The Magus. The Sharpe series the Jack Taylor series, if TV movies count. The Jane Austen Book Club. The Bone Collector. Kiss the Girls. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Instinct (the book is actually called Ishmael). Cool Hand Luke.
Maze Runner (even though it’s quite different from each other), Hunger Games, Charlie And the chocolate factory which by far is the only film that is more better than the book (for me)
Gone With the Wind, Me Before you, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Oliver Twist, The Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, HP, LOTR, Shawshank Redemption, Sophie’s Choice, Carrie, The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, The Great Gatsby, The Apt Pupil
For whom the bell tolls & I love that it’s almost word for word same as the book
The Magus. The Sharpe series the Jack Taylor series, if TV movies count. The Jane Austen Book Club. The Bone Collector. Kiss the Girls. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Instinct (the book is actually called Ishmael). Cool Hand Luke.
Deloris Clayborn and Misery
Bridges of Madison County
Out of Africa, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
I think Jack was miscast
How’s that?
@John he didn’t look like the Mc described in the book. I think peter Fonda would have been better
Maze Runner (even though it’s quite different from each other), Hunger Games, Charlie And the chocolate factory which by far is the only film that is more better than the book (for me)
John Le Carre’s The Constant Gardener is amongst my faves
Anything Steven King….oh and Fifty Shades of Grey
The Eagle Has Landed.
A time to kill
A Fault in Our Stars
Dr. Zhivago, A Time To Kill, Exodus.
Fight Club. I thought the movie was better than the book and I really enjoyed the book
Harry Potter; of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath; Gone With the Wind; to name a few
A Man Called Ove. The movie was better than the book!
The Green Mile, Me Before You, Twilight series, The Secret Life of Bees, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ferdinand.
Confess by Colleen Hoover. It’s not a movie, but a mini series.
Definitely Harry Potter. And, I liked Me Before You.
Rita Hayworth and the shawshank redemption. Coraline.
I know it wasn’t accurate to the books but The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit movies
Harry Potter, Lord of the rings and the hobbit
The Hunger Games
The Help and Memoirs of a Geisha.
Jane Eyer
The Green Mile,
Movies
The great Gatsby, LOTR, HP. TV shows
Legend of the seeker, handmaids tale GOT
Divergent I thought they did excellent job!
Fried Green tomatoes, The Help, To Kill a Mockingbird
Harry Potter and Elf Stones of Shanarra
The Green Mile
Horns is also excellent
the Color purple and Flowers for algenon
Before I fall, Wonder, Everything everything,The girl on the train, If I stay, big little lies, my husband’s secret
Gone With the Wind, Me Before you, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Oliver Twist, The Shawshank Redemption
Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare Ice Station Zebra, Bourne identity and, ah, The Count of Monte Cristie…
The Book Thief, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Fault In Our Stars, The Help, Pride & Prejudice, The Secret Life of Bees, Stardust
The Greenmile
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings, the Body (Stand By Me)
The Shawshank Redemption, To Kill A Mockingbird, Stand By Me, The Green Mile, The Constant Gardener
Fight Club
Goodbye Columbus, The Cider House Rules, Ordinary People.
The Help, Fried Green Tomatoes (although book and movie pretty different)
I LOVED The Help! Was pleasantly surprised by how equally good the movie was, too
LOVE Fried Green Tomatoes!!! <3
Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, HP, LOTR, Shawshank Redemption, Sophie’s Choice, Carrie, The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, The Great Gatsby, The Apt Pupil
The Green Mile, Gone With the Wind, Fried Green Tomatoes, and The Godfather
Water for elephants. The Godfather