mashed in maryland 11:00 Mon Oct 26
Films/TV shows that you prefer to the books they're based on
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Fight Club is the only one I can think of.
Loved the film, really well made, thought the book was boring and just kept repeating the same point over and over again that wasn't even that profound or original (that we're all consumerist robots blah blah blah), well may have been a new idea in mid 90s but isn't now.
Any more?
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Dan M
7:10 Tue Oct 27
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Children of Men.
While entertaining enough, PD James' book was a bit of a plodder. The film is excellent with updated themes and amazing cinematography. In fact, I'm going to pull it out of the DVD collection this week and have another watch.
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Slow_Joe
6:15 Tue Oct 27
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American Psycho, found the book hard going, but loved the film.
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JohnnyL
6:14 Tue Oct 27
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It really has to be the Shawshank Redemption .....EOT ...
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mashed in maryland
6:09 Tue Oct 27
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Didn't the books come after the films?
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Robson
2:21 Tue Oct 27
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Star Wars. Probably. No-one seems to read the books.
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Lily Hammer
12:48 Tue Oct 27
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Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
I loved the book. It's excellent. It's just Depp's and particularly Del Toro's performances were so good that the film topped the book. As much as I can imagine well, I could never have pictured Del Toro's lawyer like he did it, just from having read the book.
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Worst Case Ontario
12:36 Tue Oct 27
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The Shining
A Clockwork Orange
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Ronald_antly
10:40 Tue Oct 27
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Reading books is just too hard!
Especially if there's no pictures.
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Spandex Sidney
8:26 Mon Oct 26
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Debbie Does Dallas
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geoffpikey
8:26 Mon Oct 26
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Apples vs Oranges.
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WHU(Exeter)
8:26 Mon Oct 26
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Fred, totally agree.
Read one and thought I'd picked up a bad example of them, read one more and that was it...
Film - Once upon a time in America.
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mallard
8:24 Mon Oct 26
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The Ten Commandments -
I find The Bible difficult to read
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fred flinstone
4:48 Mon Oct 26
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Wallander (the Henriksson Swedish one) is the best police drama I've seen and the only Mankell I've read was mediocre at best
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Rivs
2:48 Mon Oct 26
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mashed in maryland 2:35 Mon Oct 26
Agree - I've read most of the James Bond books and the films are much better
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mashed in maryland
2:35 Mon Oct 26
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Been told in the past several Bond films/books fall into this category.
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Eggbert Nobacon
11:31 Mon Oct 26
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Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me and Apt Pupil
all released in the same book of 4 short stories by Stephen King.
Which meant that come filming for once pretty much nothing gets left put that was in the book
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Nator
11:24 Mon Oct 26
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Game of Thrones.
The early books were great but really tailed off. In contrast, the show has got better and better so, for me, has overtaken the books.
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mashed in maryland
11:10 Mon Oct 26
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Grumpster 11:03 Mon Oct 26
Really is a marmite film I'll give you that
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Grumpster
11:03 Mon Oct 26
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Fight Club is one of only 2 films (Other was Chaplin) I've ever walked out of the cinema of, as I found it so shit. Odd I suppose as everyone else loves it.
Watched again since and found it shit still!
Jaws - Though not tough as the book is bloody awful.
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defjam
11:03 Mon Oct 26
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Band of Brothers.
The book is good but the filming of BoB is amazing especially the clips with the actual veterans.
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CrowleyHammer
11:03 Mon Oct 26
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Dexter, the books are awful.
The Walking Dead, could not get on with the graphic novels at all.
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