What about The Green Mile by Stephen King? I know there were already a ton of movies based on S.K. books already on the list, but The Green Mile deserves to be at least on the honorable mentions list

@bkdmode

8 жыл бұрын

+Gracie Minor Maybe you have already found this, but there is a separate top 10 list on Mojo of Stephen King book to movie adaptations. Check it out...

@ogminor

8 жыл бұрын

Just saw it it was awesome! Thanks Brian C​

@aintgotname

8 жыл бұрын

+Gracie Minor so does Carrie

@xxslendermomxx3026

7 жыл бұрын

Most definitely!!

@VorpalSpider69

7 жыл бұрын

Grace Minor IT!!!!

0:38 - The Shining 1:23 - Misery 2:02 - The Silence of the Lambs 2:51 - The Shawshank Redemption 3:42 - Jurassic Park 4:09 - The Wizard of Oz 4:54 - To Kill A Mockingbird 5:41 - Harry Potter 6:28 - Lord of the Rings 7:20 - The Godfather

@GilTracey

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@Virago_XV

9 жыл бұрын

*SPOILER ALERT*

LotR won 17 Oscars, not 11. Just sayin.

@9764Danny

9 жыл бұрын

Ze Rubenator He clearly said Academy Awards, 11 Academy Awards.

@ze_rubenator

9 жыл бұрын

RandomFan The Academy Awards _are_ the Oscars...

@9764Danny

9 жыл бұрын

Ze Rubenator Really? Sorry, I'm not in the movie business, so I never knew.

@ze_rubenator

9 жыл бұрын

RandomFan A lot of people seem to get this confused. It's quite fun sometimes (:

@shahsadsaadu5817

5 жыл бұрын

@jake the return of the king

Stephen King actually disliked the film adaptation of The Shining, even though it's one of the most critically acclaimed adaptations of his works ever made. He didn't like what they did to the story, and how obvious they made Jack's transformation.

@MorganKing95

8 жыл бұрын

It has only been acclaimed in retrospective reviews; it received mixed to negative reviews upon release

@hogenmogen8545

8 жыл бұрын

+CaitieLou No offense to the King of Horror books, but Steven King sucks at judging his own work on screen. The best movies of King novels had little to no input from King when making the movie. The worst ones almost all had heavy input from King. It's true. The Shining - nearly no input. Maximum Overdrive - heavy input. Stand By Me - King didn't see it until it was finished. Thinner - King had a cameo. The list goes on.

@petercampi2840

8 жыл бұрын

+Dalton Lee Marks Wow, you just discredited Joe Turkel (Lloyd the butler). He went on to be Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner don't you forget!

@toddsierocky9671

8 жыл бұрын

The miniseries was so much more like the book and in my opinion a hell of a lot better!

@TheElectrizantee

7 жыл бұрын

the movie is different from the book, but still a great movie , for me the changes were successes

*sees harry potter at number 3* "Wha- how? That's easily the best-" *sees lord of the rings* "Well, sure, but what could be better than-" *sees godfather* "You win this time..."

@Foxy-ve1oh

4 жыл бұрын

LHAKPA LAMA I'm sorry but Harry Potter is not a good book series. Just my opinion

@goodhunter7336

4 жыл бұрын

Sory but HP is definetly best maybr it shouldnt be even in this list...

@braden1450

3 жыл бұрын

@LHAKPA LAMA harry potter sucks

@marysue3194

3 жыл бұрын

the Harry Potter movies were really bad tho

@Danielcamron73

2 жыл бұрын

harry potter and the godfather are majorly overrated

They forgot the brillian adaptation of the Percy Jackson series OMG that extraordinary work of art! *sarcasm

@polobaluyut6816

9 жыл бұрын

They're really good. Very faithful to the book and didn't miss a single detail ( sarcasm too )

@atlasprdx

9 жыл бұрын

***** That's what I think everytime I find a new adaptation #ReadersProblems

@windmageenthusiast3620

9 жыл бұрын

***** What movie?

@masonmaurer8569

9 жыл бұрын

Where's the City Of Ember?

@1pk155

9 жыл бұрын

Manilva Garrido You scared me for a moment there.

"The Shining (1980)" is a horrible adaptation. Granted, it's an amazing movie, 10/10 stars, even...but, good adaptation? No.

@systemshocker2875

4 жыл бұрын

But it made that up with the many scares becoming one of the most influential horror movies of all time. Dont get me wrong,that didnt stop king from producing his own adaption for tv

@loganwiginton7686

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly the scariest thing about the Shining was the acting.(EXCLUDING JACK NICHOLSON). There is a reason that Steven King hated it.

And where the hell is the outsiders? That is easily the most faithful book adapted to movie I've ever seen

@hogenmogen8545

8 жыл бұрын

+Jesse Bergmann - I don't think this list was "most faithful", I think it was "best", meaning "well made". "Well made" can mean that there were some changes to the source material to make it a better adaptation to a different media. Being completely faithful to your source can make a terrible movie or at least one that doesn't have a good pace. There are things that work in books but not movies, and vice versa.

