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    Image of cylon_conspiracy cylon_conspiracy
    02:39 AM

    In reply to Get A Better Look At Peter Jackson's Purgatory
    Rachel Weiss is in this movie? Rachel Weiss in 70s fashions? That changes everything.

    Yeah probably going to have to see this now.
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    12/02/09

    In reply to Get A Better Look At Peter Jackson's Purgatory
    Did dads actually have that haircut in the 70's? How do you have any respect for a father figure who looks like one of the Kinks?
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    12/02/09

    In reply to Get A Better Look At Peter Jackson's Purgatory
    This is gonna. Except for Whalberg. But nevertheless, it will rock.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    01:49 AM

    @firstanointed:
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/01/09

    In reply to Susan Sarandon's Alcohol-Soaked Lovely Bones Grandmother Makes Her Debut
    I really loved the book. When I finished reading it I gave it to my mother. She nearly read it in one sitting. Only thanksgiving dinner interrupted her.
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    12/01/09

    In reply to 12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice
    I watched all three LotR movies (extended versions) back to back one Saturday. Started at Noon, finished around Midnight. I don't recommend it.
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    Image of Dennis Medema Dennis Medema
    12/02/09

    @Golem100: i did the same but liked it (tip more people,drinks and food)
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    12/02/09

    @Dennis Medema: No doubt that would have helped. But the wife & kids just have no taste in movies. *grin*
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    Image of TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle
    12/01/09

    In reply to Susan Sarandon's Alcohol-Soaked Lovely Bones Grandmother Makes Her Debut
    Saoirse Ronan absolutely stole the show in Atonement. Had no idea she was playing Susie.

    Can't wait to see this.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    12/01/09

    In reply to Susan Sarandon's Alcohol-Soaked Lovely Bones Grandmother Makes Her Debut
    i don't know if i could watch this movie. the book was intense and just so sad.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    12/01/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: Yeah, I'm honestly on the fence about this film for just that reason.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    12/01/09

    In reply to Susan Sarandon's Alcohol-Soaked Lovely Bones Grandmother Makes Her Debut
    A friend of mine had a small part in this. I have to ask her about it.
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    12/01/09

    In reply to 12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice
    *Cough* Richard Matheson's Somewhere in Time (originally titled "Bid Time Return"). There's some changes but it's still just as beautiful of a story on screen as on film.

    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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    Image of RexMaximus RexMaximus
    12/01/09

    In reply to 12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice
    Going out on a limb here, but I HATE The Lord of the Rings books. I found them painfully slow and incredibly boring and I quit a quarter-way through Two Towers when I realized I only read LOTR to help me get to sleep. However, I loved the movies. Don't get me wrong, I love to read, but fantasy and I just don't get along. (Let's say I started with Robert Jordan and ended with Robert Jordan; you know what I'm talking about if you got into his craptastic followups to Lord of Chaos.)

    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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    Image of Adah Adah
    12/01/09

    @RexMaximus: I still wonder if Jordan had a stroke after Lord of Chaos or something. The books move along at a fairly decent clip, and then wham! Book seven comes and it slows to a freakin' crawl. The guy literally had to die before we got another decent novel in that series.
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    Image of RexMaximus RexMaximus
    12/02/09

    @Adah:, @Lloyd: @sakeido: @Fanboy185: I think I remembered something happening to RJ healthwise around the writing of A Crown of Swords, but I could be wrong. That would make sense, or he simply just lost the plot.

    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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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    12/01/09

    In reply to 12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice
    I still think Bram Stoker's Dracula is a great adaptation. It's the only movie ever made of the book that includes the American character - and the only one that has the multi-transfusion scene from the novel where Mina gets blood from like five guys at once, and which is so demented and wonderful. So there!
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    Image of Mary Ratliff Mary Ratliff
    12/01/09

    In reply to 12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice
    They're fantasy, but Howls' Moving Castle and The Neverending Story are both movies that while they changed a lot of the plots, they stayed true to the real feel and scope of the books, and I think do them great justice.

    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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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    12/01/09

    @Mary Ratliff: I don't think the makers of Minority Report actually read the story. It was like they read the liner notes and made a movie from it.
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    Image of drukus drukus
    12/01/09

    @Mary Ratliff: I felt like the Minority Report film really captured the atmosphere of the original but that is where it ended. However, SS did such a great job of expanding on many of PKD's ideas I still liked it.
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    Image of bookling bookling
    11/30/09

    In reply to 12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice
    Blade Runner is without a doubt a fantastic movie, but I felt like it was pretty loosely based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. There's so much in the book that's not a part of the movie that it almost makes Blade Runner seem empty and bland.
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    Image of Obama takes time to read kotaku's comments... Obama takes time to read kotaku's comments...
    11/30/09

    @bookling: it's more of a light adaptation... but it doesn't excuse the thought provocation of the movie in the slightest... so I still think Blade Runner is a good choice here...
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    12/01/09

    @bookling: I completely agree - Bladerunner and Electric Sheep have very little in common. In fact the Producers of the movie wanted a tie-in book to be released at the same time of the movie that was based on the screenplay and not the book. (It was very common back then. I read several James Bond books based on the movies and not the original Fleming novels.) Philip K. Dick absolutely refused to allow it even when they said he could write it himself and they would pay him for it. The producers had no choice but to release the book as Dick had originally written it. If Philip K. Dick hadn't stuck to his guns then I would have never been introduced to his genius.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    12/01/09

    @bookling: @Obama takes time to read kotaku's comments...: Yeah, the book is very different, and while the movie is important for its design and creation of a lot of the cyberpunk look, it's definitely inferior.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/30/09

    In reply to 12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice
    Definitely LoTR. Left out a lot, even in the 11+ hours of the extended versions. What choice did he have? Still, it really captured all the major themes, mood and everything important.

    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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    Image of Cory Gross Cory Gross
    11/30/09

    In reply to 12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice
    Interesting that you included my personal favorite movie of all time, The Lost World (I even has website! [silentmoviemonsters.tripod.com]). While I obviously adore, adore, adore both the book and the silent film, I freely acknowledge that they have next to nothing to do with each other. Yes they maintain the same essential characters and setting of a plateau with dinosaurs, but that's where it ends. What Rothacker, Hoyt and O'Brien put together was a different beast that stands on its own charms and merits.
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