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07-10-2008, 11:05 PM
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Books you don't want made into movies
Spawned from http://www.writingforums.com/books-a...nto-movie.html
You know it's gonna suck, and that you're going to HAVE to go see it.
Think of the book, then think of Uwe Boll directing it. |
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07-10-2008, 11:54 PM
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Okay, every book I like. Must stay hard or soft cover. nothing else!!!
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07-11-2008, 12:42 AM
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Hmmm. hard to think of books I don't want made into movies. Easier to think of one's I do. I guess basically anything I like, I'd like to see made well or not at all. I would hate to see a bad version of any of my favorite fantasy stuff. That includes Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice books and Robers Jordan't Wheel of Time series. I'd love to see great movies made of these. I'd be really offended to see them destroyed.
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07-11-2008, 12:49 AM
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I would not want to see The Satanic Bible made into a movie.
Aaaah, so much evil!!!
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07-14-2008, 01:14 PM
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Anything I've enjoyed reading--especially long works of fiction. I think short stories can make very good movies because writers have a chance to embellish what's there and fill out that hour-and-a-half rather than decide what they're going to stick from a full-length novel into that same time period. Novels always lose something in the transition.
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07-14-2008, 02:06 PM
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All of them. Movies of books always, unequivocally, suck beyond the telling of it.
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07-14-2008, 05:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam Winchester
All of them. Movies of books always, unequivocally, suck beyond the telling of it.
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I agree with one exception. Lord of the Rings. I enjoy those movies (extended versions, that is) far more than I enjoyed those books, though I'm sure you didn't care for either. |
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07-14-2008, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiamat10
I agree with one exception. Lord of the Rings. I enjoy those movies (extended versions, that is) far more than I enjoyed those books, though I'm sure you didn't care for either.
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God no! I once had to go watch one of those movies with my ex-girlfriend. It was three hours long. I fell a-friggin'-sleep watching the damn thing.
I don't like the books. But that's nothing - I'm not a big fan of that genre anyway.
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07-14-2008, 07:42 PM
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mmm. LOTR is an exception. I forgot about those. The books kinda made me want to end my life..
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07-14-2008, 08:13 PM
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Anything by Stephen King. I like some of his books but they don't translate into good movies, IMO.
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07-14-2008, 08:22 PM
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Ask the Dus...
Oh crap...
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07-17-2008, 02:52 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by starseed
Anything by Stephen King. I like some of his books but they don't translate into good movies, IMO.
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his novellas translate particularly well though: the shawshank redemption, stand by me, the green mile... |
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07-17-2008, 06:06 PM
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Anything by Douglas Clegg or McCammon. F. Paul Wilson could be pretty tragic too.
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07-17-2008, 11:05 PM
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I would say King's books make very successful movies... mostly from writing I wouldn't want to read on a bet.
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07-19-2008, 02:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Sam Winchester
All of them. Movies of books always, unequivocally, suck beyond the telling of it.
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I think both Requiem for a Dream, and the Virgin Suicides, turned out to be better movies than they other novels.
I don't think there's really any novels I like that I wouldn't like to see made into movies. Except the remaining novels of the Twilight series, based on the trailer.
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