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Hated it. I own it on dvd but i hated itCoppola's Dracula was good and pretty faithful.
Hated it. I own it on dvd but i hated itCoppola's Dracula was good and pretty faithful.
Gary Oldmans worst and cheesiest performance. I love Keanu Reeves but as John Harker? WTF? Nope. Id love to see a dark Dracula movie redone in the vein of say......The Girl with the Dragon Tattoou crazy
The english patient
Mystic River
Shutter Island
The Stand
Moby Dick
Treasure Island
Lord of the Rings
lmao noWatchmen.
Good call on A Clockwork Orange.Jurassic Park
A Clockwork Orange
Die Hard
The Godfather
The Stand
Moby Dick
Didn't Clarke write the novel simultaneously while he and Kubrick worked on the film?
Kubrick and Clarke decided to work on a film together, and Clarke said he didn't want to adapt the writings of any other author. So Kubrick purchased the rights to a variety of Clarke short stories, some of which contain elements that were used for the film. For example, one story called The Sentinel was about astronauts finding something buried on the moon, while another story was about advanced humanoids visiting a primitive humanoid species and influencing them. Kubrick and Clarke wrote the screenplay together while Clarke wrote the novel, although Clarke later said that Kubrick could have been credited as a co-writer of the book as well as the film. I believe the original idea was to release the book first, or possibly on the same day as the film, but I guess Clarke took longer than planned so the book was released after the film, probably creating the general perception that it's a novelization of the film.Funny you should ask. I've had people ask me if the book was written after the film. Either way I'm not sure. Clarke can write and the book is really good, kubricks film is a masterpiece of cinema. I'll have to get to the bottom of this...
Generally the movie never does the book justice. Dracula is my favorite novel but imo they have yet to make a decent Dracula movie. Was just wondering if there has ever been a movie that surpasses the book. Shawshank Redemption? Never read it. Game of Thrones? Never read the books either but love the show. I know its not a movie but you know what im saying. Anyway what do you guys think?
That's kinda how Crichton was. When it works it's fantastic. Jurrasic Park, Sphere and Congo are incredible reads, imo. Strange that it took The Beard Himself to actually get a good movie out of any of them.
It's sort of ironic, too, that Sphere is practically a dead accurate adaptation, yet somehow doesn't work. Whereas Spielberg goes way off the narrative with JP and knocks it out of the park.
Jaws the movie is much better than the book. All the characters in the movie are just more in depth, more fleshed out and over all better in the movie.
There is also no nonsense affair between Mrs Brody and Hooper in the movie.
Oh I have never seen the Stand but really liked the book when I read it ages ago.
Might have to check it out.
The Stand? That was the worst miniseries in history