@stino9635

8 жыл бұрын

The film sucks

@TheOFamily5rocks

8 жыл бұрын

It was not faithful at all, unless your talking about the extended versions

@jeffthesnail5617

7 жыл бұрын

A faithful movie isn't always a good movie. See also: all 2016 video game movies.

@iyanavillavicencio2475

7 жыл бұрын

That was what I was saying

I literally said out loud two seconds before it came on the list "They better not put The Shining on here" AND FUCK MAN!! They did!! It's one of my favorite movies, no hate there, but it did *not* stay faithful to the book. Stephen King was even not a fan. I am shook.

@ferrioseco5139

7 жыл бұрын

ToSitInSolemnSilence I was just about to say the same. The Shining is a masterpiece but is a shitty adaptation; Kubrick never really "attached" himself to the story he was adapting and just did whatever the fuck he wanted

@scottc4199

7 жыл бұрын

ToSitInSolemnSilence They said what ever movie expanded or enhanced the source material

@TheDoctorFF

7 жыл бұрын

Scott Coleman Which it DIDNT

@parisb351

7 жыл бұрын

ToSitInSolemnSilence same I hate that movie

The Harry Potter movies were good, with good acting, but with bad decisions, when it comes to what to put in the movie, and what to leave out. The books were(no wait, are) too big of a masterpiece to be left like this...

@rafaelaragao933

8 жыл бұрын

+Arne Timmer Abou that, I blame the constantly changing of directors...And the worst of them all was David Yates (I'm worried about Fantastic Beasts just because of him)

@Nerdygirl2012

8 жыл бұрын

I definitely questioned "seamless transition." Especially with Order of the Phoenix and Deathly Hallows. Order of the Phoenix was definitely my favorite but the film was kind of sad

@coathee

7 жыл бұрын

chris columbus did an amazing job to the first and second movie. it was almost accurate

@moggycat99

7 жыл бұрын

Arne Timmer leaving out Rick Mayall Peeves!

@MercyRenae

6 жыл бұрын

"HARRY DID YA PUT YA NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIYAH!" Dumbledore asked calmly, shoving Snape into a wall and pushing McGonagall out of the way as he did so.

"Gone with the wind" wasn`t even mentioned. It is the most succesful film of all time and better than many of the films on this list. Why?

@elfedora1377

9 жыл бұрын

Most successful film ever you say? Hmm, apparently not famous ernough for me to recognise tho.

@CooleyReviews

9 жыл бұрын

Serch moreno Because the film has aged poorly and the story was never good to begin with. It's just a reimagining of history, back when the South was loud, proud, and arrogant.

@Sharimmendoza

9 жыл бұрын

+El Fedora You need to live more. It is ranked the best movie of all times. Period.

@MorganKing95

8 жыл бұрын

+El Fedora Adjusted for inflation, it's the most commercially successful movie of all time

@Tsagiglalal

8 жыл бұрын

+Serch moreno -This is successful book to film adaptation. It didn't stand up to the others on the list no matter how successful it was.

WHERE THE FUCK IS ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS NEST

@jaketheberge1970

8 жыл бұрын

The book and movie have one crucial difference, the mute indian from the movie is the narrator for the book, its a small change, but it makes for two different experiances.

@Loneguy22

8 жыл бұрын

+Jake Theberge I was under the impression that Chief was the narrator for the book as well as the movie.

@jamesruntas9403

8 жыл бұрын

Jake Theberge after reading the book i can now agree with you

@laurenhicks2892

8 жыл бұрын

Even Ken Kesey couldn't stand the film adaptation. He never watched the whole thing after finding out that the movie wasn't from Chief Bromden's perspective. In addition to that, I don't think McMurphy was played right. I like Jack Nicholson, but McMurphy was supposed to be mysterious, making the readers wonder if he was crazy or not. McMurphy in the movie was obviously crazy. Finally, the movie missed out on the major themes of the novel.

The Lord of the Rings series actually received 17 academy awards. The Return of the King on it's own received 11. :)

@boromirofminastirith6630

10 жыл бұрын

This proves my point that Watch Mojo is just full of it, if they don't even know that simple fact.

maybe not a top 10 but Holes is one of the most dedicated adaptations that I've ever read/seen. The only major change in the film was the weight of Stanley from the beginning to the end but it wasn't even that important. And pretty much all the dialogue was raw quotation from the book

@kingofopossums

9 жыл бұрын

I agree completely

I can't believe Fight Club wasn't on here. At least as a honorable mention.

@karma1182

6 жыл бұрын

Shane Hennenhoefer fight club is my 4 favorite movie

@filthybonnet

6 жыл бұрын

Because it said best book to film. The Fight Club movies was way better than the book.

