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Stomp the Yard
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| Originally posted by jeronimo_jd Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash) imdb link You can watch the movie, and then read the book for details, (and the ending is so much better in the book). It's true based story. |
fight club b*itches
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| Originally posted by nchs09 Stomp the Yard |
Finally saw "There Will Be Blood" - great adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel.
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| Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov Finally saw "There Will Be Blood" - great adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel. |
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| Originally posted by Mebot This was based on a book? |
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Sin City
Trainspotting
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| Originally posted by nchs09 Stomp the Yard |
Harry Potter!
I keed, I keed... 
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| Originally posted by Meat187 OK, the movies are all rather good, but what do they add that is of value, other than CGI? |
Children of Men
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| Originally posted by tubularbills Misery. |
if someone read the whole of Trainspotting as a book, good on them. the accent was a bit much!
No Country For Old Men, when i first read the book i knew it would become a movie, but how it follows the plot spot on, even when the book was confusing was amazing. the characters were perfect, the ending just as subversive|
(no one likely read the book tho, amirite?)
Go from the novel written by Kazuki Kaneshiro
Although it claims to be a story about love, it deals with a lot of interesting problems in contemporary society, most of them concerning nationalism. Basically, it tells the story of a Japanese guy of Korean origins and his troubled relationship with a Japanese girl.
Battle Royale from the novel written by Koushun Takami
Sometimes I wonder whether no one else ignored all the gore and thought of Thomas Hobbes and Philip Zimbardo throughout the film... but, well, I nerdly did. In any case, the things depicted in that film probably wouldn't be nearly as shocking if you just read the novel.
The Godfather -> Easily my favorite book ever and also one of my all-time favorite movies, if not the favorite.
Fight Club -> Awesome, awesome read. Jim Uhls did a great job in adapting the madness that is the book into the screen. I would even dare to say he made the movie a tad more enjoyable and appealing than the book.
I think those are the only movies that I remember that I have both read the book it's based on and the movie adaptation. Then, there's a bunch of movies that I've loved that I know are based on books (or graphic novels) but haven't read them yet.
The Shawshank Redemption
Trainspotting
American Psycho
Silence of the Lambs
300
Sin City
The Prestige
A History of Violence
Lord of the Rings
Goodfellas
Casino
i liked the divinci code or the relic was cool too
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| Originally posted by AustralianGQ i liked the divinci code or the relic was cool too |
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| Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Beautiful soundtrack as well. |
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| Originally posted by biznology if someone read the whole of Trainspotting as a book, good on them. the accent was a bit much! |
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| Originally posted by Sushipunk Lol, I've read it a few times. I found it takes about 20 mins on each reading session to get into the flow of the phonetic Scottish, but after that it becomes pretty easy. Some of the slang was a bit tricky though, I had to text my Scottish friends to ask what the fucking words meant Me: "Hey man, what the fuck is a 'Bufty?'" Friend: "What?!? Why???" |
Someone needs to make a movie of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
I'm only half way through reading it for the first time and it is fucking brilliant.
For anyone that's read it:
Wikipedia informs me that the movie rights have already been purchased and that Angelina Jolie is to play Dagny Taggart and Brad Pitt John Galt, which sounds like the worst thing I can imagine.
Even though I don't like her, Natalie Portman would be awesome for Dagny Taggart and perhaps Christian Bale for Hank Rearden...
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| Originally posted by Beat Blog Someone needs to make a movie of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. |
oh yeah surprised no1 has mentioned Jurassic Park!
I agree with most of these. I also liked John Harrion's version of Dune. It was pretty much spot on, especially the dialogue; though they could have made a better choice for Baron Harkonnen.
As for Atlas Shrugged, that's been in the works for years. The newest one is supposed to have Pitt and Jolie playing Galt and Dagny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_...Film_adaptation
Should be interesting to see how it turns out....I'm looking forward to it. Have a massive crush on the book, lol.
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