Based On A Book
By Joules Dellinger
One of my friends recently posted the movie trailer for Ready Player One. She said the book was so awesome and she was worried about the movie totally ruining the story. I’m typically one of those "book is always better" people, so I decided to read the book before the movie comes out so I can compare it for myself.
This bit of homework made me think… what movies were actually BETTER than the book they were based on? In my totally biased opinion, here are my top 5:
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Today, we’re going to look at horror movies with terrifying car scenes. For some reason this logical mode of escape is often the last place you want to be in a horror movie. The cars themselves can even turn on you.
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For right-thinking people, the most important day of 2017 is October 4th. Why? It’s the start of the National Hockey League season. Duh. Time for all of us to gear up by ordering our team replica sweaters and watching a few of my favorite hockey movies.
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Though Curtis Hanson's classic crime noir film L.A. Confidential is a landmark of film noir, it is easy to see that it was influenced by earlier films.
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This past summer’s huge blockbuster hit, Wonder Woman was the first superhero blockbuster directed by a woman—Patty Jenkins. Jenkins may be the opening of a tidal wave of women directors, but she didn’t come from nowhere. The past thirty years have seen a number of outstanding films with women at the helm.
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Books and words offer incredible power. Through reading, we can explore faraway lands, ancient times, and fantastic futures. Words on a page can make us cry in anguish, ponder new ideas, and get us obsessed with the relationship status of fictional characters.
As engaging portals to places and people beyond our own lives, books and movies often go hand-in-hand. Peruse the screen adaptations of some of beloved and best-selling novels.
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From The Hours, to The NeverEnding Story, to Adaptation, cinema has helped us peer into the secret world of authors and their creative process. But film can do that in ways that are more moving. Now imagine that a book about moviemaking that went on to influence some of film’s greatest legends has its own amazing backstory told in a riveting documentary. That documentary exists, and it’s called Hitchcock/Truffaut.
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Books offer an incredible magic - through words, we're whisked away to fantastic lands, ancient times, and the ranks of swell company. Browse the film adaptations of some of our favorite books ever.
It’s a nineties kid’s nightmare come true; Goosebumps, the legendary books and TV show that scared the pants off us as kids, returns to haunt the big screen this Friday. R.L. Stine’s beloved Goosebumps characters will literally come to life in this tale of monster-fueled chaos. Of course, it’s been more than a few years, so let’s reminisce about our favorite moments that kept us quivering under the covers to jog our memories.
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