The Shining
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True 90%, but of the two movies I think that have made par with their books, the Shining with Jack Nicolson is one, the other is To Kill a Mockingbird.punisher wrote:x2 on the book.Flabby Chick wrote:The book, the book. Movies are for ingrates i'm sorry.
EDIT: Steady on Flabby, too much wine clouds the mind.
Lord of the Rings?Gooberman wrote:True 90%, but of the two movies I think that have made par with their books, the Shining with Jack Nicolson is one, the other is To Kill a Mockingbird.punisher wrote:x2 on the book.Flabby Chick wrote:The book, the book. Movies are for ingrates i'm sorry.
EDIT: Steady on Flabby, too much wine clouds the mind.
Incidentally, who here has read The Stand by King? I think that's my favorite King book.
Never read the books, couldn't compare. The movies were done very well, but not my cup of tea.punisher wrote:Lord of the Rings?Gooberman wrote:True 90%, but of the two movies I think that have made par with their books, the Shining with Jack Nicolson is one, the other is To Kill a Mockingbird.punisher wrote:x2 on the book.Flabby Chick wrote:The book, the book. Movies are for ingrates i'm sorry.
EDIT: Steady on Flabby, too much wine clouds the mind.
Incidentally, who here has read The Stand by King? I think that's my favorite King book.
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The "Trashcan man" from The Stand is one of my favoutite ficticious characters, certainly in the top ten. I, by a narrow margin would have to say "It" was the book i enjoyed the most. The gunslinger series however knocked 'me' (Mobius?) socks off.punisher wrote:Incidentally, who here has read The Stand by King? I think that's my favorite King book.
As to the whole "movie 'v' book" thang? Off hand i can think of a couple of films that lived up to the book-i'm assuming here that y'all agree with me why i think the written word is preferable- but only one surpasses my expectations. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, To Kill a Mockingbird (as Goobs said) and Olivier's Hamlet. I include the latter, not just because it's Olivier, but i reckon Shakespere cannot be read, it has to be seen.
The film that blew a great book away; for me anyway, was 2001: A Space odyssey....there's probably more, but that's all i can think of for the mo'.
Shanaa Tova....Happy new year.
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