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Book better than movie

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by joe, May 14, 2014.

  1. Decadent

    Decadent New Member

    I knew someone else who didn't like that version.
     
  2. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    All of them.
     
  3. longgone

    longgone Member

    The Right Stuff (although the movie was pretty dang good, too).
     
  4. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    Original movie was quite faithful to the book, I thought.
     
  5. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    War Horse movie might equal the book or come very close.

    I think reading the book gives you a greater character development for Topthorne and Emilie, but this was a beautiful movie.
     
  6. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Agreed.

    Only major difference I can recall off the top of my head is the female scientist in the movie is a male in the book.
     
  7. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    The Natural
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    Great Expectations
    The Great Gatsby
     
  8. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member


    With the right director and screenwriter, a remake of Chrstine would be awesome today. They tried gamely but the special effects of yore didn't quite cut it. But nowadays? I'd love to see that scene of the car ripping through the house.
     
  9. bigbadeagle

    bigbadeagle Member

    I couldn't make it through it, either, and I loved "The Right Stuff." That book might qualify as better than the movie.
     
  10. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    I'm with you on The Natural. Glenn Close, the obvious aging issues and of course the ending ruined the movie for me. Though Joe Don Baker as "The Whammer" is the goods in his portrayal of the Babe Ruth-inspired character.
     
  11. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Jaws is an extreme case where the movie is miles better than the source material.
    Peter Benchley's novel is not just poor, it's a huge piece of crap.
    There are a few redonkulous subplots in there (the mafioso control and the love triangle).
     
  12. joe

    joe Active Member

    Benchley came out years later acknowledging that sharks, even great whites, were nowhere near the killers his book made them out to be. Almost every great white attack is a case of mistaken identity, where the shark mistakes a person for a seal or some other natural game. And that's why there are very few cases of great white's going back for a second bite on a person. Of course, one bite is usually enough to do the trick.
     
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