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post #16 of 25
3/31/09 at 1:30am
The Thing (Kurt Russel). Short story wasn't bad, but the movie was awesome.

Forrest Gump

Bourne Supremacy (haven't read any of the other bourne books)
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post #17 of 25
3/31/09 at 8:55am
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Originally Posted by Gradstudent78 View Post
The Thing (Kurt Russel). Short story wasn't bad, but the movie was awesome.

Forrest Gump

Bourne Supremacy (haven't read any of the other bourne books)

Forgot about Bourne. Hell yeah. The books are awful, the movies pretty good.
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post #18 of 25
3/31/09 at 12:41pm
Factotum. Good book and bad movie.

Same with Ask the Dust.
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post #19 of 25
3/31/09 at 3:04pm
"Unbearable Lightness of Being"

"Doctor Jivago"
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post #20 of 25
4/1/09 at 1:22am
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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.

The graphic was boring as hell and entirely implausible. The movie is great.
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post #21 of 25
4/2/09 at 10:56am
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300 was an ok movie, not so ok book.
The Battle of Thermopylae as told by Herodotus is classic historic literature. 300 is based on that. Not nearly as scintillating as the movie, though.
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post #22 of 25
4/2/09 at 8:45pm
"Three Days of the Condor" is a great movie -- one of my all-time favorite political thrillers. It's based on a terrible (but thankfully short) novel by James Grady titled Six Days of the Condor.
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post #23 of 25
4/2/09 at 10:30pm
No Country for Old Men.

Didn't loathe it but wasn't nearly as good as the movie.
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post #24 of 25
4/2/09 at 10:32pm
All of the Harry Potter books are basically novelizations anyway. So that's a wash.

The Riddle of the Sands is a first-rate second-rate film, and a horribly boring and didactic novel.
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post #25 of 25
4/3/09 at 12:14pm
No country for old men. At least the film was only two hours long....
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