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Permalink Reply by Cthulhu R'lyeh on January 19, 2012 at 9:46am

"We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" and Total Recall. Both are great, if different.

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Permalink Reply by Mr. E on January 19, 2012 at 9:56am

I'm usually not crazy about movie adaptions of books I've actually read, because I find myself comparing the two more than just letting myself enjoy the movie on its own terms. I know that's my own fault, but it's just what I do.

I'm going against the what you've established here, because I'm gonna have to go outside of movies to give my favorite adaption, and that's the new "Game of Thrones" series on HBO. Ya, it's TV, and not a movie, but it's the closest I've ever seen an adapted work come to the tone of the book it's based on, while still feeling like its own thing, and even adding some extra elements that weren't even present in the novel.

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Permalink Reply by Zulzon on January 19, 2012 at 1:26pm

Here are my top ten favourite films based on books:

1."Gods and Monsters" based on "Father of Frankenstein" by Cristopher Bram

-."True Grit" based on "True Grit" by Charles Portis

-."There Will Be Blood" based on "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair

-."The Green Mile" based on "The Green Mile" by Stephen King

-."127 Hours" based on "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" by Aron Ralston

-."The Silence of the Lambs" based on "The Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris

-."Scent of a Woman" based on "Il buio e il miele"("Darkness and Honey") by Giovanni Arpino

8."The Shawshank Redemption" based on "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King

9."The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" based on "The Return of the King" by J. R. R. Tolkien

10."The Godfather" based on "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo

Note:As you can see, I won't put the first 7 movies on different places because I love them all so much. For me, they all deserve number 1.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew on January 19, 2012 at 1:32pm

Christ, good list man!

I really wish i could spit out 10 but I hardly read the books the movies are based on.

i guess my favorite would be To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Permalink Reply by Zulzon on January 19, 2012 at 2:13pm

Oh my God. That book was really cool. But, I haven't seen the film.

Thanks for the comment, sometimes I read the books first, other times I watched the movies and after that, because I liked the film, I also read the books.

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Permalink Reply by Jack68 on January 19, 2012 at 2:27pm

JAWS and Psycho.

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Permalink Reply by DoctorWitten on January 19, 2012 at 2:28pm

other than the one's already mentioned

 

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Permalink Reply by I.Koval on January 19, 2012 at 3:22pm

Off the top of my head...

A Clockwork Orange

Trainspotting

Blade Runner (loose as it is)

The Maltese Falcon

Naturally...Battlefield Earth...

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Permalink Reply by Joe on January 19, 2012 at 7:05pm

Number 1 spot goes to non other than Fight Club. Everything else comes second.

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Permalink Reply by Trevor Stork on January 19, 2012 at 7:39pm

yeah, one of the most classic films of all time. fight club is like shakespeare

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Permalink Reply by The Elusive Robert Denby on January 20, 2012 at 1:10am

1. Dr. Strangelove

2. Trainspotting

3. Goodfellas

4. Wild At Heart

5. The Thing

6. Cemetery Man

7. A Clockwork Orange

8. Straw Dogs

9. The Big Sleep (1946)

10. Fight Club

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Permalink Reply by Samuel on January 20, 2012 at 1:23am

Going by the books I've read

 

1.) Thank you for Smoking ( by Christopher Buckley)

2.) M*A*S*H (by Richard Hooker)

3.) The Commitments (by Roddy Doyle)

4.) Stand By Me (Based on the Novel "The Body" by Stephen King)

5.) The Prestige (by Christopher Priest, movie is better)

6.) The Thin Man (by Dashiel Hammett, again, movie is better)

7.) Apocalypse Now (Apatation of "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad)

8.)Fight Club (by Chuck Palaniuk)

9.) Farenheit 451 ( by Ray Bradbury,the most ironic adaptation of anything ever. In case you were wondering, I used the word Ironic correctly.)

10.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (by Hunter S. "Spider Jerusalem/Uncle Duke" Thompson)

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