|  CassandraX | Apr 15, 8:32am | | The English Patient was one of those for me. I saw the film first and read the book afterwards. I preferred the book by far, although the film was great too. It seems to matter what which get to do first: if I read the book first I will prefer the book to the film and vice versa. The English Patient was my exception. |
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| | qthews | Apr 15, 11:12am | Eragon... i just had to see the trailers and the poster to decide to not to go see it!
Now, for something specular... how about the novelization of movies not made from a book ? Have you ever read them ? The only one i remember is L'armata Brancaleone: it's an italian movie (and book) and i don't know how much it is known around the world (look for it if you'd like something funny to watch). O liked bith the film and the book, but its nature as a "former" screenplay was quite obvious.
An adaptation i loved was the 1976 tv miniseries Sandokan from the Emilio Salgari series of novels... i remember that in late '70 and early '80 i've read and reread several times that saga and every time the series was/is aired i watched/watch it. |
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| | CassandraX | Apr 15, 1:15pm | | I know what you mean about the trailers...you can seldom go wrong with them! |
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Sponsor |  LightChaser | May 8, 1:24pm | | I watched 'Into The Wild', and it's been awhile since I read the book. I did like the movie more than I thought I would, granted some of the movie is fictionalization, but it seemed to capture the spirit of the book. Neither one seemed to judge him. |
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Sponsor | | alice44 | May 8, 1:37pm | | The book includes a fair amount of self identification and self exploration so it should not be very judgmental -- but I did not see the movie. |
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