>read No Country for Old Men
>watch the movie
>movies better
>read Inherent Vice
>watch the movie
>movies better
>read War and Peace
>watch the Russian movie
>movies better
>read The Shining
>watch the movie
>movie utterly and viciously rapes the book
>read Lord of the Rings
>watch the movies
>movies way, way, way better
We should just let the great directors adapt all the books and quit wasting time reading. It's inferior every time to the film version if it's done correctly by a good and competent director. I never, ever, ever, want to the read the fricking book again if I can just watch the movie that's just as good or even better in most cases. The only people who disagree are posturing pseuds who want to feel intellectual. It's like those homosexuals who post pictures of themselves using typewriters and wearing tweeds.
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I feel some books are done on too great of a scale or are too uniquely written in order to fully be translated into a movie. Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man are two books that I think a movie would do injustice. Part of the experience is the imagery that you make in your head.
>Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man are two books that I think a movie would do injustice.
You could just make a television show about them.
>Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man are two books that I think a movie would do injustice
The title "The Martian Chronicles" was taken from the 1980 TV adaptation. Before that, it was called The Silver Locusts.
Whoah we got ourselves an scholar over here. How many years did you spend on Wikipedia University? Share your fun facts with us, mortals, please.
I literally watched The Martian Chronicles in 1980, you zoomer moron. But keep projecting, if you find validation in it.
Look at this grown man. He watched The Martin Chronicles in 1980 and yet his sphincter tingles when he sees the repeating digits on the post he made. So mature.
>being this butthurt that he only got dubs
Face it, your life has peaked.
Says the guy that still remembers having watched The Martian Chronicles in 1980
There was a time when TV used to be good. But you wouldn't remember that.
>There was a time when TV used to be good
When was that? I don’t remember it being ever good.
I remember being able to have in depth discussions about all kinds of film (new releases, golden age Hollywood studio movies, european art house films, etc.) before the nolan batman movie that had bane in it. Once that movie came out it was like a year straight of "for you" being spammed. Once that finished tv became nothing more than a board dedicated to GoT/Marvel/Star Wars and frighteningly young actresses.
Are you moronic?
nice one, mr. redditor
Well, are you?
good one, mr. redditor
Do you have some sort of brain damage?
great reddit comeback, mr. redditor
You are pretending to be moronic but i'm not falling for it.
>proud that he's a 50 year old man on an anime website
I earn a passive income from stocks, and have copious free time to spend. What's your excuse?
Sorry but you got btfo’d
We all know about samegayging, gramps
Are the samegays in the room with you now?
Yes
I can confirm
But you don't know how to detect them, apparently.
Maybe you should go back.
Hey man, thats just wrong. The name martian chronicles was first and the name silver locusts was used in UK adaptations. I have a first edition 1950 copy of the martian chronicles.
Proof?
https://www.abebooks.com/signed-first-edition/Martian-Chronicles-Bradbury-Ray-Doubleday-Company/30941209478/bd
Gravity's Rainbow is the best movie ever made
>Inherent Vice
definitely not. the book isnt great either but the movie is a confusing and somehow amateurish mess that takes out all the best parts.
>if it's done correctly by a good and competent director.
e-girlta
try adapting becketts trilogy or something.
I thought PTA did a decent job. Not great. He changed a lot but its not an easy book to film, despite being Pynch’s most filmable.
Phoenix did a very good job capturing Sportello, though Brolin took the cake, he was the perfect casting for Bigfoot. The Shasta character seemed more generic femme fatal than a hippie dream girl.
Adding the hallucinatory Joanna Newsom character was unnecessary and fell flat imo. Also the pacing couldve bene a little more streamlined. All in all couldve been much much worse tho
i read the novel prior to watching the film and had no idea how someone whos just watching the movie could follow or care about anything happening. it was uncharacteristically badly handled on PTAs part with cheap looking visuals and weak acting throughout. bigfoot was good but phoenix is too gritty to play doc. doesnt even have a proper afro. the drugtrips and the general spiritual themes were mostly lost. it didnt help that the source material is already kind of bloated with the centrals stuff being inferior to something like the big lebowski when on screen.
