What movie would you remake?

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skyblue said:
so like me,you'd include tom bombadil and farmer maggot?
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That, and Arwen did not have that prominent a role. The Two Towers was horrible, the worst of the three. Return of the King was probably the closest to the book of the three.

Anyone ever see Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn? That would be an awesome one to do a remake of.
 
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skyblue said:
so like me,you'd include tom bombadil and farmer maggot?
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Hmmm...don't know. I'm not sure if they could be fit in. I realize that there are time constraints when making a book into a movie and some things have to be left out. I don't agree with changing things and making the story completely different. I hated the Two Towers especially for that.

For that reason I'm looking forward to seeing The Hobbit but dreading it at the same time.
 
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Well, since the only things I'd seen of Peter Jackson's work were Dead Alive and Meet the Feebles, I shuddered to think what his version of LOTR would be like. I was pleasantly surprised, with the exception of The Two Towers.
 
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zirconaz said:
Hmmm...don't know. I'm not sure if they could be fit in. I realize that there are time constraints when making a book into a movie and some things have to be left out. I don't agree with changing things and making the story completely different. I hated the Two Towers especially for that.

For that reason I'm looking forward to seeing The Hobbit but dreading it at the same time.
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But if you've read the book, what does it matter?
There are many factors that constitute the success of a film (success in an aesthetic context) but I don't think it's verisimilitude to source is one. After all, you'd have to be a pretty lame person to state that Jurassic Park is shit because it differs from the book, or that Much Ado About Nothing suffers for adapating rather than retaining Barandello & Ariosto's tales.
 
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I like the book and film of Jurassic Park for different reasons. And some films I prefer to the books (e.g. Howl's Moving Castle. The book is good but the film is better. It completely changes direction and I think it works better).



I'd remake Battle Royal II.
 
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Zorak said:
But if you've read the book, what does it matter?
There are many factors that constitute the success of a film (success in an aesthetic context) but I don't think it's verisimilitude to source is one. After all, you'd have to be a pretty lame person to state that Jurassic Park is shit because it differs from the book, or that Much Ado About Nothing suffers for adapating rather than retaining Barandello & Ariosto's tales.
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To me it mattered because I wanted to see what I had read. The LOTR movies were not what I had read. I have the same issue with the Narnia movies and (to a lesser degree) Harry Potter. It's a good thing I don't think Jurassic Park is shit (the book or the movie) because it would be awful to be a lame person. I've never seen Much Ado About Nothing.

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