[DavidG]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:

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Originally posted by DavidG:
On a realated note can anyone think of any Sci-Fi movie (or any movie) based on a book that was actually good?

hmmm,.. The Thing, Planet of the Apes (original!), The Omega Man, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Jurassic Park, Hunt for Red October, etc, etc, etc.

I could go on and on, for some reason the 'Good' ones seem to be 'memorable'. Dune comes to mind, but you'd have to clip the ending (prevent Paul from causing it to rain) over-all Dune is well done, but Dune had just a few 'major' bugs that basically raped the original book! The Mini-Series was/is a much better adaptation of the book!

Cheers!

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OMG Dune!!! Really? Guess we'll have to agree to disagree here. I think Dune is a classic example of a totally brilliant book (posibly my favourite of all time) and an unbelievable bad movie. But yea that mini series was pretty good. The only other examples you gave that I have seen the movie and read the book was Jurasic Park and I thought the book was much much better. I guess I always like the books better because you can get so much more depth in a novel than you can in a 2 hour movie. I suppose if you were to put all the chapters from a book in the movie it would be god knows how many hours!

Edit: I guess in my orginal post I should have said "better than or as good as the book" instead of just 'good'

[ February 23, 2003, 22:09: Message edited by: DavidG ]