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Old 06-01-2016, 02:20 PM   #16651 (permalink)
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While on the topic of books, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the best movie based off of a book. Fight me.
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Old 06-01-2016, 02:23 PM   #16653 (permalink)
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While on the topic of books, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the best movie based off of a book. Fight me.
The Shining. Over and out.
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Old 06-01-2016, 02:57 PM   #16655 (permalink)
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Staying on King, Delores Claiborne is a pretty amazing film adaption. Fight Club, No Country for Old Men, The Abyss, and Something Wicked this way Comes are all pretty killer too.
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Fight Club, The Shining, and LOTR (I say the last one mainly due to writing style) are the only films I'd say are hands down better than the books.
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I definitely wouldn't say LOTR. If that style of writing just doesn't appeal to you, then I understand, but the depth that the books bring to Tolkien's world is just absent from the movies. They're awesome, but not much more than action movies with a unique fantasy aesthetic. All of the little things that they cut out, like the songs, and the references to the mythos that existed outside of the books, all made for a series that was a gateway to a world that was massive and alive in a way that no other fantasy series can lay claim to. Period. Middle-Earth is real, god damn it.
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Blade Runner IMO. I'm hyped for the sequel.
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^Uh, how can you know if you haven't read the book yet?

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I definitely wouldn't say LOTR. If that style of writing just doesn't appeal to you, then I understand, but the depth that the books bring to Tolkien's world is just absent from the movies. They're awesome, but not much more than action movies with a unique fantasy aesthetic. All of the little things that they cut out, like the songs, and the references to the mythos that existed outside of the books, all made for a series that was a gateway to a world that was massive and alive in a way that no other fantasy series can lay claim to. Period. Middle-Earth is real, god damn it.
The writing style is so bad that it distracts from the high points of the novel that you describe. Although I disagree on one point: the songs were a waste of space. The movie actually entertains me so it gets the edge.
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The writing style is so bad that it distracts from the high points of the novel that you describe. Although I disagree on one point: the songs were a waste of space. The movie actually entertains me so it gets the edge.
I love the writing style. No other book that I can think of has a style that so brilliantly brings to life that kind of old world magic, while still being readable to a modern audience. I guess you could say that it has a dumbed down Shakespeare vibe, but it brings majesty to high fantasy in a way that I have never seen duplicated.
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