Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was much better than Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Like Forrest Gump, they just took a basic idea and some character names and built a completely different plot. Both were a huge improvement.
Creepy and uplifting at the same time.
I call that an achievement!
Thanks; you’re right, it was Censored, not Erased.
Interesting. I’ve re-read the book many times and loved it each time, but I’ve always thought that the film was dreadful.
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Clockwork Orange: The Glossary-less Edition vs Kubrick + Wendy Carlos.
On that note, The Short-Timers came up short next to Full Metal Jacket.
Got to agree with you about Tolkien,long on names ,short on description.
First Blood,mediocre book ,good movie,my caveat is that the other Rambo movies were used toilet paper.
I’ll have to go with the snippets and general feel of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? being turned into one of the three best Sci-Fi movies of the early 80s, Blade Runner. (The other two were Aliens and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.) The book was interesting, but odd. It didn’t seem to have much of a real story, but it had really cool parts and a wicked cool feel. The movie got the feel down even better than the book, and focused on one small part of the book’s narrative (while adding quite a bit of new material).
Isn’t that the film where they had to change the ending drastically when they suddenly found out the guy was a Nazi?
Not sure what you mean. They did change the ending somewhat, but who’s “they” that found out the guy was a Nazi?
I’ll probably go to hell for this, but I thought the movie version of The Count of Monte Cristo was much better than the book. The book spent way too much time talking about sums of money and how much everything cost. The movie did a good job of catching how all-consuming the desire for revenge was while leaving out a lot of the sub-plots that really didn’t add anything but a need for flow-charting the characters.
That’s going to depend: Which version of the movie are you talking about?
This one is only partially true: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney. The movie’s been filmed three times (with a fourth on the way). The book is a very effective, paranoid little thriller – up until the ending, which takes you right out of the story:
All the pods suddenly defy gravity, float up into the sky and depart our planet. I’m not making this up.
Almost any other ending would be an improvement on that, and the three movies I’ve seen all had somewhat different endings (different from the book, and different from each other).
It has to be Fahrenheit 451.
I watched this a couple of days ago. Reading the book’s plot summary on wikipedia, it’s vastly different, mostly much less detail-oriented, which was IMO the film’s strength. The characters are completely different, as well as the film’s focus. The WP entry on the film calls it a ‘loose adaptation’ of the book.