great book poor film.?

[crete]

i love the book bridges of madison county, but was very disappointed in the film, is there any novel you have read and been disappointed in the film. or indeed vice versa ?

[suffragette]

Haven't you just asked virtually the same question as my own, directly below yours?

[crete]

oh yes i have obviously didnt see your post before i asked the question, feel free to report mine to get it removed, thanks.

[andy-hughes]

It may be a generational thing, but I rarely enjoy film versions of books I have enjoyed. A notable exception is 'Silence Of The Lambs' which I read three years before the film was made, dreaded the treatment, but loved the film.

[fat rascal]

The Shining, loved the book, but not the film.

Love all Ian Rankins Rebus books, but have yet to see one on the tv that doesn't make me cringe.

[noxlumos]

The only films I've ever seen that are better than the books imho are the Lord of the Rings films. Everything else I ever saw was a pale comparison to the books i've read.

[mollymandy]

flowers in the attic was a great book ... really weak film

[jump79]

An old one, 'Little Women', good book and movie, I thought.

'The English Patient', same as above.

'The Beach'- good read, disappointing movie

'Davinci Code'- not a very good read, movie was worse.

[BBWCHATT]

Godfather - loved the book - wasn't sure the people who made the movie had read it.

[helliebobs]

Loved American Psycho, thought the film was pants, a real waste of time.

[spudqueen]

A Town Like Alice by Nevile Shute is a great book, but I was very disappointed with the film (it is an old black and white one) when I saw it earlier this year. It is actually quite a good film but it stops part way through the book and so doesn't even get round to explaining the title!

[Hellion]

Agree about Ian Rankin, I thought they'd crack it with Ken Stott but some how they still don't work.

The Cadfael Books, I great light read but Derek Jacobi was sooo not Cadfael.

The Inspector Morse books however were a fine example of perfect casting - I love the fact that the later books adapted to the TV (Lewis changed from being a middle aged welsh grandfather to a younger Geordie)

The Sharpe books also are brilliantly adapted

Inspector Linley books - TV is enjoyable but they've lost 2 of the central characters.

LOTR was a perfect adaptation.

[Senga 2]

The two i most disliked (and in general I don't go for film adaptations) were Captain Corelli's Mandolin it missed the whole point and turned it into a love story.and Chocolat I hardly recognised the plotline. One that I thought worked better as a film was Trainspotting.

[pie+mash]

I agree with BBWCHAT. How anyone understood the film "The Godfather", if they saw it before reading the book, I'll never know!

Our imagination on reading a book, is rarely satisfied when we see the film. What we visualise in our minds' of the characters and location are seldom the same as the screenwriters'.

[WoWo]

"Loved American Psycho, thought the film was pants, a real waste of time. "

Hmm I thought the film was great, but I did read the book after seeing the film and I do have a feeling that it would have read very differently if I had not seen the film.

[starmack]

"One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" by Ken Kesey was made into an Oscar-winner film in 1970s by Milos Forman. It is my favourite film of all-time...but I could never have judged that from the book, not least as the book tells the story from a different perspective than the film, which still created one of cinema's most endearing characters in Chief Bromden, played by the late Will Sampson.

[reinganum]

Leaving aside the first few Bond films (which were great), I should love filmakers to remake some of the Bond stories, but sticking strictly to the books. They would not need a huge budget, and would get back to the original spirit of the stories (but I suppose now they would have to be made as 'period' films!)

[CLOWN TICKLE]

Like the tv version of midsomer murders but cant get into the books

[Wolf Rat]

How can a film ever compare to a book?

A book you read and visualise your own film whilst reading, a film is someone els'e interpretation of the same story, good but never what you were expecting.

[Stevee]

I have never read a book then thought the film better.

I agree with Wolf Rat not only do books have more time to explore plot and character - but your imagination paints the picture.

I have however seen films then read the book and have differing view points. I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep a long time after I saw Blade Runner and was frankly amazed that such a film could come from the book.