scabby mcgee
So I often get tired of really good books being made into movies, rarely do the movies do justice to the books. Case in point "Battlefield Earth", great book, terrible movie. It seems that when reading a book we all get to make up what these worlds people and feelings are like in our own minds based off of what the author tells us. Often the directors view is different from our own (along with studios adding extra stuff to make it more fun).
There are exceptions though, obviously hardly any LOTR geeks were not happy with how well the film was made and represented the story.
Basically what I am saying is that most of the time great books being made into movies are a train wreck waiting to happen. Do you all agree or disagree, what other great book adaptations are there (obviously a biased question).
here is the off of the top of my head bad renditions of great books
Catch 22
Battlefield Earth
The Time Machine
The Hulk (comic book)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (great movie, but everyone I talk to agrees that it did no justice to the book)
There are exceptions though, obviously hardly any LOTR geeks were not happy with how well the film was made and represented the story.
Basically what I am saying is that most of the time great books being made into movies are a train wreck waiting to happen. Do you all agree or disagree, what other great book adaptations are there (obviously a biased question).
here is the off of the top of my head bad renditions of great books
Catch 22
Battlefield Earth
The Time Machine
The Hulk (comic book)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (great movie, but everyone I talk to agrees that it did no justice to the book)