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Anonymous Fri Apr 10 12:22:28 2015 No.6384957 [Reply] [Original]

What movie based on a book is better than the book?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 12:24:53 2015 No.6384966 File: 37 KB, 460x276, charlton-heston-as-moses-001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6384957

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 12:27:17 2015 No.6384977 File: 357 KB, 1920x1080, the-godfather-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Alchemy"

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 12:28:27 2015 No.6384982 Jaws, Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Stanley Kubrick's movies.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 12:30:18 2015 No.6384988 File: 53 KB, 560x368, muchadoaboutnothing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 12:31:04 2015 No.6384993 Fight Club.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 12:31:20 2015 No.6384994 File: 164 KB, 600x889, 1428683480381.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not joking

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 12:37:25 2015 No.6385012 >>6384957 Godfather I Gone With The Wind Wizard of Oz

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 13:19:51 2015 No.6385205 >>6384957 Great Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 13:23:43 2015 No.6385221 File: 125 KB, 1400x708, therewillbeblood.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6384957 I dunno if it's really fair to say it's based on the book, but

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 13:27:09 2015 No.6385230 >>6384957 brade runna yes, I have read the book

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 13:33:31 2015 No.6385245 >>6384982 >Stanley Kubrick's movies Except Lolita and Eyes Wide Shut

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 13:42:10 2015 No.6385270 >>6385245 Maybe EWS.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 14:10:36 2015 No.6385371 File: 351 KB, 1920x1080, no_country_for_old_men_image_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] easily

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 14:11:54 2015 No.6385378 >>6385371 I loved the movie. I later read the book and it's hard for me to say which is better. I might give the edge to the book. The book's a masterpiece.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 14:13:02 2015 No.6385388 >>6385378 if you discount the sheriff's monologues the book is one of his poorest offerings

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 14:18:30 2015 No.6385420

>>6385388
The sheriff's monologues were definitely my favorite parts. Whether it's his weakest book I can't say because it's the only one of his I've read. Still, I thought it was a masterpiece. And there were parts between the monologues that I thought were great. I know No Country isn't supposed to be his best, but I was still very impressed with it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 14:22:49 2015 No.6385435 >>6385420 glad you liked it. if you want more of him and you feel like reading an epic try Blood Meridian. if you want personal and easygoing try Suttree.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 14:24:05 2015 No.6385439 >>6385230 pleb

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 14:26:29 2015 No.6385446 Let the right one in

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 14:29:08 2015 No.6385455 >>6384982 I actually like the beginning of 2001 in the book better.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 14:29:30 2015 No.6385456 File: 46 KB, 400x576, Fightclubcvr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:30:22 2015 No.6385657 >>6385388 Disagreed. Easily stronger and less self-indulgent than some of his earlier stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:38:08 2015 No.6385687 Fear and Loathing is equal. Rum Diary goes to book easily. Godfather, Goodfellas

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:43:14 2015 No.6385714 >>6385245 >not mentioning Clockwork Orange

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:44:25 2015 No.6385717 >>6385435 >easy-going >suttree Lol. Both are good though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:45:49 2015 No.6385722 File: 37 KB, 348x520, proboscis monkey 3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6385687 >Fear and Loathing is equal

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:49:25 2015 No.6385737 >>6385722 Sure is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 15:53:15 2015 No.6385747 >>6385687 >Fear and Loathing is equal. This is a hard call for me. It's a pretty stellar adaptation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 16:40:28 2015 No.6385964 >>6385205 which fucking one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 16:42:40 2015 No.6385973 File: 9 KB, 184x273, descarga.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6384994 The posters are sexy af

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 16:47:27 2015 No.6386000
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>>6384957
>no mention of this

I remember reading the shining when i was p. young on a family holiday and vaguely enjoying it. I sat down to watch this and felt like Kubrick had made an epic out of a "spooky tale". The film King wrote to "show Kubrick who's boss" is p. laughable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sGl1LVtszU

