There are thousands of superb movies based on books.
Yet somehow the “greatest books” are among the 90%.
Hmm…
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
There are thousands of superb movies based on books.
Yet somehow the “greatest books” are among the 90%.
Hmm…
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Thousands?
Name, I donno, 15.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
There are thousands of superb movies based on books.
Yet somehow the “greatest books” are among the 90%.
Hmm…[/quote]
You can say alot about the Bible, or the Torah, or the Quran, or the Bhagavadgita but meaningless is not the word I would use.
Usually pretty good writing too.
Plus there is a huge difference between making a movie about an entire 400+ page book and making a 90 minute movie about a story from what amounts to a chapter of a book. The story on Noah take all of, what, 10 minutes to read. Now turn that into a 90 minute movie and make it interesting.
Good luck.
Easy:
Lolita
Casablanca
Fellini’s Satyricon
Lord of the Rings
Paths of Glory
The Cranes Are Flying
Luna Park
The Shawshank Redemption
Doktor Ziwago
One Flew Over the…
Mishima - a life in four chapters
Clockwork Orange (although it’s very different from the original)
Silence of the Lambs
Gone with the Wind (supposedly I guess, saw it as a child)
Nosferatu
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
There are thousands of superb movies based on books.
Yet somehow the “greatest books” are among the 90%.
Hmm…[/quote]
You can say alot about the Bible, or the Torah, or the Quran, or the Bhagavadgita but meaningless is not the word I would use.
Usually pretty good writing too.
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What are you talking about? We are talking movies here, right?
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
There are thousands of superb movies based on books.
Yet somehow the “greatest books” are among the 90%.
Hmm…[/quote]
You can say alot about the Bible, or the Torah, or the Quran, or the Bhagavadgita but meaningless is not the word I would use.
Usually pretty good writing too.
[/quote]
What are you talking about? We are talking movies here, right?[/quote]
Yet somehow the “greatest books” are among the 90%.
Mannnn fuck this Its an Adveture Movie with Noah as a Base. I’m in.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
Easy:
Lolita
Casablanca
Fellini’s Satyricon
Lord of the Rings
Paths of Glory
The Cranes Are Flying
Luna Park
The Shawshank Redemption
Doktor Ziwago
One Flew Over the…
Mishima - a life in four chapters
Clockwork Orange (although it’s very different from the original)
Silence of the Lambs
Gone with the Wind (supposedly I guess, saw it as a child)
Nosferatu[/quote]
Fair enough, now name 985 more.
^I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt. I haven’t heard of half of those movies.
I’m not a big movie buff.
I guess I could come up with about a hunnerd and this would take me hours, looking up the wiki if it was an adapted piece or not.
There are people who watched 100x as much as me, therefore I’d recommend to ask/pay them.
@Orion
I don’t get what you’re pointing at.
Which great Bible/Quran movies do you know that the pious masses find awesome as well?
Please enlighten.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
I’m not a big movie buff.
I guess I could come up with about a hunnerd and this would take me hours, looking up the wiki if it was an adapted piece or not.
There are people who watched 100x as much as me, therefore I’d recommend to ask/pay them.
@Orion
I don’t get what you’re pointing at.
Which great Bible/Quran movies do you know that the pious masses find awesome as well?
Please enlighten.
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Moses, Charlton Heston
Heston was a great actor, but the movie is terribly boring.
You’re seriously telling me you’d spend 15 bucks today for this kitsch?
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
I’m not a big movie buff.
I guess I could come up with about a hunnerd and this would take me hours, looking up the wiki if it was an adapted piece or not.
There are people who watched 100x as much as me, therefore I’d recommend to ask/pay them.
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So your “thousands” was a bit of an exaggeration then?
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
There are thousands of superb movies based on books.
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It seems more like simple arithmetic.
I’m very sorry for not having the time to satisfy your internet disbelief.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
It seems more like simple arithmetic.
I’m very sorry for not having the time to satisfy your internet disbelief.[/quote]
I’m not sure what basic math has to do with this. I really doubt there are thousands of superb movies based on books. You named 15 half of which most people have never heard of.
Lol, but bible movies and their fan base suck…
What straw man trap did you throw me into?
You wanted 15 from me which I had no problem producing for you.
It’s not hard to imagine a movie buff coming up with 1000 great adaptations since adaptations from great books are really common.
So far, nobody came up with even ONE superb bible movie which satisfies both crosshumpers and critics.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
What straw man trap did you throw me into?
You wanted 15 from me which I had no problem producing for you.
It’s not hard to imagine a movie buff coming up with 1000 great adaptations since adaptations from great books are really common.
So far, nobody came up with even ONE superb bible movie which satisfies both crosshumpers and critics.[/quote]
Au contraire.
You just refuse to see how great a movie “The Ten Commandments” really was, because you cannot remember half of it.
Yul Brynner as Pharao, just saying.
Also, Richard Gere as King David.
Biblical shlock season is in a few weeks and I’m gonna have to endure some of it when visiting my family.
I can only read your list as tongue-in-cheek recommendations.
Are you telling us that Ten Commandments is a great flic?
There are plenty good action epics from that era. ‘Vikings’ or ‘the Warlord’ is badass even today.
Yul was a fine Pharao but the movie is utter garbage fit only to entice little children. (btw I had to watch it in elementary school the first time, which is telling)
In contrast, Kawalerowicz’s Pharaoh, was great.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
There are thousands of superb movies based on books.
Yet somehow the “greatest books” are among the 90%.
Hmm…
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The Bible is the # 1 bestseller of all time. It’s safe to say at this point that you don’t regard it as a very good book (understatement), so I’m curious why you even care about the dearth of good religious-themed movies when you’re so openly disdainful of religion to begin with.
That’s would be like me demanding countless Twilight remakes and expecting a good movie to come of it. Not. Going. To. Happen.