Comparing Edgar Rice Burroughs to Arthur Conan Doyle?
And you call yourself a writer!
Read The Annotated Lost World and get back to us.
Definitely a Good Book. Our perspectives clearly differ.
Heh.
It turns out that the same director’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man isn’t bad at all. A much more film-ready book, obviously.
I really enjoyed Strick’s Ulysses, and think it was a triumph. It does a good job of conveying a little of the flavour of some parts of Joyce’s novel, and is a nice companion to it. More of a pet than a real companion, maybe..
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I hope they do a good job with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The book was awesome.
Haven’t read the book. Really liked the movie.
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Thread winner! 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
AWESOME comic.
HORRIBLE movie. Just horrible.
Scarlett.
UGH! (well technically it was a mini-series). I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse movie made from an enjoyable book.
I liked it. Not high cinema or anything (whatever the standard is, that critics insist “bad” movies never reach, I’ve never seen it, but whatever), but entertaining, campy and fun.
I recall when I saw the movie version of “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn,” it was horrible.
The casting was awful, they had to combine the characters to get them in the movie, they changed the personalities of some of the characters etc.
The problem was the book covered so much time it spanned the 17 years of Francie and had a back plot extending before. You simply couldn’t cover the book in 90 minutes or less.
So they focuses on select parts of the book and the messages didn’t make sense.
“Watership Down”. AAAAAAAUGH!! What was with that awful hippie song “Bright Eyes”??
I am still hoping the company that produced “Babe” will make Watership the same way. Not animated, but still bloody. Hey, they’re rabbits not Disney bunnies! 
I’ll give that movie some credit for two things- best Dana Delaney performance* and best looking Rosie O’Donnell.
*For the same reason GIA was Angelina Jolie’s best.
I’ll give you the Dana Delaney comment. Rosie, though? I wouldn’t fuck her with a stolen dick (of course, since I’m male, chances are that I’ll never have to find out).
Oh my God, I can’t believe I’ve been reading this thread for days and just now remembered The Lords of Discipline.
I loved this book so much when I read it, and I had high hopes for the movie. But I was let down hard. The film got some things right - the casting was pretty good - but butchered the story.
The animated adaptation of Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn also rather . . . . disappointed.
There was some talk a few years back of a live-action adaptation (starring Alan Arkin as Schemdrick) but it has been stuck in Production Hell like forever.
Scarlett was a good book? It’s one of the few books I’ve try to read but could not finish.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It’s so bad I wonder if Clint Eastwood had actually read the book.
Eight Million Ways To Die bears only a superficial resemblance to the Lawrence Block novel, and is a crappy movie besides (apart from a memorable screaming match which I believe still holds the cinematic record for most "FUCK YOU!"s in a short sequence). I don’t think there’s ever been a good movie made from a Block novel.
Similarly, there have been at least two Travis McGee movies made from John MacDonald novels, both crummy B-pictures.
Comic?