Movies Bad Movies Made From Great Screenplays?

[Highway99]

What are some examples of great scripts turned into dogshit films by the directors?

 

[SKYNET]

Bonfire of the Vanities off the top

 

[Spam On Rye]

The Counselor. Ridley Scott is the last person who should be touching the work of Cormac McCarthy. Watch No Country For Old Men or even the lesser The Road and then watch this flaming pile of shit and see the contrast.

 

[Fedorgasm]

The Shining.

And before you flip out, I'm talking about the Stephen King version, that he made in the 90's because he didn't like Kubrick's version.

 

[Fedorgasm]

And I never read the screenplay for either one, but Tombstone and Wyatt Earp cover the same plot points but Wyatt Earp is dog shit.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Also, Natural Born Killers.

I will hate Oliver Stone forever for that one.

 

[HereticBD]

You won't find many. If the script is good, there isn't much to fuck it up with, except for poor casting, or a director that takes many liberties with it and basically writes their own script, like the aforementioned NBK.

If the script is good, the movie should be good, as it is the blueprint for the film. It's not like a book adaptation, where you have to write a script around it. The script is basically the movie.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Law abiding citizen.

They made a last minute change to the script that ruined the whole movie, but before that, it was a good script.

 

[Plissken]

The Counselor. Ridley Scott is the last person who should be touching the work of Cormac McCarthy. Watch No Country For Old Men or even the lesser The Road and then watch this flaming pile of shit and see the contrast.

Not a big surprise there, McCarthy's works are rooted in Americana, particularly of the south and west, a Brit like Scott wouldn't have a real point of reference but an Aussie like the one that directed The Road would have a much better understanding given the desert outback and the outlaw nature it has had for so long.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Not a big surprise there, McCarthy's works are rooted in Americana, particularly of the south and west, a Brit like Scott wouldn't have a real point of reference but an Aussie like the one that directed The Road would have a much better understanding given the desert outback and the outlaw nature it has had for so long.

Yeah I see it this way as well. The Brit never stood a chance. You can look at Hillcoat's previous work like The Proposition and Ghosts of the Civil Dead and see similar themes of the frontier and the nature of violence.

 

[Leonard Haid]

25th Hour is very well written, but Spike Lee's direction is annoying.

 

[bouncerpunch]

I hate what became of the series but I'll admit. Terrifier 1 was pretty craxy..

I saw terrifier 1 unknowing, that pizzeria scene was pretty scary .

I've been to pizzerias at night with sketchy ppl.

The movie should've been better but seeing that without knowing was creepy. The clown on Halloween was creepy

 

[rearnakedchoke]

25th Hour is very well written, but Spike Lee's direction is annoying.

All you need is the dolly shot to make a hit!

 

[Leonard Haid]

All you need is the dolly shot to make a hit!

Good example of Spike Lee annoying.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Also, Natural Born Killers.

I will hate Oliver Stone forever for that one.

One of my favorite films. Not a bad movie in the slightest, bruh. However, yes, Tarantino's screenplay was better.

 

[BFoe]

Also, Natural Born Killers.

I will hate Oliver Stone forever for that one.

One of my favorite films. Not a bad movie in the slightest, bruh. However, yes, Tarantino's screenplay was better.

Natural Born Killers is one of my favorite movies ever as well. It sucks we never got to see Tarantino’s version, but I think it’s great anyhow.

 

[I Am Legion]

The only way I can see knowing if a script or source was good and made a bad movie is from books that movies were made off of.

1. The Dark Tower
2. Ender's Game
3. The Great gatsby

 

[Bullitt68]

Seven is my pick. Unbelievable premise, rich characters, but Fincher's direction made it slow and turgid, plus Pitt was miscast and his bad acting ruins the ending. Thank God Fincher didn't screw up the phenomenal scripts for The Social Network and Gone Girl.

The only way I can see knowing if a script or source was good and made a bad movie is from books that movies were made off of.

Oh, if that's the game you want to play, then read Jeffrey Deaver's phenomenal The Bone Collector and then watch the worst adaptation of a book in the history of film. It's the book where Deaver introduced his long-running character Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic forensic expert. In the book, Rhyme has a big jacked white gay male nurse. In the movie, it's Queen Latifah.