/lit/ - Literature

>>11998270
what a plebe opinion. The movie is alright but massively flawed and downright comically out of touch in places.

American Psycho, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Short-Times, basically every Steven King adaption

Lord of the Rings trilogy
They messed with Faramir too much though

Forrest Gump

>>11998270
All of them. Film is simply a superior art form.

>>11998440
lol

>>11998270
It was also better as a video game.

>>11998271

Obviously.

>>11999097
I never saw the film, was it really better than the book?
I quite enjoyed it.

>>11998270
The Shining is an obvious choice. I'd argue that Kubrick didn't go far enough in purging the material of King's annoying tropes; he should have made Halloran a mundane character with non-magical worries, and removed any overt talk of psychic powers.

>>11999112
In my opinion the movie is miles ahead of the book. The acting, even though Nicholson is the only big star in the movie, is utterly fantastic - they all play their roles so well, it's definitely my favorite movie of all time.

phenomenology of spirit

>>11998270

>>11999212
Fuck off.

>>11998270
Pretty much all of them. Unless the movie is just flat out a bad movie itself.

A good movie is always better than a good book.

>>11998270
That book is absolute garbage, op

>>11998850
This. I only read it cause spec ops the line blew my little 13 year old mind. The I read it and was pretty disappointed. But to be fair some of it probably flew over my head

What are with the complaints of Heart of Darkness? What is so repulsive to people in the novel? That it's popular?

>>12000412
*Blocks your path*

>>12001007
>>11998850
>>11998270
Darkness is in regards to civilization and land, not individuals or war. Huge yikes.

>Huge yikes

>>12001023
>a good movie

Also,
>book

If Kurtz couldn't overcome judgement, to transcend being human, what hope do we have?

>>12001267
And it works better as a war story at least in a modern setting because soldiers get away with a lot more fucked up shit and have a lot more sympathetic reasons to do said fucked up shit

>>11998270
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

>>12001390
I think they are both on similar level (by which I mena: Mindblowingly good), but they really are different in approach to storytelling and focus of the story, as well as world's details.

>>11999212
Ok, there must be some way we can perform some sort of remote execution of this imbecile.

>>12001387
I don't think so, and it doesn't have that much to do with people getting away with fucked up shit. The primary difference is that in the novella, there is no structure, "no method", no authority, no civilization, as is abundantly clear from the outset. Without this, the natives are animals, and even people used to civilization lose sight and change (virtually everybody in the novella). The natives are drawn to civilization and Kurtz gives it to them as well as he can to suit his purposes.

This is directly contrasted with war, which maintains structure and hierarchy (even in Vietnam though Apocalypse Now downplays it). The movie (and probably the video game too, but I haven't played it) downplay the hierarchy and structure of war and turn it into complete chaos and madness, which only can go so far believably.

This is why at the end of the movie, the situation completely drops any notion of being about war and goes back to savages drawn to the only thing that can bring civilization (Kurtz). Because that's the heart of the novella and what's being discussed. The novella isn't about war, and war has nothing to do with darkness in the sense Conrad was discussing it

Can anyone give me a redpilled review of 50 shades of grey the movie

>>11998272
Came here to post American Psycho

>>12001529
like the book but easier to masturbate

>>12001488
Spec ops the line is a lot more believable cause it’s not a war, it’s a rescue/humanitarian mission gone horribly wrong. The whole of Dubai is essentially wiped out with only rouge soldiers exploring and raping and pillaging in the power vacuum. What really make it for me is how the plot itself starts unraveling by the end as your sucked into an endless ptsd nightmare. By the end your not even sure what’s real as you confront the person you went in to save and your not even sure if he’s alive or even existed. I guess spec ops gets away with it because it’s more focused on phycology

>>11998272
Stephen King adaptions are really a mixed bag; sometimes you get excellent films that do justice to the source material, and sometimes you get The Dark Tower.

>>11998850
And as an A:tLA episode

>>12001023
honestly the most boring movie i have ever seen. tried watching it again a few weeks ago, giving igt another chance, feel asleep 1 hr into it. plus they absolutely butcher the ending in the movie, disgusting.

>>12001251
Both are terrible

>>11998270
Plato's cave

>>12004506
Weak b8 m8

Crash

My nomination is Reservation Road, which stars Joaquin Phoenix; the very enunciation of his name brings me an enormus amount of satisfaction

most of the books that were later made into movies

while i am american (and can barely read my tattoos), i will continue to insist that this has little to do with my opinion on this matter

Most kubrick adaptations are better thbqh

>>11998270

>>11998270
The I have no Mouth and I must Scream game was extremely good. I think Harlan had a lot of input on it as well?

The Shining.

>>11998272
>2001: A Space Odyssey
Literal pleb opinion from someone who hasn't read the book. Sames goes for American Psycho.

Books are better in both cases.

KYS

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>>12005578
Sorry senpai but no way. Comparing the prose in the novel to the cinematography in the movie is like comparing a 4chan thumbnail of a landscape to being in the landscape yourself

It's like one of the greatest movies ever directed

>>12001390
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Top tier post.

>>12001390
>>12001434

2049 was even better

>>12004382
ay me too

>>12006283
i'm not OP

>>12006291
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