• RBWells@lemmy.world
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      I am an avid reader of books, and not a movie buff, but I stand on this hill with you. The LOTR movies are better than the books.

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      The movies are awesome, but as a bookworm I would rather say they’re doing justice to their source material. I’m rereading more than rewatching, but I guess I’m not normal (And no worries, we book purists don’t kill people who have actually read the book)

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    If covers are allowed… I will always love you by Whitney Houston was so good people outside the US forgot/didn’t knew it was a cover.

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    Lord of the Rings. I’ve read the books before watching the movies (I saw them first like 3 years ago) and the books are just… walking… And they walked…. Walked…. They walked… so much walking…. still walking…. And then walking…

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    Pretty much everyone who’s discussed it agrees The Godfather (film) blows the Puzo novel it adapted away.

    Runner up is Adaptation, an adaptation of the novel The Orchid Thief that expands its scope significantly.

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      The movies made me want to read the book. I still haven’t yet though.

      I still get chills when I hear “you’re nothing to me now, Fredo.”

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      The Godfather book has a lot of great character nuances but it also has a subplot of Sonny’s enormous dong being the only thing that could satisfy his wife’s bridesmaid’s enormous vagina.

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      Adaptation was one of those movies I watched and then caught myself thinking about it through the year…a very well done movie.

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      Is Interesting that in the Chinese version of Fight Club, it’s end with a message saying that after the final scene the narrator was arrested and institutionalized and the movement disbanded, making it more faithful to the original ending of the book.

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    Battlestar Galactica (2003) -Originally a mini-seris to pay homage to the original idea through the lens of current events exploded into to what is my favorite show to ever be on television. Informing so much of what TV sci-fi could be after it.

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      I’d say the reboot falls apart about 2/3 of the way through. The last cylon reveals felt very Lost/Lindelof where they’d painted themselves into a corner and hadn’t planned out the ending.

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    I thought the Three-Body Problem on Netflix was better than the book. I haven’t seen the Chinese TV series adaptation of the book, but I’ve heard it was really good too.

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      Good to know. Wasn’t sure 3BP show would be good because I think the book was so slow. Probably lost in translation.

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        Yeah, I heard it was the next big scifi trilogy, but when I read it it was like “Really? This?”