…and then dash them when you realize that they’re not adaptations of books of the same title.
Most recently I’ve been disappointed when, upon further investigation, I realized that:
The Losers is not an adaptation of this book. (I’m not sure why the description of the book insists that it’s not fantasy. I remember there being supernatural beings in it)
The Ghost Writer is not an adaptation of this horror novel.
You?
I have a copy of the Losers by D&L E at home. There is no definitive supernatural being in it that I recall. This and High Hunt (and I suppose Regina’s song nowadays) mwere his non fantasy works.
Don’t get me started on “Of Human Bondage.”
“Furry Vengeance” does not appear to be about the most reviled caste of geekdom finally having had enough of the constant belittlement and demanding respect.
Leaves of Grass w/ Edward Norton and Richard Dreyfuss is not an adaptation of the Walt Whitman book - but I do really want to see it.
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Glory Road isn’t based on the Heinlein book.
The Greatest Story Ever Told, was not, not even close.
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing has nothing to do with Youtube.
Snatch.
Well, it could have been about what I thought it was!
(Cue signature line in 3 … 2 … 1 …)
“The Neverending Story.” Talk about false advertising! There were only 3 of them!
Not only that, the first one ended! The mere idea of “The Neverending Story II” is absurd.
Four. There was a direct to video animated feature. (shudder)
To hijack this over to TV, once upon a time I heard there was going to be a new show called ‘Survivor’. I imagined it would involve taking half a dozen ‘regular people’ and dropping them out in the wilderness somewhere, (alone, each person several miles from the next) with a Swiss Army knife and a sleeping bag. Then once week, the crew would visit to see how they were making out. Probably have to have a radio ‘panic button’ or something, but otherwise, just see how they survive. Well, one thing and another, and I never heard too much about the show, nor watched any of the episodes. But I heard people at work talking about “So and so was voted off the island”. I still think my original concept would be worth watching.
About 10 or 12 years ago when I first heard they were making a movie called The Mummy, I was excited because I thought it was going to be based on Anne Rice’s The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned. The book promised further adventures of Ramses, but Rice had never gotten around to writing them and I thought a movie might motivate her to get back to the story.
Agreed, Satchmo. It’s exactly backwards to have the losers be the ones who get off the island. Let someone chop down logs with a pocketknife then lash them into a raft with vines and sail back to civilization, and give that dude the million bucks.
And since someone has to say it, I was immensely disappointed that Starship Troopers and I, Robot weren’t based on the books by those names.
“Star Wars: Episodes I, II and III” didn’t have much in common with that “Star Wars” movie I saw in the 70’s.
The Lawnmower Man. Nothing in common with the Stephen King story.
I have had this opinion for many years now and have brayed about it on these very boards. So, I agree.
When I first heard there was a movie based on The High Crusade, I was intrigued. That was a pretty good book with interesting action scenes and a well thought out plot. Crusaders with halberds fighting blue tailed aliens with blasters. Lobbing captured nuclear weapons with trebuchets. That’s fun but when I actual bought the DVD…ooooooh. I have not seen anything suck that bad since the black hole simulation at the planetarium.
The movie was technically based on the book but the difference were so vast that I can’t consider it a proper adaptation.