This got me to thinking about other movies based on books I've enjoyed. The first five that came to mind were:
The Harry Potter films
IT (the mini-series with Tim Curry as Pennywise)
A Time to Kill (It's not my fave of Grisham's books, but I think it's the best adaptation)
Bridget Jones' Diary
Gone Baby, Gone
">My least favorite book to movie adaptation is WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.
I HATE the movie, love the book.
Tell me KILLER FRIENDS: Which books turned into movies do you love? Which do you hate?
6 comments:
Romancing the Stone was one of my favorites - the sequel book was good, but the second movie - not so much.
Bridges of Madison County.
I've never read IT, but the mini-series seemed pretty good. I really liked King's The Stand (both the book and the mini-series) best though. Although, Carrie wasn't a bad adaptation.
Other books to movies I enjoyed were the HP movies (naturally), To Kill a Mockingbird (Gregory Peck... :sigh:), The Firm, Patriot Games, Jurassic Park. With those last three, I think I enjoyed the films because I saw them before I read the books. If I'd read the book first, I would've been irritated with the movies.
Clarice -- I've never read those books
Em -- A great adaptation, you're right!
B.E. -- IT is my FAVORITE Stephen King novel. Worth reading, imho. I'd read all the books before I saw your list of movies so I imagine my thinking was colored by that.
Cool topic! Lemme think...
I totally agree with you about A Time to Kill, and I'd also add The Firm to that.
I thought Interview with a Vampire was a great adaptation to Rice's novel.
Agree with Em about Bridges, which I thought was a way better movie than it was a book.
And the Shawshank Redemption went above and beyond Stephen King's short story.
What I hated? Michael Chricton's Timeline was a terrible movie. And Pet Sematary, one of my fave books ever - bad movie.
I was neutral on Harry Potter and the Hunger Games.
Jennifer Hillier -- I'd agree with you on Interview With a Vampire....I actually liked the movie better and I'm not even a fan of Cruise or Pitt.
And you're SO right about Pet Sematary....SUCH a disappointment
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