Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - What are your favorite books to movies?

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MangoPumpkin
02-20-11, 08:40 PM
The first ones that come to mind for me are Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Lolita, The Road, True Grit, and No Country for Old Men.

What are yours?

colorider
02-21-11, 02:48 PM
+1 on Shawshank
Lonesome Dove (technically a tV miniseries but very good)
LOTR
I-Like-To-Bike
02-21-11, 05:03 PM
What are yours?
Gone With the Wind, Godfather, L.A Confidential, Out of Sight, and Rum Punch (movie was titled Jackie Brown).

Flying Merkel
02-21-11, 05:12 PM
+ 1 on Gone with the Wind. Movie was better than the book. I'll go with Dr Zhivago myself
wabbit
02-21-11, 10:29 PM
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Gone with the Wind, Last Summer, The Heiress...
colorider
02-23-11, 03:34 PM
Misery
seadragonpisces
02-23-11, 05:10 PM
Dying Young - read the book before the movie and enjoyed both.
Jurassic Park - loved the book more but the movie was not bad.
LOTR + 1
Shifty
02-24-11, 09:02 AM
Some good ones here, Cuckoo's Nest, True Grit...yes!

Here's one, Sherman Alexie's "Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fist Fight in Heaven" became the movie "Smoke Signals". I love both the book and the movie!
lotek
03-25-11, 01:25 PM
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
I liked Naked Lunch even though it was about writing the book not
a movie of the book. weird.
lolita as a movie was okay, the book was brilliant.
and very much liked Zachariah, an adaptation of Siddhartha by Hesse.
20grit
04-04-11, 09:04 AM
Battlefield Earth.

Oh wait... favorite.

nevermind.
Buckeye Jim
04-30-11, 04:37 PM
To Kill A Mockingbird
ooga-booga
05-02-11, 02:45 PM
american psycho
RunningPirate
05-02-11, 02:51 PM
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (and am looking forward to The Rum Diaries).
Fletch (the movie was based loosely on the book, but it's still a classic)
Marauder9
05-02-11, 02:51 PM
My all time favorite book is Lord of the Rings and in IMHO the film is fantastic.
joewey
06-13-11, 08:33 AM
I have to agree with the stunning interpretation of the LOTR. In fact I'm going to watch it again tonight. :D
KBentley57
06-13-11, 08:58 AM
Ill +1 for the road - way under rated and under advertised. I love the space odyssey series by Arthur C Clarke, but they only made 2001, and 2010 in film.
spock
07-04-11, 08:05 AM
One of my favorites is "The Legend Of 1900 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_1900)". Just amazing.