Movie based on a book that was really good

[Dragonbreathp9d]

either "Apocolypse Now" which is taken from the novella "Heart Of Darkness" or "What Dreams May Come" with Robin Williams that is from the book by Richard Matheson.

[Orrex]

1. Fear and Loathing

I know, it's much-reviled here on DU, but I found it to be an excellent treatment and a thoroughly enjoyable film.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

14. I thought so too

theyre making The Rum Diaries with guess who: Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro

[AllegroRondo]

2. Shawshank Redemption

[BOSSHOG]

8. Anything goes in my mouth gets bitten off

[MrCoffee]

3. The Neverending Story

and The Princess Bride

[taterguy]

4. JAWS

[SKKY]

5. I thought "Forrest Gump" represented the book well....

[NewJeffCT]

6. The three "Lord of the Rings" movies

All nominated for Best Picture oscars, with the third movie winning.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Do you mean

Movie based on a (book that was really good)

or

(Movie based on a book) that was really good

?

[mvd]

9. The Harry Potter movies have been good

Especially the movies based on books 1, 2, and 5. Nothing can compare to the books, though. Everyone have a good weekend! I'll be doing a lot of reading. :hi:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. What Dreams May Come wa a shitty, shitty movie.

It was soooooooooo cheesy!

Robin Williams gets killed in the most over the top fashion ever. The daughter winds up as an asian woman in heaven. The mother goes to hell why? Hell is just a rip off of Dore woodcuts plus lawyer jokes.

I think the real hell is that movie over and over again.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

12. go fuckyourself

:)


loved the movie, symbolism in it is incredible

[seemunkee]

15. Haven't seen that one

Are they coming out with a sequel: gofuckyourself2

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. Yeah, symbolism.

Here's a car inexplicably barrelrolling through the air. That symbolizes the inevitablity of death. Plus a stuntman with too much time on his hands.

Here's a tree with unnaturally colored flowers. That symbolizes directors who abuse CGI.

Here's a Thomas Kinkade painting. That symbolizes heaven, which is like a trip to the mall on acid.

Here's a ship with the name Cereberus. That symbolizes the mythical three headed dog cerberus that guards the entrance to Hades, but it was too much work to do an actual three headed dog.

Here's a bunch of faces frozen in the ground. That symbolizes Dore's depiction of Dante's Stygia, because they were too lazy to come up with their own concepts of hell, so much so there's an actual copy of a seperate woodcut of Dore's, hanging on the wall back in the real world.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

22. actually, every single color in the movie has a meaning

and I mean EVERY color. Plates, clothes, nature, EVERYTHING




And the hell part - that was Annie's version of hell. If you looked on the wall behind her as she was about to commit suicide, there is a depiction of hell - in the movie (and in the book) every has their own heaven or own hell, that was what she thought hell would be like, so viola

[terrya]

11. "The Manchurian Candidate" - the original

Very faithful adaptation of the book.

[idlisambar]

13. Godfather

I've heard the movies are better than the book.

[hedgehog]

16. Did you know the book featured a sub-plot about one character's

large natural endowment and a female character's need for gynocological surgery?

[NewJeffCT]

20. never knew that

never read the books, and that detail is not exactly something I think would make me want to go run out & buy the books, either.

[applegrove]

17. The Orchid Thief.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. 'The Lathe of Heaven,' 'Fail Safe,' 'The World According to Garp'

In the case of the former, not the dog-awful A&E movie of a few years ago, but the 1980 original (which was, I believe, produced by WNET in New York for PBS).

[alphafemale]

21. To Kill A Mockingird

When the author adores the movie made from her book, that says something I think.

[smitty]

23. "The Killer Angels", "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001, a Space

Odyssey"