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Mr. Squishy posted:Out of interest can anyone think of an adaptation where reading the book is preferable? The Running Man.
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The Time Machine.
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The Story of Your Life
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I am Legend. I, Robot.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Out of interest can anyone think of an adaptation where reading the book is preferable? Stalker
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Books are inherently inferior to movies, the best medium.
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The 21st Century Boys movies aren't as good as the comic edit: check out this lovely poster. "look, our movie has people and things"  This one's not bad 
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EmptyVessel posted:That's a nice burn by Keith, but that photo isn't Mick. Maybe but it´s still cock and Rolling Stones related so it was relevant to bring up Jagger's allegedly minute dick.
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Great Expectations comes to mind. As does Battlefield Earth
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Isn't it a very common opinion that "the book was better?" The only movie i can think of where i thought it was better then the book was fight club, and even there it's close. E: i may be missing a joke here. Attitude Indicator fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Mar 20, 2017 |
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Attitude Indicator posted:Isn't it a very common opinion that "the book was better?" Jaws and The Godfather are way better than their books.
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Jurassic Park is a pretty lousy book.
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LesterGroans posted:Jaws and The Godfather are way better than their books. Die Hard and Dr. Strangelove too Blindness, that's a case where the book was way better
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If the film is way better, the book usually just ends up being forgotten. How many people know that Die Hard is based on a novel?
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Samuel Clemens posted:If the film is way better, the book usually just ends up being forgotten. How many people know that Die Hard is based on a novel? Yeah a giant pile of classic films are based on totally forgotten western, hard boiled, and comedic novels that no one has read in a generation.
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The Fast and the Furious was originally based on a magazine article (well that and Point Break).
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From what I've heard, Who Censored Roger Rabbit is just utter garbage.
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Waffleman_ posted:From what I've heard, Who Censored Roger Rabbit is just utter garbage. Literally every other line is a tortured pun, metaphor or analogy. I used to have notes on it, some of them were pretty ridiculous. If I'd read it when I was 11 it would have been the funniest thing ever, like Weird Al or something.
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Weird Al is funny no matter what age you are though
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Get Shorty is exactly as good as the novel it's based on, which doesn't happen very often
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Codependent Poster posted:Weird Al is funny no matter what age you are though Yeah, don't use the author of fuckin' "Everything You Know Is Wrong" as the basis for your derision, motherfucker, I'll fight you. (I won't really fight you.)
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Codependent Poster posted:Weird Al is funny no matter what age you are though I just think 11 is the perfect age to be a Weird Al superfan.
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I've never read any of his stories but some of Phillip K. Dick's adaptations would probably make it.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Jurassic Park is a pretty lousy book. Forrest Gump too. The book is much more of a slapstick comedy. In the book, Forrest is more of an idiot savante with an extremely dirty mouth, and he and Jenny gently caress all the time. He also: becomes a professional wrestler in Mexico, is in a rock band with Jenny, is an astronaut for NASA, crash lands his space ship in Papua New Guinea and lives with a tribe of cannibals, his best friend is an orangutan, the chief of the tribe teaches him to play chess and he goes on to become a master chess champion, and he runs a shrimp farm, not boat. The sequel involves him running a pig farm where he uses manure to fuel a power plant, fixes the New Coke recipe to something that people actually like but can't remember what he did, stars in a movie with Raquel Welch, and accidentally captures Saddam Hussein in The Gulf War, but lets him go.
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Nihonniboku posted:Forrest Gump too. The book is much more of a slapstick comedy. In the book, Forrest is more of an idiot savante with an extremely dirty mouth, and he and Jenny gently caress all the time. Are you adding that to the "movie better" pile or the "book better" pile?
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Baron von Eevl posted:Jurassic Park is a pretty lousy book. The Jurassic Park film is far, far better than the book. But. The book isn't bad. It's trash, but it's fantastic trash. No other book has combined engaging pop science with action like that before or since. Or, really, pop science and anything else. I totally get it if that's not your thing, but I love JP for that, and even though The Lost World is a pretty objectively bad book, the pop science stuff really is entertaining.
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I loved the book version of Under the Skin but the movie is so different that they aren't really comparable, so I liked that one a lot too.
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I still think Minority Report is pretty good.
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well hopefully RP1 is gonna be leagues better than MY EIGHTIES VIDEO GAME WISH FULFILLMENT the book
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The Saddest Rhino posted:well hopefully RP1 is gonna be leagues better than MY EIGHTIES VIDEO GAME WISH FULFILLMENT the book They're making a movie out of Ready Player One?!
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Waffleman_ posted:They're making a movie out of Ready Player One?! Not only that, Spielberg is directing it.
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Schwarzwald posted:Not only that, Spielberg is directing it. In addition, he omitted all references to his own works from the movie.
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Schwarzwald posted:Not only that, Spielberg is directing it. Wh-What.
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LesterGroans posted:Jaws and The Godfather are way better than their books.
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Cacator posted:I loved the book version of Under the Skin but the movie is so different that they aren't really comparable, so I liked that one a lot too. Oh you know what else does? A History of Violence. The comic book is the biggest piece of poo poo I've ever read and I'm genuinely shocked Chronenberg pulled that movie out of that source material.
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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... way better book
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Has anyone read Rocky? How's that line up?
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Rocky was an original story by Stallone.
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Attitude Indicator posted:Isn't it a very common opinion that "the book was better?" As the only person yet living who has read The Warriors, add that to the list as well.
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