@gxenick6656

3 жыл бұрын

We don’t talk about Fight Club

"To Kill a Mockingbird" would be my #1 - it's SO true to the brilliant novel. Second comment: Could you stop using the same "I ate his liver" scene from "The Silence of the Lambs" in your videos? It's in every single video I've seen where that movie appears, and I'm utterly desensitized to it now - even bored. Third comment: I'd have included "How Green Was My Valley." Even though Huw never grows up in the film, a major departure from one of the most beautiful novels ever written, it remains a magnificent adaptation. Fourth comment: The original "Pride and Prejudice" is so true to the book that after seeing the movie, and then reading the book, I felt as if I had already read the book.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, anyone?

@TimBuhrs

9 жыл бұрын

not in any way as good as all of these films. one year later and almost everybody forgot about it.

@taylorterrify50

9 жыл бұрын

I was hoping someone else would feel the same~

@EricEbac22

9 жыл бұрын

Who wrote "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", and when was the movie released, do you know?

@taylorterrify50

9 жыл бұрын

EricEbac22 Stephen Chbosky wrote the book and the movie was released in 2012.

@EricEbac22

9 жыл бұрын

LanaBanana Never heard of Stephen Chbosky or the movie. It was probably one of those "Indie" films that didn't get much in the way of attendance at the movie theater.

Neither The Shining nor Jurassic Park were very good adaptations. They are excellent stand-alone films, but not the very best adaptations.

In my opinion The Shawshank Redemption should've been number 1. Its probably one of the best films ever made

@djvoldemort1

9 жыл бұрын

Sabrina kaur Yeah, that's my favorite movie, but looking at it objectively, it can't touch The Godfather.

@kateronquillo6363

8 жыл бұрын

It's the number one movie in IMDb.

Personally, I feel like The Lord of the Rings Series should have been #1, but I'm fine with the Godfather taking it

The Harry Potter franchise was influential and huge for this generation, inspiring many people for the better. However, the film adaptation was terrible. It followed the plot line vaguely, ignored important points and even added in scenes that were not necessary and added nothing.

@BrickNGames

10 жыл бұрын

I know- I don't know why people like the movies so much, I've always been a HUGE fan of the books but the movies are just.. meh

@kalebsmith1827

10 жыл бұрын

should have been NO.1

@marshmello3455

10 жыл бұрын

The Harry Potter movies are infurriating. They make me want to flip a table.

@NukeDetonator

10 жыл бұрын

marshmello3455 I thought the movies were good, though part 2 mad me a little mad because the ending was different than the book.

@LauraSeabrook

10 жыл бұрын

Never read the books but I've been told by friends who have that lots was left out.

Harry Potter is LEGENDARY!!! Years from now it'll be one of those books kids have to read in school, and they AND the movies are literally the definition of an entire generation!!! We grew up with the actors! LITERALLY! History right there I'm telling ya

@laxstarr50

10 жыл бұрын

Plus it has an amazing story and writing and good messages

@minecraftgalaxy5186

9 жыл бұрын

yeah!! You r my new best friend

@thecommenter6773

9 жыл бұрын

and symbolism,

I'm glad to see that “To Kill A Mockingbird” made your list. I read Harper Lee's novel almost 15 years ago and really didn't get much out of it. Later when I saw the film, I was impressed how it bought the feel of time and place in the book to life. For me this film is the best example of a novel turned into an even better movie. It was an excellent job by all who were involved.

@christian9146

Жыл бұрын

What a masterpiece it is

where's JAWS..?? And The Exorcist...??!! Then there're of course...Gone with the Wind, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The English Patient, GoodFellas and No Country for Old Men.

@francine8806

8 жыл бұрын

I think Mojo makes lists that appeal to teenagers and millenials.

@davidbuswa9425

7 жыл бұрын

GoodFellas omitted Henry Hills' brief mention of his army service and how the crew got the key for the Lufthansa heist,

@bowserjjumetroid3645

7 жыл бұрын

Also, WATCHMEN!? Where's THAT!? It's forgotten, man!

@irishking1414

7 жыл бұрын

What about the twilight saga??

@bowserjjumetroid3645

7 жыл бұрын

Irish King Ptftff!! As if!

Immense respect for Stephen King who has given us some of the greatest books and movie adaptions the last 20-30 years!

Lord of the Rings should be 1

@QWJPreport

10 жыл бұрын

Yay!! go us

@ilijadjuric4795

10 жыл бұрын

Quinn Williams Lord of the Rings is a great movie but Godfather is the best movie of all time

@QWJPreport

10 жыл бұрын

agreed

@heidiwalko5759

10 жыл бұрын

Peter Jackson did a murderous job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It should be high on the list of worst book to film adaptations.

