What book to movie do you like???

[raptor_rider]

I'm watching "Misery," right now. Matches the book almost completely. The one movie I laughed at was "Needful Things." Couldn't even touch the story.

Now the Harry Potter series, was close. So was the Twilight (Yes, I know, I know. Have a teenage daughter!)

Narnia was close also.

Anyone???

[geardaddy]

1. I agree with your thought on "Misery"

Thought the film matched the book very well.

[raptor_rider]

17. I was so very happy

When Kathy Bates won the Oscar on that movie!!! Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman," give me a break!!!

[CBGLuthier]

2. The Loved One

Even though Evelyn Waugh was one hell of a writer the movie is better than the book.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

53. posting here to remind me to see this film, thanks.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. I thought "The Hours" was superbly done - also "Remains of the Day"

"Cider House Rules" was excellent; "Garp" and "Hotel New Hampshire" swung and missed - and "Owen Meany" as a superb book was not treated well in its journey to the movie "Simon Birch"

[CBGLuthier]

8. Simon Birch is an abomination

I know it was not considered a proper adaptation of the entire novel but they stunk up even the part they did. Owen Meany was not a dwarf and the whole point of the thing was not just some childhood memories.

I think Garp was OK enough but made better by the performances of Close and Lithgow.

[Mr.Bill]

4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with Johnny Depp.

Bill Murray played a pretty good Hunter Thompson in Where the Buffalo Roam also.

[raptor_rider]

20. I so love that movie!!!

Watched it on LSD once. Wouldn't suggest it, however it was a fun experience!!!!

[Mr.Bill]

22. My LSD days are long behind me.

That movie did a pretty good job of bringing back some memories, though.

[raptor_rider]

23. Oh so are mine!!!

It was back in 1998 when I last did it, and that was the movie we watched!!! Before that it was "Dead Alive," and "In the Mouth of Madness." The latter made me run!!! That movie is f'ed up!!!! They banned it from here because of the satanic stuff in it. Where I live, a lot of satanic rituals happen.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Fight Club

The screen adaptation of challenging material is brilliant.

[Initech]

18. Chuck Palahniuk himself said that the movie was better.

I remember this from one of the commentaries. One of my favorites.

[Aristus]

6. The Princess Bride.

Very nearly perfect.

Watching the movie makes you feel glad to be alive.

[ms liberty]

24. This! I loved the book and the movie...

It is the only one I can think of that I can say that about. The Hunt for Red October was close, but still not quite as good as the book. It was a whole lot better than any other Clancy book-to-movie, though!

[NewJeffCT]

55. That was my first thought

both are terrific.

[LWolf]

7. The one I saw a few days ago was well done.

"The Fault In Our Stars." I'll be expected to discuss it with all of my middle school girls in September, so I went to see it.

I thought they did a really good job. They left out some of the back story, but it really didn't affect the outcome.

To be honest, I liked the Twilight movies better than the books. Maybe because they were faster, lol. That's not saying much, since I despised the books whole heartedly.

I spend a lot of the summer reading new fiction my students will be reading.

[raptor_rider]

32. I want to see that!!!

However, if I cry, I vomit!!! I hate to cry, however, will watch a good movie for it!!!

[LWolf]

51. Take tissues.

Don't expect to get through it without them.

[Coventina]

9. I liked "Mansfield Park" the movie more than the book.

English lit majors will want to kill me for that, I'm sure!

[mackerel]

41. Which one? I've seen 2 or 3 versions.

[Coventina]

48. The one with Jonny Lee Miller

edited to add trailer

[mackerel]

56. That version was very good.

[CTyankee]

10. Forster's A Room with a View, no doubt about it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J-gFsXfbF08

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. agreed!

[fizzgig]

11. shawshank redemption and stand by me

two of my favorite movies

[raptor_rider]

16. Oh I so agree!!!

Another King fan!!!

[fizzgig]

26. i forgot the green mile

[raptor_rider]

27. Damn it!!! I did too!!!

That book really followed the movie!!! I cry every time I read the book and watch the movie!!!

[raptor_rider]

28. Followed "The Body!"

Pretty good with "Stand by Me."

