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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I fancied the look of the movie - nice chick flick for me and my mates as the nights are drawing in... so bought the book.
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Strange subject for a bloke to write about but he got the mood just right. The whole point of it and the twist in the last 5 chapters was the hook and the difference from it just being a love story over the decades. I dont know how this will work in the movie. Author wrote the screenplay too so Im hoping he captures the moment.
I had a reet auld bawl at the end.Im gonna be a wreck in the cinema.
So if theres a book that precedes the movie do you read it first or read it afterwards?
What movies you have seen were better than the book and vice versa? |
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The two James Patterson Alex Cross movies suck compared to the books.
It was more down to the casting. Morgan Freemen is too much of a wimp to play Alex Cross.
Also the film Jesus of Nazareth with Robert Powell in is waaaaay better than The Bible. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The two James Patterson Alex Cross movies suck compared to the books.
It was more down to the casting. Morgan Freemen is too much of a wimp to play Alex Cross.
Also the film Jesus of Nazareth with Robert Powell in is waaaaay better than The Bible."
You lulled me into a sense of false security for all of ten seconds there. Might have known. |
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By *ENDAROOSCouple
over a year ago
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"The two James Patterson Alex Cross movies suck compared to the books.
It was more down to the casting. Morgan Freemen is too much of a wimp to play Alex Cross.
Also the film Jesus of Nazareth with Robert Powell in is waaaaay better than The Bible."
I agree Kiss The Girls is a brilliant book, wasn't keen on the movie.
What other book of his has been made into a film? |
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"Silence of The Lambs .
the Movie was outstanding but the book was better ."
Yes, they didnt portray her bosses lust for her nor her attraction to the entymologist and their 'thing'. Without his lust there was no reason for her to be singled out from the academy. |
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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago
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"The two James Patterson Alex Cross movies suck compared to the books.
It was more down to the casting. Morgan Freemen is too much of a wimp to play Alex Cross.
Also the film Jesus of Nazareth with Robert Powell in is waaaaay better than The Bible.
I agree Kiss The Girls is a brilliant book, wasn't keen on the movie.
What other book of his has been made into a film?"
Only kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. "Cross" is scheduled for release next year |
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"Captain Corelli's Mandolin
the book is fantastic... 
the film is dire!!! (and thats being nice)  "
I will give the book a go because I turned the movie off. Cage reminded me too much of Jonathan Ross to take the thing seriously.
In my head as I read One Day I imagined Dexter to be like Ed Baines the chef and Emma to be like Saffy out of Ab Fab. Hope Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess don't disappoint. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The Stigg Larsonn books
Girl with the dragon tattoo
Girl who played with fire
Girl who kicked the hornets nest
all fantstic books but the films not upto scratch !!!
They have given the first one the Hollywood treatment so will wait til I have seen it.
Lisbeth Salander is now my favourite character of all time !!! and I have read literally thoussands of books
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By *ENDAROOSCouple
over a year ago
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"The two James Patterson Alex Cross movies suck compared to the books.
It was more down to the casting. Morgan Freemen is too much of a wimp to play Alex Cross.
Also the film Jesus of Nazareth with Robert Powell in is waaaaay better than The Bible.
I agree Kiss The Girls is a brilliant book, wasn't keen on the movie.
What other book of his has been made into a film?
Only kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. "Cross" is scheduled for release next year"
Thank you ....can't say I was as keen on the book Along Came a Spider.
Will still keep an eye out for the film... |
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Agree with _abio on captain corelli, film a big disappointment,
following on from another thread Gone with the wind i thought the film was better, but its the only one , mostly the books are better i think
lovely bones book MUCH better
Angelas ashes, atonement, dune, the french liuetenants woman, the handmaids tale, hitchikers guide to the galaxy,V for Vendetta.....many more all the book better IMHO xx |
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Sleeping with the enemy was a great book that had me gripped but the film was awful
Another more recent book that I loved was My Sisters keeper and although the film had me sobbing throughout,the end was the complete opposite to the book and left me really dissapointed
With a book your imagination and your own interpretations of characters always seem to make them better than film versions |
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the Bourne films are fantastic !!! however they are only loosely based on the Robert Ludlum books !!!!
So as a stand alone set of movies they are great
But the original books are better !!!! |
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