Movies based on books

[mrebekah]

Goodness gracious. I hate it how people try to make movies based on books! The books are so wonderful but the movies are awful. For example: The third Harry Potter movie was horrible! They left out tons of important parts! How do you feel when people make a bad movie based on a book?

[shineybomb]

Mostly annoying although the Shawshank Redemption was such better than the book!

The Da Vinci Code missed out loads of the good parts of the book - I won't spoil it if you haven't seen it but why miss the brother part out at the end?

Harry Potter 4 was much better - 3 is the worst of the lot so far

[joko]

if they included everything, the film would be about 15 hours long....

[spudqueen]

I saw a black and white film of A Town Like Alice a couple of weeks ago and couldn't believe that it finished when it did - there was still about a third of the book to go and as it ended when it did the title wouldn't have been explained (that's in the latter part of the book).
I do enjoy the film The Wizard of Oz though, but they altered so much of the story that the film is only loosely based on the book.

[LeMarchand]

Depends on the adaptation: The Lord of the Rings movies were wonderful, the books tedious (IMHO). As for HP, at least the movies didn't have that dreadful page-filling subplot about SPEW.

[purple-eth]

I love the film adaptation of 'The Color Purple'. Whoopi Goldberg as Celie was just perfect, and the entire film was wonderful (in my opinion, anyway!). Also, I'm a big fan of Stephen King's books, but some of the film adaptations of his books are quite rubbish!

[jump79]

Some books turn out well on the big screen, it all really depends on the director and the actors, and their interpretation of it.

For instance (the good ones):

Potrait of a Lady
Silence of the lambs
A Time to Kill (most John Grisham books make good movies)
Emma, Sense and Sensibility

Not so good ones:

Pride and Prejudice
Da Vinci Code
The Beach
etc

[xmwahx]

the thing is the harry potter books are so much better than the films but i still go and see every film and still enjoy them unlike the da vinci code i loved the book but hated the film i think the ending was rubbish i dont understand why they changed it
sometimes its good when a book is made into a film but only if the film turns out good , i cant wait to see how the northern lights book turns out as a film even though it wont be out for a while