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Xilo
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Posted - 2005.08.02 10:05:00 -
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Starship trooper....... without doubt...... It did not have anything to do with the book.....
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Kostantin Mort
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Posted - 2005.08.02 10:10:00 -
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Haven't read the Starship Troopers book, hence why I really liked the movie.
But for me it has to be Jurassic Park II: The lost world.
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jason hill
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Posted - 2005.08.02 10:38:00 -
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Battlefield earth ... the book was pretty reasonable ....but the movie SUCKED BADLY
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2005.08.02 11:27:00 -
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 Originally by: Galaxion
Hitchhiker's... make me cry.
Blame Douglas Adams for that. He wrote most of the screenplay.
Course, he also wrote the book. Which is different from the radio show. Which is different from the recording. Which is different from the TV series. Which is different from... technically, it isn't even an adaptation of a book, since the radio show came first. But oh well 
...I prefer the TV series to the books, and I haven't heard the radio show, or seen the new film. But since the actual author wrote all of them (or most of all of them), it's hard to say which is an adaptation of which, and which is the "real" story.
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2005.08.02 12:10:00 -
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Then there are a few films that are technically very bad adaptations, but still turned out to be great movies. Blade Runner is for example not very much like Philip K. ****'s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but still a great film.
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Skape Gote
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Posted - 2005.08.02 13:20:00 -
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Originally by: Scrofalitic One
Originally by: Omber Zombie
Micahel Marshall Smith's book 'Spares', was made into a movie called 'The Island'. Took a bit of the spares story, dumbed it down, changed just enough of it that it legally isn't 'spares' and we have a 'new' script and movie.
Yes, i'm annoyed.
The film is awful :( And the worst thing might well be that the sucky-ness of this %^&%$$ film might stop someone with skill and integrity actually doing a proper adaptation of Spares.
Coffee machines in bandanas 4tw :)
Thank the Lord I thought I was the only person in the world to read that book. As soon as I saw the trailer for The Island I was like WTF!!!
It would take some Hollywood director with balls to pull of crash landed flying hotel and cats that find dimensions made up of excreted data. I havent seen the film but I take it it just sticks to the Spares idea at the start of the book.
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Belshamarothx
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Posted - 2005.08.02 14:32:00 -
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Edited by: Belshamarothx on 02/08/2005 14:32:44
Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
Originally by: Khargos
anyway, mine is probably LOTR, author be rolling in his grave.
If Christopher's happy with it, it's a safe bet JRR would have been.
If Christopher's not happy with it, it wouldn't have got made.
Christopher is not his dad though mate. Sorry to disagree but the first 2 were bareable (except Tom Bombadil) the 3rd left too much out and completely misrepresented Faramir. Going back to the first Arwen?? what about Glorfindel who really saves Frodo etc etc. Films were bad IMO but then I read the book too many times over too many years I guess :)
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Gift
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Posted - 2005.08.02 17:19:00 -
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"running man" was a great movie when i was 11.
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DrunkenOne
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Posted - 2005.08.02 19:40:00 -
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Edited by: DrunkenOne on 02/08/2005 19:40:51
Edited by: DrunkenOne on 02/08/2005 19:40:29
Definatly Starship Troopers.
Fight Club, although the movie is still awesome, it misinterpreted a lot of stuff and the book is 10000000x better, and has a much more insane ending.
And Sum of All Fears definatly as well. Why couldn't they have made it as pwn as Red October was 
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Bobby Wilson
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Posted - 2005.08.02 19:51:00 -
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Originally by: OVERCOPES 1
Edited by: OVERCOPES 1 on 30/07/2005 19:07:20
mine is the running man.
read the book,the film came out a couple of years later,and im like wtf!!!!!
I agree with the many ppl quoting Starship troopers, and you you on the running man.
For myself, another butchered short story makes my number one pick, and that is Johnny Mnemonic. Awesome short story by William Gibson, hideously bad movie. At least as terrible as Starship Troopers, especially how it tried to use EVERY cyberpunk notion Gibson ever created.
The topper for me was partway into the movie where Johnny is re-created as an uber-*****er. Like sure, if he could punch deck like that he would be having part of his mind wiped just to be a courier, instead of making 100s of times the money stealing from banks and criminals?
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ivar R'dhak
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Posted - 2005.08.02 20:07:00 -
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Thnx for the book recomendation Drunkenone. Never occured to me that there was a real book this film is made after. DOH!
And Basileus you can have the phoney plastic-perfect hollywood beauty of Denise Richards anytime. I prefered the redblonde tomboyish gal Rico was stucking on that bug planet 1k times more to that Denise bimbo. 
