ITT: the book was much better

ITT: the book was much better

yep

Was the ending or the actual disaster ambiguous in the book cause it sure as fuck wasn't in the film.

too bad no ones fucking read it

The book didn't clearly revel the reason for the disaster

VOLCANO YOU DUMB FUCK

Jesus christ, did you even read the book?

This, obviously.

I did, but I barely remember anything about it.

ITT: I don't know it's an adaptation.

literally 99% of adaptations

the opposite is the outlier, jaws springs to mind

>jaws springs to mind
Or Starship Troopers.

True, but I'd say that's because the movie is a 8/10 and the book is a 10/10

You haven't read starship troopers then

Fight Club

Enders game

I did! It was okay, but not as good as the movie (which is not really an adaptation, but who cares).

Lord of the Rings

Don't even try to say otherwise.

weve had this discussion a million times;

The Godfather
Fight Club
Jaws
The Shining
Blade Runner
Silence of the Lambs

men and guns are bad: the novel

the only thing saving the movie was Tom Petty in a hot air balloon.

the book left me unsettled. I hadn't felt that anxious from a book ever. I'm talking about the scene where they come upon the house and find the people in the basement

>otherwise.
the movies are legendary you fking basement dweller.

While I agree Fight Club is amazing and even Palahniuk prefers it, the book gives more context about Marla and her relationship with the narrator (his real name is sebastian, according to fight club 2).
I love the scene in the book where she says she doesn't know if it is love, but she likes the narrator, sebastian is confused and believes she is talking about tyler, and she answer with a no, she likes him because she knows the difference between him and Tyler.

OMAR COMIN'

that is wrong on all levels. the book was terrible compared to the movie.

blade runner was far better than do androids dream of electronic sheep. and barely had anything to do with the book, as most PKD adaptations.


also Vampire$ the novel was fucking amazing, and its too bad the writer got fucked over by hollywood, and never wrote the sequel to it or Armor.

Where does the book suggest volcano? I thought it suggested nuclear winter

A Song of Ice and Fire.

well thats easy

jesus christ this book is something else.

The fuck? This is probably the most faithful book-to-film adaptation I've ever seen (The Mist is notable outside of the ending).

Sure the baby eating scene was cut and some other small things but aside from that it was spot on, and the world building and color of the film perfectly captured the dread feeling the book gives you. I think it helps a lot that the book is south of 150 pages, novella's seem to translate better to screen than big ass books. If you try to stretch it out, you get garbage like The Hobbit trilogy. If you try to condense it you get garbage like Unbroken.

The Road shot the gap, through the uprights, it's good.

i've always wanted to read it but i feel like buying it or snagging it from the library will spot me on a list for some reason

it also helps that cormac dabbles in screenwriting from time to time anyway, and has a somewhat simplistic (depending on who you ask, anyway) style of writing, a lot of his work translates very well to the screen, save for his most famous and my (and probably everyone else's) favorite blood meridian, which they'd never be able to capture the delight of on film

>mfw bought the book with my mum

just d/l it. the writers been dead for decades.

/thread

I've never read No Country, is it a solid adaptation?

DOnt be silly the book is too well known for that, even with the taboo subject people can see the genius of it, thats how great it is.

I bought two versions of it, english and in my native language.

>Tom Petty in a hot air balloon
I thought it was a gyrocopter.

wouldnt you know it theres a book about that

Why do you think the book is bad? Don't tell me it is because of the political slant.

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Yes! A few scenes got me that way: within a month there was chanting on the hills...the forced march of the slaves

Yes, i felt like it was pretty faithful to the book, some deaths are left out of the movie though.

about as good as it could be, although there are minor changes and bits of content cut here and there, still captures the atmosphere extremely well
guess i'll grab a digital copy then, although i prefer reading physical i just can't bring myself to present that to a store clerk or librarian without feeling like they think i'm into the subject matter, doesn't help that a good portion of them probably have no idea that it's considered a classic and would probably write me off as pedoscum immediately

it's sad that the world is like this now, having considered the implications of simply purchasing a book that interests me in a way of pure curiosity
well fuck me, wasn't far off i guess, good thing i live in the land of freedom and burgers

It's never clarified - he's fucking with you.

I didn't know what to expect from the book when I first read it but it certainly wasn't the coming of age realization ending.

