Thursday, July 11, 2013

Top Ten Tuesday - Ten (or More) Best/Worst Movie Adaptations



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I'm doing a double - maybe a triple, if time (and my mother) will be kind to me - Top Ten today since I forgot to post them. :3

Movie adaptations....er, the last movie I've watched in a cinema was The Avengers because I was practically dragged by my brother's family to watch with them. While every night is a movie night in my house, I don't think my family and I share the same taste in movies except to some.

•The Best•

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy 
→The movie was the reason why I took another look on Tom Clancy books.

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
→Alan Rickman. And I barely remember anyone from this movie.

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 
→Mom's favorite. And I'm still looking for this book. Grr.. 

The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
→The movie was overwhelmingly good that I really bought the books where I'm still stuck in The Fellowship of the Ring until now. 

The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling


•The Not-So Bad, Not-So Good•

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Twilight by Stephenie Meyers
→The only tolerable movie of the series and the reason why I cringed every time I see a vampire novel in the bookstore. 

Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Ninth Gate (loosely based from the novel Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte)
→I still think they shouldn't remove the Dumas part of this novel, but the movie was bearable because of Johnny Depp and supernatural stuff. The woman was a bit annoying though.


•The Worst•

Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
→Nope. I'm not going to raise the issue of Lestat not a blond here. I don't know. Comparing to IWTV, I would rather watch Interview than this one. But I like the book.

Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
→Thought the movie was fine until I read the book.

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
→My fave book of this author but the movie really ruined it. 

The rest of the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyers
→Don't ask.




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