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2013-10-29 03:03 4223988 Anonymous (les_miserables_ver11_xlg.jpg 1108x1500 378kB)
ITT: Movies that were better than the book

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DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING

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Mandatory: American Psycho, Fight Club, Jaws, Godfather

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>>4223999

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Every good/decent movie based on books no one's ever heard of.

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blade runner the prestige

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>>4223988 How in the world could you possibly think les miserables was better than the book? Dont get me wrong, it was a great movie. But the book is STILL significantly better. To contribute to your thread, "The prestige" was better than its book. Holy shit that book sucked.

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>>4223999 American Psycho the movie is equally as bad as the book

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>>4224074 Duh

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2001 A Space Odyssey

38 min later 4224098 Anonymous
Anything Kubrick adapted for the screen with the exception of Lolita

38 min later 4224100 Anonymous
>>4224088 I wanted nothing more than to kick Marius in the vagina while I read the book

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Like, The Magnificent Ambersons. It's based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel that no one reads any more, but it's considered a great film, and one of Orson Welles' best

40 min later 4224104 Anonymous
>>4224098 Or Eyes Wide Shut

42 min later 4224111 Anonymous
>>4224100 Agreed, but he was supposed to be like that. The characters were incredibly realistic IMO. Real people are actually just as annoying as Marius was.

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>>4223988 OP can't be serious. I don't remember Crowe's attempt at baritone in Hugo's version.

47 min later 4224123 Anonymous
>>4223988 It's not even based on the book, lol.

49 min later 4224125 Anonymous
That movie was based on the play not the book.

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>>4224079 >Blade Runner

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>>4224133 >Implying the adaptations of Dick's work aren't infinitely more interesting than his stories themselves He can come up with ideas, but holy shit is his prose not even worth the time of day.

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>>4224133 A Scanner Darkly is alos better than the book

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the hobbit lord of the rings

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>>4224156 LOTR is about the same The Hobbit lolno

1 hours later 4224191 Anonymous
>>4224141 lolno The film is good, but nowhere near the book.

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The Godfather.

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>>4224156 no, fuck you the movies are shitty

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Life of Pi Children of Man

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Looks like someone hasn't actually read the book.

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There Will Be Blood is the only genuine example that I can think of

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Jurassic Park The Exorcist Rosemary's Baby The Silence of the Lambs No Country for Old Men

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Coraline

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>>4224285 Nah. It turned a brilliant political satire into a ridiculous edgy farce

2 hours later 4224326 Anonymous
All movies that books are based on.

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>>4224093 The movie is a lovely bit of comedy though. Bale's performance is funny as fuck

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>>4223988 The Descendants. Matt King is halfway likable in the movie. In the book he's an idealist asshole.

2 hours later 4224334 Anonymous
I haven't read the book, but I'm certain the movie No Country for Old Men was better.

2 hours later 4224340 Anonymous
Starship Troopers The Prestige The Shining The Godfather (I like the novel but the films fix a lot of its flaws) Drive Stand By Me

2 hours later 4224346 Anonymous
I wouldn't say The Haunting (1963 not the Zeta Jones trash) is better than The Haunting of Hill House but it's close and is certainly as important to horror within its medium

2 hours later 4224347 Anonymous
>>4224334 Why are you certain?

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>>4224088 > "The prestige" If ScarJo wasn't in it ruining with her shit accent and acting, it would be in my top 5 faves.

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>>4224315 >ridiculous edgy farce lol'd. nope.

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>>4223999 >>4224093 American Psycho, the book by Bret Easton Ellis, is a masterpiece. It was adapted to screen by a feminist who had already made a movie against men, and who wanted to ridicule an evil male character who savagely murdered his lovers. The result is a farce with a spineless male character. In the book, you identify with Patrick Bateman especially in the long chapters about his soapy musical tastes, which make him look human at last. In the film, the musical references are kept, but turned into Grand Guignolesque motives illustrating the assassinations like Beethoven goes with the murders in A Clockwork Orange. It's a deliberate attempt at ridiculing the only part of humanity of Bateman. In the book, you get a glimpse of Ellis-the-author through a Bateman fan of Genesis and Whitney Houston. Bateman going on and on about the songs "Alone Tonight", "Misunderstanding", "The Greatest love of all" appears as a highly sensitive character. In the film, you only get to see a mad killer who for some reason likes to kill to the sound of 80's music, after entertaining his victims about the biography of Phil Collins. Those who prefer a farce to literature probably prefered the movie. >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUL 3Zy6jxAY Alone tonight by Genesis, one of Patrick Bateman's favorite songs.

11 hours later 4225635 Anonymous
Let the right one come in. Book's pretty good, but the movie is fucking fantastic.

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>>4224326 get out. >>>/tv/

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Jurassic Park, the book was so shitty.