@PrimRue7

10 жыл бұрын

Audrey Walko No, PJ destroyed The Hobbit. He brought LOTR alive and hooked an entire generation on J.R.R. Tolkien's work (myself included). While he did take some artistic liberties with the plot, overall it stayed true to the source material.

I really hope that I'm not the only one who thinks that the harry potter books are way better than the movies.

@laurenhicks2892

8 жыл бұрын

Literally every Harry Potter fan agrees with you.

@intheclear3492

4 жыл бұрын

All books are better than the movies, not just HP

@athalonARC

4 жыл бұрын

Its always the case, the books beat the movies in every series, HP, LOTR, etc.

@nicoletorcolini5316

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. They ruined many of the key points.

@gbrow1604

3 жыл бұрын

You're obviously not the only one and you know it.

Gone with the Wind should be included. It is not only fantastic film but amount the most faitfull adaptations despite the book being very long.

Am I the only one that thinks the Lord of the Rings are the best movies ever?

@daltonclay2002

9 жыл бұрын

No man your not alone

@rcwerder1

9 жыл бұрын

I am here too

@fargone5109

9 жыл бұрын

I'm with you bro.

@illcomebacklaterhaveagoodt2834

9 жыл бұрын

Hobbit Triligy is also good.

@samsammy4179

9 жыл бұрын

Not at all!!!!

It's a shame Daniel Radcliffe has been typecast as Harry Potter, no matter how hard he tries everyone will know him as Harry Potter ....

@nateyoung3675

10 жыл бұрын

It's his own fault. Emma Watson is doing just fine on her own.

@OmegaXis99

10 жыл бұрын

lollipophugo Just because Emma Watson is now known as Emma Watson now doesn't mean he's to blame. He was the main character

@mortalpokemon60

10 жыл бұрын

Last I HEARD HE WAS DOING THEATRE. wHICH IS A GOOD THING, LET PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT HIM A BIT. I didn't realize I had caps lock, I'm to lazy to retype it.

@andreaskarlsson5251

10 жыл бұрын

lollipophugo Emma is only know as Emma because people have some perverted hots for her :P

@nateyoung3675

10 жыл бұрын

She is hot. But she was also excellent in perks of being a wallflower.

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, great movie but horrible adaptation. The Shining mini series went much more by the book!

@shanehennenhoefer9881

8 жыл бұрын

+Rich Rusch I know! Even Stephen King hates the film! He's admitted so.

@luceret

8 жыл бұрын

+Rich Rusch Yes yes yes! Book!Jack was a man who slowly lost his mind. Nicholson looked nutso from the first scene. They balanced that by making Wendy a simpering child. I really hope that if Doctor Sleep ever gets a screen treatment, it's faithful to the characters.

@jlwebster9

8 жыл бұрын

+Rich Rusch the movie was unfaithful, but it was well made and captured the psychological horror of the book. The miniseries sucked I thought. It was far more accurate to the book, but it lacked any scares and grit, and it was just hard to sit through. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of SK, but most of his adaptations including a lot that completely faithful I don't like.

@toylad4646

8 жыл бұрын

I was looking for your comment.

@lcg3092

8 жыл бұрын

+Rich Rusch I think you have mistaken the meaning to adaptation...an adaptation worth is not measured on how close it is to the source, but how good it is...the Shinning is an adaption, period, and if it was a good movie, than it was a good adaptation; it may not have been a faithful adaptation, but it was a good adaptation... An adaptation is not copying everything verbatim, it's about adapting a work from one media to another, while trying to keep the tone, message, or moral of the original, and depending how different the two medias are, that might require huge changes...many times a more faithful adaptation is a bad adaptation, since somethings that work in books might not work in movies... a good adaptation is being able to take an original work, and transform it...

I'm sorry but Holes has to be number one I know it's a kid's book but the book to movie was pretty acurate.

@Dashound46

8 жыл бұрын

+Madison M. Except for the fact that Stanley was fat in the book, and that drove quite a few of the storylines. Not saying the movie was bad, I loved it.

@cowboylike_zoe

8 жыл бұрын

+peachelijah yes he is super fat

@EricEbac22

8 жыл бұрын

+peachelijah I had no idea that "Holes" was based on a book; who wrote it?

@Dashound46

8 жыл бұрын

EricEbac22 Louis Sachar

@Dashound46

8 жыл бұрын

***** Yup. One Labeouf's better movies if you ask me.

If you're arguing that the "Godfather" should not be number 1, you are wrong. The godfather is debatably the best movie of all time, and the best movie that was drawn from a book.

@christian9146

2 жыл бұрын

The best!

Mistake at number 2: Whole trilogy won 17 academy awards, 11 of them (to which WatchMojo is probably reffering) were won by Return of the King, the last film in the trilogy.

