[ SECRET POST #3304 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3304 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Law & Order SVU]


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[Leonardo DiCaprio]


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(Penny Dreadful: Caliban/John Clare)


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[Star Wars]


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[Kumail Nanjiani, The X-Files]


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[Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem]


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[Love Live!]


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[Severus Snape and the Marauders]


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[Sherlock Holmes]


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[Making a Murderer, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting]


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[Colony]















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Comments

Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

Even though we're not supposed to, there's movies we prefer to the films.

What are yours, and why?

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[kaijinscendre]

I prefer the remake of True Grit to the original. Better acting in that movie from everyone.

I strongly prefer the movie adaptation of My Sister's Keeper because the end of the book was bullshit.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[ginainthekingsroad]

The Coens' True Grit is also closer to the novel. Hence the cool, vaguely stylized speech patterns.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

This is pretty nit-picky, but I believe the new True Grit was actually another interpretation of the book rather than a remake of the first movie.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

YES. The remake of True Grit was amazing. I'd never even heard of it before going in. Such good acting.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[herpymcderp]

+10 for True Grit, because... let's face it, sensibilities have changed a whole lot since the 70's (or close enough).

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

OP here, and LOTR. I can appreciate the world Tolkein built and the context of the world, but I can't get through his writing, so the movies are a good compromise. I do wish they'd kept in some of the poetry, though IIRC they may have had one or two songs? That's actually very important in the greater context, and anyway, he was a good poet. Otherwise, yeah, the books bore me to death but the films drive home the point I know Tolkein was trying to make.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

The second Harry Potter movie, Chamber of Secrets, which is weird because the opposite is generally true - I prefer the books to the movies by far. But I feel that the second movie flows better, and I also think that the writing is stronger than in CoS, when JKR was still a relatively new writer.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[philstar22]

I prefer the Half blood Prince movie to the book. Still not great, but at least it cuts out some of the worst of the book.

Hunger Games movies were better than the books for me. I didn't even make it past the first book. First person just doesn't work for me at all.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[dethtoll]

I'll be contrarian and say I preferred the original Fight Club novel to the movie. Though the movie is good.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

2005 Pride and Prejudice. I'm not a fan of empire waist dresses so aesthetically it's more my speed. I also liked the houses and locations they picked (I found the houses very samey in the BBC version).

I also liked them humanizing Mrs. Bennet and showing that she and Mr. Bennet were more partners than in the book. I liked that Lydia and Kitty were cast much younger. This is the only version of Lydia that I can sympathize with. I actually liked the little Mary/Mr. Collins they threw in there. I also felt the chemistry between this Darcy and Elizabeth more than any other version I've seen.

Really, all the cast worked really well for me except for Mr. Bennet, who I didn't hate in the role (he just felt out of place).

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

Bambi. The book is weird and nonsensical and ends with Bambi finding a dead hunter and coming to the conclusion that God must exist, because if even Man can die then there must be something stronger than Man.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

The book thread up there reminded me, I prefer the movie Howl's Moving Castle to the book. The biggest complaints about the movie are actually what why I like it more. It doesn't make sense? I like the surrealism. Howl's dickishness got watered down? Good, because I'm over dickish heroes. I also dislike Diana Wynne Jones's writing style. I didn't even make it all the way through the book.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

V for Vendetta. It's trimmed down, less meandering and, given the major shift in tone and focus, also less depressing. I realise that it's in many ways the thematic opposite of the comic, but bluntly I just like it better. Also, on a shallower level, Hugo Weaving is fascinating to watch when he's acting almost solely through voice and body language without the aid of facial expressions, and I've loved Stephen Rea in almost everything I've seen with him.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[vethica]

My answer to this question will always be Holes. It's an amazing book, but it's an absolutely perfect movie.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[nightscale]

Lord of the Rings, I do like the books but I can find it difficult to get through in places where the movies just grab me instantly and keep me hooked the whole time, even though I've seen them 20+ times by now.

Hunger Games, I'm not much of a fan of first person PoV so the movies work better for me because of that.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

Disney's Pinocchio. It's certainly not one of my favourite Disney films, but it's leagues better than the book it's based on.

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carl Collodi isn't just the worst children's book I've ever read, it's the worst book of any sort that I've ever read. And I've read some pretty fuckin' terrible books.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[ketita]

Matilda, always. I liked the visual surreality of it, I really liked the actress, and I liked the ending better. It depressed me that in the book she lost her powers, even though it meant that she was happy.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[tabaqui]

Jaws!

The book was utterly awful. Chief Brody's wife was a snob, embarrassed by her 'blue collar' husband, treating him impatiently and with disdain, and longing to go back to her blue-blood past. The Matt Hooper character was snide and puffed up and arrogant, and he and Mrs Brody slipped off and had sex mid-way through the book.

There was a very weird and boring sub-plot with the Mayor of the town and the Mafia, idek.

The movie was ten times better.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

Coraline. Something about Neil Gaiman's prose made it really difficult for me to imagine what was going on in the book, to the point that the entire time I was watching the movie I just went "Wait, THAT'S what was happening?!?" Plus Movie Coraline had an actual personality.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[sparrow_lately]

Children of Men took the novel's premise and rearranged it brilliantly and compellingly, and then took it to its logical conclusion gorgeously. Favorite movie; barely like the book.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

I liked the Warm Bodies movie better than the book. The book had this really weird scene that implied Julie and Nora used to sleep around a lot because the world was ending and it felt really unnecessary. I also couldn't take the zombie society with the school and the appointed kids seriously.

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

Hunger Games has already been said but Hunger Games was a big one for me (especially Catching Fire cause I thought it was kind of the weakest book but my favorite of the movies)

Kick Ass, the comic's unrelenting cynicism and general Mark Millar-ness was a turn off, and most of that wasn't present in the movie.

There are certainly more but I can't think of anything rn

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[sadiesockmonkey]

Aquamarine.

I didn't like how the book limited the character's mobility because rather than gaining legs for a brief time period on land, she was stuck with her tail & the two girls spent the time pushing her around in a wheelchair. It's great for children with disabilities to have that representation, and I would definitely recommend it for that purpose, but having seen the movie first, it's not what I was expecting.

Not a movie adaptation, but I started watching Lifetime's Witches of East End before reading the novel, and I love both, but they're wildly different. (I need to finish watching the show & reading the series.)

Re: Movie adaptations you liked better - and why

[(Anonymous)]

How to Train Your Dragon

I love the movies and TV shows. I tried reading the books and couldn't make it past the first one.

I thought the animated movie based on the first book The Boxcar Children series was pretty good. I would watch more if they based them on some of the other books.