TV/Film adaptations of novels

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Good book adapted Badly: The Lord of the Rings. It was a magnificent, deeply rich book which launched a whole sub-genre, and they were quite exciting Standard Fantasy Fare films... which is a bad adaptation of the former.

Really, if they'd just shot the films, and left off the pretension that they are in any real way an adaptation of the Tolkien Midd ...[text shortened]... 's Tolkien Epigone rather than Tolkien himself. It's a good adaptation of Feist, not of Tolkien.

Originally posted by redbadger
feist?

Originally posted by ptobler
It's been a very long time since I read Lord of the Rings - about 37 years - but I thought the films were unbelievably good - I can't believe how well he did

Originally posted by Suzianne
Hush, the adults are talking.

Bad book which adapted well: The World According to Garp.

Originally posted by redbadger
Faust Dimwad

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
No, you illiterate halfwit. Feist. Raymond Feist. A cheap, shallow knock-off of Tolkien's world, just like Jackson's films. Faust is something different altogether - and by the way, Marlowe's Dr. Faustus is superior.

Originally posted by redbadger
complements twat face will get you insults

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Don't post while drunk, matey.

Originally posted by redbadger
I am Not Your Matey