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Great books that were made into really shitty films

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:38 am

. said:Atlas Shrugged

Go back to Soviet Russia libfag.

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:38 am

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BobHopesColostomyBag said:Lawrence of Arabia is a great movie...but it's nothing at all like Seven Pillars Of Wisdom.

When you've read Seven Pillars Of Wisdom you'll look at the movie and see that it's just....stupid.

Don't ever call a David Lean film stupid again.

Read it; you'll see that I'm right. And I love David Lean's Oliver Twist. Having said that I'm glad he never got to even start filming on Joseph Conrad's Nostromo.

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:38 am

magbas_2012 said:
calamari_wagon said:Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr.
Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Midnight Express
Naked Lunch (but I didn't expect much from a Cronenberg film anyway)

The Doors wasn't a book but pretty much the entire film was boring and completely inaccurate.

I thought Midnight Express was a good movie, but I never read the book.

If you've never read the book, it's a fantastic movie. With a great score too.

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:38 am

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:39 am

magbas_2012 said:
calamari_wagon said:Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr.
Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Midnight Express
Naked Lunch (but I didn't expect much from a Cronenberg film anyway)

The Doors wasn't a book but pretty much the entire film was boring and completely inaccurate.

I thought Midnight Express was a good movie, but I never read the book.

The book was amazing. I picked it up as some hotel in France when I was in college, there was some shelf in the lobby where Americans and English would trade books. Another book I picked up there was Not Without My Daughter, which was a great book that was far better than the movie.

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:41 am

BobHopesColostomyBag said:Read it; you'll see that I'm right. And I love David Lean's Oliver Twist. Having said that I'm glad he never got to even start filming on Joseph Conrad's Nostromo.

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Even if you are right, I'll still love the film as a work of art in its own right.

Oliver Twist was superb, but Great Expectations was even better.

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:44 am

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:45 am

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BobHopesColostomyBag said:Read it; you'll see that I'm right. And I love David Lean's Oliver Twist. Having said that I'm glad he never got to even start filming on Joseph Conrad's Nostromo.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5256/5420038262_ee0f9be065_z.jpg

Even if you are right, I'll still love the film as a work of art in its own right.

Oliver Twist was superb, but Great Expectations was even better.

No it wasn't and I'll tell you why: Oliver Twist totally captures the essence of the book and it's original illustrations. It's a perfect movie, like Tony Richardson's Tom Jones.

But Great Expectations is compromised particularly in its ending, and the compromises in the plot destroy the entire moral purpose of the story.

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:53 am

BobHopesColostomyBag said:No it wasn't and I'll tell you why: Oliver Twist totally captures the essence of the book and it's original illustrations. It's a perfect movie, like Tony Richardson's Tom Jones.

But Great Expectations is compromised particularly in its ending, and the compromises in the plot destroy the entire moral purpose of the story.

Thanks for the lesson, wise one.

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Posted 5/27/2012 4:58 am

The Color of Money was nothing like the book. The Hustler was great, though. Walter Tevis is one of my favorite authors.

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magbas_2012
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Posted 5/27/2012 5:00 am

BobHopesColostomyBag said:No it wasn't and I'll tell you why: Oliver Twist totally captures the essence of the book and it's original illustrations. It's a perfect movie, like Tony Richardson's Tom Jones.

But Great Expectations is compromised particularly in its ending, and the compromises in the plot destroy the entire moral purpose of the story.

The 69 musical version Oliver! was pretty damn good. I should know.

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