Comments on: What are the best (and worst) book to movie adaptations?

By: Trey

Trey — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:48:12 +0000

Hmm…nice topic, by the way. I can definitely agree with author about Roald Dahl’s books and screen adaptations – they’re the best thing ever! – esp. the original version “Charlie and the chocolate Factory” – though Charlie’s acting skills were far from perfection
I’ve recently found wonderful show of 70-90s – “Tales of the Unexpected” – there are many good screen adaptations of some interesting novels.
I’d love to watch screen adaptation “Pig” Roald Dahl’s…

By: teinby

teinby — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:29:15 +0000

thank you! I really liked this post!

By: machoman

machoman — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:29:22 +0000

thank you! I really liked this post!

By: CJ Wilcox

CJ Wilcox — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:24:18 +0000

Worst-Congo

By: Sandra Mayes

Sandra Mayes — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:47:50 +0000

A movie I saw about 25 years ago was John Carpenter’s ‘Christine’. I had read the book written by Stephen King and was looking forward to a thoroughly good horror. I can honestly say that I was terribly disappointed. John Carpenter either did not read Stephen’s book properly or he didn’t understand it. The movie could not have been described as even a thriller, let alone a horror. John Carpenter did Stephen King a huge injustice.

By: El

El — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:23:16 +0000

NONE of the Stephen King movies have been anything on the books – a complete dispappointment every time.

Especially The Shining – the lovely, telepathic black man didn’t die in the book, but he only had 5 minutes in the movie!

By: Dom

Dom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:59:51 +0000

Yes as someone said earlier the Running man book could have been made into a great movie but it was instead an awful cheesy action flick that totally misses the point of the book. Fight club was right on though

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:35:57 +0000

Best adaptations would have to be the BBC TV adaptations of the 60′s and 70′s such as All Creatures Great and Small as they actually follow the book well.

Also Peach is wrong, The reason for the change of name was, as stated in the interviews, due to marketing the merchandise tie-ins. If you have the dvd of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory you will hear this in the interviews and you will actually see Roald Dahl working with the crew on set.

By: amy

amy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:52:43 +0000

BEST: Clan of the Cave Bear. Heard rumour the author Jean M Auel didn’t particularly like it but I thought it was extremely well done. Hanging for the other books to become movies.

WORST: Flowers in the Attic. Went horribly off storyline right into the sublime.

Off topic but remakes bug the heck out of me. Can’t stand what they have done to Cheaper By The Dozen, Yours Mine and Ours etc…lightweight, predigested and pathetic.

Glad I got that off my chest..lol.

By: Angelique

Angelique — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:31:29 +0000

Twilight the movie had HORRIBLE acting. Edward Cullen was definitely not as velvet talking, smooth walking as a vampire should be.