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LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#50re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:05pm
Liked/Loathed Bump! 
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#51re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:19pm
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A Home at the End of the World - I didn't loathe the movie, I love it....but it wasn't very true to the book, which was far better.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#52re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:43pmI'm probably one of the only Harry Potter fans who didn't like "Prisoner of Azkaban." If I start ranting about it, I'll never be able to stop...
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#53re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 2/28/05 at 8:17pmI loved the book "The Divine Sisters of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood", but the movie was so horrible.
#54re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 2/28/05 at 9:12pmJames and the Giant Peach........
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#55re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 2/28/05 at 9:17pmStar Wars movies, those new ones with Natalie Portman and stuff, the only ONLY good thing about these films was that Ewan McGregor was in it. But other than that..
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#57re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 2/28/05 at 10:23pm
PHANTOMS.
Even though, yes, Affleck was the bomb in 'Phantoms' the fact is Dean Koontz's very smart science fiction/horror novel was made into one of the most mindlessly insipid horror movies on planet earth.
B.B. Wolf
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/26/04
#58re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 2/28/05 at 10:34pm
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" - Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche TOGETHER still couldn't save this movie. Some books are not meant to make the transition to screen.
"The Hours" - the book was pretentious, award-baiting crap. The movie was the same.
Word. Word, indeed.
#59re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 2/28/05 at 10:49pm
You're right, Therese. The best casting director in the world can never match everyone's imaginations. But my problems with PoA were with the script. It's the turning point in the series and Steve Kloves took the book, ran it through a shredder and stuck it back together, adding more pointless business for Hermione while leaving Ron as a dundering fool. When they gave Hermione Ron's best line ("If you're going to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us too!") I actually swore out loud in the theater.
And just for the record, my Lupin was Colin Firth.
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