Top Ten Best Movie Adaptations
Please allow me to briefly rant. I hate it, but many bad movies have been made from brilliant books. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. So I say to you movie producers out there: If you aren't going to make a magnificent movie from that magnificent book, then just move on; there are plenty of fair-to-middling screenplays out there that you can use and you won't spoil my dinner.
These very-good movies from very-good books are the exception, I think:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone With the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
The Remains of the Day
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?/Blade Runner
The Princess Bride
Game of Thrones
Lonesome Dove
Life of Pi
What are your thoughts? What do you think are the best movie adaptations ever?
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My favorites are The virgin suicides, Bridget Jones' Diary, The hours and latest adapatation of Anna Karenina.
ReplyDeleteGone with the wind is fantastic too!
I haven't seen Virgin Suicides and the newest adaptation of Anna Karenina. Thanks for the recommendations!
ReplyDeleteI've seen all these movies/shows and loved them too but haven't read the books. I probably should do that. =)
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen any of these films! Great picks though.
ReplyDeleteI think I've only seen/read one or the other from your list. Haven't seen To Kill A Mockingbird, even though it's on EVERYONE's list. Reading The Princess Bride would be easiest, since my Hubby has a copy.
ReplyDeleteI would almost say seeing the movie of Princess Bride is as good as reading the book.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, definitely The Grapes of Wrath! This is a fantastic list, Deb!
ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed your rant!
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I always forget that Blade Runner is an adaptation. Great list!
ReplyDeleteExcellent picks! I still need to see Life of Pi though.
ReplyDeleteah the Princess Bride and Blade Runner ..Great list :)
ReplyDeleteBreakfast at Tiffany's was great, the book and the film! Blade Runner - great example of really adapting the book for a different medium and making it work, and it lets me enjoy the book and the film for totally different reasons! Great list.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with To Kill a Mockingbird! That movie was amazing, and Gregory Peck is just absolutely fantastic! I'm reading A Game of Thrones now and enjoying it before I jump into the TV show so it's good to hear that it's well done. I had no clue that Blade Runner was an adaptation, I'm going to have to fill in those gaps. Awesome list!
ReplyDeleteI still need to watch Life of Pi (I couldn't get into the book though). I love Gone With the Wind - it's a masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteI also have Breakfast at Tiffanys. I want to read Life of Pi before I see the film and the Game of Thrones books are piled up high at the top of my TBR list. :)
ReplyDeleteCiara @ Books are my Bling
I had forgotten Breakfast at Tiffany's and Lonesome Dove! LD was such a great miniseries!
ReplyDeleteI'd include the Harry Potters actually - fantastic casting.
ReplyDeleteRe Joan of Arc, after getting fascinated by her when in France I read quite a few books about her. Her story is so amazing that if it happened today no one would believe it! Cheers
Yes I love Gone With the Wind. And Princess Bride is great too! Great list
ReplyDeleteTeresa @ Readers Live A Thousand Lives
I prefer reading books. I loved reading the books - To Kill a Mocking Bird, Gone with the Wind, and The Grapes of Wrath. I loved the Gone with the Wind movie.
ReplyDeleteI feel that movies limit our imagination and may have cut/rushed through certain parts that were (interesting) in the book.
When I read the Memories of Geisha, oh, I spend time imagining how beautiful the motifs on the kimono might have been. Well, when I watched the movie, I was disappointed. The essence of the book was lost somewhere.
I agree, Peg. Well said.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you mentioned The Princess Bride, I loved that one too. We have a few in common... I totally forgot Life of Pi, and Breakfast at Tiffany's.
ReplyDeleteI love Sci-Fi, but I just can't watch Blade Runner. I can't explain it, but I have never yet managed to watch more than the first 15 minutes or so.
Blade Runner is outside my comfort zone, too, but it is a brilliant movie.
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