What movies adapted from books do you think has the same level of quality as the source material?
For me it is The Shining. They are so different from each other, but they're both equally enjoyable in my mind. I also wasn't too scared of either the film nor book, so mutual feelings in that regard as well.
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The Magicians show and books are completely different, but they compliment each other really well.
If you ask people “What’s the best fantasy book series?” and “What’s the best fantasy film series?”, a whole lot of people will answer Lord of the Rings to both.
Gone Girl.
Obviously all can be debated, but a few are
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harry Potter
No Country for Old Men
Holes
50 shades of Grey (this one is just a guess lol)
And probably like 15 Stephen King books
The Color Purple
The Martian starring Maaaaatttt Daaaammon was a great adaption of a great book. Both were immensely enjoyable. MAAAAAATTTTTT DAAAAAAMMMMONNNN!!?!
Any Stephen King adaptation
The Princess Bride
Stardust
Howl’s Moving Castle maybe
1992’s “Of Mice and Men”
For me it’s *We Need to Talk about Kevin*. Both are great–and disturbing!–but very different in they go about telling the story, so I don’t feel the need to weigh them against each other.
catching fire
not sure if this is an unpopular opinion but daisy jones and the six. what i liked and disliked in both are different but overall i enjoyed the show the same amount as the book (not much)
I kind of thought Blade Runner, because it took so little from the book that it really stands as its own thing and it is very well made.
but I just read ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ again and it’s hard for me to be so kind about the film when the book is so dense in its contemplations on empathy, religion, and what it means to be human, and the film just left it all out and took the point of the skeletal plot totally sideways in how it treated sentience and empathy.
but still. While the book is a largely
light-hearted, often comical writing of hidden profundity that I think is truly beautiful in much more meaningful ways, Blade Runner IS a cinematic masterpiece that in its own, much less meaningful ways, is just as good a piece of art. If it were trying to do what the book did, I would say it’s terrible, but it didn’t. and while I do wish they’d changed character names, at least they gave the film its own title.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexnadre Dumas.
The film The Prisoner of Château d’If (1988) by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich manages to become a worthy adaptation of the book and has a beautiful kissing scene at the end of the film between the Count and Haydee.
Gankutusou manages to be a good adaptation in the sci-fi style of the book and focuses on Albert’s point of view.
The 2002 version is appallingly bad.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is great in both book and movie form but that’s probably because the author wrote the screenplay too