I'm sure you guys don't hear this enough, but I thought this list was excellent. The movies chosen and their order on the list I think were pretty spot on. Also love that you included Misery! Good job guys :)

One of my favorites is another Stephen King novella: Stand By Me is a wonderful movie; one of my favorites. Great work, WatchMojo! I always enjoy your videos.

no Fight Club. what a travesty

@generalmcfancypants

9 жыл бұрын

Fight Club is awesome, one of my favorite films

@FM_Mantra

9 жыл бұрын

why are you talking about fight club

@martepuzx3

9 жыл бұрын

Nancy Snaadt Why are you?

@brandoncollinsworth56

9 жыл бұрын

because it is a book and a great one

@jeissonjaimes8189

9 жыл бұрын

Brandon Collinsworth I forgot it was a book lol

"And Morgan Freeman provided the heart... by being Morgan Freeman." I LOST IT THERE! xD

Gone with the Wind should have been on the list.

@thehauntedravenaj5668

8 жыл бұрын

I have to disagree... While a brilliant movie for its time, they actually missed half the book and the characters... I saw the movie first and love it... It is my all time favourite... But when I read the book... I look at the movie as being inspired by the book... Not an adaptation.

@tyttiMK

8 жыл бұрын

TheHauntedRaven AJ The movie already lasted 3.5 hours, the first script was many hours longer. Every movie made out of a novel has to cut something because trying to fit everything will make a bad movie. It was a great adaptation, they had to concentrate on something.

@thehauntedravenaj5668

8 жыл бұрын

+MsTytti I guess you are right. I am sorry... It is just that after I read the book... Well I was so sad that they changed so much that shaped Scarlett's life....

@Duckminifarm

8 жыл бұрын

+MsTytti I was thinking the same thing. Even though the movie has to leave out a lot, and misses many of the beautiful nuances and less stereotypical characters, it's such an epic masterpiece that really brings the the main characters in the book to life.

@Astyanaz

8 жыл бұрын

Had they included everything in the book, the movie would have had to be view on separate days, although I would not have objected to a twelve or sixteen hour movie.

There are way too many great book to film adaptations out there for there to be just one top ten list. I hope you'll do another one!

Personally I think LOTR should have been number one xD

@MUMUMUMUist

10 жыл бұрын

Same here Crimson Fucker.

@LordVader1094

10 жыл бұрын

MUMUMUMUist Oi! Its Fuckr not Fucker

@wbasketball137

10 жыл бұрын

the godfathers great but nothing is as hard as lotr

@LordVader1094

10 жыл бұрын

***** Well at least YOU got it right xD

@mrc3187

10 жыл бұрын

LordVader1094 XD cool

I was enchanted by the HP books, but the movies always left me underwhelmed.

@00ammy00

10 жыл бұрын

Agreed, the first few were pretty good, but it just kept getting harder to adapt the fatter latter half and still stay true to the story. That said, I think Shawshank should've been higher because it really was amazing. I'm glad Lotr made it to number 2, I mean I read the books as well and loved them, and even though the films cut and trimmed a lot from it and expanded on the action they are still wonderful films and an epic story regardless. The Godfather... never really understood the hype.

This is my opinion, but The Outsiders should have been on this list somewhere.

Excellent list, The Silence of the Lambs enters my top 3.

I kept waiting for Gone With The Wind - surely worthy of a place on this list?

Where the hell is the 1963 adaptation of LORD OF THE FLIES or the 1998 adaptation of LOLITA

Where is Holes?

@ExburneLightDarkness

9 жыл бұрын

I watched this just to see Holes... :(

@rettyleal

9 жыл бұрын

lokey478 I just think "JUST DO IT!!!" when I hear Holes.

@plutomystery8348

9 жыл бұрын

Holes is one of the best by far. It really showed the books amazing qualities. And it also followed the SAME storyline. *cough* *cough* unlike Percy Jackson *cough*

@sybillestahl8646

9 жыл бұрын

+lokey478 Yes! Holes, the movie, is just as great as Holes, the book! How often can you say that?

@insidethepirateship

8 жыл бұрын

+lokey478 Wasn't that great of a movie. Book was amazing though

What about Pride and Prejudice? PS: I can't believe Jurassic Park is a book!!!

@shanehennenhoefer9881

8 жыл бұрын

+Potter Latina Lol Michael Crichton! Come oooooon!

@tonny1351

8 жыл бұрын

Yea, makes you think why we give so much credit to Spielberg when Jurassic Park wasn't even his idea...still love him

@deahmunday437

8 жыл бұрын

+PotterLatina VEVO Which Pride and Prejudice? I haven't seen one yet that I was happy with.

@PotterLatina

8 жыл бұрын

deah munday 2005 film

@deahmunday437

8 жыл бұрын

With Knightley and McFadyen. Yeah, those two were alright. They got close, but Sutherland pissed me off. You should see Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier pull it off. It still falls short, though.

Green Mile holds the distinction of Stephen King calling it his favorite adaptation of one of his works; and Chuck Palahniuk has said that the movie Fight Club enhanced the message that he hoped to convey through his book.

