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"Is the film ever better than the book?"

I'm not going to make a long post out of this, I'll leave that to you, I'll just pose the question:

Is the film ever better than the book?

My answer: No.

Evidence: The Green Mile, Trainspotting.

Yep, that's one example, though when updating they often redo the words too.

I didn't like Romeo and Juliet at all. I don't think that it worked set in the modern day, and Baz Lurman lives so far up his own bottom.

"Wear Sunscreen, be nice to people, it doesn't matter if you don't know what you want to do"

Oh shut up you fool! Any tramp can waffle good advice, common sense and preachy nonsense for 3 minutes.

Damn I hated that Sunscreen song.

Meka, do you mean like Romeo and Juliet, with Leonardo Di Pants?

I thought that was poitnless, set in the modern day, with cars and stuff, but with the original language.

Waste of time.

Ok, I have to admit to being a total snob about Shakespeare and I hate it when it gets updated.

Plays written in some of the most beautiful language ever have been turned into "Wow, like cool!" so American kids can laugh and look at the pretty people in the movie.

Bah humbug

Lets take this on to somewhere different.

How about when a classic novel is 'modernised' into a film. Probably set in a high school with teenagers and stuff!

For example, Jane Austins Emma, a book I hated reading with a passion, became a watchable movie in Clueless (though it looks very dated today!)

Apparently 10 Things I hate About You is based upon The Taming Of The Shrew - is that any good?

Good.

"Some people call me Maurice..Woo-hoo..cos I speak..of the papatoose of luuuuuuuurve" (in Homer Simpson voice)

Hmmmm very interesting question!

I am sure at heart the film from any book is good but if you have read the book then you have a picture of what it should look like and how everyone should sound so when you see the film you are shocked and not too sure what to make of it.

Take 'The Lord of The Rings' for example, I am sure everyone has their own ideas on how it should look so how will the film be accepted?

Hmmmm

I'll give you the ammo, then the strength to use it.

Give me strength or give me ammo

CJC wrote:
> The book was about 200 pages long and I wasnt really interested in reading it at
> the time.

> With a
> book you need to use you own imagination, which can be very
> difficult for some people.

I think I'm going to cry.

Yes... in a way.

I've read the Green Mile and I enjoyed it greatly but it didn't move me in the way the film did. I didn't cry at the book, I cried at the film. I've only ever cried at one book actually, 'A Boy Called "It"' By Dave Peltzer, it's the first part of his autobiography. It's him telling the story of his mother abusing him. Worst ever recorded case of child abuse in California that...

and also, the Mario Brothers film was better than the book :-D

Other than those two though, I'd have to say "no"