LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie- Page 2

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 6:56pm

Broadway 86... I found the movie White Oleander to be way too damn depressing..I never read the book. Michelle Pfiffer was great, but I was also really impressed with Robin Wright Penn.

Also, while I enjoy older John Grisham novels, the movies were never quite as good (even though Susan Sarandon is a redeeming factor in The Client)

[zippyjen]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 6:58pm

MaTakeALookAtMe- i love grisham! I have yet to see any of the movies though. I think i will hold off some more.

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 7:55pm

MaTakeALookAtMe -

The novel is not depressing. In fact, it's quite uplifting.

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 7:57pm

i'll have to get it.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:01pm

Ella Enchanted

Don't EVEN get me started

[Blair]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:20pm

Party Monster. The book, Disco Bloodbath, was hands down one of the funniest, most amazing things I have ever read. James St. James is a genius. However, the movie was complete crap. The only redeeming quality was Seth Green, who was surprisingly brilliant.

[Plum]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:25pm

I didn't even watch I, Robot but I'm pretty sure it ain't nothing like the book. Poor Asimov doesn't get many good adaptations, does he?

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:28pm

Anne of Green Gables. Megan Follows and Jonathan Crombie (Gilbert) were great but there were so many parts in the novel (and in the series for that matter) that should have been put in. I didn't loathe it, but it could have been better.

[Plum]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 8:29pm

You know what? The book of A Beautiful Mind was better than the movie, too.

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:21pm

Awww, now I liked Anne of Green Gables... I do love how that Richard Farnsworth looked nothing like the desription of Matthew in the book..

Megan Follows was great and so was Colleen Dewhurst

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:24pm

Every Stephen King book I've ever read.... his books scare the crap out of me, the movies are laughable in comparison (The Pet Sematary, for example).

QM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:24pm

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 9:27pm

Tiff, you would have preferred that miniseries to be even longer?? I loved Anne of Green Gables! Megan Follows - perfect. And that Schuyler whats-her-name - Katharine Hepburn's great niece - she was adorable. And jeez, Colleen Dewhurst for chrissake!!

QM, I love Pet Sematary just because Miko Hughes was so fabulous.

[ashbash6819]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:03pm

i agree with Broadwaystar2b about Ella Enchanted...i fell in love with that book when i was like 12 and then the movie came out a few months or a year ago(i cant remember) and i was utterly dissapointed. i also agree with popcultureboy about girl with the pearl earring. that was an awsome book and for some reason i just didnt get that interested in the movie!

[cturtle]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:46pm

speaking of stephen king ... THE DARK HALF ... i was the ONLY person in the theatre ... as i found out, there was a reason for that.

[cabarethed]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:47pm

Stand By Me (one of my favorities) was based on one of Stephen King's novellas from his collection Different Seasons. It was titled The Body, and while I still prefer it to the movie, I thought the movie was absolutely fantastic. Many think Shawshank Redemption was better than the story (in the same collection), though I never saw that.

[ChicagoBwayFan]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:59pm

All Stephen King books that become movies (especially The Shining and Pet Semetary), as well as all John Grisham books that become movies. I guess I have an active imagination, and prefer the "movie" that I create in my mind while reading the book.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 11:54pm

All Grisham writes are glorified movie summaries anyway.

'Pet Sematary' is proof that Hollywood just takes unreadable books and turns them into unwatchable movies.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 12:40am

Read BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe and then see the film starring Tom Hanks. It hurt me to watch the book be watered down into some cheesy film. Some novels were just meant to be adapted as miniseries.

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 8:57am

"The Shining"
"The Pelican Brief"

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 12:25pm

"Bonfire of the Vanities" was considered unadaptable for the longest time. Then they made the movie and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the book was unadaptable.

(I don't think 'unadaptable' is a word, technically, but, hey, it works.)

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 12:45pm

I couldn't agree more, JohnPopa.

THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES--with its spiraling themes, many sub-polots and even sub-sub-plots, could never be made into a decent movie--or even an adequate mini-series.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 2:14pm

To all the people who are saying that EVERY Stephen King movie is worse than the book have obviously never seen Carrie.

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/4/05 at 2:35pm

popcultureboy-

That is very true. "Carrie" is one of the few successful King translations. I'm still not sure whether to give credit to Sissy Spacek & Piper Laurie, or Brian DePalma. How about both...

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:05pm

Liked/Loathed Bump!