10 Most Trending Book to Movie adaptations 2018

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I looked at this and wondered what in the cat hair is going on? The dismal movie audience attendance for 2017 has been in the cellar. Now they want to put this mmmm, out there to entertain and entice the public back into the movie theaters? Really? Come on guys, I wouldn't ask my dog to sit through any of these movies. A hundred mil spent on a Wrinkle in Time? Yer pulling my leg ain't yuh? From the preview it ain't James Cameron Avatar. On a scale of 1 to ten I give it a zero.

I have some ocean front property in Oklahoma for sale. Trust me, a real bargain. My friend says she has some water front property in Arizona really cheap. Wonder if we can get those movie people interested?

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Hey Barb,

AZ has some lakes (a few are even natural) and rivers. Tempe even made a town lake by putting another dam on the Salt river. The ones upstream are for recreation and water storage. The town lake has no swimming, just boating and a scenic view to raise property values! You said water front....

Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee

Everything was forgettable.

Arrival was wonderful. I've watched it several times.

So many of the movies were bloody awful, and I walked out of several after 20 minutes.

Wind River felt realistic but has a lot of violence, almost triggering. Dunkirk was sad.

Bright was cinematically too dark (I could hardly see it), and was extremely pessimistic. I won't go see any more. And, that from an actor I admire. Someone said it was his statement about racism?

The rest were wanking material for barely adolescent boys with faces full of Acne. Maybe too many sexual predators have pulled their funds? If so, good riddance.

Dunkirk

was not meant to be a feel good movie. A glorious retreat is still a retreat.

As for what I've seen this year, 'Victoria and Abdul' was interesting as was Gary Oldman in 'Darkest Hour'.
IMHO, Hollywood need to get off the sequel/prequel/superhero bandwagon and start being creative again. There is very little originality coming out of LA at the moment. I see no point in going to the Cinema/Movies if all there is that sort of offering available.
Samantha.

Yech

Went to Molly's Game and watched eight or nine horrible previews. Really . . . there was a half hour of previews and they all were dreadful. I thought about bringing suit for false imprisonment.

Why not make simple movies that tell great stories?

Here's a list of my favorite simple story movies.

Forrest Gump
12 Angry Men
It's a Wonderful Life
High Noon
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Graduate
The African Queen
Good Will Hunting
Casablanca
Bringing Up Baby
E.T.
Shawshank Redemption
Some Like It Hot
Inside Out
Rain Man
It Happened One Night
Stagecoach
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Apartment
Rocky
Rear Windows
Up
Jaws

Jill

Angela Rasch (Jill M I)

No John Wayne???

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Really Angela, that's sacrilegious. No Lash Larue, Gene Auntry, Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, Buck Rogers, Howdy Doody....,
LOL bet half these readers have no idea.
I'll be right out to join you as soon as I get my wheelchair.
And as a tease, do yankees still call Route 66, Root 66 ?
You know, yu'all never could get the Kings English right.
The other day I learned what "Bless your heart" meant in the south
Hugs hon, stay warm, stay safe
always,
Barb

Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl

Wait...

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If the Stagecoach in Angela's list is John Ford's from 1939, then it includes John Wayne as he played the Ringo Kid.

~And so it goes...

Uh Huh Barbie Lee

Even though I have a taste in my mouth for John Wayne for his involvement in the McCarthy nonsense, I did include Stagecoach which was made long before he took part in the Red Scare.

Best western - High Noon, which was written as an answer to McCarthyism.

Jill

Angela Rasch (Jill M I)

I've personally never seen a John Wayne movie I enjoyed :D

Then again, my taste in cinema tends to run more towards, well...

If I had a list of some of my favorite movies, it'd go something more like this:

Tank Girl
Ghostbusters
The Evil Dead 2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Italian Job (the early 2Ks remake; never seen the original)
Blazing Saddles
The Mummy (the Brendan Frasier one)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Beetlejuice

And that's just limiting myself to 10. I tend to like a lot of different movies... but like with stories, I watch films to be entertained, and to me, these are entertaining.

I'm probably the kind of cinema-goer y'all would complain about :P I enjoy the superhero movies, don't mind a good remake (so long as it neither directly copies nor does a disservice to the original,) and generally feel that, while modern cinematography does tend to rely more on spectacle than cleverness, when the tools are used well a good experience is a good experience regardless of the time it came out.

I'm kinda looking forward to the "A Wrinkle in Time" adaptation; I liked the book as a kid, and think it could be neat to see. Likewise, with a lot of movies based on books, my opinion is this: if the story is treated with respect, then all it is doing is giving a group of people who might never have experienced it a chance to do so. I'd argue that some film adaptations -- such as Lord of the Rings -- are de facto superior from a pacing/storytelling perspective to the original works. The same can be said for a handful of the Harry Potter films for that matter; it's all about how the creators who are working on the project choose to tackle it, and when handled well a film based on a book can improve it or give a different view of its contents. Yes, the opposite can be said too, and is arguably more common, but you have to consider that, comparing books to movies, a WHOLE lot more books come out every year, but less of them tend to make a notable impact than films. As such, both the best and worst elements of cinema tend to sit there, glaring, while the worst of books tends to simply drift away in the sea of would-be authors.

Like what y'all like, and don't let nobody but no-one tell ya different. The argument for cinema being dead/lazy is an old one, though, and ignores the fact that the majority of what people consider classics were remakes or retellings themselves, including:
--Dracula (1936)
--Frankenstein (1936)
--The Last Man on Earth (195-something, the one with Vincent Price)

The list goes on. Like with books though, it isn't really the core plot that matters in the end (gasp! I said it!) If it were only the core plot that mattered, then I wouldn't be sitting on a Jack Reacher book a friend of mine lent me I can't read because it's written in such a godawful way. If it's not the plot that matters, then what is it? It's the way it's presented that does, and with the tools creators have nowadays, whether that be the literary, cinematic, or just generally artistic types? There are a LOT of different ways the same story can be told without re-treading any relevant ground whatsoever.

We should all know that, given how much we do the same ourselves.

Melanie E.

Can't Argue with Your List

Your list, like mine, tends to be character driven.

The mention of Beetlejuice reminded me of Multiplicity. For light comedies it is definitely one of my favorites.

Some others:

Caddyshack
Love Actually
Crazy, Stupid, Love
La La Land
His Girl Friday
Big
The Princess Bride
Duck Soup
Bull Durham
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Groundhog Day
Juno

Jill

Angela Rasch (Jill M I)