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Anything written by Cormac McCarthy except All The Pretty Horses.

The Shining.

>> No.1975951

inb4 Fight Club.

>> No.1975961

>>1975945
Nope.

>> No.1975962

Eragon
inb4 shitstorm of eragon haters

>> No.1975964

>>1975951
choke for sure

>> No.1975968

Avatar
Inception

>> No.1976162

Jarhead

>> No.1976184

Dune. Movie and miniseries were awful.

>> No.1976188

>>1976184

they were fun

but you are absolutely correct

>> No.1976200

The Godfather.

I said it.

>> No.1976205

>>1976200
Woah, woah woah what

>> No.1976209

>>1976205

Novel was longer and so had the opportunity to go deeper in-depth, present a broader array of POV characters, a more ambitious vision of mafia crime as a feudalistic empire, and overall felt a lot more ambitious and epic in scope.

The movie's still fucking great, but I saw the movie first, and then read the book, and went "Holy shit, this is much better."

> opinions

>> No.1976237

Watchmen.

> inb4 'book'; Watchmen carries the heft of literature

>> No.1976244

>>1976209
> opinions
True.
I just find it almost impossible to believe that someone found the themes explored in the film more prevailing in the novel. The film is a modern day Greek epic or Shakespeare play, where its themes of love, betrayal and revenge are what the entire story is about. Also the character study of Michael, as someone who starts out as a good man but because of the love for his father becomes bad (first film); then goes from a bad to the fucking devil (second film); then finally his quest for redemption (third film) is what separates the films from the book (and separates them from pretty much any other film, for that matter) in my opinion.

>> No.1976252

>>1976244

That's my point, though. The movie is more of a straight-up character study. The book has strong characters, but a different objective altogether.

They're both great, but I think they cater to different ends.

>> No.1976271

>>1976252
Fair enough. Maybe I need to read the book again, it's been several years.

>> No.1976334

>>1976237
>Watchmen carries the heft of literature
no

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1976340

>>1976334

I'm not even going to write a refutation. And I have no reaction image to express how acutely that annoyed me.

>> No.1976511

>>1976184
Derp. Anyone who thinks the Dune movie was shit is just as stupid as the majority, which is to say, near fucking retarded. Firstly the movie was not incomprehensible as many have said. Lynch merely does not hold the audiences hand(typically befitting the medium, I know, but this IS Lynch) That said I found it perfectly understandable having seen the movie before reading the book. If anything, there are more confusing parts of the book than the movie. One does not need to understand every little half explained thing in the movie to understand it, thusly it lends itself well to repeated viewings, which I myself have found a pleasure. I do wish certain parts of the movie were better/truer to the book, but for now it's the best we dunefags have.
TL;DR Derp, the movie didn't hold my hand and explain every little nuance like every other film meant to engage and hold the interest of the intellectual peasant.

>> No.1976529

I thought the no country for old men movie was better than the book. Only bad part was, we didn't see as many speeches and musings by chigurh.