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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 05:47 PM
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Movies That Were Worse Than The Book
Bonfire Of The Vanities
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 05:50 PM
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1. Scarlet Letter--Demi Moore version
:puke:
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 05:51 PM
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2. I was trying to come up with something...but I can't beat that one.
Even "Interview with the Vampire", when I read that Cruise was to be cast as Lestat, turned out to be pretty damned ok.

But "Bonfire" was a complete, total disaster. That film never should have been made.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 05:56 PM
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3. the list could be too long to contemplate
it's a rare movie that outdoes a book in my opinion.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 05:58 PM
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4. Oh God the bonfire of the Vanities was so miscast...
Edward Herrman should have been Sherman McCoy why was Bruce Willis cast as the on his way out journalist...
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 07:04 PM
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9. Edward Herrman is a fine, but under-rated, actor.
I saw him once on the London stage -- years ago -- in a play called "A Walk in the Woods" with the incomparable Sir Alec Guinness. What an experience that was.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 07:59 PM
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13. Wasn't that the play about the US and Soviet
arms negotiators discussing thing on these walks away from the barganing table...
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 08:09 PM
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15. Exactly.
It was so damn good.

Edward Herrman was the American, and Alec Guinness the Russian.

Also the second time I'd seen Alec Guinness onstage. I also once saw a play with Sir John Gielgud. London has such great theater, I should get back there one of these days.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 08:53 PM
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20. I really want to get to London Paris and Rome before I die...
I would also like to see Athens and Berlin...
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 09:02 PM
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21. I have been to all those wonderful cities...
except Athens.

Hope to get there before I die.

Good luck to you on getting to those places.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 11:04 PM
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28. And yet I still always refer to him as the Head Vampire.
:)
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 05:59 PM
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5. Contrary to others opinions
I thought Jaws was a better book
I love the movie but the book was an awesome read
and better

lost
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 06:12 PM
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6. All of them? n/t
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 06:57 PM
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7. Agreed- I am ALWAYS disappointed. n'/t
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 07:00 PM
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8. Queen of the Damned.
That was just awful.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 07:47 PM
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11. One problem with that movie...
was that they combined the elements of two books..."The Vampire Lestat" and "Queen of the Damned". Sort of confusing if you read the books.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 07:44 PM
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10. Found a website that lists them
http://www.imdb.com/
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 07:49 PM
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12. Gone With The Wind
Lord of the Rings
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Homer Wells Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 08:02 PM
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14. Most Stephen King movies
with he possible exception of the original Shining (ala Nicholson)
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 08:12 PM
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16. you beat me to it, but
i thought the shining was the worst. it made no sense, AT ALL.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 08:15 PM
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17. We had this conversation last night about Stephen King Movies.
How funny.
Duckie
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KingofNewOrleans Donating Member (650 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 09:52 PM
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25. Actually, the Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me
made for great movies. His horror stuff never translates well at all.
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Homer Wells Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 02:10 PM
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29. ABSOLUTELY!!!!!
I should have made myself clear that I was only considering his horror type movies

:hi:
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 08:18 PM
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18. My sister's anwer is always "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
I don't know - didn't read it or see it.

O.K., now I have to go read it. ;)
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 08:23 PM
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19. Dune
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 09:09 PM
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22. The Devil wears Prada, Silenece of the lambs and i agree with the "Stephen King books"
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 09:47 PM
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23. The film version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is an abomination.
The novel is one of the 4 or 5 best books published in the 20th century. The movie is a disaster. Ken Kesey hated the film.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 09:49 PM
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24. Yes. lol
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 10:50 PM
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26. The movie version of "Last Exit To Brooklyn" is horrible
justfuckinghorrible
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-18-07 11:00 PM
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27. All the Harry Potters, but especially the first two.
The first Harry Potter book was fundamentally about this discarded little boy that discovers that he's actually famous and loved. The first Harry Potter movie was fundamentally about Harry's mouth hanging open in response to some CGI "magic."
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AnotherGreenWorld Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 02:41 PM
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30. Troy
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 02:52 PM
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31. Exit to Eden
my thought on the movie was "you are kidding, right?"
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 02:11 AM
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32. All of them except Jaws.
The movie was much better than the book was.

Though I'd love to see someone make a movie of Benchley's book "Rummies".That was funny stuff.
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ruiner4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-20-07 02:12 AM
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33. any movie that was taken from a book
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