SpiderMan, Iron Man, basically all MArvel superhero movies. I am sorry, but Marvel's comics SUCK.. how many times will they clone peter parker before they get ENOUGH of that storyline? XD
Movies that were BETTER then the Books
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He's saying he found the movies more enjoyable (at first), and THEN he found the books more enjoyable.RhomCo said:
Or it's just a horrible horrible grammatical mistake.
On-topic: Can't think of any, never read any books-that-were-turned-into-movies.
I can agree with this entirely. The only place where the movie was inferior was explaning how Marla Singer had anything to do with the events of the story, but I suspect a clever viewer could pick it up by inductive reasoning.Furburt said:
Comic...Book, Comic.-.Book, Comic-Book, Comicbook. Hey look, it's a book as well! Also, technically, a Graphic (Comic) Novel (Book). Don't tell me what I did and didn't mean, it annoys me greatly.Edward123454321 said:
I agree with you to an extent, but only really about this particular point. Yes, the twist is broadcast in the movie, no it is not broadcast in the comic, but by not trying to keeo it so hush hush, the movie makes for some characterisation, which the book was sorely lacking. Apart from Kick Ass, none of the others really mattered at all, they were just interchangeable assholes who could have been anyone. At least the movie had some personality.JMan said:
Also, I had major issues with the overrding message of the comic book, because it seemed so counterintuitive to what the writer would want to say. The message of the movies is, nerds can be awesome too. Maybe it's not realistic, but no movie with real life superheroes is going to be realistic.
The comics overall message is: you are a pathetic dork, and the only way you will ever amount to anything is to stop reading comic books and join the real world. Alright then Mark Millar, I'll stop reading your COMIC BOOK and go rejoin the real world, thus depriving you of money and readership as I spread the message. Nice going, you nihilistic prat. (I have very mixed feelings about Mark Millar.)
It just irritated me, because I also know that my reading comic books does not make me a pathetic loser.
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Not quite so blasphemous, but I still disagree. While the ending made much more sense, I was disappointed with how they ignored all the minor storylines that gave the ending its feeling of weight and loss.Nightmist said:
While books and movies are two completely different media, I feel the best example of book-turned-movie will always be Lord of the Rings.
But that doesn't mean it's BETTER, just different, I think, if you got a good book, kept the name but changed it a ridiculous amount, it doesn't really count has that book any more. And it made me rage because I was a fan of the book. I don't think book-movie goes that badly, movie-book, movie-graphic novel, game-movie and movie-game go bad, comic-movie, graphic novel-movie and book-movie go quite well most of the time I think, but that said I don't think any of the adaptations rival the original books at all.razormint21 said:
Similar to Bladerunner, "The Thing" is far better than the old film or the short story "Who goes there?".Crosshead said:
A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, The Thing, The Godfather, and No Country for Old Men. I would say the movie is on par, does the book Justice, and maybe is a bit better than the book.
But the movie that was a million times better than the book,
[HEADING=2]Everything is Illuminated[/HEADING]
One of my absolute favorite movies of all time, and I despised the book.
But the movie that was a million times better than the book,
[HEADING=2]Everything is Illuminated[/HEADING]
One of my absolute favorite movies of all time, and I despised the book.
I agree on many accounts. Nite Owl was such a pansy ***** that I wanted to slap him upside the head through most of the book. Rorschach and Ozymandias were the two most intriguing characters to me, and Ozymandias gets shoved off the side of the story so quickly, and stays there for so long that I kept having to remind myself who he was.Nightmist said:
The end of the graphic novel was so disappointing. If anything needed to change, it was that. I loved what they did in the movie, it tied everything together and provides more backing for the characters choices at the end.
There were a lot of things I loved about the book, but if you're looking for flow, characterization and sense, the movie rates higher on all accounts.
The X-Men and Spiderman movies are garbage. Though I agree that marvel comics are not very good in general (What little I read is Dark Horse or DC), those movies are just bad.captainfluoxetine said:
Now, Ironman and the Hulk I can agree with you on.
The Godfather,
in the book the characters are completely inconsistent, they flit between a huge amount of different personalities and attitudes every couple of pages as if they were all schizophrenic. It almost makes Vito Corleone an unlikeable character......
almost
in the book the characters are completely inconsistent, they flit between a huge amount of different personalities and attitudes every couple of pages as if they were all schizophrenic. It almost makes Vito Corleone an unlikeable character......
almost