[Enthusiast]

58. Me too.

Changing the name to Stand by Me had to be an improvement over The Body. Great movies.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

13. To Kill A Mockingbird

Even Harper Lee has reportedly stated that Gregory Peck made the perfect Atticus. And the adaptation was done so well

[CTyankee]

14. I almost forgot that one...and I loved it!

so well done...

[mokawanis]

19. I agree

The book and the movie were both very good.

[Brother Buzz]

15. Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty

Be Cool was terrific, too. John Travolta nailed Chili Palmer. I'm really sad Elmore Leonard didn't crank out a few more Chili Palmer novels before he passed.

[raptor_rider]

21. One that makes me cry, "Odd Thomas"

It was close. Dean Koontz is a good writer.

[KamaAina]

25. He is, but he's also a right-wing pig

There's a line in "Odd Thomas" about "the cancer at the core of the hippie movement" -- racism!

[Ino]

29. How about some movies I liked BETTER than the books...

The Color Purple
Master and Commander
Dangerous Liaisons (either version, but especially Glenn Close)
Shawshank Redemption
Harry Potter movies
Lord of the Rings & Hobbit movies
The Godfather trilogy

[raptor_rider]

30. I agree with a lot

The Harry Potter, in the last 3 could have gotten better, however would have been longer movies!!

I've seen all 3 of the "Lord of the Rings," unedited. Close to the books. However far.

Now a series I'd like to see, Robert Jordan. "Wheel of Time."

[fizzgig]

34. i just can't get behind lotr

they made both treebeard and faramir cowards. they betrayed sam above cirith ungol. full of made up baloney. .

[raptor_rider]

36. Amen sister!!!

It was a out there!!!

[fizzgig]

38. for all of the nerd rage that was tt and rotk

desolation of smaug topped it all. wtf did i pay an obscene amount of money to see? if i ever meet peter jackson, i will kick him. kick him so hard.

[Art_from_Ark]

31. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1930s version)

and The Lord of the Flies. Also, A Night To Remember pretty much followed Walter Lord's book of the same name.

[raptor_rider]

33. Oh my, Lord of the Flies

That movie set me back!!!!

[trackfan]

35. I recently read The Maltese Falcon for the first time

The classic movie starring Humphrey Bogart adheres almost exactly to the book in both dialogue and action. There are a few R-rated scenes in the book that were left out of the movie.

[raptor_rider]

37. I've never seen that!!!

Think I need too!!!

[lovemydog]

39. The Maltese Falcon rocks

[CBGLuthier]

47. What is really incredible is it the third version of the movie.

There were too previous adaptations that have pretty much sunk into obscurity. The second one was rewritten to be a light comedy and starred Bette Davis.

[lovemydog]

40. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,

The World According to Garp

Great books & movies.

[mackerel]

42. So many good ones mentioned here. The Jane Austin books have all been well adapted.

I loved the Harry Potter Series even for it's weaknesses. Grapes of Wrath was another good one. Ordinary People sticks with me as being dead on.

[IcyPeas]

43. Girl With the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

It was quite a simple story really so it transferred to the screen pretty easily. I enjoyed the book and the movie.

[IcyPeas]

44. the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish versions)

I think they did a great job with those 3 movies. (The Girl who Played with Fire, Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest)

[femmocrat]

52. I agree!

All three were terrific and true to the Trilogy. I think the third book had way too much detail about the inner workings of the security bureaucracy, though. Glad the movie left most of that out and tightened up the story.

I wish there were more in the series. Tragic that the author died so young.

[Number9Dream]

45. Inherit The Wind - Lawrence & Lee play to 1960 movie

Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly were amazing!

[Little Star]

46. Fried Green Tomatoes

[raptor_rider]

49. That is a good one!!!

Love that movie!!! Good actors in it.

[Enrique]

50. "A place in the sun"

from "An American tragedy"

[applegrove]

54. The Orchid Theif

[Separation]

57. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Not a really good book to read if you are feeling blue or depressed. It's basically an end of the world scenario and a father is trying to get his son south and to the ocean.

Obviously, the book is better but the movie did a pretty good job. They actually filmed in an Appalachian mining town that had been abandoned.

[Boom Sound 416]

59. The new Gatsby

And of course Jaws