Top Five Favorite Movies From Books?

Question

This is hard.... here are mine:
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. The Five People You Meet In Heaven
3. The Da Vinci Code
4.The Notebook
5. Emma

I meant ADAPTED from books! And some of these books are actually old. (P&P and Emma? Hello? JANE AUSTEN!)

Answer 1

1. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (awesome)
2. Chronicles of Narnia (they did a pretty good job)
3. The DaVinci Code
4. Lord of the Rings
5. Of Mice and Men
( in no particular order )

Answer 2

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. The Da Vinci Code
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. Interview with a Vampire

Answer 3

1. The Color Purple
2. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
3. Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
4. Disappearing Acts (Wesley Snipes)
5. War of The Worlds

Answer 4

1. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Johnny Depp is a MUCH better Hunter Thompson than Bill Murray could image)

2. Carlito's Way (Al Pacino here is much more human that Corleone and deeper than Scarface)

3. Lord of the Rings series (read & compare - very cool!)

4. Jarhead (Swofford paints a Hell of a picture with his words; Gyllenhall does the acting & is so damn convincing)

5. Conan the Barbarian (Milinus makes a incredible story with Oliver Stone's script and R.E. Howards' source material as a giude, and unlike many other sword & sandal/sword & sorcery movies of the 70's & 80's, it creeps into your skin and soul.)

In all honesty the list of movies should include The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (jimmy Stewart, John Wayne and John Ford - Wow!), High Noon (Gary Cooper is so deep and passionate in this movie), Dracula by Coppola/Stoker, the X-Men series (based on all the Marvel comics), The Road to Perdition (again on a graphic novel), Full Metal Jacket /The Short Timers (Kubricks wild interpertation of Gustav Hasfords novel), A Boy and His Dog (LQ Jones did Harlan Ellison's story well in film) and SO MANYothers in genres and ways unable to tell except in a medium like film. But the list asked for the top 5 and I mulled at this one while dancing my wife out the door to work this morning.

Answer 5

Great Expectations (Gwyneth Paltrow version)
War of the Worlds (Spielberg)
Blade Runner
The Time Machine
The Da Vinci Code

Answer 6

1. The Green Mile
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. The Shining
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
5. Where the Heart Is

Answer 7

I'm having trouble thinking of older adaptations this morning, so I'll list mainly the newer ones I can think of (60's and newer):

1. Lord of the Rings-Fellowship of the Ring
2. 2001-A Space Odyssey
3. Gormenghast (TV movie in 4 parts)
4. Blade Runner (from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
5. A Clockwork Orange

Answer 8

Here's mine....Ü
1.) Harry Potter
2.) Chronicles of Narnia
3.) The Da Vinci Code
4.) The Notebook
5.) Pride and Prejudice

....i loved these movies!!Ü

Answer 9

1. Harry Potter (All)
2. Da Vinci Code
3. A walk to remember
4. Bridget jones dairy (1 & 2)
5. Catch me if you can

Answer 10

Manhunter (from Red Dragon, much better than the remake named for the book)
The Silence of the Lambs
Hellraiser
Get Shorty
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I know, they took quite a few "liberties" with the movie, but still a great movie none the less)

{that's right, NO Hannibal -- a terrible movie from an even more terrible book}

ps...Stephen King, John Grisham & JK Rowling are nothing more than HACK writers. ZERO (0) points for originality for any of them!!!