The Hunger was better than the book.
World's Fastest Indian.
I don't know of any.
Is that about the motorcycle?
The Godfather series. I read the book by Mario Puzo (the first one anyway) and it was good. But the movies are phenomenal.
the original version of "Coma" with Genevieve Bujold and Richard Widmark and Michael Douglas
~ To me, Robin Cook's novel of the same name got terribly bogged down often with long, drawn-out medical jargon. The movie cooks right along and never lets down.
Interesting. I was nuts about GB and loved Anne of a Thousand Days when I was a kid.
Anyway, I didn't see Coma. I would remember it.
Did you read (I HOPE YOU DIDN'T IT SUCKED) Bonfire of the Vanities? I did not see the movie after that BORING ass book, but I heard it was just as bad. So, that is one where the movie was just as bad as the book.
Thanks WELB
You're welcome, Sharonna!
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I now know I'm fortunate - - I neither read the book nor saw the movie "The Bonfire of the Vanities." That's funny what you wrote about it here, though.
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I highly recommend the original movie version of "Coma." (I'm thinking there was a recent remake for some reason -- I've not seen it if there is one.)
The original -- you'd like Bujold in it.
And Jerry Goldsmith's original music score -- one of the best-ever scores. Interesting to me, Goldsmith chose to use absolutely no music for about the first half of the movie and then after that, hardly any scene is music-less. I never noticed that until it was mentioned in the liner notes of my soundtrack album. Goldsmith's choice works incredibly well -- both the music and lack of music is successful to me in creating a great suspense film. (Yeah, one must suspend some disbelief a bit but it's worth it, ha!)
I was going to post a youtube clip of some music from the movie but it just seems somehow wrong to me to lift music from the movie without the entire score present, along with the movie. The movie and music need to be together and complete.
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Are you shaming me into admitting I don't read books?
And I'm sure if Chris Elliott ever turns his novel "Shroud of the Thwacker" into a movie it would be EPIC.
I never read those but agree, the movies are great. Did the movie screenplay follow the book's storyline though?
