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[Jarmel]

Watchmen

No.

Nope. Comics are much better.

Game of Thrones.

Wtf? Like seriously. What the fuck is this?

 

[Mariolee]

Adaptation?

Lol does that even count?

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Yes, of course I'm just kidding about the third one ten minutes from now.

Heh

 

[Nappuccino]

Nope. Comics are much better.

I'm going to disagree here. I don't care for the comics much (though there are some great scenes missing from the movie, which is a bummer)

 

[weepy]

When it causes Adaptation Displacement

Why did you....

 

[melichrous]

When it causes Adaptation Displacement

I'm now very much lost down that dark rabbit hole

 

[poppabk]

Shawshank redemption. The short story is basically the movie, with no extra detail that you normally get in novel vs movie.

 

[Cat Party]

Children of Men.

 

[slit]

Nobody has mentioned Carrie yet. Brian De Palma's Carrie for sure.

 

[Kinyou]

Apocalypse Now

Even though Heart of Darkness is still quite an amazing book

 

[bengraven]

Children of Men.

Yep. Completely different story - it's like someone asked Roger Corman to write an adaptation of the movie, but he could change anything he wanted in the story.

 

[Messypandas]

When its a complete reinvention of the source material not some page for page transfer. Which is why Tim Burton harking on about "Charlie and the Chocolate factory is much more faithful to the source material" can eat my shit, nothing tops Gene Wilders psycho interpretation of the character. NOTHING

 

[Jackpot]

Wanted.

The comics are such puerile misogynistic crap that I would genuinely have felt ashamed if I was the author.

 

[KevinCow]

Can I nominate an individual character? Because Chris Hemsworth's Thor is way more awesome than comic Thor.

 

[marrec]

Did someone already say Lord of the Rings?

Cause Lord of the Rings.

 

[Ezalc]

Both the movie and the comic are boring.

 

[jvm]

Shawshank redemption. The short story is basically the movie, with no extra detail that you normally get in novel vs movie.

Good one. Also, from the same set of novellas, "The Body" was turned into Stand By Me, which is still a fun film. Not sure if it's better than the novella, but it's a contender.

 

[Bleepey]

It was pretty cool how he plagarized Enter the Dragon.

Haha so true. It's a homage at best a remake at worst.

 

[Stet]

Fight Club and The Shining are the best examples.

Stand By Me too. And Shawshank. Also The Running Man. And Misery.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

What I learned from this thread:

-Stanley Kubrick dominates adaptations. :}
-They made a Dragonball live action film (what?)

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

It was pretty cool how he plagarized Enter the Dragon.

The original video game was an admitted rip off of enter the dragon so it was only logical

 

[Count Dookkake]

Seriously, lol at "teh plagiarism."

 

[Femmeworth]

Adaptation?

Damn it, you stole my joke.

 

[gutabo]

Deliverance.

 

[poppabk]

Fight Club and The Shining are the best examples.

Stand By Me too. And Shawshank. Also The Running Man. And Misery.

Oh yeah the running man was pretty dreadful as a short story, although it might have been fun to see an extended scene where arnie tries to unsnag his intestines.

 

[Oppo]

I'll say Game of Thrones as well. Absolutely better than the books in terms of pacing and overall development. Dude needed an editor.

 

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