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As a director, he doesn't bring anything new to this Dashiell Hammett's short story adaptation.
The acting is much better than in the more recent 1995 version and I appreciate how closely this adaptation sticks to the book.
Middling adaptation of Roger Hedden's play about four twentysomethings in small Arizona town trying to find some truth in their lives.
A magnificent adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, enhanced by the splendor of Rome at its full glory under Julius Caesar.
I've got lots of bones to pick with him for his adaptation, but here are just a few.
This effort to be clever is really a smokescreen for a badly written adaptation.
The adaptation is so natural that nobody would regard the story as a "non-Chinese" one.
The dramatic dread his stories are known for has become a very dated storytelling device, but this adaptation was nicely made, and by golly, Dean Stockwell makes it worth seeing.
An excellent adaptation (by the author) of a story by Mordecai Richter and yet another feather in the NFBC's cap.
Clearly this is one of the classic examples of a 60's and 70's Movie adaptation of a book that is an unsung masterpiece of how you can as a producer, Director of Photography, Set Designer or Special Effects coordinator relay the textual concept, intention and feel of the original author in to a visual and intellectual Science Fiction thriller.
I know my Lawrence well and I have read all of his books, and my first encounters with Lady Chatterley's Lover (the book) was strong, so I had been looking forward to this adaptation.
I was angry, because I couldn't find a single thing in this adaptation that would explain why I had had to pay for this.
Less of an adaptation and more of a total reinvention of the successful stage play, the film version of Cabaret is one of the few movie musicals that is almost universally considered to be superior to the Broadway play that inspired it.
My English teacher observed that I was reading the book and eagerly gave me the film to borrow, saying that it was a fairly strong adaptation.
While not a faithful adaptation of the children's book, it did a fantastic job of capturing my imagination as a young child and creating new wonderful adventures in my mind.
Based on what I've seen Banderas attempt to do in this film, it seems that the book must have been a challenging adaptation.
This Hollywood production comes across as a highly entertaining and worthy adaptation of Christie's Death on the Nile.
The setting is clever - not really a modern adaptation of The VIP's, but on that order (and more down to earth).
A misguided film adaptation of the 1973 Broadway smash, and indirectly a remake of Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night.
As an adaptation to the silver screen it does not even come close to "The Big Sleep," "Double Indemnity" or any other of Raymond Chandler's stories.
Although I am not by any means obsessed with "South Park," I do think it's a very funny show and the film adaptation was hilarious.
Polar was beautifully modeled after Chris Van Allsburg illustrations for his book, but Zemeckis' adaptation to the story went a little over the top when it became a musical.
It's a much better adaptation of a song to a movie, than Harper Valley PTA.
This 3rd Addams Family film seems to be a movie adaptation of the 1990's cartoon series as opposed to the Original Black & White TV series which the first two films were based on.
I found this adaptation of the 1964 Hans Hellmut Kirst novel to actually be superior to the book (how many movies can claim that?).
As far as comic book adaptation go, this one is out there amongst the worst of them.
I would love to see this adaptation redone again on film instead of video so as to make it more lifelike (able to lose yourself in it without remembering you are watching a movie)and allow a new generation of children to try their hand at making Sarah Crew's story come alive.
It's the worst adaptation of a book I've ever seen!
Just as an aside, one of my exam questions years ago was to compare a book and a movie adaptation and I chose this one because I felt so strongly about it.
Not a classic to be sure, but a decent TV movie-of-the-week adaptation of the oft-filmed Conan Doyle novel.
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