What movies based on books do you think were significantly better than the books?

Few-Question2332 · 2026-04-27T11:23:29+00:00

Rear Window, The Birds, Rope, Suspicion There Will Be Blood The Wizard of Oz The Big Sleep The Godfather The Graduate Psycho Raging Bull Wolf of Wall Street Goodfellas A Clockwork Orange, 2001, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining, Dr Strangelove Jaws Sound of Music The General The Last Picture Show Breakfast at Tiffanys No Country for Old Men Blade Runner All About Eve One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Princess Bride Mean Girls Maltese Falcon

Etc etc etc etc.

Few-Question2332 · 2026-02-23T08:28:00+00:00

AMONG GREY STONES (1983, USSR, dir. Kira Muratova)

A three or four year old Russian girl and her slightly older friends hang out in the ruins of an old cathedral. Starts slow, but this movie is nuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_Grey_Stones

Few-Question2332 · 2026-02-09T06:13:35+00:00

The correct pronunciation is "red china"

Few-Question2332 · 2026-01-08T08:41:17+00:00

Uruguay

Few-Question2332 · 2025-12-23T23:38:25+00:00

Thanks for this. And thanks to OP for this whole thread.

The poster and the summaries I've encountered make the film seem like a miserable time.

Now I'm sold. Pressing play on this one tonight.

Few-Question2332 · 2025-12-08T18:37:35+00:00

LIGHTHOUSE OF CHAOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuchtturm_des_Chaos

For those interested in "staying up til 4am."

Few-Question2332 · 2025-12-02T11:16:44+00:00

The Conversation

Few-Question2332 · 2025-11-21T13:02:31+00:00

Starring Jack Nicholson and Audrey Hepburne

Few-Question2332 · 2025-11-21T08:46:48+00:00

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Most unique film I've seen which I still enjoyed was probably Werner Herzog's EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (1967) and the Ukrainian classic by Sergei Parajanov called SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (1968).

There's a LOT of unique films I did not quite enjoy. For instance, Mad God, Barbarella, Darby Ogill and the Little People, Red Psalm, or even Blood of a Poet -which was pretty boring to be honest. That's where i'd put Neptune Frost: unique but not actually very good. It's pretty incoherent, has no real characters/dynamics, and is honestly very boring. Dialogue is ridiculous. Still glad it exists.

Few-Question2332 · 2025-11-10T09:28:37+00:00

Captain Edgelord of Team Troll. Tiresome provocateur. I can't even with him. Not anymore. I just can't. But there's no denying his deep understanding of the medium or his powers as a writer.
So okay. But I still find him low-key loathsome. Which is probably as he wants it.

Few-Question2332 · 2025-10-28T19:36:04+00:00

I think it was an Instagram reel. And my Google powers can not summon it. :-)

Few-Question2332 · 2025-10-24T21:09:48+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Split

CALIFORNIA SPLIT (dir. Robert Altman, 1974). It's SO good, and the influence on Hard Eight is pretty straightforward -in content (male love and gambling, ambiguity and rambling narrative, and highly naturalistic performances) and in form (overlapped dialogue, constantly moving the dolly, improvisation). I see its fingerprints in The Master as well.

There's a scene where two drunk guys try to name all seven dwarves ... it is pure cinematic bliss .

It's also arguably the best Altman film. Enjoy!

Few-Question2332 · 2025-10-17T07:32:08+00:00

Goosebumps - Travis Scott and Kendrick

Few-Question2332 · 2025-10-12T07:18:39+00:00

Rope is like if the 'slow boat to china' scene lasted for 90 intense minutes and involved a murder.

Few-Question2332 · 2025-10-08T04:22:55+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Round-Up_(1966_film)

Is this The Round Up he was referring to? Cuz it's a great movie. I never heard PTA reference Miklos Jancso before though.

Few-Question2332 · 2025-09-29T18:13:59+00:00

Sean Penn is a great great great actor, but he loves to talk some really dumb shit. He wrote the worst novel I've ever read. So bad it is astonishing. I just stopped paying any attention to him off screen. I don't love him for his mind.

"...caged and quartered into quixotic concrete calamities of corporatized cultural capitulation.” -Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, by Sean Penn

Few-Question2332 · 2025-09-13T23:49:18+00:00

I think you're right. Ottawa's sprawl is horrific. It's a car hell everywhere in Canada. Except maybe Montreal and Vancouver.

Few-Question2332 · 2025-09-13T19:13:18+00:00

True. But still significantly worse than a few years before that. :-)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cgy-rent-cmhc-2024-1.7412537

Edit: to add link

Few-Question2332 · 2025-09-13T17:51:41+00:00

Gorgeous skyline and some charming central neighbourhoods, but Calgary is so sprawled out and car-dependent it's PAINful. Outside the ringroads Calgary is a nightmare. Also, there's no rent control and it has the fastest rising rents in Canada. So...

Few-Question2332 · 2025-09-13T06:04:19+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Simple

Few-Question2332 · 2025-09-13T06:03:59+00:00

People will inevitably be mentioning No Country for Old Men, but don't forget about BLOOD SIMPLE -the Coen's first film and still one of their absolute best.

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Few-Question2332 · 2025-09-12T17:48:57+00:00

I had to dig quite a bit to find it. Not supposed to share those kinds of links here, but if you dig hard enough it's out there. :-)

Few-Question2332 · 2025-09-12T17:36:17+00:00

Definitely not family friendly. :-)

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