Movies Greater Than Or Equal To The Book

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19 Nov 2013, 8:40 am

Donnie Brasco
To Kill A Mockingbird
Misery
The Thing (1982)
Full Metal Jacket
Casino Royale (2006)
Blade Runner
The Godfather
Stand By Me
Interview With the Vampire
Psycho
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Dr. Strangelove
The Silence of the Lambs
Jaws
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No Country For Old Men
Jurassic Park
Fight Club
Die Hard

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19 Nov 2013, 1:17 pm

Princess Bride.

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19 Nov 2013, 2:07 pm

Schindler's List (1993)

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19 Nov 2013, 3:34 pm

Shawshank Redemption

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22 Jun 2014, 5:47 am

The Hustler

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22 Jun 2014, 12:07 pm

I've not read many books that became movies. From the ones I have read, 2001, The Shining, and Clockwork Orange films are all much more nuanced and interesting than their source material, and I'm a big fan of Clarke and King.

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22 Jun 2014, 4:12 pm

The Hunger Games
The Hobbit

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22 Jun 2014, 7:32 pm

L.A. Confidential
The Dark Half
Misery
Re-Animator (based on a longish short story, actually)
Lord Of The Rings trilogy

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23 Jun 2014, 3:50 am

Children of Men (2006)

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23 Jun 2014, 5:31 am

I'm currently reading The Secret Garden. I've decided a long time ago that the 1993 movie version was better than the book.

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23 Jun 2014, 12:02 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

L.A. Confidential
The Dark Half
Misery
Re-Animator (based on a longish short story, actually)
Lord Of The Rings trilogy

I should add the Leonardo DiCaprio version of The Great Gatsby.

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23 Jun 2014, 3:12 pm

I would say Contact - both the book by Carl Sagan and the movie with Jodie Foster are excellent, though the movie does deviate from the book in a few important respects.

Also, the movie Gettysburg with Martin Sheen and Jeff Daniels amount others - every bit as good as the book it was based on - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara which won the Pulitzer Prize.

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25 Jun 2014, 3:23 am

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To Kill A Mockingbird

I can't get down with this at all.

The film is pretty good and is certainly nothing to be ashamed of (unlike, say, A Series Of Unfortunate Events), but the book is amazing, truly one of the great pieces of literature, moving and accessible on a first read but with so much more beneath the surface.

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25 Jun 2014, 7:09 am

Coraline. (I know some aren't okay with the additions like Wybie and stuff, but I thought it was an improvement.)

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07 Jul 2014, 5:46 am

From Russia With Love
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07 Jul 2014, 8:00 am

I'm not a big fan of fiction, so I haven't read a lot of books which have been made in to movies afterwards.

I did however read The Green Mile before seeing the movie (it was on sale just before the movie aired - successful businessmen are successful), and I found the movie to be even better than the book, mostly because of the great performance by the now late Michael Clarke Duncan.

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