Top 5 movies adapted from books?

1. The Godfather
2. The Princess Bride
3. Sense and Sensability
4. LOTR Trilogy
5. Dangerous Liasons
5. The Outsiders
5. The Wizard of Oz
5. The Count of Monte Cristo

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But i think Harry Potter Was a Good Vamp From a Book :P lol

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1)The Lord Of the Rings
2)To Kill a Mockingbird
3)Shane
4)The Shining
5)The Exorcist

Great books,Great movies

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Some of my Favorite Movies,
LOTR,Return of the King
The Shawshank Redemption
Legends of the Fall
BraveHeart
American History X

Some of the films posted here, have not been written as novels/books. If I had to post any movie, I would say "The Lord Of the Rings". But I felt they left to much out of the movie that took part in the novel... they could of shown the directors cut in theaters and left the "full" size film for the videos/dvds. Still... LOTR+ were great films.

1. The Shawshank Redemption
3. LOTR Trilogy
4. L.A Confidential
5. Gods and Monsters
6. Wizard of Oz
7. Stand By Me
8. High Fidelity
9. To Have and Have Not
10. Forrest Gump

Which would those be?

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beat me to it...was going to ask the same thing!!!!

The Last Temptation of Christ
Goodfellas
Permanent Midnight
Contempt
Lolita

Barry Lyndon

My two favorites are

Gone With the Wind
Breakfast at Tiffany's

There's lots of other ones I imagine are quite good, and are wonderful films and books. But those are the only two great ones I can think of that I've both seen the movie and read the book.

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Nero wolfe. timothy hutton one.definitely a good one

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The House of the Spirits
The Prince of Tides
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Great Santini
The Shawshank Redemption

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What about 'Jurassic Park'? It's a classic.

The Bridges of Madison County : I loved the book by Robert James Waller.Clint Eastwood did a good job with the movie.
Kramer vs. Kramer : Both were good though I liked the movie more than the book.
The Firm : The John Grisham novel was pretty good though the Tom Cruise movie was somewhat disappointing.

1. The Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
2. The Shining - Stephen King
3. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien
4. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey

Honorable mentions

1984 - George Orwell
The Green Mile - Stephen King
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Total Recall - Philip K. Dick
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Minority Report - Philip K. Dick
The Mist - Stephen King
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

The godfather



the exorcist



gone with the wind



mystic river



the outsiders

Disclosure.

Films adapted from books? There are no Bret Easton Ellis books listed here.

"American Psycho"
"Less than Zero"
"The Rules of Attraction"
"The Informers"

I do enjoy classics to film such as

"The Count of Monte Cristo"
"Pride and Prejudice"
"To Kill A Mocking Bird"
"Of Mice and Men"
"Jane Eyre"


Just to name a few.

Werckmeister Harmonies and Satantango are based on books too.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

And in a very interesting way. It's cool to see how Tarr's long takes reflect Kraznahorkai's improbably long sentences and 30 page long paragraphs.

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