Name the best book to film adaptations
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Original post by Madd Taurusette
It was a novel?****ing love that film, would love to see it in dialect too. They should've at least had footnotes to translate or describe the slang. Would you then read it? 
Yeah by Irvine Welsh. Man it is such a good film! Perhaps I would, I dunno I picked it up in a bookstore once and this was the first page, I thought nope!
Original post by lucymellor
Yeah by Irvine Welsh. Man it is such a good film! Perhaps I would, I dunno I picked it up in a bookstore once and this was the first page, I thought nope!
LMAO are you psychic. I was just doing this, like:
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Original post by lucymellor
Yeah by Irvine Welsh. Man it is such a good film! Perhaps I would, I dunno I picked it up in a bookstore once and this was the first page, I thought nope!
but that's horrible, gotta give it a chance. I'm sure with footnotes and translations it should be no prob
I've been composing a novel for a couple years with a lot of Cockney rhyming slang in it and Jamaican/yardie Patois, and I provide translations in footers. 
Original post by Madd Taurusette
LMAO are you psychic. I was just doing this, like:
Haha are you gonna try reading it? If so then good luck, you're far better than me!
I loved The Book Thief and One Day as film adaptations, they were pretty on par with the books, I was very impressed (especially TBT)
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Original post by Madd Taurusette
I hope you didn't just read it because you saw the film and liked that over-hyped mockery of art
And what would be wrong with that? How many people do you think had read LotR before the movies?
Original post by Charlotte Taylor
I loved The Book Thief and One Day as film adaptations, they were pretty on par with the books, I was very impressed (especially TBT)
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TBT was a good movie, but the book was just too much better imo.
Original post by SarcasticMel
And what would be wrong with that? How many people do you think had read LotR before the movies?
Lots of old people obviously!
And a-HA! So you did read it because you saw it first.
Original post by Madd Taurusette
Lots of old people obviously!
And a-HA! So you did read it because you saw it first.
And a-HA! So you did read it because you saw it first.
You didn't say what was so bad about that?
Fight Club, The Godfather Pt. 1 & 2, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner). Perks of Being a Wallflower impressed me too.
Original post by SarcasticMel
You didn't say what was so bad about that?
I have to piss, no time for this. That was a rhyme, now gimme kiss.
No seriously, I do have to pee and I don't have time for this.
Catching Fire was very impressive
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Original post by SarcasticMel
TBT was a good movie, but the book was just too much better imo.
I am very biased in favour of books; I very rarely see a film adaptation that I prefer to the book, and I adored TBT when I read it, so I was reluctant to watch the film but when I did I was pleasantly surprised, it's one of the better film adaptations out there definitely, so yeah, I do agree that the book was better
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Tess of the d'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy (Roman Polanski's film)
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1448/publi1.jpg
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Jude_Poster.jpg
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Peck,%20Gregory/Annex/Annex%20-%20Peck,%20Gregory%20(To%20Kill%20a%20Mockingbird)_02.jpg
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
http://clzimages.com/movie/large/12/12_51632_0_SenseAndSensibility.jpg
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
http://static.thecia.com.au/reviews/j/jarhead-8.jpg
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
https://vanityvintageallure.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/then-now-revolutionary-road-book-film.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1448/publi1.jpg
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Jude_Poster.jpg
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Peck,%20Gregory/Annex/Annex%20-%20Peck,%20Gregory%20(To%20Kill%20a%20Mockingbird)_02.jpg
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
http://clzimages.com/movie/large/12/12_51632_0_SenseAndSensibility.jpg
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
http://static.thecia.com.au/reviews/j/jarhead-8.jpg
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
https://vanityvintageallure.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/then-now-revolutionary-road-book-film.jpg
The Princess Bride
Original post by Queen Cersei
Gone Girl makes yet another book adaptation to be converted into a film.
Any other ideas of books that have actually been made into a decent film?
Personally I love the newest film adaptation of Jane Eyre (with Fassbender).
Any other ideas of books that have actually been made into a decent film?
Personally I love the newest film adaptation of Jane Eyre (with Fassbender).
The Hunger Games. The Fault In Our Stars. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Casino Royale. No Country For Old Men. Life Of Pi.
Original post by Marco1
Oh! The film was incredible. Very grim subject but wow. Haven't read the book. Ultimately a film of overcoming and liberation but after a terribly cruel and sad life. Emotional and brilliant.
Yeah , it's like one of the saddest films I've ever wached. I didn't like the rape scene though even though it's as graphic as that in the book. I really like the hospital scene, it was quite funny. Haha
Original post by Marco1
Tess of the d'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy (Roman Polanski's film)
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1448/publi1.jpg
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Jude_Poster.jpg
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Peck,%20Gregory/Annex/Annex%20-%20Peck,%20Gregory%20(To%20Kill%20a%20Mockingbird)_02.jpg
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
http://clzimages.com/movie/large/12/12_51632_0_SenseAndSensibility.jpg
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
http://static.thecia.com.au/reviews/j/jarhead-8.jpg
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
https://vanityvintageallure.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/then-now-revolutionary-road-book-film.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1448/publi1.jpg
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Jude_Poster.jpg
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Peck,%20Gregory/Annex/Annex%20-%20Peck,%20Gregory%20(To%20Kill%20a%20Mockingbird)_02.jpg
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
http://clzimages.com/movie/large/12/12_51632_0_SenseAndSensibility.jpg
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
http://static.thecia.com.au/reviews/j/jarhead-8.jpg
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
https://vanityvintageallure.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/then-now-revolutionary-road-book-film.jpg
i didn't like in how to kill a mocking bird they missed out the fire, I thought that was a key scene
The Andrew Davies adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice' with Colin Firth - it really captured Austen's wit and humour.
'The Lord of the Rings' - necessarily abridged but still excellent especially in the extended version.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' - long overdue for a GOOD remake.
'The Lord of the Rings' - necessarily abridged but still excellent especially in the extended version.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' - long overdue for a GOOD remake.
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