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Good book, good film. So how did they manage to screw it all up with the execrable John Travolta/Denzel Washington remake.?
Truly awful film adaptation.
You can probably count the number of remakes that aren’t shit on the fingers of one hand.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Probably just as well they never got to make the sequels, because I really don't know how they'd have been able to successfully skate around the religious - or anti-religious - themes of the books.
There's also The Magnificent Seven - as good as the original Seven Samurai in a different way - but they remade that too.
And Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978 version) which is better than the original - but they've remade that *twice* more. The third one wasn't shit enough so they did it again...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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The films 'should' have been much better than the book, but unfortunately we got Peter Jackson at his most indulgent, writing in loads of bloated junk and sillyness and taking his eye off the ball in terms of the core message - the journey of Bilbo as a character.
Having said that, I do think that overall the film is better than the book. Richard Armitage was brilliant as Thorin, and they did a great job on giving personality to the individual dwarves, something that just doesn't happen in the book. Apparently a 'fan' has re-edited the films to take out everything that wasn't in the book - I'd like to see that!
I do think that somewhere down the line someone could make a better film of the source material though.
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Then again it was a Spielberg film so it's no surprise that I thought it was crap.
I think all the versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers have their moments. I like the way each version reflects the period in which it was made.
The original is one of the first things I remember actually scaring me as a little kid, but it seems rather hokey now and the "Reds under the bed" stuff is a bit heavy-handed. The 1978 and 1993 (whatever happened to Gabrielle Anwar?) versions are both very good, I think. I suspect even The Invasion would have been OK - or at least not as bad - if the producers hadn't insisted on rewrites and reshoots to make it more "exciting".
Hobbit was always intended as a kids book LOTR is a great book though. I would like someone to remake ithe lord of the rings series as a game of thrones style saga with flashback episodes of things like beren and luthien and the over throwing of morgoth etc.
The third outing, Dawn Treader was pretty good, they finally got a kid in with some acting chops and the two remaining Pevensie's were forced to up their game. They did a pretty good job of rearranging the story for the screen without detracting from the feel of the book and the digital fx were getting pretty good.
So, having finally learnt how to make the books into film... they abandon the franchise. Genius.