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This thread is for naming good book-to-film moments. And bad ones if you want. Please! Nothing about Lord of the Rings. That argument has been overkilled and over discussed, and honestly I don't want two btf's mentioned and have the rest filled with LOTR stuff.
And no graphic novel-to-films either...once again, over done.


One of the tops on my list is To Kill a Mockingbird. Great book, great movie.

Obviously, for me, the Godfather is akin to gospel. Puzo wrote it based upon his family with no prior knowledge of Cosa Nostra. The similarities are amazing.

Of course there is also Fight Club. Truly wonderful.

Almost all of my favorite movies have been adapted from books (or plays).

They typically have a better thought out plot and characters than the Hollywood spawned screenplays that feed on the fad of the minute and cost $21 billion dollars to produce with big explosions and explicit nudity.

It's true that some really good books have been butchered for the silver screen, but I always expect the movie to be not as good as the book, and try to keep my expectations low. sweatdrop

I'm a little worried about the "Hitchhiker's Guide" movie..... I don't think I'm terribly excited that they made the book into a film. I have a feeling that it's going to be bad.... really bad. gonk

Amen. Although two of the actors were in Shaun of the Dead, so it has potential.

But I really really hope they don't Fsck it up.

One movie I know is going to just plain out be bad is War of the Worlds. Even if it is a Tom Cruise-Steven Spielberg film. That one should stay in the radio forever.

Wasn't that already made into a movie a long, long, long time ago or am I thinking of something else?

With the risk of seeming a bit late and mentioning a movie few foreigners know about - "Ondskan"

Based on a book by Jan Guillou, about a young man who ends up being thrown out of school, his principal telling every other school in the area not to accept him. His mother manages to get enough money to send him to a private-school. There he finds himself in a world very different from what was outside. It was a school filled with upperclass brats, those whose parents could pay for education. The conservative right ruled their ideals and social status didn't really matter, since "everyone was upperclass anyway."
He is introduced to the concept of "Kamratuppfostran" (roughly "being raised by your comrades"), one which basically means that the teachers never meddle in the student's actions when they're not in class and instead allow the upperclassmen to treat the newer students however they want to, in order to make them "fit in."

It is definitelly more of a guy-movie, but one which delves deep into the soul of our country, as well as a quite accurate description of the fifties.

It is one of those rare movies that still display what we once concidered honourable, what we have despised, admired, feared, something which I do not think american movies will ever understand.

I'd also suggest Moodyson's productions, but their somewhat depressing nature usually leads to me only ever watching them once, no matter how good they are.

That and I have been known to randomly blurt out the most famed line of Inigo Montaya since I've been about three. The movie really does make you feel quite warm internally.