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 16:49:22 2015 No.6386011 Solaris The Naked Lunch book / movie are different but I enjoyed the movie more

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 18:49:02 2015 No.6386599 File: 41 KB, 485x394, slatribartfast.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I love all the books, but the movie had 'expanded universe' so it was cool. And these guys were funny as fuck

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 19:24:15 2015 No.6386774 >>6385714 Movie was better

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 19:34:29 2015 No.6386825 >>6385687 Rum diary far goes to the movie. The book was just kind of a pointless mess that HST cranked out to assuage his misery at not getting the job in San Juan. It had no style, muddled themes, and an incoherent plot; the movie fixed all that.

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 19:37:01 2015 No.6386837

I like Apocalypse Now a little better than Heart of Darkness, in part due to the slightly more nuanced racial optics and in part because Vietnam seems more relevant to my life than colonialism does. Both are masterpieces though. Same with Kubrick's Lolita, only I prefer the book a little in that case.

The best PKD adaptations (including the obvious one) tend to transcend their source material; Dick was not a brilliant prose artist. Still waiting for a great adaptation of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Starship Troopers, for sure. Maybe Moneyball. Both of those are pretty loose adaptations, though, or at least adaptations that come from very different angles.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 19:37:50 2015 No.6386839 >>6385245 retard, eyes wide shut is incredible

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 19:37:54 2015 No.6386841

>>6386000
Kubric turned kings work on it's head though. The book was intensely personal, with some of the best portrayals of the horrors addiction and fate and family and internal struggle I've ever read. Kubrics movie was a masterpiece, but I understand king being upset that the only thing he kept from the shining was "spooky hotel makes dad go something something."

Anonymous Fri Apr 10 21:09:10 2015 No.6387185

The Godfather (and the flashback portions of Part II, which are from the book)
L.A. Confidential
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (both movie versions)
Psycho
Vertigo
Drive
Die Hard and Die Hard 2
The Bourne Identity

Most crime or thriller movies, basically.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 22:19:24 2015 No.6387477 Gone Girl, by far. And the book is kinda good when compared to YA bestseller standards.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 00:06:31 2015 No.6387870 File: 14 KB, 236x377, clockwork orange.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fight club was on point Meeting tyler on a plane makes so much more sense than in a nudist beach also A Clockwork Orange

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 00:12:29 2015 No.6387891 Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Anonymous Sat Apr 11 15:49:10 2015 No.6390018

>>6385420
What >>6385435 said. Just finished Blood Meridian last week and it was incredible. Judge Holden is way more fucking terrifying than Anton Chigurh.

Have not read Suttree yet, but will get to it sometime. The next two McCarthy books I'm planning on reading are that and Outer Dark.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 16:03:23 2015 No.6390068 Star Wars

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 16:04:48 2015 No.6390076 >>6390068 Star Wars is not based on a book you stupid fuck.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 16:12:23 2015 No.6390099 File: 112 KB, 500x614, 63.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6386599

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 16:15:10 2015 No.6390115 Blade Runner

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 16:18:40 2015 No.6390123 >>6384957 Forest Gump The Shining

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 22:03:14 2015 No.6391482 File: 25 KB, 232x325, il gattopardo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6384957 mostly because Lampedusa couldnt actually finish the book, and Visconti could make a better ending for the story.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 22:04:31 2015 No.6391492 Anchorman

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 22:05:13 2015 No.6391497 File: 57 KB, 500x500, 1386722734981.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6387891 are you aware that Fassbinder's adaption is a minisseries for television and not an actual movie, aren't uou?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 22:09:48 2015 No.6391515 Lolita

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 22:18:16 2015 No.6391554 Perks of Being a Wallflower

>>	Approved Sat Apr 11 22:49:53 2015 No.6391668 >>6391515 This bait atually gave me cancer.rip lit. double cancer if yiu mena t the kubrick adapration, cant even type coz im already dying

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 11 22:58:21 2015 No.6391703 the bible

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