The film has a stronger message for sure but it's almost totally lost by the time we get there.

just pretend you're an english student nabikov is taught all the time

The bad guys didnt roast a baby in the movie

'no'

Don't resent your teenage self who loved the movie, they were probably pretty cool.

The 'boys will be boys' ending where Alex reforms is awful.

The meme language is better in the film.

this

Alex is a textbook psychopath, there's no growing out of that.

I saw the movie for the first time as an adult after reading the book first. The book is still better.

If you really want to you can just take the darker American meme ending with the final chapter cut as the canon one.

>Don't tell me it is because of the political slant
It hardly has one, doesn't even approach the political charge of the movie
Heinlein would drone on about military jargon, hierarchical/ceremonial bullshit, and exhaustive recon procedures for several pages at a time, and then sprinkle in a few lines of theory and philosophy. Not to mention the protag gets hit by a fucking rock and blacks out for the final battle
Not enough to hold my interest. I only finished it because I was waiting for it to get good, which it never did.

>bad guys
They just wanted to live man.

was it a gyrocopter? its been awhile since ive seen it. It still stands that Tom Petty was the best part though.

They left out so much great stuff, I know "not enough time" and all that but the book is still millions of miles better .

> 'Reformed' by a society more decadent and brutal than Alec would ever be.

It wasn't dark it was comedic.

Fun Fact: the movie, "to kill a mocking bird" was the first introduction of the term TBB.

TBB became widely used for a few years after this movie.

not sure if you're baiting or not but that was actually one of the central themes to the novel, with the kid constantly reminding/asking the man if they were the good guys, pressuring him not to do bad shit, etc. some of which did make it into the film insofar as themes go
it's such a fucking shame they ruined it by releasing her "follow up" wherein she practically mangles the shit out of finch's character, one of those rare instances where a literary property has it's legacy shit on because people know there's money in not just leaving it alone

TBB?

The books of this shit are godly

Every single Lovecraft adaptation ever

the birate bay

should have been eva

Pretty solid. There's some stuff left out such as Carson's past and his extended dialogue with Chigur in the hotel. Lewellen's wife also has a longer conversation with Chigur at the end of the book. There's also smaller things like some Mexicans intervening in Moss and Chigure's running gunfight.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

you read it wrong

ITT: IT

That book makes me feel like I'm on drugs.

Fucking gonzo journalism.

its SJW crybaby faggot fags up the post apocalypse. they guy had walked across hell for what, 20 years, and was still a giant pussy? boo hoo bad bad men, stronk wimmins and govt is our friends. hippies are the greatest!!!!

fuck that shit. The book took the whole fun out of being a practicing bullshit and scam artist.

This piece of shit

this

huge disparity

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>Neville doesn't even kill Vamps during the day
>Vamps aren't even fucking Vamps
>No Cortman taunting him at night
>There are no Night People who Neville accidently kills

What a fucking waste. The whole abandoned New York setting was cool

they could have filmed it for almost nothing, if they would have followed the books documentary style.

and it wouldnt have sucked so fucking badly.

Watchmen

The Walking Dead has 100000000x better effects than a $190MM Blockbuster

Take your comic books and your trips and GTFO nerd.

Should've been an hbo mini-series, but maybe without the Israel felatio.

His amassing shit and just making a badass bachelor pad is exactly how I would want to spend my isolated apocalypse.

Etc
Man made disaster I.e man destroys the environment. McCarthy believes this personally...he believes man will create his own apocalypse by destroying the planet through some means like pollution, nuclear war, etc

People will disagree but one of my former English profs is personal friends with McCarthy, travels to New Mexico to see him semiregularly, and was friends with the late John Updike. So, in other words, he knows more than you and I do about this shit. So uh I'll take his word for it.

>b-but muh reader-response, muh new criticism, there are gaps and...
Nah critical theory enables the author to be aware of everything and he can insert himself as necessary.

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pretty much. they probably spent more on catering for the foley grips on WWZ than the walking dead does for an entire season for the whole show.

The books are still better pham. And far more influential, let's be honest.

He's right though.

Yeah but there's none of that delicious McCarthy prose in the movie

My man

Quite the opposite for me.

The film was meh, but it's better from the book simply by not having the Yonkers scene in it. Not to mention all the other retardation

The underlying guilt plaguing humanity is just present enough in the film to make it really intriguing and got me to read the book to begin with.