I am forever bitter about Eragon…

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Most of them? Lord of the Rings is the exception not the rule

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There’s a list of great ones.
Shawshank.
Fight Club.
2001 (kinda cheating tho).
Green Mile.
The Godfather.
American Psycho.

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Since you brought up Kubrick I’d say pretty much his whole filmography is better, with the Shining being the lone debatable exception

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Oh definitely. These were just of the top of my head, there’s plenty of other good book movies.

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Kubrick…good adaptions

You mean Stanley “I didn’t even read the entirety of A Clockwork Orange” Kubrick? Mister “Actually let’s age up the girl in Lolita and spend time focusing on how sexy she is”? That Kubrick? Dude completely ignores the point of both books and does the one thing the authors very specifically do not want you to do

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Plus Princess Bride. I actually prefer the film.

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The book Jurassic Park is great, I’ll take the movie every time given the choice

But these are all still exceptions, adaptations are usually best when they are either extremely book accurate or handled by a competent artist and not a studio or group of producers

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Not the best Crichton novel, but Sphere. The book was a fun read but not even the combined powers of Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L Jackson could make the movie adaptation palatable.

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I liked the book.

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Catch 22

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I thought the 2019 mini-series was pretty decent.

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Trailer sure as hell looked better than the original which butchered that amazing book.

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Di Vinci Code was butchered, and I’m sorry to say it but Hanks was the wrong choice for Robert Langdon.

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It should’ve been Van Damme. Then actione starred his way to the climax.

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For some reason I always pictured Clive Owen for the role of Langdon.

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I mostly enjoyed the book until the antagonist made such a huge error by revealing himself way too early that it ruined the whole thing for me. The other books in the series also had major issues that just ruined them as well.

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I loved the Timeline book from Crichton, but one look at the trailer for the movie, I decided to not watch it. It looked really bad. 5.6 on imdb sort of backs that up I guess.

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Indeed. I saw that movie and it was pretty bad. The book, like most of his novels, was a good read though.

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I loved the book. The movie trailer made me ashamed of liking the book.

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