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"Every Stephen King. Agreed! " Me too! The only two films I can think of that were as good as the books are Shutter Island and Mystic River, they pretty much kept to Dennis Lehane's books so they worked. | |||
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"Stardust. I love Neil Gaiman but the film blew the book out of the water. " Was gonna say the same. The book was way too short, considering the world building. He could've put in so much more detail. | |||
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"Stardust. I love Neil Gaiman but the film blew the book out of the water. Was gonna say the same. The book was way too short, considering the world building. He could've put in so much more detail." I'm torn on this one. I adore the film. It's my go-to comfort film. But the writing...  | |||
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"Stardust. I love Neil Gaiman but the film blew the book out of the water. Was gonna say the same. The book was way too short, considering the world building. He could've put in so much more detail." Agreed. I prefer the ending in the film, plus Robert De Niro was amazing | |||
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"Stardust. I love Neil Gaiman but the film blew the book out of the water. " Yes. I may get shot here…. I think he’s better as a screenwriter 🙈 | |||
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"Oh, Blade Runner. I much prefer it to the Philip K. Dick novel." I do like his books but they could get a bit convoluted, although Total Recall is a good read and a great film, the original Total Recall not the awful re-make. | |||
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"Every Stephen King." Even Stephen King wouldn't say that! He hates The Shining, The Lawnmower Man, and Maximum Overdrive, and he directed that one! | |||
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"Stardust. I love Neil Gaiman but the film blew the book out of the water. Yes. I may get shot here…. I think he’s better as a screenwriter 🙈" 😱 | |||
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"Every Stephen King." Yep. Strongly disagree on the Gaiman slander (as much as it's a comfort film) but King? Yes. | |||
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"Jaws is a better film than the book by far!" I can vaguely remember there was a very well fingered sex scene in the book that saw me through my sticky teenage years | |||
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"Every Stephen King. Yep. Strongly disagree on the Gaiman slander (as much as it's a comfort film) but King? Yes." Oh, I read it the wrong way round, Stephen King books are way better than the films. And I agree with the Gaiman slander, sorry ❤️ | |||
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"Jaws is a better film than the book by far! I can vaguely remember there was a very well fingered sex scene in the book that saw me through my sticky teenage years" It was like reading a soft porn book with a massive shark making an apperance every now and again! | |||
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"And I agree with the Gaiman slander, sorry ❤️" That's okay Daizy, I knew your taste was... well, something after your cheese revelation. 🧡 | |||
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"The hhgttg films were no where near as good as the books " What's an jhgghhtsg film? | |||
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"And I agree with the Gaiman slander, sorry ❤️ That's okay Daizy, I knew your taste was... well, something after your cheese revelation. 🧡" You are very forgiving of me Meli 🥰 | |||
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"I recall seeing a list of films that were adapted from Stephen king's books that Stephen king actually liked. -It was very short list. I think "stand by me" was on there & "the Shawshank redemption" & I think the original "carrie" (not the remake.)" I think he liked The Green Mile as well. | |||
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"The hhgttg films were no where near as good as the books What's an jhgghhtsg film? " Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |||
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"Oh! The Ritual. Loved the film. The book less so. " Have you read Last Days by him Meli? It was a much better read than The Ritual. | |||
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"Oh! The Ritual. Loved the film. The book less so. Have you read Last Days by him Meli? It was a much better read than The Ritual." I haven't actually, it's something I'm keeping an eye out for. It's good to know it's better! Loved No One Gets Out Alive and Banquet for the Damned, didn't really get on with The Ritual. | |||
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"Oh! The Ritual. Loved the film. The book less so. Have you read Last Days by him Meli? It was a much better read than The Ritual. I haven't actually, it's something I'm keeping an eye out for. It's good to know it's better! Loved No One Gets Out Alive and Banquet for the Damned, didn't really get on with The Ritual." I didn't either, I was alright till the metal heads living out in the woods turned up! I will say the ending of Last Days is a bit, what?! If you want a good read and you haven't read it there is a book called Twelve by Jasper Kent, it is set in a historical time period has some mean and nasty vampires in it and is a love story, it is a really good read. | |||
