Movies that were better than their books
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Movies that were better than their books
What book disappointed you after you saw a great movie?
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The notebook in my opinion.. the movie was much better (by Nicholas Sparks)
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Yes, The Godfather was a brilliant movie. Especially it's sequels.Jackosaurus wrote:I would have to say The Godfather.
Jaws was a book? I'll have to get reading, but I agree with you that for it's time. The effects were outstanding.
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However, Cormac McCarthy's bromance "All The Pretty Horses" was a poor book and a poor movie.
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NOOOOOOOO!!! I'm warning you, don't read jaws. I'm not one for the destruction of books, but every copy should be burned it is so bad.Jacob wrote:Yes, The Godfather was a brilliant movie. Especially it's sequels.Jackosaurus wrote:I would have to say The Godfather.
Jaws was a book? I'll have to get reading, but I agree with you that for it's time. The effects were outstanding.
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I prefer the book to the movie, though I must admit the movie was very very good. The book had that ridiculous business of Sonny's girlfriend / the doctor / and the girlfriend's "physical reconstruction" which I thought was stupid but the movie had flaws too. I happen to be of Sicilian descent and I have never met an Italian immigrant who did not speak with an accent. In the movie, the Don and Mamma Corleone had no accents at all. Other than that and the fact that GF 1 left out half the novel (which was addressed in GF 2) I think Puzo and Coppola (writer and director respectively), who are also both Sicilian, did manage to capture the essence of living in a N.Y. Italian family of that era, but I think this is fleshed out far better in the book than in the movie.
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