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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
12-08-2007, 11:21 AM
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Wordsmith
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Shining played out pretty well. Carrie made a lot of money, as I recall.
Wish they'd do the Dark Tower thing, actually.
(I've never read any King books, though. I don't like horror and such.)
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12-08-2007, 11:52 AM
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Adept Writer
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How can anyone say Children Of The Corn isn't a great movie? I'm talking only of the first one, of course. The two next are fair enough, but nowhere near the first one. The third one even ended everything, so making part four, five and god knows how many more are pointless. But as for the first one, it's brilliant.
Anyway, other books that shouldn't be turned into movies are Lord Of The Rings, Dragonlance, Eragon, His Dark Material, Wheel Of Time and pretty much any other fantasy novel. It's kinda pointless to keep releasing crap fantasy movies by people who don't even like fantasy with people who don't even like fantasy (Nicole Kidman, for instance, says openly she isn't exactly a big fan of fantasy) just to make money. I wouldn't automatically turn down a Dragonlance movie, but that's just because I keep buying books even after I'm a bit sick of the whole thing just in case I can fall in love with the series again at some point. 
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12-09-2007, 12:35 PM
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Prolific Writer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WriterDude
How can anyone say Children Of The Corn isn't a great movie?
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I thought you were discredited from any opinions relating to "Good" movies? This comment further stresses the reason for concern.
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12-12-2007, 02:16 PM
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Scribe
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Brick Lane. Lousy plot only redeemed by being beautifully written. "Hey," cry the geniuses in the British film industry, "Let's turn it into a movie where you'll get none of the beautiful writing and all of the lousy plot."
Personally, I'd like to see Hollywood do Roget's Thesaurus and turn it into a Brad Pitt/Julia Roberts romcom
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12-12-2007, 07:08 PM
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Ink Slinger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rahvin
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Not because it would make a bad movie, but because every attempt to far has failed miserably. I don't think anyone can/will do it properly.
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Ok the movie itself was poopy, but the animated guide excerpts were brilliant.
The Hitchhiker's books could be made into movies if the filmmakers accepted them for what they are and didn't try to make some sort of story out of them. Plot is completely incidental to the HH books. It wasn't until the 6th time I read them that I realized they had any plot at all.
My addition to the thread:
Anything by Marcel Proust.
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12-24-2007, 10:44 AM
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I thought the first hitchhiker's film was ok, admittedly the second was slightly weird. Still I agree that hitchhikers isn't easily translated to a film on account of it not having a strong plot so may be they should just leave it as a book....
I heard they were making a film of the bartimaeus books which might turn out well, or could ruin it...
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Last edited by MerryLlama : 12-24-2007 at 10:48 AM.
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12-24-2007, 11:15 AM
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i don't think any book shouldn't be made into a movie, fair enough if they cock it up, they could always do it justice.
Though i agree with the wheel of time, that would be a ridiculously long film, which i would unfortunately watch several times, lol.
(oh i do agree with eragorn, lol. dreadful stuff)
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12-24-2007, 01:20 PM
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They should try to avoid the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks unless they want slow motion sequences. Lots of slow motion sequences...
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12-25-2007, 03:14 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MerryLlama
I thought the first hitchhiker's film was ok, admittedly the second was slightly weird.
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I'm sorry, what? There was a second movie?
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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.
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12-25-2007, 04:44 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by duck
That is easy - Every Stephen King book!
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Bullshit. How about Misery?
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12-25-2007, 11:17 AM
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anything by James Joyce or Virginia Woolf, save for maybe Orlando. Any of Margaret Atwood's non-dystopic novels.
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12-25-2007, 05:50 PM
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Ink Slinger
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Originally Posted by The Backward OX
Bullshit. How about Misery?
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The Shining is a Kubrick film for God's sake.
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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.
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12-25-2007, 06:21 PM
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Mentor
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Green Mile was pretty decent, too.
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12-25-2007, 08:10 PM
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Ink Slinger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OX
Bullshit. How about Misery?
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Originally Posted by ClancyBoy
The Shining is a Kubrick film for God's sake.
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This is the second time recently I've seen you make unconnected remarks. Have you been forgetting to take your medication?
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12-26-2007, 07:23 PM
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Infinite Jest
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West
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