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outlier -> From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 12:52:58 PM)
Inspired by the recent movie threads here; I put forth this catagory. What is the best book you have read that was turned into the worst movie? The winner is to be determined by the distance in quality between the two. Understand that a good book that became a mediocre movie has no possibility of being a winner. A bad book that became an awful movie is a non starter. This is reserved for those absolute monuments to Hollywood insensitivity and incompetence. When a book that you knew would become part of your personal treasured permanent library. A companion to be revisited over time. Something of subtlety and debth which you returned to because it never failed to reward your visits. And then the movie industry turned it into an awful piece of schlock. Insipid beyond words and devoid of redeeming values, social or otherwise. The widest distance between the quality of the book and movie is going to be the winner. I will revisit the thread later with my personal nominee. ( I cannot bring myself to use the phrase 'personal favorite' in this context.) But for now what are yours? Edited to Add: If you find yourself overwhelmed with possibilities, then feel free to put them in catagories.

SteelofUtah -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 1:08:30 PM)
Hands Down Best Book worst Movie Calligula. The Book was disturbed the Movie an excuse for Bad 70's porn starts to show thier non groomed bushes I still have night mares Steel

lighthearted -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 1:10:24 PM)
Dune. (but, it's so bad, I can't keep myself from watching it!)

SteelofUtah -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 1:15:27 PM)
I watch dune once a year God I love how bad that movie is Steel

lighthearted -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 1:19:19 PM)
yeah...uh...me too...once a year only, right, only once [:D]

xxblushesxx -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 1:23:38 PM)
Exit to Eden. book ...Yum! movie...[sm=biggrin.gif]

subrob1967 -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 1:59:11 PM)
Point of Impact / Shooter Great book, not so great film

angelikaJ -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:04:23 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx Exit to Eden. book ...Yum! movie...[sm=biggrin.gif] Dana_Delaney_got_"it" Gary_Marshall_was_clueless... when_I_heard_he_was_directing..."UT-OH!"

sirsholly -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:09:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx Exit to Eden. book ...Yum! movie...[sm=biggrin.gif] agreed...Rosie O'Donnell just did not work

KatyLied -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:14:20 PM)
I have not read John Adams, but I've seen people on-line complaining about what a pice of crap the HBO movie is.

need2beabused -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:20:08 PM)
Breakfast of Champions did not make a very good movie.

SteelofUtah -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:36:41 PM)
Douglas Adams Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy The Movie Sucked ass considering all they has to do was use the BOOK as a SCRIPT. God I hate when they make is "Different" BAH Steel

subrob1967 -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:41:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SteelofUtah Douglas Adams Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy The Movie Sucked ass considering all they has to do was use the BOOK as a SCRIPT. God I hate when they make is "Different" BAH Steel Try turning 320 pages into a script with dialogue, it's not that simple.

slvemike4u -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:49:16 PM)
The Bourne Identity starring Richard Chamberlain and Jacalynne Smith ....please if i spelled either one of their names wrong let it go

Level -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:52:07 PM)
Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard, High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby, and It, by Stephen King. The first two are not bad films; they just fall quite a bit short, when compared to the novels. Travolta does a nice job in GS, as does John Cusack in HF. It, however........... do we have a turd icon here? No? Shame...... The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe, is one I hear others toss out sometimes. I never read the book, so I can't say.....

slvemike4u -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:56:08 PM)
Alright the movie sucked Rosie O'donnell sucked,but come on Dana Delaney as a DOMME[sm=banana.gif][sm=banana.gif][sm=banana.gif][sm=banana.gif]

philosophy -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 2:58:30 PM)
......for me it has to be the aforementioned Dune, ace book - appalling film.......for petes sake, it rained at the end....

bipolarber -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 3:03:29 PM)
I agree with blushes. I have an autographed 1st of "Exit to Eden." I read it about once a year. On my primary email, I use a line from it as my sig for email. I LOVE that book. So, you can imagine my horror at learning that it was going to be thrown into a garbage disposal by the same inept jerk who produced Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. I don't know which insult was worse: the addition of the "comedy relief team of O'Donell and Ackroyd, or the addition of the totally superfluous "diamond heist" subplot. (It was like something Diseny would do for one of those awful "Dexter Riley" college films.) The book deserved someone like the director from "Secretary" making it. Not this club handed moron who, in one interview, said: "Well, you have to dumb things like this down when you want middle America to accept them." When an "artist" starts out disrespecting his audiance, you know the end result is going to suck! Oh well, maybe in another 15 years, someone else can re-make it, and do a better job. (It wouldn't take much.)

kittinSol -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 3:04:45 PM)
The Lord of the Rings - the movies were turgid and indigestible, in spite of a few good bits.

DomKen -> RE: From Best Book to Worst Movie! (3/22/2008 3:10:20 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: philosophy ......for me it has to be the aforementioned Dune, ace book - appalling film.......for petes sake, it rained at the end.... It rains at the end of the novel too.

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