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Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Written by: James V. Hart, Malia Scotch Marmo
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts,
Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Charlie Korsmo,
Amber Scott, Dante Basco
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Hook's Introduction
The Epiphany
Ruffio's Introduction
Little Kid Grope's Robin William's Face
Imaginary Food
Peter Pan's Origin Story
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17 comments:
Fight Club, the notebook, Fried green tomatoes.
Movies that are better than their books? Die Hard! Also, the Godfather.
Very excited for more Twilight coverage.
So many like The Jason Bourne series, the Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings series.
Stand-alone books include "The Last of the Mohicans", "Jaws" and "L.A. Confidential".
Favorite book adaptations that were adapted by Stephen King would be "Carrie", "The Shining", "Misery", "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile".
Long time listener, first time writer, love the podcast, etc...
Anyway, movies better than books, in general not the case, but there are some exceptions:
The Shining - Nicholson tour de force, compare with Stephen Kings produced mini-series, which is far closer to the book (and is rubbish).
One Flew Over The Cuckoos nest - Once again, Nicholson is amazing, rest of the cast hold it together, far tighter, leaner story than book (though book is good).
American Psycho - Book: blah blah, mutilation, more mutilation, yawn. Film - Christian Bale playing very crazy, very well: awesome.
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - Book: good, but goes off on one for about 50 pages in the middle, which is just boring. Film: holds it together a bit more, though still has a bit of a meh bit in the middle. Also Johnny and Benicio are awesome.
Rules Of Attraction - Book: think pretentious teenager, who thinks they are edgy, describing "wouldn't that be awesome if". Film: Dawson is an asshole, what else do you want?
Requiem For A Dream - Book: ok, not great. Film: possibly the most depressing, get under your skin, miserable yet engaging experience - kindof a Marmite one, I think you either love it or hate it (I love it).
Drive (Gosling one, not 90's so-bad-it's-good action movie) - Book: good. Film: better.
Then you've got Shawshank, Silence of the Lambs, Godfather, BladeRunner, etc...
Give me two hours with a decent set of actors and an excellent director over at least twice that amount of time with an ok book any day - usually the problem is the adaptation tries to stick to the book without (or failing to) make it cinematic. Or if the book is just too good (Catch 22) or just too difficult to make into a move (Time Travellers Wife) then the movie is always going to stink in comparison.
Fitzgerald's Curious Case of Benjamin Button isn't too bad. The movie differs from it in some key ways, but I think I enjoyed the movie more (at least the movie got more of an emotional reaction out of me than the book did).
Robin Williams played Pan, not the title character.
Other than that, fellows, I enjoy the show very much!
The Neverending Story
Psycho, the novel does not do as good a job as Hitchcock did in making the film. The book Psycho is a bit too grungy and realistic for me and the character of Norman Bates is more of a drunk, balding schlub than the somewhat dashing, debonair Norman the movie give us. Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates) was considered to be something of a beefcake in those days. Hitchcock gives the movie Psycho so much more tension and style than the novel gives us.
Love the movie Jaws and the book is nowhere near as exciting. While there is plenty of shark action and suspense, it focuses more on marital infedelity than the hunt.
The Badder Mienhof complex, the book is good, the movie is great. Obscure, but well worth your time, and a hell of a lot better than these crappy movies about Che Guavera that they kept making some years ago.
"Apocalypse Now", "Rosemary's Baby" and the original 1963 "The Haunting" (forget the 1999 remake) were my favorite book adaptations that were handled very well.
Oh and yes Kevin, there was another Robin Williams movie called "Fathers' Day" which also starred Billy Crystal, and believe me, that film is terrible.
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS!!! The book was great, but adding in Anthony Hopkins rendition of Hannibal Lector and bringing him to life obviously made the character so much more real than how he was described in the book. Everyone in that movie did a fantastic job! Just everything about it made the whole thing that much more real. I will admit that I have yet to eat a Fava bean because all I can think about in correlation to it is a human liver...
But another one that isn't really the movie better than the book is The Counte of Monte Cristo. It was really hard for me to read through that book because 1. It is hella long and 2. Crazy dense. If you've read it and seen the movie (the one with Jim Cavezil) the 2 have almost nothing in common besides a guy was betrayed by his best friend, went to jail, and sought revenge. Almost nothing happened the same way and the endings weren't even remotely close to being the same. But separately I think they are both really good. Just a thought.
Shawshank Redemption
Blade Runner (Director's Cut, not the Ultimate Director's Cut or whatever it is). The first half of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is good as a detective/police drama but drifts into the pyschodemic.
The Crow -- the movie adding character depth and a true story rather than the randomness of the book. Book is still good, but not as enjoyable as a story.
In a way, Starship Troopers--fun, violent, gory, and the insects were great. The book focuses more on the life in the military.
The original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was better than the Roald Dahl book.
Yeah, who wants to read a long boring book by Carl Sagan when you could watch a terrible movie by the master of cinema, Ron Howard.
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