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I Robot took the name of the book and threw away everything else.

The original Running Man took the general premise, but the "games" completely missed the mark.

The Hunt for Red October followed the book pretty well. I thought the movie was better than the book.

The Shawshank Redemption followed the book until towards the end. I don't think Red ever made it out of Shawshank.

 

I only got through 1.5 books of Foundation, but I don't recall there any reference to Brother Dawn, Day, Dusk. Those books were a beating.

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Lord of the Rings did a fantastic job but was constrained by time limits and Jackson has said as much many time (we won't talk about The Hobbit movies).

There are deviations that were absolutely brilliant. When Frodo holds the ring in front of Aragorn and Aragorn closes his hand around Frodo's hand and tells him he would have went to Mordor, that was not directly in the book (Aragon never ran into Frodo after Boromir tried to take the ring if I recall) but it was an amazing line and scene that summed up Aragorn perfectly. Aragorn was not afraid of the ring but afraid of himself if he were to take possession of it.

And my LOTR fanatical middle-schooler mentioned that the ring on Aragorn's hand was an ancient ring given by somebody to their friend (Aragorn's ancestor I'm assuming) to illustrate their loyalty and friendship, so you see that ring of loyalty and friendship closing over The Ring. Jackson was doing deep dives on symbolism.

Jackson was the perfect person to take it from the pages to the screen (sorry Bakshi, I know you never got your full chance).

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4 hours ago, Superhero said:

I only got through 1.5 books of Foundation, but I don't recall there any reference to Brother Dawn, Day, Dusk. Those books were a beating.

No, those were invented to help the non-book reading audience deal with the fact that this series takes place over thousands of years.

I think it's actually a pretty good addition, as the audience could not keep all of the emperors straight from the book.

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Ready player one keeps the spirit of the book but adapts it to be more appealing in the visual realm. I think both versions are appropriate for their medium. 

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No country for old men is basically a script in book form. As far as I remember the film cut out a small scene but otherwise is pretty much the same. 

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I started reading The Godfather and it matches quite a bit, including multiple lines transferred directly to the script. Naturally since Puzo worked on both.

Although in many areas the book dialogue is really clumsy and feels very inauthentic and lacking truth and natural speech.

There's much more Johnny Fontane, including being all of "Book 2", which at least so far I'm glad the movie excised. Maybe it ties back in further along.

Still going, but my take so far is the movie elevated this work considerably.

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It’s been a long time, but agree that Godfather the movie matched the book 100% until it didn’t. I don’t remember the exact scene, but I consciously thought it deviated from the book. The fantastic movie eventually went back to the fantastic book. God reminder!

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Fever Pitch was an amazing book by Nick Hornby about sports and what it means to be a fan. In his case, it was about his love of Arsenal. The movie with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon was most definitely not that.

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I started reading The Godfather and it matches quite a bit, including multiple lines transferred directly to the script. Naturally since Puzo worked on both.
Although in many areas the book dialogue is really clumsy and feels very inauthentic and lacking truth and natural speech.
There's much more Johnny Fontane, including being all of "Book 2", which at least so far I'm glad the movie excised. Maybe it ties back in further along.
Still going, but my take so far is the movie elevated this work considerably.

From my recollection, there are long stretches about Sonny’s huge hog and the related vaginal reconstruction needed by the bridesmaid he is boning at Connie’s wedding. For sure worth cutting out.

The Lost World - I was a teenager so probably my first “read the book before the movie” experience. They are nothing alike and it was very confusing.
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15 hours ago, Superhero said:

The Shawshank Redemption followed the book until towards the end. I don't think Red ever made it out of Shawshank.

Stand By Me came out of the same Stephen King collection as Shawshank.  The movie stayed really close to the novella as well.

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46 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

World War Z - took the book title and nothing else. 

That book was written to be a TV series, 100%

So many chapters were made for one episode stories. 

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I Am Legend gutted a good premise and turned it into a very forgettable zombie movie. 
 

Forrest Gump is a pretty crass and frankly stupid book that was turned into a too-saccharine and also stupid movie. 

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11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

No, those were invented to help the non-book reading audience deal with the fact that this series takes place over thousands of years.

I think it's actually a pretty good addition, as the audience could not keep all of the emperors straight from the book.

That was the only thing I actually thought was a cool addition to the series. 
 

It’s clear the series didn’t have the budget to do a space epic right and so it turned into a lot of characters talking to each other. The books are OK for long plane rides. 

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26 minutes ago, Js1 said:

That book was written to be a TV series, 100%

So many chapters were made for one episode stories. 

1000% this. I'm still hoping that HBO buys the rights someday and makes an epic mini series. 

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1 hour ago, Jerry Callo said:

Stand By Me came out of the same Stephen King collection as Shawshank.  The movie stayed really close to the novella as well.

And that's when the screenplays started really closely following the books, followed by Green Mile, even lifting dialog straight from the book.  The Mist went a little awry.

A massive improvement in King-based film.

And yes, Red was paroled in the novella and decided to join Andy in Mexico, but the story didn't include him getting there.

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Walking Dead started off well and followed the sequences and plot well through the first few seasons.  HALO, did not...

GOT and Happy Potter were both pretty dialed into the books.  The Dark Tower, not so much.  

LOTR was very dialed in.  The Hobbit "money-grab-trilogy" was a hot mess.  

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17 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Happy Potter

Ehhhh a lot had to be left ou

The new HBO show should fix it 

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13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Lord of the Rings did a fantastic job but was constrained by time limits and Jackson has said as much many time (we won't talk about The Hobbit movies).

There are deviations that were absolutely brilliant. When Frodo holds the ring in front of Aragorn and Aragorn closes his hand around Frodo's hand and tells him he would have went to Mordor, that was not directly in the book (Aragon never ran into Frodo after Boromir tried to take the ring if I recall) but it was an amazing line and scene that summed up Aragorn perfectly. Aragorn was not afraid of the ring but afraid of himself if he were to take possession of it.

And my LOTR fanatical middle-schooler mentioned that the ring on Aragorn's hand was an ancient ring given by somebody to their friend (Aragorn's ancestor I'm assuming) to illustrate their loyalty and friendship, so you see that ring of loyalty and friendship closing over The Ring. Jackson was doing deep dives on symbolism.

Jackson was the perfect person to take it from the pages to the screen (sorry Bakshi, I know you never got your full chance).

 

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11 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

I started reading The Godfather and it matches quite a bit, including multiple lines transferred directly to the script. Naturally since Puzo worked on both.

Although in many areas the book dialogue is really clumsy and feels very inauthentic and lacking truth and natural speech.

There's much more Johnny Fontane, including being all of "Book 2", which at least so far I'm glad the movie excised. Maybe it ties back in further along.

Still going, but my take so far is the movie elevated this work considerably.

7 hours ago, Superhero said:

It’s been a long time, but agree that Godfather the movie matched the book 100% until it didn’t. I don’t remember the exact scene, but I consciously thought it deviated from the book. The fantastic movie eventually went back to the fantastic book. God reminder!

I hope you all watched The Offer on Paramount, about making The Godfather.

 

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

That was the only thing I actually thought was a cool addition to the series. 

It’s clear the series didn’t have the budget to do a space epic right and so it turned into a lot of characters talking to each other. The books are OK for long plane rides. 

Getting Lee Pace was the best thing they did.  

I’m still shocked that we got as many seasons as we did,

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