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Also, if fantasy is on the table- The Wizard of Oz and Return to Oz are, needless to say, awesome adaptations.
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LOTR was a casualty of my dislike for the genre, but the movies were so well-made on so many different levels that I gave it a pass and rank them among my favorite movies.
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I read the Sword of Truth to about Temple of the Winds, but never continued. I liked SoT as a teen, but I even then I found its violence, sex, and violent sex a little disturbing, alongside the Ayn Rand-lite philosophy. I'll give it another go eventually, and dabble with the other recommendations.
As for Peter Jackson's changes/deletions, I would have really liked the Tom Bombadil chapter in Fellowship of the Ring, but everything else just fit like a glove. When I read that part, I kept thinking of that crazy Trumpy flying toys around the kid's bedroom scene from the MST3k episode on "Pod People." It was that weird. If any of you MST fans got that, kudos to you.
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I haven't read Coraline, but I've heard the same of it.
I know a lot of people disagree, but I feel like Minority Report did a good job with what it had to work with (it's not my favorite of PKD's short stories).
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Take my advice though, don't watch it all in one day. Pick a three day weekend (new years is traditional in the Lizardo household since the sun goes down early and you don't have to deal with glare on the TV) and watch one a day.
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1. Bram Stoker's Dracula--Any adaptation which requires Keanu Reeves to play a Victorian Englishman is, de facto, a bad, bad adaptation.
2. Handmaid's Tale. Completely missed the point of the book. Screwed up the ending.
3. Children of Men
An excellent movie, but a terrible adaptation of the book. Completely changed the main character, his relationship with Jasper, his relationship with his cousin, completely changed the nature of the 3 Fishes. Changed the ending. Bad adaptation.
If you completely change the FUNDAMENTAL PREMISE of the book, the main character, the secondary characters, and the relationship between the main and secondary characters, well, you might have a good movie, but you won't have a good adaptation. If you took "Citizen Kane" and made Rosebud his second wife instead of !SPOILER! that other thing, and made Kane an affable hobo instead of The World's Richest Man, you could maybe craft a pretty good movie--hobo-dom is full of dramatic potential, after all--but it would be wrong to call "Charlie Kane: Hobo at Large" a good adaptation of the original "Citizen Kane."
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In other words, after seeing he fantastic movie I had to wonder if the maudlin, poorly paced, atrociously written book I'd taken out of the library with its nonsensical and completely unbelievable ending was another book with the Children of Men cover put on it by accident. It really was a let down after such an engaging movie.
A book has to be bad if the movie adaptation is not only superior, but bears almost no resemblance to it.
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Let the Right One In?
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