Some of the most famous movies in the world are adaptations of middlingly reviewed books - The Godfather, The Graduate, Forrest Gump, Jaws, Fight Club https://twitter.com/adrienneleigh/status/1227361268920614913 …
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People get the impression that movie adaptations can never outshine the book because when they do outshine the book everyone forgets the book The ones that you KNOW are adaptations are the ones where the book is a classic and it's not a fair bar to clear
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I'll go to bat here for Kubrick and say his 2001 is a LOT better than Clarke's 2001 and his The Shining is better than Stephen King's (Douglas Adams said listening to Clarke rant about how much Kubrick cut out and ignored "leaves one with a tremendous respect for Kubrick")
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What else, off the top of my head The Prestige is my favorite Nolan movie and one of my favorite movies period I checked out the novel because of it and I have to say while it wasn't bad I remember a lot less of it
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That's just it, right, if I didn't just tell you it was based on a novel how many of you would know How many people thought of Jojo Rabbit as a novel adaptation before people started talking about it for Best Adapted Screenplay (I'm told the book is fine but not nearly as good)
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Miyazaki's version of 'Howl's Moving Castle' is vastly superior to the Diana Wynne Jones novel.
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To be fair to DWJ, her tone is very hard to translate to film
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The Miyazaki film has to be a very different animal just to be a film
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