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Post by kolchak92 on Apr 23, 2019 14:41:24 GMT
I ask because I just finished reading Ghost Story by Peter Straub, which is better in every way, shape and form than the 1981 film, which I can barely even watch anymore.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 23, 2019 17:01:36 GMT
Can't say I liked it but I didn't mind World War Z (2013). Only reading Max Brooks' original book years later did I realize how toothless and watered down the whole affair was. They really should have made it into a miniseries or an HBO show or something.
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Post by rizdek on Apr 23, 2019 18:18:53 GMT
Absolutely. I used to like the various version of Jane Eyre...I own ~9 different versions, and I enjoyed watching them. Then someone said..."oh read the book, you'll love it and the movies will be so much more enjoyable." Well, I did and now, I don't want to watch ANY of my Jane Eyre adaptations.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 23, 2019 20:39:40 GMT
If I liked the movie already, I usually still like it after I read the book. If I read the book first and the movie wasn't as good, then sure, but it's never retroactively changed my mind. Most I can say is if I already disliked the movie, reading the superior book made me dislike it more.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 24, 2019 11:24:44 GMT
I used to love the "Logan's Run" movie. I loved it so much I read the book. After reading the book, I disliked the movie.
I agree with the author/critic (IIRC it was Jeff Rovin) who wrote that the film adaptation "should have been called 'Logan's Ruin', because that's exactly what it does to the excellent novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson."
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Apr 24, 2019 11:34:12 GMT
No.
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Post by mecano04 on Apr 24, 2019 16:31:25 GMT
Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo)
I understand the challenge of adapting the book but it just never came close to the same "greatness".
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Post by lowtacks86 on Apr 24, 2019 16:48:26 GMT
Sort of. It's flawed, but I actually do like the original "It" miniseries, then I read the book and found about the infamous kids scene that wasn't included in the movie (I think you guys know which one). They compromised a bit with the 2017 version and indluded a "toned" down version of the scene.
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Post by geode on Apr 24, 2019 20:33:10 GMT
I used to love the "Logan's Run" movie. I loved it so much I read the book. After reading the book, I disliked the movie. I agree with the author/critic (IIRC it was Jeff Rovin) who wrote that the film adaptation "should have been called 'Logan's Ruin', because that's exactly what it does to the excellent novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson." The film "Logan's Run" had moments, but I really disliked the book that I subsequently read as I found it to be a near total ripoff of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"...not very well disguised. For instance "firemen" became "sandmen" and the lead character goes renegade from a controlling society. Bradbury's book is far better written.
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Post by Marv on Apr 24, 2019 20:57:04 GMT
Not often. Usually if I seek a book out after I’ve seen a movie, I really enjoyed that movie.
One exception may be No Country for Old Men. I sought the book out in order to see if they cut scenes out around Moss’s death. Was bummed to find out that the book was as anticlimactic as the movie.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 24, 2019 22:19:30 GMT
I used to love the "Logan's Run" movie. I loved it so much I read the book. After reading the book, I disliked the movie. I agree with the author/critic (IIRC it was Jeff Rovin) who wrote that the film adaptation "should have been called 'Logan's Ruin', because that's exactly what it does to the excellent novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson." The film "Logan's Run" had moments, but I really disliked the book that I subsequently read as I found it to be a near total ripoff of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"...not very well disguised. For instance "firemen" became "sandmen" and the lead character goes renegade from a controlling society. Bradbury's book is far better written. I've read "Fahrenheit 451" too, and I admit there are parallels. But I think it's a stretch to call "Logan's Run" "a near total ripoff".
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Apr 24, 2019 22:27:19 GMT
I prefer reading the book before the movie, but it sometimes happens the other way round. Thus far, it's never affected me in the manner your describe. After reading Stephen King's The Shining, for example, I ended up preferring the film - which I'd watched years beforehand.
Ghost Story is on my reading list by the way.
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