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Originally Posted by Augi
And if they have to take a book and crash it in a plane only to rebuild it... make it better... faster... stronger...
I'll see it and know full well I walk into a movie where I can switch my brain off for the next two hours.
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The key thing for me is when you said, "make it better" and so often book to movie adaptions don't do that for some reason or another.
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Originally Posted by Radio Monk33
For those that argue that it's impossible to make a good movie from a book, I'd like to mention the Jason Bourne series. The movies were better than the books (overly complicated, not particularly strong writing).
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I'll agree with you there. I liked the films a hell of a lot more than the books.
However, I wouldn't say it's impossible to make a good movie from a book. I will say Hollywood often seems to buy the rights to a book because it was good. Then, in the name of making it fit into a nice two hour package the book is completely bastardized in its big screen conversion.