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>>4225626 >[talking to his date] >"I beat up a girl today who was asking people on the street for money." I pause, then measure each of the following words carefully. "She was young and seemed frightened and had a sign that explained she was lost in New York and had a child, though I didn't see it. And she needed money, for food or something. For a bus ticket to Iowa. Iowa. I think it was Iowa and..." I stop for a moment, balling the socks up, then unballing them. >Daisy stares at me blankly for a minute, before asking, "And then?" >I pause, distracted, and then stand up. Before walking into the bathroom I mutter, "And then? I beat the living shit out of her." I open the medicine cabinet for a condom and, as I reenter the bathroom, say, "She had misspelled disabled. I mean, that's not the reason I did what I did but... you know." I shrug. "She was too ugly to rape." >Daisy stands up, placing the spoon next to the Häagen-Dazs carton on the Gilbert Rhode-designed nightstand. >I point. "No. Put it in the carton." >"Oh, sorry", she says. >She admires a Palazzetti vase while I slip on the condom. I get on top of her and we have sex and lying beneath me she is only a shape, even with all the halogen lamps burning. Later, we are lying on opposite sides of the bed. I touch her shoulder. >"I think you should go home", I say. >She opens her eyes, scratches her neck. >"I think I might... hurt you," I tell her. "I don't think I can control myself." >She looks over at me and shrugs, "Okay, sure," then she starts to get dressed. "I don't want to get too involved anyway," she says. >"I think something bad is going to happen," I tell her. >She pulls her panties on, then checks her hair in the Nabolwev mirror and nods. "I understand." >After she's dressed and minutes of pure, hard silence have passed, I say, not unhopefully, "You don't want to get hurt, do you?" >She buttons up the top of her dress and sighs, without looking over at me. "That's why I'm leaving." >I say, "I think I'm losing it."

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>>4225635 >movie is fucking fantastic I concur.

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>>4224097 That was a book based on a movie

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>>4225708

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>>4225626 Oh, shut the fuck up BEE. You ain't foolin nobody.

11 hours later 4225730 Anonymous (flash_in_the_night_by_socketto-d[1].jpg 1920x1080 389kB)
>>4225717 Hi, I'm Pat Bateman.

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V for Vendetta. the movie was smart to cut out the mangled political drama story and stick with V and Evey.

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Blade Runner Les Miserables (1935 and 1934) No Country for Old Men Jaws Anything done by Kubrik (save for Lolita, of course) The Godfather Fight Club LOTR

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>>4225731

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>>4223999 These are all true.

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>>4223988 The Liam Neeson adaptation was better. None of that singing junk. >>4224079 Blade Runner isn't Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. >>4225708 No. It was a short story (The moon sequence) that was expanded on.

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>>4225731 No, kill yourself. >>4225822 >hurr musicals are for faggots git dat dere skeeter

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>>4224333 >yfw you found out who wrote the adaptation

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>>4224191 >Implying PDK is quality. Lol only on 4chna

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>>4223988 Are you serious? Admittedly I've never read the book, but 'Les Mis' the movie made me want to kill myself.

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>>4223999 Jurassic Pork too.

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Most James Bond movies

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>>4226452 Kingsley Amis' Bond was better than Fleming's

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>>4224295 I actually thought the silence of the lambs book was better, I know many will probably disagree but I thought beowulf and the great gatsby were horrid in school but I loved the movies.. The fact that I didn't read them for my pleasure could be a factor

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>>4223988 That was a terrible movie and congratulations you are the biggest pleb on 4chan right now.

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>>4226982

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Stalker

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>>4226991 Thanks. You do realize you're on the internet right? Specifically a forum open to opinions. But I hope that at least made you feel better, however inconsequential

27 hours later 4227012 Anonymous
>>4227000 And that's my opinion faggot >hurr stop trying to stifle my free speech by posting a contrary opinion

27 hours later 4227024 Anonymous
>>4227012 I'm not objecting your opinion I am saying you have imaginative insults, either that or just a terrible sense of humour

27 hours later 4227035 Anonymous (1371493564742.jpg 704x400 55kB)
>>4227024 asflabflWBCAB BVHLABBV see that? that made more sense than what you just wrote

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James Franco's adaptation of As I Lay Dying

27 hours later 4227088 Anonymous (Howard_Shore_in_2010.jpg 1284x1332 450kB)
Howard Shore = movies>>>>>books http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3aK Frsapjc

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>>4224364 It is, though. It's a very funny film but as a consequence the scenes that are meant to hold dramatic weight fall flat and the parts that are meant to be disturbing come across as silly edginess.

28 hours later 4227109 Anonymous
>>4227098 maybe it was 2deep4u

28 hours later 4227127 Anonymous
>>4227109 I doubt it since it's not a very "deep" film. There are some good scenes in it, though. The part with the preacher slapping Daniel was brilliant. The part where he takes his son into the distance and his son starts hitting him was fantastic and the only scene which I thought was dramatically and emotionally well done.

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>>4223988

29 hours later 4227274 Anonymous
Pinocchio. :^)

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>>4225731 Enjoy being 14. >>4225811 >No Country for Old Men >Anything by Kubrik Are you sure you read the books?

30 hours later 4227349 Anonymous
>>4226452 Only Casino Royale. I can't watch Goldfinger again after reading the book, it is too inferior.

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>>4226518 So was William Boyd's.

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>>4227332 it was written at the level of a 14-year old

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The seminal example.

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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>>4227722 Kubrick could have taken Twilight and it would still look like a real Kubrick movie.

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>>4227722 It wasn't based on a book; the novel was based on Kubrick's script.

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>>4231830 It was based on a short story

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>>4225626 >identifying with Bateman kill yourself

72 hours later 4231883 Anonymous
>>4231830 notice how the OP just says "movies that were better than the book," you swinish aspie

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>>4231883 well shit, then we can immediately list star wars, the alien movies, etc if it doesn't matter

73 hours later 4231998 Anonymous
Princess Bride

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>>4231981 stop being a swinish aspie

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