Thanks for putting To kill a mockingbird. Solid adaptation!

Misery misery misery, what a great movie you are.

We Were Soldiers...and Young sticks out in my mind as a faithful book to movie adaptation, and just a good book and movie in general. The movie does a great job bringing the battle strategies described in the book to the screen.

I was a little disappointed that Fight Club and No Country For Old men weren't on this list, and I know Wolf of Wall Street wasn't out when they made this, but has literally everybody forgotten Schindler's List?

Gone with The Wind should probably be up there.

@ravishingelite

10 жыл бұрын

was thinking that as well. while watching im thinking its next- its next- its number one and no... how disappointing.

A very underrated book to movie adaptation, in my opinion, is Because of Winn-Dixie. It did an excellent job of sticking to the source material and was a decent movie. I don't know how well it did, but I enjoyed it

'The Silence of the Lambs' wasnt the first Thomas Harris book to be adapted even though it was sequel to 'Red Dragon'. 'Red Dragon' was first adapted in 1986 but under the name 'Manhunter.' William Petersen (much later on in CSI) played William Graham

No Fight Club? NO Honorable Mentions? I would have thought FC deserved at least an Honorable Mention.

I know that it's hard to whittle down so many great book-to-film adaptations to just ten, so inevitably some are gonna be left out, but A Clockwork Orange? Come on, that movie is a classic and the book is wonderful

@gab_gallard

9 жыл бұрын

Maybe that's the problem. The book is fantastic, and easily beats the movie. Even Kubrick recognized that it was his worst movie (obviously, coming from Kubrick, it manages to be a good movie anyway).

@Justice237

9 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Gallardo Kubrick hated Fear and Desire even more, later disowning it. A Clockwork Orange is considered by most, including myself, to be one of his best if not his best. Personally I think I'm one of those that like the book and the movie equally. As for the infamous final chapter, I'd say that its worked well on paper but wouldn't have worked as good on screen

@gab_gallard

9 жыл бұрын

AdoreSinging394% Agree with the final part of your comment :)

Clearly, the title should be Top 10 American Book to Film Adaptations. Otherwise there's no way David Lean's Great Expectations and Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace wouldn't be on the list, and there are probably others.

@wwb2081

9 жыл бұрын

Watchmojo's videos are based on votes. Being a Canadian channel, most votes probably come from North America (the continent)

@floragosling84

8 жыл бұрын

+Gene Bivins Harry potter made it onto the list, but I hear ya.

@adamthevirgo9297

8 жыл бұрын

Harry Potter is a British book and movie

@groove4528

8 жыл бұрын

There's a great expectations movie???! Holy crap!

@genedryer-bivins8314

8 жыл бұрын

David Lean's film was made in 1946 and has been considered a classic ever since. There are other versions as well.

Missing from the list: Bridge over the River Kwai (1957) War of the Worlds (1954) - although it deviated, it's still a classic Planet of the Apes (1968) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) The Omega Man (1971) - based on _I Am Legend_ (1954) Soylent Green (1973) - based on _Make Room! Make Room!_ (1966) Charly (1968) - based on _Flowers For Algernon_ (1959) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Logan's Run (1976) The Thing (1982) - based on _Who Goes There_ (1938) 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) - based on the short story _The Sentinel_ (1951) The Warriors (1978) First Blood (1982) Die Hard (1988) - based on _Nothing Lasts Forever_ (1979) Blade Runner (1982) - based on _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_ (1968) Total Recall (1990) - based on the short story _We Can Remember it for you Wholesale_ (1966) HP Lovecraft's Re-Animator (1985) - based on _Herbert West: Re-Animator_ (1921-22) New to Add: The Martian (2015)

@robertpolanco1973

8 жыл бұрын

Actually, the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" was based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel.

@petercampi2840

8 жыл бұрын

Clark's "2001: A Space Odyssey" novel is a full novelization of his original 1948 (pub. in '51) short story "The Sentinel". So you'd be right either way.

@oanimano5160

7 жыл бұрын

Stand By Me and A Clockwork Orange should definetely be on the lsit

I love Harry Potter deep to my bones, but I have mixed feelings for the movies. I feel they captured the magic and the feeling but they messed up Hermione and Ron (and Ginny). I think they also failed to deliver the end right in the way that Voldemort failed becAuse of his incapacity to understand killing is not defeating (to win the wands loyalty) and his incapacity to understand the feelings that move others. And a lot of other things that I feel were of importance.

@theriffwriter2194

6 жыл бұрын

I like every kind of movie you can imagine (no really. Childrens, foreign, love stories, erotica, crime) but when I seen harry potter I felt nothing.I couldn't understand why they're so popular. I feel like any amateur writer could easily mash up existing mythologies and probably do better, but ultimately I think it was the move versions of the characters that weren't very relatable. Hermione was infailable, Harry looked like a nerd, but was infailable and ron was the comic relief. It'll Wizards Of Waverly Place with an unlimited budget.