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Tekran
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Posted - 2005.08.03 07:00:00 -
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gotta re[peat half the folks here. Starship Troopers. wtf? how do you go from leathernecks in powered armor to cannonfodder running around in caps and kneepads(cause momma just dropped them off at the skatepark)?
book>movie.
being fired rifle-style from a capital ship dropping out of FTL>lame-<backside> dropships.
and for you FPS fans. ODST Nearly = MI
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Rakasashan Endir
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Posted - 2005.08.03 07:27:00 -
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Originally by: ivar R'dhak
Edited by: ivar R''dhak on 31/07/2005 12:49:24
Verhooooovens Starship Troopers. 
Turning the awsome idea of a small decisive number of mobile infantrymen in their armored powersuits into a rabble of plastic armor wearing peashooter carrying bunch of quasi cannonfodder was very disappointing, to say the least.
And I¦m not even touching the real crime of this film. Distorting Heinleins controversial social commentary and dumbing it down to a militaristic pseudo faschist state that uses unisex showers in its army.
Huuzaah! It's like the big wigs read the back cover and wrote the script using that for inspiration of that monstrosaty of a film, not to mention that the bugs, as shown in the movie, would be no threat at all. Near as I could tell, they wern't a space fairing race in the movie, but I only watched the trailers, but seeing a giant bug shoot a giant ball of plasma out of its ass was enough to convince me not to watch it.
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Rakasashan Endir
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Posted - 2005.08.03 07:36:00 -
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Originally by: Tekran
gotta re[peat half the folks here. Starship Troopers. wtf? how do you go from leathernecks in powered armor to cannonfodder running around in caps and kneepads(cause momma just dropped them off at the skatepark)?
book>movie.
being fired rifle-style from a capital ship dropping out of FTL>lame-<backside> dropships.
and for you FPS fans. ODST Nearly = MI
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Lunaticdie04
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Posted - 2005.08.03 10:51:00 -
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To Kill A Mocking Bird I had an exam on it and thought I could get away with just watching the film instead of reading the book but about 80% of the stuff they talked about in class was missing from the film. Ended up reading the book anyway 
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Azure Skyclad
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Posted - 2005.08.03 15:49:00 -
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If they screw up the adaptation of V for Vendetta i'm going to break things
Star Fraction
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Moridin
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Posted - 2005.08.03 18:53:00 -
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Originally by: FireFoxx80
The Ring
American Psycho
i disagree with the american Psycho. if they had all the stuff in the movie. it wood be awsome cool but also banned to all younger than 35 |
Taniquetil
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Posted - 2005.08.03 22:37:00 -
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Hannibal
Film was total crap ,and had main characters reduced to one line extras
Rubbish
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kessah
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Posted - 2005.08.03 22:50:00 -
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I never read the book or if there ever was one but Paycheck was a japanese concept\film and it was very clever film, the new one tho i felt was typical hollywood happy endings evertime.
In the japanese version it was on going and he never found out why everything was happening.
o and the Harry Potter films fail miserably compared to the books. It seems so rushed, they tried to cram it all into a 2hour film and its not possible.
Wheres Peeves in the films?! he's a great character!
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Saladin
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Posted - 2005.08.03 23:52:00 -
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Edited by: Saladin on 03/08/2005 23:52:24
While I appreciate the changes made to Sum of All Fears, I did not like the movie. In fact, I think all Tom Clancy adaptations were bad. Clancy paid great attention to developing even the minor characters, and the movies we re-written so that Jack Ryan assumed a 'do it all' role.
The worst by far for me was the Bourne Identity. I did not mind that the story was altered to match present day (Carlos has long since been serving time in a French jail), but I hated the way many of the key elements and themes were altered. Marie was a dumb plain woman tyring to turn her life around, while in the book she was a striking successful and brainy economist. Bourne himself had to come to terms with being an assasin, where as in the book he eventually found out he was one of the good guys. I felt the only thing the movie had in common with the book was the title.
I never read any of the Harry Potter books, how do the movies measure up to that?
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Admiral Pieg
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Posted - 2005.08.04 02:59:00 -
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i cant believe no one has said 1984 yet.. the movie was truly god awful
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Svengali
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Posted - 2005.08.05 01:06:00 -
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Originally by: Bobby Wilson
For myself, another butchered short story makes my number one pick, and that is Johnny Mnemonic. Awesome short story by William Gibson, hideously bad movie. At least as terrible as Starship Troopers, especially how it tried to use EVERY cyberpunk notion Gibson ever created.
Its painful, but William Gibson wrote that screenplay. That makes it so much worse for me.
