Count Dookkake
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Film adaptations that surpass the source material
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To quote Death, "Yes way."
Maklershed
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lordfroakie
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Who framed roger rabbit
James and the giant peach
James and the giant peach
Vulcano's assistant
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OpinionatedCyborg
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woman in the dunes
great book, greater film (one of the best ever. see it)
great book, greater film (one of the best ever. see it)
seventynine
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Going the other way briefly, I liked the graphic novel version of The Fountain more than the film, albeit with Clint Mansell's score playing as I read.
perfectnight
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^ Man I loved that movie. I really need to buy it on Blu-ray. The scenes with the spanish conquistadors making their way to the Mayan temple are some of my favorites ever.
Which would you recommend first book or film?
Which would you recommend first book or film?
Yah.
Both are great, but I like that Ridley Scott has us fall on the
"Deckard is a Replicant"
The Iron Giant
The manga is obscenely bloated. Some of the additional elements are pretty cool, but I'd take the anime over the manga any day.
The manga is obscenely bloated. Some of the additional elements are pretty cool, but I'd take the anime over the manga any day.
This better be good, sensei.
That was my first thought.
Also agree with 2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Godfather, Total Recall...
Woman in the Dunes: both book and movie are really good.
Edit: I don't think Dead Ringers counts, that is not a film adaptation.
Is this a joke? Heart of Darkness is considered one of the best books of the 20th century....
This is blasphemy to a lot of Tolkien purists, but thank fuck Jackson removed Tom Bombadil from The Fellowship of the Ring. I always found him to be a distraction more than anything else.
Cracked.com, of all places, actually summarized why I'm glad he was ommited from the movie pretty well:
So, at least in that regard, I consider the movie to be a vast improvement over the book
Cracked.com, of all places, actually summarized why I'm glad he was ommited from the movie pretty well:
So, at least in that regard, I consider the movie to be a vast improvement over the book
Extra Sauce
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Sorta...
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Blade Runner doesn't surpass the material, it almost completely ignores it, but I agree, it's more enjoyable and a classic in its own right. It's so different from the book, however, that it barely counts. I feel bad for people who loved the movie, then bought the "novelization" and were like, WTF this guy has a shit marriage and is obsessed with sheep.
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Batman Begins, or the DC Universe Film?
If the latter, no. If the former, yes.
Even with the bloat the Manga is superior in every way. The anime barely made sense. The title character was almost entirely cut as well. Manga epics rarely translate into 2 hour movies really well. Hayao Miyazaki is pretty much the greatest anime director of all time, and even he didn't do Nausicaa (his own creation) justice in two hours.
In general, I disagree with a lot of these picks, however +1 to the people mentioning the Stephen King shorts that were turned into great movies such as Stand by Me and Shawshank.
I think that the films that have been based on Mark Millar's creator owned comics (Kick-Ass, Wanted) have been better than the comics themselves. Even if the movies weren't amazing.
Woman in the Dunes is a great film. I want to read the novel one day.
Good Job Bob
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Which the American film greatly surpasses.
Nah, what they did to lisbeth was a step backwards and wasn't true to the book. It didn't fit for me as much.
MisterHero
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Speaking of Roald Dahl, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is superior to the books
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Only because of Gene Wilder, but yes.
How? I guess it was funnier.
The book was much more exciting and had an evil Hammond as it should have been.
The introduction to the raptors was great. I like the movie just fine but wish they would do a remake on the book.
As far as I'm concerned you are absolutely correct.
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Loved the movie but I don't like a lot of the changes they made regarding deaths. I wish they had killed Malcolm like the book and I was a bit annoyed that in an action film they do the scene from the book where Muldoon encounters the Raptor and have him die instead of being a total badass and survive.
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Hammond should have died.
crimzonflame
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The Shining
lunarworks
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Secondary pick:
Couldn't stand the comics, loved the movie.
Nope. The comic took place over the span of... well, I don't remember. 18 months, I think. (I should know this.) The movie took place over the span of a few weeks.
So, which has more weight to it when Ramona walks away? With the movie it's like "Wow, you've only known her like two weeks, cry much?"
That was the biggest travesty. In a movie where everyone is the good guy except for the one who sets it off and the dinosaurs are simply "doing what they do", it needed a villian & Hammond could have been one of the great ones with a fitting ending. Crichton didn't flesh him out that much but Spielberg could have worked wonders for him in the movie since he didn't do much at all otherwise. Why not make him evil?
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Forrest Gump, which also, rightfully, won Best Picture, over Shawshank.
Secondary pick:
Couldn't stand the comics, loved the movie.
DERP, you blow my mind lad.
About Fight Club I can't choose, also because I read the book after watching the movie so it felt to me pretty similar, even if harder to swallow. I'd say it's a tie to me.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Yeah, and that's pretty much how he brought him back in The Lost World, too; he jokes about being so close to death after the immediate events of Jurassic Park that he was pronounced dead.
Agreed about The Godfather.
MisterHero
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I disagree, I love the cast and the changes in the Wilder movie. The Burton one was closer to the books but it wasn't more likeable.
It was fun in its own way, though.
GAF has talked about this a ton already.
They should adapt the second Forrest Gump novel
Trent Strong
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Sorry Sagan, your book was boring
No, no, no, no, no. The movie had a pro-faith message, which the book didn't have at all, and that Sagan would never support.
Ignatz Mouse
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As mentioned:
The Shining (book starts better, ends far more lamely)
Blade Runner (book felt unfinished, though full of great stuff)
High Fidelity (still seems like the same story to me, but comes off more naturally)
And speaking of High Fidelity, About a Boy. It comes together much better as a movie.
A few more:
Rear Window
High Noon
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A lot of movies are adapted from mediocre source material you never hear about.
The Shining (book starts better, ends far more lamely)
Blade Runner (book felt unfinished, though full of great stuff)
High Fidelity (still seems like the same story to me, but comes off more naturally)
And speaking of High Fidelity, About a Boy. It comes together much better as a movie.
A few more:
Rear Window
High Noon
Apt Pupil
A lot of movies are adapted from mediocre source material you never hear about.
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Akira is easy to understand, the manga is stupid.
The movie was very simple, it was just about how two kids, one weak and one strong, and how the weaker one is unable to express how he feels. The powers and such is just a vessel to express that, and it ends with Kaneda understanding what Tetsuo treasured about their relationship and what he had forgotten. It's just about a lost friendship, regret, innocence, etc.
The manga is shit, it's all about filling out sheets with action and Tetsuo acting like a jerk, for no reason, and wasted pages on explaining things that are pointless. It's really bad.
That book should never have been written. Didnt Spielberg ask him to write it? Its hardly like he needed it.
It wasn't just Spielberg, but he was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. Everybody wanted Crichton to do a sequel.
He's not tragic. He's Walt Disney.
He wouldn't be a classical villian either. He would be a cool villian that's willing to sacrifice all- even his grand kids to gain fame and fortune instead of a dude that does the expected. That would have been the hook. It's probably been done by now though.
I'll stop because I really liked Jurassic Park for the emotional thrill it gave me watching it in theaters (That was an experience) and the tension Spielberg creates. I dont want to come off as a hater, just like the book much more.
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