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Every now and again, I like to watch men and women in technicoloured fetish suits pummel each other for a good 90 to 120 minutes.
Earlier this week, I did just that and took the time to catch Marvel’s latest technogasm, Thor. It was awesome.
Stuff blew up, there were heaps of bright colours and Anthony Hopkins proved that elastic-less eye patches are indeed the way of the future.
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Watership Down – remember it? It was a cartoon about bunnies on a common in England.
Fiver has a weird dream; Hazel gets killed by the brown rabbits; and Art Garfunkel sang Bright Eyes while we wept buckets.
The Harry Potters – you must have seen them? Did you see the last one where Hermoine finally got control of her hair? No? In the beginning there were books and we all used our imagination to live the vision of a good writer who took us on a magical journey exercising our imaginations.
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Lucys says:
This story didn’t seem to be about the movie adaptation - just an observation… I have to say however, i saw New Moon last night and have come to the conclusion that Chris Weiss is the anti-director. What Catherine Hardwick did with Twilight was stunning, and was definitely an improvement… Read more »
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Jimbo Jones says:
‘But movies are about the effects, not the morals’... uh huh… I hear rock’n'roll will corrupt youth (it is just noise after all). Books vs films is a bit ‘early 20th century’ isn’t it (bluebloods vs ‘us’ film mongrels etc). Plenty of books are better than or equal to their… Read more »
Last week, I saw the film ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’. My verdict? It was good but not as good as the book.
That got me thinking: as a book lover, do I consider many films ‘as good as the book’? And when I do, what’s made it work?
In the spirit of one of my favourites, here are five of my top book-to-film adaptations:
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Georgina says:
I had a really strong negative reaction to the film adaptation of The English Patient, which I think was due to the arrogance of youth and belief my filmic vision would have been superior! I now appreciate the film and how the historical context was conveyed to expand on the… Read more »
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