I watched the first two tapes and with about 15 minutes till Blockbuster closed for the night I raced back up to the store to get the last 2 tapes...got back home...started watching...and was extremely disappointed with the ending. Great movie up until the very end, imo.

So was the book....

(I recently re-watched The Stand, and it's still true about the end.)

Everyone should see the BBC/A&E Pride & Prejudice mini-series, IMO. Most excellent. The recent version with Keira Knightley is also very good, given that it plays like a Cliff's Notes version of the story. I think it helps tremendously to have seen the mini-series or read the book first, though, because some aspects of the story get short shrift in the new one.

I agree with some of those movies that have been mentioned (Jaws, Jurassic Park, LOTR, among others), and will add the following: Somewhere in Time and Field of Dreams.

Hunter

The Wizard of Oz.

I read a couple of the books and they are entirely different from the movie. That movie enchanted most every kid who watched it for years and years and years. After all, it was filmed in 1939, I believe - almost seventy years ago.

I never read the book even though I was into Stephen King in high school around the time the mini-series (movie) came out.


I rented the first two tapes (the entire thing was divided up onto 4 VHS tapes...two per rental at blockbuster...I worked there so I remember...lol)

I watched the first two tapes and with about 15 minutes till Blockbuster closed for the night I raced back up to the store to get the last 2 tapes...got back home...started watching...and was extremely disappointed with the ending. Great movie up until the very end, imo.

CANNOT compare to the book, IMO.

CANNOT compare to the book, IMO.

I agree completely!

The first half of the mini-series was more compelling than the second half, but neither did justice to the book.

(Sorry, Barry - I know that's opposite of the theme of the thread, but I had to add my two pennies worth about The Stand.)

I agree completely!

Today must be "agreement day." The Stand was the first Stephen King novel I ever read. The mini-series doesn't even come clost to how I pictured it in my mind.

Hopscotch
I certainly enjoyed the movie much more than the book.
I think it was in an introduction to the book where Brian Garfield said the only way he could turn his novel into a movie was to make it a comedy.
So this one may not be a suitable choice, because they are two seperate genres; the movie a comedy & the book a spy thriller.

lol me too, I got kinda fed up with the poems and songs too . . . a lot of LOTR that I remember struggling to plow throiugh were the obsessive descriptions of the landscapes they were moving through; with the faithful screen version taking care of that, I was free to enjoy the story.

True, true, but we must give props to Mr. Tolkien...have you ever read The Silmarillion? I mean reading it is one thing, but actually writing it!! Not many people can pull that off like he did. But I doubt they will ever make a movie of it...too much information and doesn't flow like a story should.

Oh well...I'm done hijacking the thread...sorry.

OK, I have to say it for the record. The DEXTER TV series is superior to the books. I am thrilled with the show and the bold, brazen direction it is taking. I love the way they enhanced story lines from the books and the brand new story lines they created for the series. Masterful.

I still really love the books, but the series has blossomed. The show has taken a great idea and made it into something even greater.

Jaws and Jurassic Park were both better as movies, imo. (Both JPs mind you.)

I have to disagree about Jurassic Park. I liked the movie, but I thought the book was better.

I have to disagree about Jurassic Park. I liked the movie, but I thought the book was better.

Jurasssic Park:Book and movie were okay, I like both. But "The Lost World" was...I can't say "the movie was better". Book was excellent, but the movie was suck.