LOVED the movie, LOATHED the book

[Nouveau Pauvre]

The Godfather book is really bad, but the film is obviously a huge cinematic touchstone.

 

[ctrlaltelite]

300 was an ok movie, not so ok book.

 

[Chase Hamilton]

Quite interesting idea for a thread, Magician, how did you ever think of it?

--Chase

 

[Nouveau Pauvre]

Originally Posted by ctrlaltelite

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.

Originally Posted by Chase Hamilton

Quite interesting idea for a thread, Magician, how did you ever think of it?

--Chase

I am very clever.

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by ctrlaltelite

300 was an ok movie, not so ok book.

-1

 

[Johnny Amiga]

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.

 

[ctrlaltelite]

Originally Posted by Magician

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.

 

[blackdarkeye]

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.

 

[sho'nuff]

i never read The Shining, but the movie The Shining is really freaky.

 

[ctrlaltelite]

oh how could i forget: jumanji.

 

[edinatlanta]

Originally Posted by ctrlaltelite

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.

 

[edinatlanta]

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...

 

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by edinatlanta

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

 

[FLMountainMan]

Pretty much any Michael Crichton book. The first two-thirds will be great, the ending a huge spectacle of fail.

 

[robbie]

the three musketeers