***Best & Worse Book to Movie Adaption?***
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I'm just curious what the you think is the best and worse book to movie adaptions are?
For me the worse adaption was Phantoms by Dean Koontz. It was a great thriller of a book but the direct to dvd movies was a real disappointment. Even Ben Affleck playing the sheriff, Liev Schreiber(Sabertooth in Xmen Origins) or Rose McGowen couldn't save this flick.
The best adaption IMHO is actually a comic to movie. The First Spiderman movie was pretty awesome. Toby McGuire was everything I imagined Peter Parker to be.
Please feel free to add you own opinions and discussion below!
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My personal favorites, although they did deviate from the books, are:
A Good Year (starring Russell Crowe {one of my bigtime crushes}) and the book A Good Year by Peter Mayle - The movie and the book managed to convey the stark difference between the square mile and provence, and the stories widely diverged, but the end results were pretty great!
I Am Legend. The book and movie weren't that similar, but the overall impact made it so that fans of the book would like the movie because it didn't repeat EVERYTHING that they've read, and still the stories were awesome! On the other hand, the term "I am Legend" didn't really come out well in the movie, because the book had more of a moralistic twinge at the end.
The ones i didnt like would be:
Dreamcatcher
Contact (but then, the movie would be ten hours long if they tried to keep it in good faith)
Nightwatch -
I'm not into reading fiction these days, but I used to lap up everything that Stephen King wrote. The tv versions of 'The Stand' and 'It' were good, but Salem's Lot was brilliantly chilling for its time. I enjoyed the movie versions of Pet Sematary, The Dead Zone and also The Mist, which has the most downbeat movie ending ever. The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are movie classics.
As for comic books, I think the 1978 Superman movie was spot on for acting, story and capturing the whole spirit of the comics
