'Where the Wild Things Are': Should favorite books be made into movies?

Most of Stephen King books translated into movies or miniseries are disappointing (though I keep hoping.) There are two beautiful exceptions to that; Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me. Both great stories and great movies.

Some of my favorite adaptations: The Princess Bride, About A Boy, Forrest Gump (the book is almost unreadable), LOTR
I’m torn re: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. I like the movie for what it is, which is cute, sweet, a nice little PG-13 romance. But the book is awesome and geared more towards an R, even though it’s “young adult lit.” Certain changes suit the movie just fine (like I said, it’s cute, and the soundtrack is killer), but the things from the book that are missing–the dark edge, the more realistic sexuality, the snark–would have served the movie just fine. 13-year olds weren’t going to see that movie anyway, so I just don’t get why they had to tame it down so much.

I still think that Fincher made Fight Club BETTER than the book. Choke, was a bust!

NO Country for Old men, of course was awesome.

I cannot wait for The Killer Inside Me coming out next year. If Casey Affleck does half as good as he did in Gone Baby Gone (great adaptation) and Assassination of Jesse James (another great book to film!) this movie will be amazing.

I am still waiting for The Road. I have my mixed feelings about the commercials, but again, John Hillcoat did an amazing job with the Propostition, so this movie should not disappoint! It better not, its my favorite novel!

A little late to the party but here goes:
Someone posted the Michael Crichton Adaptations but forgot Timeline. It was so bad. The casting was strange. Don’t really think Paul Walker can act, but this was probably cashing in on Fast and the Furious.

Children of Men. This book was amazing. I went into the movie hoping, but it came to naught. Where the book had ONE scene of extreme violence the movie had a HUGE gun battle. The ending was a mess and they changed everything about the book except the character names. I kept saying ‘that wasn’t in the book’ over and over again. So disappointing.

Half-Blood Prince: I didn’t like the adaptation. I liked the movie as a movie, but as an adaptation it kinda sucked. There was no sense of urgency of doom at the end. The Death Eaters just walk out? What kind of battle was that? The death left me with an ‘eh’ type feeling, where in the book I was sobbing during the funeral. I understand that the book was mostly in flashback and they did the best they could. I do like that they started pushing the R/H relationship. I don’t like David Yates as the director. I wish they had found someone else, but he was asked if he wanted to do movie 7. so we’ll have to see how they explain all the important stuff that was left out of 5 and 6.

I love the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. I like bits and pieces of the 2005 version, especially Darcy walking across the field. But there are historical inaccuracies that just bug me. And the fact that Emma Thompson was asked to help with the screenplay says something.
I loved her version of S&S.

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