[ SECRET POST #6864 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6864 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Book adaptations that are better than the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Or, movie adaptations that are better than the book - and tell us why you think so.

Re: Book adaptations that are better than the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Double Indemnity is a good book, but I really enjoy the expanded role of Barton Keyes in the movie (and Edward G Robinson's performance).

Re: Book adaptations that are better than the movie.

[sparklywalls]

I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep but Blade Runner (especially the Director’s cut) does just add something quite special for me. I think it’s mainly Roy seems extra intriguing in the film. However, I do think the animals/their value are explained better in the book and I’d be kinda interested in how a film would do the collective vision everyone experiences.

(Side note: The book isn’t great for it either, but Rachel’s story doesn’t seem quite so yikes.)

Re: Book adaptations that are better than the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

The Witches (1990s film)

Re: Book adaptations that are better than the movie.

[philstar22]

Jaws. I tried reading the book once. Just terrible.

How to train Your Dragon.

Did you know Die Hard is an adaption? And yes, much better than the original in all possible ways.

Stardust the movie worked much better for me than the book. I honestly found most of the characters kind of unlikable in the book.

Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon just work better than the books. I read both, but honestly I find the author's style rather off-putting.

Re: Book adaptations that are better than the movie.

[kaijinscendre]

The movie Interview With The Vampire is better than the book. The book The Vampire Lestat is better than the movie.

Re: Book adaptations that are better than the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

The movie Sahara is infinitely better than the book.

Name your favorite black, white, asian and indian actor.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll start. Eddy Merphy, Sandra Bullock, Park Bo Gum and Tarun Khanna.

Re: Name your favorite black, white, asian and indian actor.

[greghousesgf]

I change my mind about some of these a lot but Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Laurie, Michelle Yeoh and I'm not familiar w/ enough Indian actors to have a favorite.

Re: Name your favorite black, white, asian and indian actor.

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly can't name any Asian or Indian actors... :/

But I could rave forever about my favorite African American actors...

Holy shit, why haven't they been cast in everything ever??
Denzel Washington
Regina King

Literal gods, we're not worthy
Morgan Freeman
Angela Bassett

Hilarious even when they're not supposed to be
Samuel L. Jackson
Whoopi Goldberg

Just plain fun
Eddie Murphy
Niecy Nash

Re: Name your favorite black, white, asian and indian actor.

[(Anonymous)]

Indian IS Asian

Re: Name your favorite black, white, asian and indian actor.

[(Anonymous)]

Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh (this one might be the hardest-- every category has a strong runner-up but I grew up on a lot of Asian cinema... still, I had to give it to her!), Sendhil Ramamurthy.

Adaptions that are just as good as Original

[philstar22]

Similar to other thread, but are there adaptions you think are just as good or close to good as the original?

Re: Adaptions that are just as good as Original

[philstar22]

Jurassic Park is one for me where I love both. I love different things about them, but I honestly couldn't pick which I liked better.

Poirot. I love the books/stories, but I also love the Suchet adaption. Both are amazing.

Re: Adaptions that are just as good as Original

[(Anonymous)]

The Last Unicorn is in my mind about as perfect an adaptation as you can get. It does lose some things from the original but that's understandable as part of the adaptation process, and it gains gorgeous animation.

Re: Adaptions that are just as good as Original

[(Anonymous)]

Paradoxically, Kubrick's film of The Shining is a bad adaptation that stands on its own merits as a movie. (The book's pretty good too, just different.)

Re: Adaptions that are just as good as Original

[(Anonymous)]

Granada Holmes.

What are your favorite horror monsters?

[(Anonymous)]

Classics or new ones! Specific ones or a whole group.

Re: What are your favorite horror monsters?

[philstar22]

I'm always down for dragons or vampires.

I love the alien in Alien, though I didn't love the rest of the series so much.

Anything in the style of Lovecraft monsters.

The evil possessed ship of Even Horizon.

And of course the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park.

Re: What are your favorite horror monsters?

[kaijinscendre]

For general, I love zombies. Any kind of zombie does it for me. I also like a good ghost story.

For specifics, The Thing from The Thing, Aliens from Alien, Jötunn Moder from The Ritual, and Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth.

Re: What are your favorite horror monsters?

[(Anonymous)]

I love werewolves in general because big beasty murder dog with claws.

For particular monsters: the Jotunn from The Ritual as it’s so unsettling, the machine/people creatures in Virus 1999 they’re gruesome but cool, the Thing from The Thing, the Cenobites from Hellraiser, the vampires from 30 Days of Night, Yautja from the Predator movies, and Critters because I think they’re hilarious.

Weight Loss Injections

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone here used Ozempic or similar? Was it successful? How were the side effects? I may be starting as early as next week and would like to hear some personal accounts.

Inspired by the American Girl secret

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't want to yuck on someone else's yummy nostalgia, but am I the only American Girl fan who never cared about the dolls as a kid?

I liked dolls in general, and we could've afforded at least one doll. I just cared more about the books.

Adorable

[philstar22]

Can I just say, the best thing that came out of the Covid era was all the videos of cats interrupting the news broadcasts that were being filmed in homes during the quarantine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1fU2p-emok