@MercyRenae

6 жыл бұрын

I Voldemort's death scene. The whole point of his ordinary, semi-dull death in the book was to show that Voldemort was nothing extraordinary. He was just a man. A man who had been horribly corrupted and chose to do horrible things, but an ordinary man nonetheless. And yet in the movie, he breaks apart and blows away, in a way no one else does when they die, which completely misses the point.

@Serai3

6 жыл бұрын

When Haley Joel Osment was offered the role of Harry Potter, he turned it down, saying, "Some books should stay books." He was so right. Some things should just be allowed to stay what they are.

@stan.bts1

5 жыл бұрын

Hello my fella potterhead👍

@michaelodonnell824

4 жыл бұрын

The two biggest issues with the HP adaptations are: The dumbing down of Ron. Leaving so much out of the earlier movies as to make The Deathly Hallows movies virtually impossible to follow.

Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest and All Quiet on the Western Front.

@maxrivalland-hughes2529

9 жыл бұрын

Also Apocalypse Now

@connorw2k

9 жыл бұрын

Max Rivalland 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket

@bobjones5465

9 жыл бұрын

2001 was written in tandem with the film, not strictly an adaptation

@connorw2k

9 жыл бұрын

same with Apocalypse Now and others, so I said it Bob Jones

@bobjones5465

9 жыл бұрын

Connor Webb Apocalypse now is adapted from Heart of Darkness, which was written in 1899.

What about Dances With Wolves? With its sweeping soundtrack and epic cinematography it took the book to a whole new level.....

Atonement was a damn good adaptation too, not just because it's an incredible movie, but because the book has so much that seems almost unfilmable because of how personal and exclusive it is to books, but the movie makes up for it with some *gorgeous* visual storytelling.

I just dont understand "The Godfather" sometimes. I can see why people say its one of the greatest movies ever made but I honestly have no interest to ever watch it again. I feel like Peter on that one episode of Family Guy where he sais he doesnt like it =P

@auctoritate8254

10 жыл бұрын

Well, like they said it's a movie of subtlety. It can be VERY hard to pick up for many people, and for others that have a keen eye for clever nuances in a story, or character, it can be one of the greater experiences you can have with a story.

@Harleigh_19

10 жыл бұрын

Stetson Graham Thank you for having a NICE comment. I was getting prepared to have my ass handed to me =P

@kyriss12

10 жыл бұрын

jdbabyv3 In your defense I've never actually seen that entire series from beginning to end myself. It's a great rainy weekend flick for when you have nothing else to do, but it's so fucking long that it's hard to appreciate when you have more entertaining things to do with your time.

@Harleigh_19

10 жыл бұрын

kyriss12 thats kind of how I feel too. Its so long and slow I have no desire to ever sit through them again. But like I said I can see why its held in such high regard.

@sheshokhen

10 жыл бұрын

***** agree, harry potter is very fucking boring and overrated... and how much time you take to watch from the first movie to the last one?

You should have replaced the Shining with the Green Mile

@GoneButNotForgottenn

10 жыл бұрын

please the Shining is amazing

@RitaRenaeMoulder

10 жыл бұрын

Not the movie. In comparison to the book, Kubric made an abomination.

@aprilk2858

10 жыл бұрын

Rita Renae Moulder I'll be honest, the ending of the Shining (film) threw me. I've never read the book. But yeah, it's not my proudest moment to admit that I don't understand the films ending.

@bruinschiefs1

10 жыл бұрын

April M Stephen King hated the Shining movie, he was not happy with it at all. The book ending is much different too.

@HollywoodWhore17

10 жыл бұрын

I agree. It was a faithful adaption and a fantastic movie, just as good as the book in my opinion. At times, even better actually. King also called it "the single most faithful adaption of his work" :) Phenomenal movie AND adaption.

I like Misery the best! I just rewatched it. I love Kathey Bates' performance, 10/10! 👌

I wonder if they considered the various tellings/ adaptations of Swiss Family Robinson, Black Beauty, Little Women, Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Treasure Island, Moby Dick, Prince and the Pauper, any Dickens, any Jack London, any Dumas, any Jane Austen, or even any Arthur Conan Doyle for this list? Perhaps do separate lists for different eras of books/stories or classic books?

Everybody's list is way different, but for me? Shining as number one all day! I desperately want a film adaptation of John Fowles' 'The Magus' with Ben Kingsley playing Conchis.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy won 17 academy awards, not 11... Return of the King alone won 11 academy awards...

where's the great Gatsby!!!???? (1963 version)

@shairivaille9598

9 жыл бұрын

That is boring (My opinion)

@genedryer-bivins8314

9 жыл бұрын

danyalillo - Good, but not great.

