To: Publius
IMHO, the book is always better than the movie - can’t think of a single exception.
To: austingirl
I can think of two, and only two, movies that were better than the books: “A Clockwork Orange” and “Contact.”
Cheers,
Jim
26 posted on
04/16/2011 8:01:26 AM PDT by
gymbeau
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To: austingirl
“The Natural” by Bernard Malamud....The book was awful...the movie was great.
31 posted on
04/16/2011 9:25:05 AM PDT by
the lastbestlady
(I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
To: austingirl
IMHO, the book is always better than the movie - can’t think of a single exception. See Mosquito Coast for the exception that tests[1] the rule.
[1] "To prove" meant "to test" when that proverb was coined!
37 posted on
04/16/2011 10:39:27 AM PDT by
RJR_fan
("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
To: austingirl
44 posted on
04/16/2011 4:57:30 PM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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