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This
adaptation
for TV was a wonderful vehicle for Bill Irwin to show his ability to perform physical humor.
Acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Miike can't seem to get the wheels moving with this torpid thriller, an
adaptation
of Yasushi Akimoto's book concerning an evil old woman (and child abuser!) who is part of a new urban legend: if your cell-phone rings with a strange tone--and you see the message 'One Missed Call'--you will replay the message only to hear your own final words before your death.
(Even Carrie, one of the best, is ruined in the
adaptation
from book to screen.)
Stephen King
adaptation
(scripted by King himself) in which a young family, newcomers to rural Maine, find out about the pet cemetery close to their home.
This 1996 movie was the first
adaptation
of Jane Eyre that I ever watched and when I did so I was appalled by it.
This wilfully bizarre
adaptation
of Borges short story is typical Cox.
An
adaptation
of Gore Vidal's best-selling book (he later disowned this film version), the star-studded MYRA BRECKINRIDGE is truly a movie so bad that it remains bizarrely entertaining from beginning to end.
After helming the appalling 'House of the Dead' director Uwe Boll has now cast his less-than-talented eye towards yet another video game
adaptation.
This is blatantly a futuristic
adaptation
of Jules Verne's "Mysterious Island".
I had never read Gary Paulsen's novel, Hatchet, for which 'A Cry in the Wild' is the
adaptation
of, so I can't make any comparisons to the book.
It was difficult to sit through this horrible heretical
adaptation
of Sherlock Holmes.
By far the worst
adaptation
of one of my favourite novels.
The general gist of Ron Howard's
adaptation
is that the Grinch's bane against Christmas stems from an early childhood incident and that the Whos themselves are caught up in the materialism of the season save for Cindy Lou Who (played very well by Taylor Momsen).
Some have used the premises of the original work as a launch point to go in a completely new, unrelated direction (the recent
adaptation
of "Tristram Shandy" comes to mind here).
How is it that so many enjoyed what I consider to be a woefully bad
adaptation
of my second favourite Jane Austen novel?
I was in such high hopes of seeing an
adaptation
of a classic story like the Arabian Nights.
It's difficult to know where this
adaptation
starts going wrong, because I think the problem begins with the books themselves.
So when I rented the DVD, I was intrigued to see how this
adaptation
measured up.
A warning to potential viewers: if you are looking for an
adaptation
of the classic story "The Most Dangerous Game," look elsewhere.
I had read many good things about this
adaptation
of my favorite novel...so invariably my expectations were crushed.
The BFG is one of Roald Dahl's most cherished books, but in this animated
adaptation
the magic just isn't there.
My God, was this the "Run, Lola, Run
" adaptation
of Persuasion?
While the original "Grease" is not a great film, the 1977
adaptation
of the long-running Broadway hit does have songs evocative of the 1960's, energetic choreography, and an appealing cast.
Rather foolish attempt at a Hitchcock-type mystery-thriller, improbably exchanging espionage for archaeology and based on the Robin Cook novel; incidentally, I’ve recently acquired another
adaptation
of his work – COMA (1978) – in honor of the late Richard Widmark.
I had read the reviews and heard the warnings, and I thought I was prepared for anything - at best I thought, a faithful (if misguided) attempt at an original adaptation; at worst, a so-good-it's-bad "Plan 9" for the new millennium.
I heard and read many praising things about "Midnight Meat Train", which is based on a short story written by no less than Clive Barker and supposedly the best
adaptation
of his work since the original "Hellraiser" that he directed himself, but so far I can only express very mixed sentiments about my viewing experience.
It seems evident from this
adaptation
that he did not.
If you want to see the real Copperfield, watch the wonderful 1999 BBC
adaptation.
This is by far the worst
adaptation
of Jane Eyre I have seen.
This
adaptation
positively butchers a classic which is beloved for its subtlety.
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