>IQfy - television and movies
what about killers of the flower moon and the wager?
will Scorsese's movies be better than the books?
We'll have to wait and see.
>read Lord of the Rings
>watch the movies
>movies way, way, way better
>read Lord of the Rings
>watch the movies
>movies way, way, way better
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Prove me wrong dipshit. Besides not putting "le tom bombadil" or "my favorite le character and subplot isn't in there!" or whatever horseshit that was rightfully removed.
>Prove me wrong dipshit
He just did, dipshit.
You don't get any of the internal thoughts and conflicts of the characters. It really helps to build a more whole, immersive story IMO.
Well it’s a movie. Do you want whole scenes that are just still shots of the characters thinking in their head?
> Well it’s a movie
That’s right and that’s why it will always be inferior to a book. The inner world is a literary realm.
I think the movies were better but one thing I feel they fricked up is that they failed to show how massive of a journey it was for Frodo and Sam. They should have included a lot more trekking and camping scenes or whatever.
moron
cope
Not an argument
The movies were cringe kitschy slop.
you need to take the bombadilpill, anon
honestly shining worked way better as a book for me, despite the film being a masterpiece. get why kingo disliked the adaptation
You can say the same for The Godfather too. Directors can take a schlock and turn it into art.
Name one example
Not him, but ...
from schlock to schlock
cope
Cope for what? It's a blockbuster genre movie
The Godfather, and there's hundreds of movies taken from books nobody heard of that were made into masterpieces.
Jean-Luc Goddard said you could only make a great movie adaptation of a bad book.
>nobody heard of
>[The Godfather] remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 67 weeks and sold over nine million copies in two years.
The Godfather's kind of an odd case because Mario Puzo also wrote the screenplay and got a chance to revise his story and trim it down, I think that's why the plot's so good.
The inherent vice film is a fricking disjointed mess and borderline unwatchable unless you can make sense of the gaps between scenes by having read the book. And wasn’t no country for old men a script in the first place?
>IQfy - Television & Movies
why is there always 2 angry autists fighting in every thread?
that's bullshit you fricking homosexual
heh
> We should just let the great directors adapt all the books and quit wasting time reading. It's inferior every time to the film version if it's done correctly by a good and competent director. I never, ever, ever, want to the read the fricking book again if I can just watch the movie that's just as good or even better in most cases. The only people who disagree are posturing pseuds who want to feel intellectual. It's like those homosexuals who post pictures of themselves using typewriters and wearing tweeds
Good lord
How can someone be so fat in face and so skinny in body simultaneously?
2/5ths right at best. It's the same issue as animation vs. live action: there are things too expensive to shoot IRL, which animation is completely unlimited except by the ability of the animators with respect to location, casting, special effects et. al. The novel isn't just a film treatment in waiting.
>No Country for Old Men
>Inherent Vice
>The Shining
These books aren't that good to begin with.
>War and Peace
Disagree. The novel is superior.
>Lord of the Rings
Haven't read. e-girlta is another famous example of a book being considerably stronger than the film. You can't beat good prose.
>read blade runner
>the movie is better
I honestly think the director who uses the world built by the author to make his own story will make a far better experience
You are moronic.
Ah, a bottom. I see..
Take pride in another's vision just sitting there staring blankly at a screen? Myriad such cases
you read something informative. reading children's books like you did is stupid and you should have figured that long ago.
but some people prefer reading. There are different kinds of people than you op
what about Blade Runner
>war and peace
>movie better
lol. lmao even. lmfao in fact.
This was the moment I knew it was bait
T. Hasn't read W&P
Filtered
Tolstoy wrote shitty soap operas. Perfectly suited for films and improvement.
Tolstoy is better suited to film if we're being honest.
Nah, works wonderfully in book form. People’s minds are just rotten.
It's simply the nature of the medium. If it became possible, a full dive VR video game version of all of these would be better
NCFOM was written as a screenplay. It's a brilliant companion to the film, I can't imagine what it would've been like to read first
This has more to do with the selection of books. Most listed here are driven by action and so well adapted for the screen.
Try adapting "Notes from the Underground" into a movie.
It would be difficult as the book doesn't have much of a plot and is carried forward by the internal thoughts of the narrator.