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The truth is that a film based on a Harold Robbins novel is not going to win any awards.
The script is rather bad, though it is hardly unexpected when starting with the novel as a basis.
The only reason I gave the movie a 2 and not a 1 is that the story has a few novel story elements, though it really never rises to the level of being interesting.
This disaster of a film butchers the Harold Robbins novel.
The novel was a brilliant piece of writing about a sad, frightened young writer posing to himself and the outside world as an overconfident, masterfully talented author who had no idea how to write about the real world experiences he had none of.
In the novel the protagonist is a virgin, with no idea how to win the graces of the women he desperately wants to write about in magazines.
The Charles Dickens novel has been adapted so many times, it's a struggle to adapt it in a way that makes it fresh and relevant, in spite of its very relevant message.
To think this was a best-selling novel is incredible, but to pull it off as a movie you really need good acting and a script that delivers.
Three writers made a valiant attempt to adapt Jane Stanton Hitchcock's novel for the tube, yet this television movie has ultimately been injected with too much melodrama and just doesn't know when to quit.
"Washington Square" is a flat, shabby adaptation of the short novel by Henry James.
Indeed, the novel is very good, but far from the level of James' masterpieces.
Moreover its simple, eventless story seems unsuited to make it into a film (although William Wyler, with his "The Heiress", gave in 1949 a beautiful version of the novel).
Emma is my favourite Jane Austen novel - Emma is well-meaning despite her flaws, so readers can forgive and love her, and the relationship she has with Mr Knightley, which is warm, familiar, respectful but playful, generating that warm, fuzzy, romantic excitement.
The film My Name is Modesty is based around an episode that takes up about one page in the 10th modesty Blaise novel called Night of the Morningstar.
A novel exercise in padding nature footage out to (nearly) feature length?
Amateurism best describes the film adaptation of the best-selling philosophical novel "The Celestine Prophecy", which follows the spiritual awakening of an out of work teacher in a mysterious village in Peru.
Imagine that in adapting a James Bond novel into a movie, the filmmakers eliminated all the action and suspense in order to make it kid-friendly.
It had everything a great movie should have except for an original story, being adapted from a novel it was still damn good.
I'd heard it was the best ever filmed of the novel.
I was deeply disappointed to find that this movie, which seemed to be either written or filmed in great haste, had not the qualities that made the original novel so powerful.
Having read the novel before seeing this film, I was enormously disappointed by the wooden acting and the arrogance of the producers in their blatant disregard of the plot.
Anita and Me seems to be little more than an excuse for Meera Syal, the author of the novel and screenplay, to air her prejudices, grievances and general antipathy towards the English.
I'm guessing the writers have never read a book of any kind, much less a Dickens novel, and certainly not David Copperfield, and that they based their screenplay on another poorly written screenplay, possibly an adaptation of Copperfield, though just as likely anything else, from which they randomly discarded about a third of the pages and then shuffled the rest, along with some random pages from a screenplay that someone's eighth grade nephew had written for an English class, and for which he had received a failing grade.
Scott's Rochester more closely resembles Rochester's foil, St.John, than the character from the novel.
Though adapted from a novel by Peter Van Greenaway, "Medusa" plays like recycled goods, though the special effects in the cathedral finale are solid (if typical).
First and foremost, I loved the novel by Ray Bradbury.
I think the problem is with Kundera's novel.
The script is horrible, not because it strays from the original novel text, but because it strays without focus or intent.
That version, while humorous, brings new details to the film while maintaining the spirit of the novel.
This film is based on Isabel Allende's not-so-much-better novel.
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