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Jack Slater
Title: Friendly Felon
Joined: May 17 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 706
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| Blackout wrote: |
| Jack Slater wrote: |
| I'm convinced that Forrest Gump was intended to be a comedy. Just look at the plot to the sequel, for gods' sakes. Plus, neither his mom or Jenny died in the book. |
The fuck... really? Those were like major points to the movie...
I have to read this book now, it sounds way different. |
The basic rundown of the sequel, Gump and Co.:
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As in the first book, Gump stumbles through important American events in the 1980s and early 1990s. He plays football for the New Orleans Saints, sells encyclopedias door-to-door, works on a pig farm, and helps develop the infamous New Coke. He accidentally crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Operation Desert Storm with his friend, an orangutan named Sue. He meets many celebrities, including Colonel Oliver North, the Ayatollah Khomeini, John Hinckley, Jim Bakker, Ivan Boesky, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Tom Hanks (who plays Forrest in the movie).
The sequel's storyline keeps to the storyline of the immensely successful 1994 film version of Forrest Gump, by having Jenny die. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gump_and_Co.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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| Knyte wrote: |
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| The Princess Bride. The movie works well because it's not really taken seriously, it's portrayed as a light-hearted subverted fairy tale, complete with snarky kid. The book plays it sort of straight (though Goldman frames it as an "abridged version" of an even longer and more boring book), and it doesn't work nearly as well. |
I disagree. The Princess Bride was an awesome book, and there is a lot more to it. There are many things in the book, that the movie couldn't do, due to budget and effects of the time. Like the multi sub-layers of Humperdink's zoo. Which you only got to see one room of. (Hint: The secret room were Wesley was being tortured.) Plus, the humor in the book was just as good as the movie, and there was a lot more of it. |
I disagree your disagree. The stuff they cut was worth cutting, the humor was kind of confusing (my wife and one of my friends just plain didn't get half of it), and the movie does an excellent job at adapting the good stuff.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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| Jack Slater wrote: |
| Blackout wrote: |
| Jack Slater wrote: |
| I'm convinced that Forrest Gump was intended to be a comedy. Just look at the plot to the sequel, for gods' sakes. Plus, neither his mom or Jenny died in the book. |
The fuck... really? Those were like major points to the movie...
I have to read this book now, it sounds way different. |
The basic rundown of the sequel, Gump and Co.:
| wikipedia page wrote: |
As in the first book, Gump stumbles through important American events in the 1980s and early 1990s. He plays football for the New Orleans Saints, sells encyclopedias door-to-door, works on a pig farm, and helps develop the infamous New Coke. He accidentally crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Operation Desert Storm with his friend, an orangutan named Sue. He meets many celebrities, including Colonel Oliver North, the Ayatollah Khomeini, John Hinckley, Jim Bakker, Ivan Boesky, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Tom Hanks (who plays Forrest in the movie).
The sequel's storyline keeps to the storyline of the immensely successful 1994 film version of Forrest Gump, by having Jenny die. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gump_and_Co. |
I was aware of Gump & Co, I meant I need to read the first one.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Harry Potter. All of them.
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pSYcl0Ne
Joined: May 25 2011
Location: Oz
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Bladerunner
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Episode IV comes first, that is good parenting. |
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
Posts: 1761
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Ok, so I only read about 50% of The Fellowship of the Ring. But I found the movie to be superior because I'd say about 90% of the book is just describing boring shit, such as what kind of rice cakes the hobbits were eating when they made camp.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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I would agree. I don't need 6 separate instances of having the Hobbits feet described to me.
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anorexorcist
Title: Polar Bear
Joined: May 21 2008
Location: The Cock and Plucket
Posts: 2131
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| I never read "The Body", but I'm going to say that Stand By Me was better and I'm pretty sure I'm right. |
That's the one I was going to say. I read "The Body" and I actually really enjoyed it, I just liked the movie even better. The book version would also cut to stories that the narrator of the book had written, which weren't very good and felt really out of place.
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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Also, everyone fucking dies in the end of the book. Probably from some gay Stephen King curse. I HATE when everyone dies in a book/movie.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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What about Reservoir Dogs? Everyone dies in that, (Mr. Pink was supposedly killed by cops off screen).
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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I didn't really care for it.
/me waits for turds to be like "OMG Tarantino best evar U are dumb!"
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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Nah, it's cool. Reservoir Dogs isn't for everyone, although I enjoy it.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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Missed two of the most obvious ones:
Jaws
Men in Black |
How'd I miss this? I absolutely agree here.
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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
Joined: May 10 2011
Location: Minsk, Belarus
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Pride & Prejudice.
Love the movie, loathe the book. (Seriously. The book is like one of those cheap romance novels at Walmart)
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Milhouse
Joined: Dec 19 2008
Location: Charlottesville, VA
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'Gone with the Wind' and 'Wizard of Oz' are better movies than books. Even 'Return to Oz' is a better movie...the Oz books are horribly boring.
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Michael Myers
Title: The Shape
Joined: Dec 02 2011
Location: Haddonfield
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Bumping just to have something to talk about around here.
Movies better than the book? Psycho.
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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| American Psycho, without a doubt. Let the shitstorm commence. |
I actually completely agree with this. While a good 65% of the book is fantastic, a good 35% of the book consists of appropriate but still mind-numbing descriptions of the characters' clothing and long-winded speeches about fashion and incredibly inane conversations. The movie either condensed said events or eliminated them entirely, trimming the fat and leaving an adaptation of the best parts of the book.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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Pride & Prejudice.
Love the movie, loathe the book. (Seriously. The book is like one of those cheap romance novels at Walmart) |
This post leads me to believe that you are functionally illiterate.
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
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A run-of-the-mill Hollywood script starring Keira Knightley always wins against world literature that probably gets thought at Harvard. 
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it was the best of times
it was the blurst of times |
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Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
Joined: Jun 05 2011
Location: Down by the River
Posts: 1087
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High Fidelity, full stop
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"Spanish bombs, yot' quierro y finito
Yo te querda oh ma corazón
Oh ma corazón, oh ma corazón" - The Clash, Spanish Bombs |
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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| High Fidelity, full stop |
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.
That is a great movie, and one of the better book to film adaptations out there, but the Nick Hornby novel is utterly amazing. The protagonist is fully realized psychologically to an extent that is rarely seen.
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