Following on from another thread, this topic popped up. The Godfather was the obvious choice, and I think both Into The Wild and The Road are up there too.
Any others?
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Films as good as the book if not better
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Blade Runner
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Get Carter, was made from the novel Jack's Return Home by Ted Lewis in 1970.
It went out of print pretty quickly as it wasnt a great read. But we all know how good the film turned out. In a straight glass.
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The Gruffalo - very faithful to the orginal text, though it did drag on a bit after a while
The Road
Is the film any good - saw the trailer and thought it looks pants. Have deliberately avoided the film as the book is one of those that has stayed with me for ages after reading it....
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Wouldn't have said the film of the road was anywhere near the quality of the book, but opinions and all that.
No country for old men is a great film, whereas the book is McCarthy's weakest by some margin IMHO.Posted 4 months ago # -
Thunderbolt And Lightfoot
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Shawshank
Silence Of The Lambs
Jaws - Peter Benchley's book was rubbishPosted 4 months ago # -
Requiem for a Dream.
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The Road? I thought the film was excellent, mainly because it matched my vision of the book very well. I'm conscious this can be a very subjective thing though. It's possible that - because the cover of my book was a still from the film - I had a bit of a helping hand in creating my own images, even though I read the book before seeing the film.
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the original ending to Jaws in the book was a real let down
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The film of Jaws is far better than the book
The film of "the Road" is good but not better than the book.
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No country for old men is a great film, whereas the book is McCarthy's weakest by some margin IMHO
Still a rattling read, imo, but you're right - it's an even better film.
Conversely, Cold Mountain - lovely book, & so I refused to see the film.
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Into the Void.
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2001: A space odyssey
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Watchmen, not technically a book but still good.
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Life of Brian.
although I must admit, I've never made it all the way through the New Testament.Posted 4 months ago # -
Fight Club - although I ruddy *loved* the book, in fact Chuck Palahniuk is awesome full stop.
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Casino Royale
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Yeah, 'do androids dream of electric sheep' was OK but not as good as blade runner.
Neuromancer is good but The Matrix was massively better (although granted, the link betwen them is tenuous)
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Cool Hand Luke
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in fact Chuck Palahniuk is awesome full stop.
You are correct
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Cracking book, cracking film.
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Only ones I know are The Godfather and Bladerunner. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is pretty close....
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Lord of the Rings.
I preferred the book of the Road to be honest, but the film was pretty damn amazing too.
The Princess Bride.
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Silence of the Lambs
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Debbie Does Dallas.
Shit book.
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I can honestly say none. Films never quite surpass what I was imagining in my head whilst reading the book.
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Silence of the Lambs
Not sure about this one. The film is one of my all time favorites, but the book is superb as well.
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jurassic park.
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Christine (the Stephen King book / film).
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Silence of the Lambs? Is that the one where the woman who can't see in the pitch dark shoots the bloke with night vision goggles on?
Far too realistic for me.Posted 4 months ago # -
Limitless which was based on The Dark Fields, both as good as each other,
on the graphic novel note Watchmen was an epic read but they tried too hard with the film to please the geeks ~( ex assistant manager at forbidden planet so i know.......)
300 was an excellent rep of the graphic novel tho.........
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Fear and loathing in Las Vegas makes a good stab at it as did Trainspotting. Both books are better, but very good representations. You are never going to get everything from a book into a film..
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Trainspotting - is it just me but felt the book was grim/amazing. Film was like a comedy - but enjoyed it
(same cant be said for American Psycho - the film was shockingly bad)
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Any film where there's a book adaption/novelisation written by Alan Dean Foster.
The list includes Alien, The Thing, Star Wars and Chronicles of Riddick.
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