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Which book based movie is your favourite?

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Setanta
 
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Wed 2 Apr, 2014 11:46 am
@roger,
Great movie, though, eh? I'm with Vonny on that one.
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panzade
 
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Wed 2 Apr, 2014 11:50 am
@vonny,
Thanks for the tip
tsarstepan
 
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Wed 2 Apr, 2014 12:48 pm
@panzade,
Apologies in advance:

panzade wrote:

Thanks for the tip

http://collegetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/thats-what-she-said.gif
Germlat
 
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Wed 2 Apr, 2014 03:40 pm
@tsarstepan,
I can't say I have a favorite. The house of the spirits was a great book(Isabel Allende). She is a phenomenal writer who has many awards to her credit. The movie was awesome...with Meryl Streep and J. Irons.
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edgarblythe
 
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Wed 2 Apr, 2014 08:55 pm
Another goody I often forget to include, is Lord of the Flies.
vonny
 
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Thu 3 Apr, 2014 03:36 am
Films based on Stephen King's novels and short stories - like The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me.
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izzythepush
 
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Thu 3 Apr, 2014 03:39 am
Horton Hears A Who.
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Germlat
 
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Thu 3 Apr, 2014 02:16 pm
@edgarblythe,
I think this book applies to mankind in general.
edgarblythe
 
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Thu 3 Apr, 2014 02:17 pm
@Germlat,
Yeparooty.
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raprap
 
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Thu 3 Apr, 2014 06:49 pm
The Killer Angels--a good book into Gettysburg--a good movie.
Rap
panzade
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 12:33 pm
@raprap,
It was a good movie. It was so long I went out and had a smoke and missed Pickett's charge.
Shawn909
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 01:27 pm
@Germlat,
I usually enjoy the books more. I just think that once I get the book and see it portrayed in my head how I want it, I just refuse to change what I think.
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Setanta
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 02:02 pm
@panzade,
As entertainment, it was fine. As history, it was utter bullsh*t. It was based on Killer Angels, which was fiction.
panzade
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 02:11 pm
@Setanta,
Killer Angels was fiction
vonny
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 02:13 pm
The Great Escape was a good book and an excellent film.
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Setanta
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 02:32 pm
@panzade,
Shaara based his novel on two books which were published in the 1950s in anticipation of the centennial. The first was The Twentieth Maine, by John Pullen, published in 1957. (I read the Reader's Digest Condensed Books version in about 1958.) The other was Pickett's Charge by George Stewart, published in 1959. The Killer Angles and the motion picture both give a very skewed version of events, because it was fiction.
farmerman
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 05:44 pm
@Setanta,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Joshua_Chamberlain_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/295px-Joshua_Chamberlain_-_Brady-Handy.jpg

You mean you don't just looooove this American Hero?
Germlat
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 05:55 pm
@farmerman,
Custer? Sorry, I'm foreign.
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raprap
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 05:59 pm
@farmerman,
I liked this guy.
http://july1863.homestead.com/files/buford.jpg

Although there were a lot less men that are considered heros than Chamberlain. Even if what was said to have happened at Gettysburg never happened. Joshua was accomplished--and I've kinda considered him the American Cincinnatus.

Set--once I asked a friend, who was paid to explore American history, which Hollywood movie was closest to reality--

Without a blink he answered 'The Long Riders'.

When I asked Why--he immediately said 'Brothers were playing Brothers'.

Rap
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Thomas
 
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 06:16 pm
@farmerman,
Isn't this the Confederate general you showed me in Pottsville?
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