Rich Bagoly Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 Can you come up with any titles where the Movie was better than the book? I am drawing a blank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 Debbie Does Dallas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Bagoly Posted March 30, 2002 Author Share Posted March 30, 2002 OK got one. I liked Blade Runner better than Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that it was based on. Think of a movie where it would be a mistake to read the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbadaboom Posted March 30, 2002 Share Posted March 30, 2002 I have to say Blackhawk Down. Both the book and the movie were great but the movie was better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 26, 2002 Share Posted June 26, 2002 Fried Green Tomatoes the movie is much better than Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, the book by Fannie Flagg on which it's based. Just as a for instance, the scene where Idgie, played by Mary Stuart Masterson, pulls a honey comb out of an active bee hive in a tree, her body covered in swarming bees, and then hands it to her friend Ruth, played by Mary-Louise Parker, is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. You're just standing there going, ".....Jesus." In the book the scene reads something like, "Idgie walked over to the tree, pulled out the honey comb and then handed it to Ruth." And that is IT. Not exactly evocative, what? Compared to the scene in the movie it's....pathetic. And the entire book is like that. Where the movie in involving and heartwrenching, the book is by comparison pale and uninvolving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Oh yeah, definitely Out of Sight. I saw the movie before I read the book, and the movie was MUCH better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBneACP Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 I once ghost-wrote country music singer Hank Williams Jr's "autobiography. When it got made into a television movie, it was like falling down the rabbit hole. All the "movie people" were every bit as sharp as, say, a kennel full of cocker spaniels on thorazine. Stuff kept getting changed for no apparent reason, like a wife would disappear one day, reappear the next and get merged into another wife on the third. Hank Jr. kept calling me and saying, "Don't they realize that life is something that really happens? This is my life they're screwing with!" I always had the same mantra...the check cleared...the check cleared... MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 The free-lance writer's motto, baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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