Best film adaptation of a book

Mists of Avalon

Great Book
Excellent Movie

 

also an old one.

The Virgin and the Gipsy ( By DH Lawrence )
book was written in 1930 , movie made around the 1960s

 

woo, yeah Misery was a great adpatation. Kathy Bates, I love you.

 

To Kill A Mockingbird
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (I think I may have liked the book a bit more...but I'm not complaining too much about the movie, it was Johnny Depp...mmmm)
The Outsiders

Right now those are the only film adaptations of books that I've read both the book and seen the movie and enjoyed them both enough to remember. I would list Huck Everlasting, but I really was a bit disappointed by both the book and the movie.

 

"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" was suprisingly good and almost perfectly true to the book.

 

Sin City was fucking awsome. Fight Club was quite good. I wish they would make more Palahniuk books into movies. Apt Pupil also kicks ass.

 

kind of old, but since its so parallel to the book i'd have to say The Outsiders
with Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon and the younger dude

 

I haven't seen Sin City as NZ is a little behind the times, But my all time favorite male is in it, so i gotta see it...............Del Toro

 

American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction, Of Mice and Men, The Deer Hunter, Deliverance, and I'm sure there are more, i just can't remember right now

 

also, fear and loathing in las vegas pretty much captures the mood of the book i think, far better than i could have imagined a movie would...


thats cus jonny depp is an amazing actor.

ive never seen train spotting, but i think im gonna go rent it after all the reviews, damn.
the green mile was good, but very very sad

 

The Shining by Stephen King (except the old version of the movie...trash the new one). And, yes, Fear and Loathing.....

 

christiane f

 

Trainspotting. Hands down.

 

"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". Definitely. I've never read a better book. I have no words for the movie... simply incomparable...

 

KenKesey wasn't happy with the movie

 

Really... I didn't know that... Well, I've posted my opinion... I'm curious, do you know why he didn't?

 

Kesey always claimed that he never saw the movie... he didn't like that the Chief character no longer narrated the story,,,I also dont think he wanted Jack Nicholson to play McMurphy .

 

Fightclub is the first one I think of.

 

MYSTIC RIVER


Sean Penn just brings the whole movie to life with his performance.
The pain is just written all over him.
Clint Eastwood's movie actually enhances Dennis Lehane's novel.
Outstanding.

 

The Outsiders, A Clockwork Orange, How I Won The War, The Motorcycle Diaries and Ghostworld