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"Oh, Blade Runner. I much prefer it to the Philip K. Dick novel. " 100% | |||
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"I like the film "sleepwalkers" It gets progressively more silly, but it's entertaining...king has a cameo role in it, like he does in a few films. Haven't read the book though. I like Clive Barker's film adaptations a lot though. " He liked The Mist by the same director as The Shawshank Redemption - he even approved of changes made to the story. | |||
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"I recall seeing a list of films that were adapted from Stephen king's books that Stephen king actually liked. -It was very short list. I think "stand by me" was on there & "the Shawshank redemption" & I think the original "carrie" (not the remake.) I think he liked The Green Mile as well." I believe he is going to be involved in the remake of "Under the Dome" | |||
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"When they make a film of a book... Which do you prefer.? The film or the book? For me... I can't think of one film that's better than the book.. You.? " Agreed 👍 With books 📚 your imagination takes over, but films seem to shatter that, when they make a film of it.. | |||
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"The only one that comes to mind is Sleeping With the Enemy. Very tense and well-made film, yet utterly mediocre book. " completely. i almost never saw the film because the book was so lacking in tension | |||
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"They're different and I enjoy both. For instance I love the Starship Troopers book, and I also love the film despite all of the material that they cut or adapted. A well made film can be just as good as the book but in a different way. LvM " The film of Starship Troopers also has the exact opposite political leaning to the book I believe. | |||
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"They're different and I enjoy both. For instance I love the Starship Troopers book, and I also love the film despite all of the material that they cut or adapted. A well made film can be just as good as the book but in a different way. LvM The film of Starship Troopers also has the exact opposite political leaning to the book I believe." As far as I'm aware, they're both heavily satirical of right wing politics and obsessions with the military industrial complex. LvM | |||
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"Oh! The Ritual. Loved the film. The book less so. Have you read Last Days by him Meli? It was a much better read than The Ritual. I haven't actually, it's something I'm keeping an eye out for. It's good to know it's better! Loved No One Gets Out Alive and Banquet for the Damned, didn't really get on with The Ritual. I didn't either, I was alright till the metal heads living out in the woods turned up! I will say the ending of Last Days is a bit, what?! If you want a good read and you haven't read it there is a book called Twelve by Jasper Kent, it is set in a historical time period has some mean and nasty vampires in it and is a love story, it is a really good read. " Oh brilliant, thank you for the recommendation! I've got a few to get through currently (Night Bitch, Out There Screaming, Ninth House, and a reread of The Historian and Gothic Tales because it's that time of year) but I'm definitely adding that to the list. Thank you Daizy, I'll stop with the cheese teasing!🧡 | |||
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"They're different and I enjoy both. For instance I love the Starship Troopers book, and I also love the film despite all of the material that they cut or adapted. A well made film can be just as good as the book but in a different way. LvM The film of Starship Troopers also has the exact opposite political leaning to the book I believe. As far as I'm aware, they're both heavily satirical of right wing politics and obsessions with the military industrial complex. LvM" I haven't read the book but the general consensus is that the book isn't a satire - Heinlein was very right-wing, whereas the film satirises the views expressed in the book. | |||
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"Oh! The Ritual. Loved the film. The book less so. Have you read Last Days by him Meli? It was a much better read than The Ritual. I haven't actually, it's something I'm keeping an eye out for. It's good to know it's better! Loved No One Gets Out Alive and Banquet for the Damned, didn't really get on with The Ritual. I didn't either, I was alright till the metal heads living out in the woods turned up! I will say the ending of Last Days is a bit, what?! If you want a good read and you haven't read it there is a book called Twelve by Jasper Kent, it is set in a historical time period has some mean and nasty vampires in it and is a love story, it is a really good read. Oh brilliant, thank you for the recommendation! I've got a few to get through currently (Night Bitch, Out There Screaming, Ninth House, and a reread of The Historian and Gothic Tales because it's that time of year) but I'm definitely adding that to the list. Thank you Daizy, I'll stop with the cheese teasing!🧡" I like the cheese teasing 😊 I also love The Historian one of my favourite books, I haven't heard of the others so I'll have a look for them. | |||
