Best Movie Made From A Book

Pretty simple you say your favourate movie that was originally a book. I'm sure you all have your own personal favourates, so what are they?

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence

Far too many great adaptations, to list them all, or to choose a favourite.

__________________
Let us go, Through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells

From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S.Eliot

To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee
The Green Mile-Steven King
Stand By Me- based on the nevella 'The Body' by Steven King
Briget Jones's Diary.... kinda... it's a good movie...-Helen Fielding
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy... except for when they messed up some of the storylines... all muddled, but it's still amazing!-J.R.R. Tolkein

__________________

The two movies are "The Godfather" I did not like the book at all too many swores!
"Princess Bride" man don't read the book it sucked big time!Watch the movie instead much better!
And that is al for now will be Countined!See you around!JM

__________________
Jackie Malfoy
Fourteen
Slytherin
Favorite Movie of all time:Star Wars!
Online offline boyfriend:AdarkSideJedi(brad)
Other Sites I belong tooeathcurse.com Darkmark.com and StarWars.com and Adult Swim.com!

Easy, The Shawshank Redemption, which is based on the Stephen King-novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.

Unbeatable.

Cheers, Martin

__________________

Lord of the Rings Triology- Tolkien

__________________
And like that .... he's gone

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The World According To Garp

will think of more...

__________________
Movies I Watched Last Week:
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) ****
Drive Well, Sleep Carefully (Justin Mitchell, 2005) ****
Grilled (Jason Ensler, 2006) ****
An Inconvenient Truth (David Guggenheim, 2006) ****
The Family Stone (Thomas Bezucha, 2005) ***1/2
Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone, 1982) ***
--------------------------------------------
Visit My Blog!
or, my myspace!

green mile
princess bride
lord of the rings trilogy
the passion
stand by me (short story)
peter pan
mystic river

Thought of some more:

The Godfather
Psycho
The Virgin Suicides
The Thin Red Line
Die Hard
Once Upon A Time In America
The Neverending Story
The Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
City Of God
Peter Pan
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Cold Mountain



will think of more... again...

funny, just yesterday i was thinking about starting a thread about exactly the same thing, but i was sure somebody else already did...
anyway, i think it's:
to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
LOTR trilogy - tolkein
sorry, i can think of a lot of crap ones, but these are the only good ones i can think of at the moment

Top 5 in order

1.LOTR Trilogy
2.Mystic River
3.High Fidelity
4.the Green Mile
5.Fight Club

__________________
Remember, remember, the 5th of November
I'm afraid I must bid you adieu.
He woke up one night with a terrible fright
And found he was eating his shoe.

Cold Mountain
The Thing (John Caprenter, based off the story "Who Goes There?"
Lord of the Rings
The Shawshank Redemption
Misery
A Clockwork Orange
The Princess Bride (and I liked the book darnit!)

__________________
"What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you." -Charles Frazier


"I would kill someone in front of their own mama for a ten speed. And if anyone testifies against me I'll gouge their eyes out."

The LOtR Trilogy
The Stand
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Princess Bride
The Neverending Story

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Catch 22
Mystic River
Lord Of The Rings
Fight Club
The Shining
Lolita
A Clockwork Orange

I'd like to thank Garrett for bringing this to my attention. I FORGOT ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOO'S NEST! Well, add it to my list.

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


Those are just a few.

__________________
"Today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

The Joy Luck Club ~by Amy Tan

Sense and Sensibility ~by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice ~by Jane Austen
Persuasion ~by Jane Austen

Much Ado About Nothing ~by Shakespeare

That was a book? I actually like that movie. I was addicted to it when I was like 7. Picture that, a 14 year old boy liking Sense and Sensibility. Not something you see everyday.

Thought of some more... again...

25th Hour
Harry Potter
A Time To Kill
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Jurassic Park
The War Of The Worlds
Animal Farm

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien