[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: FLAVORPILL: Movies that were better than the book

 

Apparently the weaklings at Flaverpill have started moderating my highly intelligent comments.  Well, they can't stop me from telling the truth here.  Yet.

My comment:

Flaverpill writers' eyes as tin as their ears.  Princess Bride highly overrated movie; would have been much better if the movie took itself seriously instead practically reaching off the screen to nudge and wink at the viewer. Don't know anything about the book.  Agree with most people here - One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest movie a weak echo of the powerful book.  Couldn't believe how weak and silly M*A*S*H the movie was when I saw it after reading the book.  A good example of a movie better than the book that inspired it?  Alakazam the Great, based on Journey to the West, which is like one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, but it's boring.  Frankie Avalon totally rocks it as a monkey, and Jonathan Winter makes a great pig.

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From: Flavorpill <no-reply@flavorpill.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Subject: FLAVORPILL: Movies that were better than the book
To: mattlove1@earthlink.net

Film Movies That Were Better Than the Book One of several slight disappointments at the box office last week was The Lincoln Lawyer, an adaptation of a Michael Connelly novel with Matthew McConaughey in the lead. It came in fourth for the weekend, but the film met with warm reviews, garnering positive comparisons to the source material (even from the author himself). Though many would consider Connelly's books to be serviceable genre potboilers, rather than fine literature, this may be a case where the movie is better than the book — the exception to the rule. Or is it? The notion that film adaptations of novels are always inferior to the original isn't always borne out by the facts, as these ten movie selections prove. Read more » Personalize your articles Books What Are the Zines That Changed Your Life? » Books Taylor Clark Teaches You to Confront Anxiety » Film The Essentials of Direct Cinema » Life Was Meant to Be Explored We think you would benefit handsomely from a sojourn in some Barbadian Shangri-la. So we've set up a contest to help two of you do just that. You'll sip peerless rums from local producers, you'll visit Harrison's cave (often written-up as one of the unnamed wonders of the world), and you'll partake in esoteric island sporting — cricket, horse racing, snorkeling, and big-wave surfing.

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