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Regardless of genre – what do you think are the best or worst?
Best:
I have always liked any movies based on Dennis Lehane's work
"I Know This Much is True"
"Little Women" movie 1994 (haven't watched the 2019 version)
Misery (movie) Stephen King
The World According to Garp (movie)
Worst:
TBD
by mandie72
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The Haunting of Hill House
Best: The Haunting (1963)
Worst: The Haunting (1999)
The best: No Country For Old Men. It began its life as a screenplay anyway, the cohen’s essentially held the book open and wrote the script directly from the novel.
The worst: The Dark Tower. This isn’t even an adaptation. They used some names of characters and situations but that’s about as far as it goes. M
Similar to this nine days ago, and the same answer.
>Is there a beloved book of yours whereby the film creation became even more cherished than the book?
>[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskOldPeople/comments/1eed9m5/comment/lfdfc5q/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskOldPeople/comments/1eed9m5/comment/lfdfc5q/)
**Johnny Mad Dog** (*Johnny* *chien méchant*) / Emmanuel Dongala 2002 / Jean-Stephane Sauvaire 2008. Each is incomplete without the other — the depth of the interior monologues of the book, vs. the violent and wonderfully portrayed, but often impenetrable characters of the movie.
Also, **The Swimmer**. Imho the movie version with Burt Lancaster (1968, Eleanor & Frank Perry) had a terrific performance by Burt, and was far superior to John Cheever’s 1964 short story. They just told it better.
Sigh … can’t forget **The Grifters** / Jim Thompson 1963 / Stephen Frears 1990, with Annette Bening, John Cusack, and Anjelica Huston. *Tell me about the oranges, Lilly …*