Home > Literature Group > Discussion Board

At #25, I think all of Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films are painfully bad and dull. Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet (with Mel Gibson!!) and the interminable camp, trite, faux-Italian but still very repressed-English Romeo and Juliet. For my money, burn them all- I reckon they've put more kids off Shakespeare than anything else!

I don't think either adaptation of "Lolita" works particularly well as a version of the book. But Kubrick's is brilliant as a film in its own right - the Jeremy Irons version isn't.

I think that the Al Pacino version of "The Merchant of Venice" takes the award for me though. Passionless, self-indulgent, slooooo-oooooow speaking, and a film that makes the idea of spending three hours painting a wall and watching it dry seem attractive. Spare us.

As a Twilight fan, I must say the movie did the book no justice. Certain things were left out that I think shouldn't have. For example, the incident with the blood testing in science class. Harry Potter also. The director of the first film did his best to stay very true to the novel. But each film after that has strayed further and further away.

It has to be twilight!!! The book is the most amazing book ever to be written however the movie was not at all good. It didn't flow well and didn't capture any of the books romance.

I have to agree with dswain001 about the movie missing a few parts. I have to say though it wasn't as bad as Harry Potter. The first movie was ok...but the ones after that were botched to say the least. I am a HUGE twilight fan, and I LOVE the books and I will watch all the movies. But they could try and make sure the important stuff isn't left out.

In reply to #17: I have to that Eragon was HORRIBLE. I read the book and was just as disappointed with that as I was with Harry Potter. I never read City of Ember....but I didn't care for the movie anyway. Twilight..well I did myself a favor and watched the movie first so it wasn't a HUGE disapppointment for me..but there was definitely things missing.

Reaching back into the past, I would have to nominate The Great Gatsby with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. Fitzgerald's work doesn't film well anyway, since his prose is so poetic and so much of the action is internal, but Gatsby the Movie was awful! The dialog sounded so artificial and stilted, Robert Redford looked confused throughout, and I kept expecting Mia Farrow's wig to fall off. The only way to enjoy watching this movie would be to turn off the sound and look at the pictures.