Shawshank was good, and so were The Green Mile and the original Shining.
Other good translations:
The Firm (Grisham)
Moby Dick (Gregory Peck always put in great performances)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Again, Gregory Peck)
Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
Hellraiser/The Hellbount Heart (Barker)
On the flipside, the worst adaptations:
The Lost World (Crichton)
Dreamcatcher, The Stand (King)
Battlefield Earth (Any L. Ron Hubbard book translated to film is a bad idea)
No, I've never read it... I just threw it on there for the hell of it. Of course I read the book... it was required reading back when I was in high school. You hated the translation, I liked it.
Bladerunner was good, but the script was changed from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. They captured most of the experience found in the book, but they could have included the chickenheads and the emotion box things (you have to have read the book to understand these things).
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Actually one of the best in my opinion is Die Hard. Maybe I'm biased, because I only read the book long after I saw the movie, but I thought the movie was much better than the book
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Hey, correct that, I just saw a rerun of Hi-Fidelity, starring John Cusack. How could I forget that? Written by Nick Hornsby originally, I loved the book and the movie is great.
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