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Post by wildojinx on Aug 18, 2014 7:06:45 GMT -5
What are some movies which have almost nothing to do with the books theyre based off of? Forrest Gump is the first one that comes to mind, the book is much crazier and satirical. Jenny and Dan are in the book and the relationship between them and forrest is similar, but thats about it. I also recently saw King Solomon's Mines (the 1985 version) and it also has little to do with the book, they even gave Allan a female sidekick. It looks more like they were trying to cash in on both the Indiana Jones movies and Romancing the Stone.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Aug 18, 2014 7:10:28 GMT -5
Jurrasic park & j.p: the lost world are very different from the books.
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Post by kidglov3s on Aug 18, 2014 7:25:12 GMT -5
Ultimately very little of La Planète des singes made the journey onto the screen in Planet of the Apes (there's arguably more of the novel present in Escape from the Planet of the Apes).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2014 7:28:41 GMT -5
Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? are very different. The whole concept of Mercerism is non-existent in the film and the importance of animals, which is a defining trait for the characters in the book, is downplayed.
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Aug 18, 2014 7:41:55 GMT -5
Shrek, How to Train Dragon (one of my favorites), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Starship Trooper, the 2005 War of the Worlds, 1995 Scarlet Letter, and to some degree Jaws.
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Post by Push R Truth on Aug 18, 2014 7:57:44 GMT -5
The Cat in the Hat
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 18, 2014 7:59:14 GMT -5
JAWS is actually very different from the book, and that is a good thing because the book was utter crap.
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Post by Tarik Dee on Aug 18, 2014 8:05:13 GMT -5
Endless Love.
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Post by Herman The Tosser on Aug 18, 2014 8:14:57 GMT -5
World War Z.
I guess you can see that it takes a bit from a specific even detailed in the book, but it's pretty much World War Z "in name only"
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Post by Wolfman Rose on Aug 18, 2014 8:34:31 GMT -5
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. While some of the movies deviated from the books, HBP was ridiculously far removed from its book. All the main themes were ignored, as was a good majority of the overall plot from the book.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Aug 18, 2014 8:42:15 GMT -5
Mary Poppins was not the proper, happy English nanny she was in Disneyland. (to the chagrin of Ms. Travers, as you'll know if you saw Saving Mr. Banks)
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Post by the2ndevil on Aug 18, 2014 8:53:49 GMT -5
Based on the trailer, The Giver doesn't look like it.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 18, 2014 8:58:04 GMT -5
Wanted is nothing like the comic in like any conceivable way.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is nothing like Who Censored Roger Rabbit either.
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Post by General Adam on Aug 18, 2014 9:09:38 GMT -5
The Spy who Loved Me.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 18, 2014 9:11:16 GMT -5
I think most of the Bond Movies named after Bond stories aren't that similar to them. Like from what I remember Quantum of Solace is a short story someone told Bond. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2014 9:35:10 GMT -5
Just about any Disney movie based on a novel. Michael Crichton's Congo took a lot of liberties too, iirc.
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Post by Push R Truth on Aug 18, 2014 9:38:09 GMT -5
JAWS is actually very different from the book, and that is a good thing because the book was utter crap. While I kinda liked the book, the movie smokes it's ass in about every way possible. It should almost be used as textbook example of "Sometimes a movie improves on the source material". |
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 18, 2014 9:41:00 GMT -5
JAWS is actually very different from the book, and that is a good thing because the book was utter crap. While I kinda liked the book, the movie smokes it's ass in about every way possible. It should almost be used as textbook example of "Sometimes a movie improves on the source material". The characters in the book were all very wooden and unlikeable, while the movie gave them far more depth and made them sympathetic. The book also had far too many subplots going on that robbed the main story about the shark of its thrust, while the movie cut all that out and kept the focus entirely on the man vs nature struggle. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2014 10:26:28 GMT -5
The Lawnmower Man is based off of the Stephen King short story of the same name, but aside from the shared title, the two couldn't have less to do with each other.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Aug 18, 2014 10:37:18 GMT -5
I think most of the Bond Movies named after Bond stories aren't that similar to them. Like from what I remember Quantum of Solace is a short story someone told Bond. According to stories Ian Fleming hated his book The Spy Who Loved Me and told the filmmakers to change it for the movie. |
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