Top Ten Favorite Movie Adaptations, Part 2
Today's topic for TopTenTuesday hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl was listed as Throwback Freebie and I decided to continue my list of Top Ten Favorite Movie Adaptations.
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The Hobbit J.R.R.Tolkien. 60 years before Frodo's trek, Bilbo Baggins receives an unwelcome invitation to go on an adventure, where he'd be required to steal from a greedy dragon.
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It's Castaway meets The Jungle Book as a young man is lost at sea with a hungry bengal tiger.
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The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. An actress's daughter becomes possessed, and the only one who can end the horror is Father Karras, a priest who is beginning to question his faith.
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Jurassic Park: The Lost World by Michael Crichton. Ironic it's called The Lost World when everyone knows where it is. The dinosaurs survived the fall of Jurassic Park and have begun to populate the island Isla Sorna. Are they an opportunity to study long dead species, or a chance to make a profit off of their continued exploitation?
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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. When veterinary student Jacob Jankowski loses everything, he runs away with a traveling circus.
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Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. Louis de Pointe du Lac takes us into the night as he recounts his life story to a reporter. Okay, so I didn't love the book. I thought some of the subject matter in the novel was terrible. But I did think this was one instance of when the movie is better than the book.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Jacob grew up listening to his grandfather's wild tales of fantastically peculiar children, monsters, and adventure. When his grandfather is murdered it sets the wheels in motion for Jacob to find the truth of his grandfather's past. While I didn't understand some of the character changes in this movie, I enjoyed Tim Burton's retelling immensly.
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking trilogy) by Patrick Ness. Todd lives in a colony on foreign planet, where a virus had wiped out all the women and left the men to hear each other's thoughts. So this movie was actually considered a flop by critics and audiences. I might be the only person who liked it. Admittedly, the book was way better. But overall, I thought the film had value. I was even a little bit upset by the lack of sequel.
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon is implicated in a murder and must clear his name by tracing clues hidden in Renaissance paintings and inventions. I remember when this came out, and everyone lost their minds over the religious ramifications of this book... Ramifications that actually echoed inside the work of fiction.
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Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. The title is pretty spot on... A historical fiction, where Abraham Lincoln leads a secret life of hunting vampires when he wasn't busy campaigning, and how that secret life eventually turned the tide of the Civil War.
I absolutely loved The Knife of Never Letting Go series, but I had mixed feelings about the movie. I think it's because these books are hard to adapt to a screen - most of the plot is driven by inner monologues and you can't get the full picture without it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, for some reason, even though I love Daisy, she looked like Tom's older sister in this 😂 I'd have picked a different actress for this role. Other than that, the movie was okay and had some nice action shots.
The only thing I really didn't like about it, was the actors were way older than how the book portrayed them. in the book they were kids, in the movie they were packing their bags for college.
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