me, Rosemary's Baby is equally good as a book and a movie. Which might have to do with how incredibly faithfully Polanski adapted it, actually.

Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 01, 2009 3:57:01 am PST #4782 of 30000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I think John Carpenter's The Thing is superior to Campbell's "Who Goes There?"

Tom Scola - Nov 01, 2009 4:00:52 am PST #4783 of 30000

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Last of the Mohicans. Michael Mann based his screenplay from an earlier 1936 screenplay, rather than directly from the novel.

-t - Nov 01, 2009 5:48:38 am PST #4784 of 30000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

2001 the movie is way better than the book (I am unclear as to which was first, actually)

Glamcookie - Nov 01, 2009 5:53:02 am PST #4785 of 30000

I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

LA Confidential is just as good as the book and they changed quite a bit for the movie but it worked brilliantly.

Jessica - Nov 01, 2009 5:57:12 am PST #4786 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

2001 the movie is way better than the book (I am unclear as to which was first, actually)

They were more or less concurrent IIRC (similar to Princess Bride, actually).

tommyrot - Nov 01, 2009 5:57:32 am PST #4787 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

2001 the movie is way better than the book (I am unclear as to which was first, actually)

I was gonna mention that. The movie was based on a Clark short story ("The Sentinal," IIRC.) Although the movie being better might just be because the short story is a short story. In the story, they dig up the monolith on the moon and it sends a signal to Jupiter or Saturn or whatever, and that's it.

(Although it's been about 30 years since I read it.)

Or are you talking about the novelization of the movie?

Lee - Nov 01, 2009 6:06:18 am PST #4788 of 30000

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

They were more or less concurrent IIRC (similar to Princess Bride, actually).

Actually, Princess bride the book was 1973 [link]

Princess bride the movie was 1987 [link]

-t - Nov 01, 2009 6:07:09 am PST #4789 of 30000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

similar to Princess Bride, actually

How's that? I'm sure I read Princess Bride in High School and I thought the movie came out when I was in college.

Or are you talking about the novelization of the movie?

Maybe? Definitely by Arthur C. Clarke, though. I was under the impression that he he wrote the screenplay, got miffed at what Kubrick was doing with it and turned it into a novel. So I'm not sure how to categorize it.

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