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20-10-2010, 06:21 PM | #1 | |||
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What films do you think have stayed most true to the books, or let's say comics as well, they were based on?
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20-10-2010, 06:24 PM | #2 | ||
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Not so much a book...but resident evil. Was almost exactly the same as the game.
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20-10-2010, 06:27 PM | #3 | |||
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Of Mice and Men was true to the book
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20-10-2010, 06:44 PM | #4 | |||
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Lord Of The Rings Trilogy - fulfilled every expectation for me - every character was just as I had imagined they would be - in particular Gollum was a masterpiece. You could tell it was made by a director who loved the book.
Peter Jackson starts filming "The Hobbit" (the prequel) in February, and I just know it's going to be amazing.
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20-10-2010, 07:44 PM | #5 | ||
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I can't think of many really, I suppose the first 2 harry potter films were quite faithful. The Watchmen films was faithful in a visual sense. |
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20-10-2010, 07:46 PM | #6 | |||
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I think One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was quite faithful to the book.
I really want to see Fear and Loathing... the last 4 Harry Potters have been sod all like the books - only the first 2 really captured the 'magic' of the stories. The others have been like Twilight movies - too dark, pretentious, broody, melodramatic (and if I hear 'I HAVE SOMETHING WORTH FIGHTING FOR' i'm actually going to change my name by deedpoll to Cheryl Cole and sue them for copyright infringement).
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20-10-2010, 08:14 PM | #7 | |||
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But yeah Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.......everytime I read it I can picture the movie.......
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20-10-2010, 08:21 PM | #8 | ||
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20-10-2010, 08:23 PM | #9 | |||
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Don't know if I've seen that or read it for that matter.
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20-10-2010, 08:28 PM | #10 | ||
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20-10-2010, 08:31 PM | #11 | ||
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20-10-2010, 08:37 PM | #12 | |||
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Must go and see if I can get a bagain with either...... the move has the same name I take it yeah?
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20-10-2010, 08:38 PM | #13 | ||
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I yeah, but get the old black and white film from the 60's
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20-10-2010, 08:39 PM | #14 | |||
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Will do i'm in town tomorrow, will have a look in gamestop and HMV
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20-10-2010, 08:40 PM | #15 | |||
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Misery by Stephen King. The book was amazing and the film was so closely matched to the book and Kathy Bates is a legendary actress
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20-10-2010, 08:52 PM | #16 | ||
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20-10-2010, 08:58 PM | #17 | |||
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Yep. They never seem to make a good transition from book to film. Oh wait The Shining and The Green mile were amazing adaptions but the rest were crap. I would love them to make a film of The Dark Tower series, but only if it was an amazing producer and director to do the books justice
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20-10-2010, 08:59 PM | #18 | |||
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Silence of the Lambs was quite true to the book. Huge sections of dialogue came straight out of the book onto the screen.,
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20-10-2010, 09:26 PM | #19 | |||
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Stephen Kings IT & Shutter Island
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20-10-2010, 09:27 PM | #20 | |||
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20-10-2010, 09:37 PM | #21 | |||
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20-10-2010, 09:51 PM | #22 | ||
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I didn't know Shutter Island was a book. I liked it at first but the second half let it down, it became a generic "twist" movie where you could see the ending coming a mile off. Kind of like a variation on the end of Sixth Sense. Last edited by Marsh.; 20-10-2010 at 09:51 PM. |
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20-10-2010, 09:52 PM | #23 | |||
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The Innocents, it totally captures of the mood of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw upon which it was based. The villain Peter Quint is terrifying.
I believe Mother Night was quite faithful to the source material too.
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20-10-2010, 09:58 PM | #24 | ||
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Yes, great call David. Didn't think of that one at all. It's a note perfect adaptation.
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20-10-2010, 10:04 PM | #25 | |||
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