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"Most of the Philip Marlowe movies starring Humphrey Bogart are better than the original novels." Nooooo. No no no. The films might be decent, but the books are only matched by Dashel Hammet in the genre. “She was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. “ | |||
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"Oh! The Ritual. Loved the film. The book less so. Have you read Last Days by him Meli? It was a much better read than The Ritual. I haven't actually, it's something I'm keeping an eye out for. It's good to know it's better! Loved No One Gets Out Alive and Banquet for the Damned, didn't really get on with The Ritual. I didn't either, I was alright till the metal heads living out in the woods turned up! I will say the ending of Last Days is a bit, what?! If you want a good read and you haven't read it there is a book called Twelve by Jasper Kent, it is set in a historical time period has some mean and nasty vampires in it and is a love story, it is a really good read. Oh brilliant, thank you for the recommendation! I've got a few to get through currently (Night Bitch, Out There Screaming, Ninth House, and a reread of The Historian and Gothic Tales because it's that time of year) but I'm definitely adding that to the list. Thank you Daizy, I'll stop with the cheese teasing!🧡 I like the cheese teasing 😊 I also love The Historian one of my favourite books, I haven't heard of the others so I'll have a look for them." Cheese teasing? 🧀 | |||
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"The only one that comes to mind is Sleeping With the Enemy. Very tense and well-made film, yet utterly mediocre book. Usually I find a book is better, there are subtleties written which can't really be replicated visually, especially a character's thought process. " Ah, brilliant performance from Patrick Bergin! | |||
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"Almost always the book for me. Too many films change the plot to simplify and the characters become less nuanced. I get why but it takes away from it for me. " Slightly off topic, but I hate when films invent stiff they didn’t happen in fact-based stories. For example, the truth regularly goes out the window in biopics like Bohemian Rhapsody. And historians often end up banging their heads in the wall after shite like Braveheart | |||
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"Watership Down. Angela Morley's sound track, not many female composers get to write film score like that and and the voices just adds gravitas and pathos. Joss Ackland and John Hurt, along with Hannah Gordon and Richard Briers. You can't get that from a book. I need sound tracks. Would Top Gun work as a novel?" I think Top Gun was based on a large magazine article and Maverick based on an actual instructor | |||
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"Watership Down. Angela Morley's sound track, not many female composers get to write film score like that and and the voices just adds gravitas and pathos. Joss Ackland and John Hurt, along with Hannah Gordon and Richard Briers. You can't get that from a book. I need sound tracks. Would Top Gun work as a novel? I think Top Gun was based on a large magazine article and Maverick based on an actual instructor" 10 points to you for that. Quote "California magazine in May 1983. That article, titled “Top Guns” and written by Ehud Yonay" | |||
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" always love the book more. Though the green mile and shawshank redemption are two of my all time favourite films still but i can still think of several of his books id like to see a film off. The dark tower film was bloody awful. As a film i did like misery though too. I love the lord of the rings trilogy but still prefer the books. Game of thrones though not a film was a great series but the books were better until he stopped writing them half way through which spoiled the end totally and it annoys me that i now have an incomplete set of books. " Never been so disappointed in a film as I was with dark tower. Waited years for it, my all time favourite books and it was dire. | |||
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" always love the book more. Though the green mile and shawshank redemption are two of my all time favourite films still but i can still think of several of his books id like to see a film off. The dark tower film was bloody awful. As a film i did like misery though too. I love the lord of the rings trilogy but still prefer the books. Game of thrones though not a film was a great series but the books were better until he stopped writing them half way through which spoiled the end totally and it annoys me that i now have an incomplete set of books. Never been so disappointed in a film as I was with dark tower. Waited years for it, my all time favourite books and it was dire." They are making the Dark Tower into a tv series it is supposed to be more faithful to the books 🤞🤞 | |||
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