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LOVED the movie, LOATHED the book

post #1 of 25
3/30/09 at 6:56pm
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The Godfather book is really bad, but the film is obviously a huge cinematic touchstone.
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post #2 of 25
3/30/09 at 7:02pm
300 was an ok movie, not so ok book.
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post #3 of 25
3/30/09 at 7:02pm
Quite interesting idea for a thread, Magician, how did you ever think of it?




--Chase
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post #4 of 25
3/30/09 at 7:08pm
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300 was an ok movie, not so ok book.
I'm not the biggest 300 fan but I think the lurid, puply nature is better suited to a comic book then a film. I actually kind of like Crichton as beach reads, but the film Jurassic Park is way better then the novel.
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Quite interesting idea for a thread, Magician, how did you ever think of it? --Chase
I am very clever.
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post #5 of 25
3/30/09 at 7:15pm
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300 was an ok movie, not so ok book.

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post #6 of 25
3/30/09 at 7:23pm
History Of Violence.

Didn't loathe the book, just didn't find it worth reading after 100 pages or so. The film is one of my favorite Cronenberg, right up there with Dead Ringers, Spider and Crash.
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post #7 of 25
3/30/09 at 7:43pm
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I'm not the biggest 300 fan but I think the lurid, puply nature is better suited to a comic book then a film.

i'm assuming you mean pulpy. this is true, and while originally the comic was meant to pay homage to the films he appreciated as a kid, i felt the film fleshed out that vision a bit more. i was never a huge fan of the book either.
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post #8 of 25
3/30/09 at 8:17pm
didnt loathe it or anything. But i liked the lotr movies more than the books. I know a lot of will disagree with me though.
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post #9 of 25
3/30/09 at 8:20pm
i never read The Shining, but the movie The Shining is really freaky.
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post #10 of 25
3/30/09 at 8:27pm
oh how could i forget: jumanji.
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post #11 of 25
3/30/09 at 9:09pm
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oh how could i forget: jumanji.

+1.

I think I liked The Beach qua novel more than I did The Beach qua movie, but I can't remember.
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post #12 of 25
3/30/09 at 9:14pm
I am going to say that I will like A Confederacy of Dunces as a book much more than as a movie.

and I've only seen a few of the Harry Potter movies but I liked all the books more...
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post #13 of 25
3/30/09 at 9:17pm
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and I've only seen a few of the Harry Potter movies but I liked all the books more...

some of the Hary Potter movies are so freaky
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post #14 of 25
3/30/09 at 10:27pm
Pretty much any Michael Crichton book. The first two-thirds will be great, the ending a huge spectacle of fail.
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post #15 of 25
3/31/09 at 12:04am
the three musketeers
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