Originally by: Bobby Wilson
The topper for me was partway into the movie where Johnny is re-created as an uber-*****er. Like sure, if he could punch deck like that he would be having part of his mind wiped just to be a courier, instead of making 100s of times the money stealing from banks and criminals?
BW
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Dust Puppy
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Posted - 2005.08.05 09:53:00 -
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Edited by: Dust Puppy on 05/08/2005 09:54:46
Originally by: Belshamarothx
Christopher is not his dad though mate. Sorry to disagree but the first 2 were bareable (except Tom Bombadil) the 3rd left too much out and completely misrepresented Faramir. Going back to the first Arwen?? what about Glorfindel who really saves Frodo etc etc. Films were bad IMO but then I read the book too many times over too many years I guess :)
If you follow the book to closely it is going to suck. If they would then the council in elrond would have been a movie all by itself, and a very boring one at that. Peter Jackson did this very well, he cut out scenes which didn't matter for the whole story, Tom Bombadil was a mini-story and had no effect on the epic story that followed no matter how fun it was.
Also some characters part was reduced because there simply isn't enough time to introduce all those characters, could you imagine how Songs of Ice and Fire would look on screen 
Edit: Right worst adaption, I wanna say Sphere even though I didn't think the movie was that horrible, it's just that the book was that great. If the movie Zardoz was adapted from a book I'm pretty sure that it can claim to be the worst adaption though
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Dray
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Posted - 2005.08.05 10:34:00 -
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Tbh a true adaptation of lord of the rings would be close to a musical 
I picked up this ace book today everyone rates it as a must buy for the budding military genius, tho ive decided to rename it as "Sun Tzu's art of the bloody obvious" |
Clone 984
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Posted - 2005.08.05 10:50:00 -
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To all those saying starship troopers, have a read of the review on my mates website.
Do you want to know more ?
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Uggster
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Posted - 2005.08.06 01:27:00 -
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Edited by: Uggster on 06/08/2005 01:28:38
Originally by: Rakasashan Endir
Originally by: ivar R'dhak
Edited by: ivar R''dhak on 31/07/2005 12:49:24
Verhooooovens Starship Troopers.
Turning the awsome idea of a small decisive number of mobile infantrymen in their armored powersuits into a rabble of plastic armor wearing peashooter carrying bunch of quasi cannonfodder was very disappointing, to say the least.
And I¦m not even touching the real crime of this film. Distorting Heinleins controversial social commentary and dumbing it down to a militaristic pseudo faschist state that uses unisex showers in its army.
Huuzaah! It's like the big wigs read the back cover and wrote the script using that for inspiration of that monstrosaty of a film, not to mention that the bugs, as shown in the movie, would be no threat at all. Near as I could tell, they wern't a space fairing race in the movie, but I only watched the trailers, but seeing a giant bug shoot a giant ball of plasma out of its ass was enough to convince me not to watch it.
The point that you fail to see or understand (in some hope that just cos they are big it saves them from being anuses) is that if the "Big Wigs" could actually read then they would not make such utter crap.
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MAXSuicide
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Posted - 2005.08.06 13:11:00 -
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Edited by: MAXSuicide on 06/08/2005 13:13:56
well, i dunno if this is right on topic but, King arthur was a pathetic film...nothing like the actual legends etc etc made about him.
i quit watching the film not even an hour in i think because it was such a **** film.
and i heard theres gonna be a battle of britain film coming out soon, with the americans winning it for us, and that was something i was disgusted at.
really i hate all movies that are not true to the books, history etc..
War of the worlds is another example..if u go into the movie expecting it to be like the book ull be sick. if u go in expecting it to be nothing like the book it was based on then u will think its alright.
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Einheriar Ulrich
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Posted - 2005.08.06 13:24:00 -
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"The beach", by Robert Garland, exellent book, stupid film, ruining the whole TH Kao San Bangkok feel of the book.....should be burned to cinder or only shown in selected movie theatres in outer mongolia
So Say I. Einheriar Ulrich of the Bloodline of Einheriar.
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Ebedar
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Posted - 2005.08.06 13:39:00 -
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Brave New World was teh suck on many levels.
Hitchhiker's has already been mentioned and I'd have to go with that too.
And while Running Man was completely different from the book, I don't think it was any better/worse, personally.
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OVERCOPES 1
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Posted - 2005.08.06 23:12:00 -
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Edited by: OVERCOPES 1 on 06/08/2005 23:13:13
Originally by: Gift
"running man" was a great movie when i was 11.
i take it you havent read the book,the book is awsome.
infact try reading a book.
Im a real wiltshire headbanger,generally getting podded whilst comatozed on cider.
i mayv or may nit abe a bit drunk-parMizan.
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