FILM: Films as good as the book

diebitter · #1 09-15-2005, 05:37 AM

I've riffed this from another thread, but the tally so far was:

Exorcist
Silence of the Lambs
Field of Dreams (which actually was better than 'Shoeless Joe' the book IMO)
Hunt for Red October
Godfather I and II
Back to the future 2

I'd add:
Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me (from the Body)
Misery
Jurassic Park
Fellowship of the Ring

shant · #2 09-15-2005, 05:40 AM

The fact that my suggestion of BTTF2 made it to this list has made me smile.

TheCroShow · #3 09-15-2005, 05:41 AM

Dude, Where's My Car

they changed the ending but it was pretty damn close to the book

whiskeytown · #4 09-15-2005, 06:59 AM

The Shipping News -

they ended up taking a daughter out of it but that's all....instead of having two daughters, they merged the two into one character -

RB

TylerD · #5 09-15-2005, 07:06 AM

Fight Club is better than the book.

ChipWrecked · #6 09-15-2005, 07:16 AM

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

(Love the book, but the movie's great, and you don't have to wade through the "OMFG I've been electroshocked and now I think I'm inside a die and pissing myself" stuff)

diebitter · #7 09-15-2005, 07:28 AM

Catch 22
Green Mile
Sin City

RollaJ · #8 09-15-2005, 08:00 AM

The Running Man (I liked the movie better)
Ten Commandments (And thats saying a lot because that book is the only one known as "The Good Book") [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

dcasper70 · #9 09-15-2005, 08:20 AM

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The Running Man

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you have got to be joking.
worst book to film that the world has ever seen

private joker · #10 09-15-2005, 08:24 AM