@Darrylizer1

9 жыл бұрын

danyalillo I think you mean the 1974 version with Sam Waterston, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern and Robert Redford as Gatsby? That's a darn good movie.

My favorite film adaptation is based on Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic. The film is directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and it is the unbeatable non-sci-fi sci-fi film: Stalker. The second one is based on Stanisław Lem's Solaris. Film also directed by Tarkovsky. The third one is a Hungarian adaptation of Peter Zsoldos: The Mission (A feladat). And a TV play was made from it. I also mention Lem's Tales of Pirx the Pilot. There was also a TV play made from it and it become a Hungarian cult TV series.

Where is Fight Club?!

@BopaBola

10 жыл бұрын

lol the end

Where's the Perks of Being A Wallflower?

SHOGUN should have been on this list! I was pleasantly surprised how well this paralleled the book.

You guys should make a video of Top 10 book to T.V show adaptations. Including Dexter and/or Suburgatory.

To all these people saying 'x is missing', remember, it's very difficult to compile a list of 10 movies that were based on books - just think how many of them there are!

@michaelbulls5872

10 жыл бұрын

yeah but to put Jurassic park in front of Shawshank redemption? That's total bullshit to me

I would tell you what my favourite book to film adaptation is, but I'm not allowed to talk about it.

@michaelaguirre2789

10 жыл бұрын

Rules 1 and 2

This Top 10 Book to Film Adaptations definitely has some memorable movies

No mention of Fight Club?

Um Stephen King would be pissed off as hell at you guys for adding The Shining to this list as he hates the adaption, saying it was not accurate to the book

I'm so relieved that you didn't put Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on here. It's an over-rated movie that Roald Dahl LOATHED because it strayed so much from his book.

@nickswank1262

10 жыл бұрын

Oh my god that movie is just UGH. Mary Poppins was like that as well, the author HATED the movie for MP.

@Darkraes743

10 жыл бұрын

Nick Swank I bet you've seen Saving Mr. Banks.

@mwhitcher

10 жыл бұрын

Why is a movie bad just because it made changes to the original story? Willy Wonka made changes because it gave the movie a better and much deeper moral to the story instead of the simple black and white moral of the original. Mary Poppins made changes mostly to add a more fun and visual element to the story as well as a very atmospheric tone. If you want a story much closer to the book, THEN JUST READ THE GODDAMN BOOK!

Good list, but the 1973 version of "The day of the Jackal" should be here too. Absolutely magnificent and very true to the book! "The name of the Rose" is an example of the _very_ rare case where the film is actually a lot better than the book.

@garymacmillan6401

Жыл бұрын

Hardly.

Disney's A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey and Directed by Robert Zemeckis is an outstanding rendition of the Dickens classic novel

fight club should have been on the list. it might not have been a loyal adaptation but it was awesome, cool and a groundbreaker totally different from anything that was out at the time.

Matilda was pretty good

The Green Mile was a series of books, each with a cliffhanger. I loved that movie. But I see that the next list up is a list of Stephen King adaptations. I'm sure I'll be seeing it there.

Really good list, but I was disappointed that Perfume, based on the novel by Patrick Süskind, was not mentioned. It's my favourite adaptation of any novel which I have read and liked.

the first narnia movie, since that's the only book I remember of the series still XD....you should do top 10 worst book to movie adaptations, and be sure to put eragon on there, mean oh my god that was so messed up :I

You'd place Lord of the Rings second to a film about the Mafia? What the hell is wrong with you?

@LibertyDino

10 жыл бұрын

Michael Challinoir well there were very good exciting scenes ruined in totally changing them for the movie. Plus hobbit adventure :D only the first movie would have been boring

@GeneralErlend

10 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should read the Godfather and see the movie before you make such statements?

Lord of the flies (1963) was an amazing film adaptation and I think that it deserves to be on this list.

BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA!!! That movie was awesome, and it captured everything the book potrayed! It should've been on their list!

I'm sorry....what?! "THE PRINCESS BRIDE" DIDN'T MAKE THIS LIST?!?! I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!!!

Should be called 10 Movies You Didn't Know Were Books

@sheshokhen

10 жыл бұрын

seriously? ... ok

@girlyupper

10 жыл бұрын

or 10 movies you didn't know we books because you don't read.

@CrashDunning

10 жыл бұрын

JURASSIC PARK WAS A BOOK?!

@thejonathan130

10 жыл бұрын

crash979797 Yeah, and the book was only about a thousand times more exciting than the movie. Man I wish I could watch Muldoon blow away 3 raptors instead of him getting killed off idiotically like in the movie.

@tanishakiteley342

10 жыл бұрын

thejonathan130 you're telling me that you %100 knew everyone of these movies were based off books? fucking liar

I would have definitely included Sir Carol Reed's film adaptation of Graham Green's The Third Man. Also the film version of Trainspotting.

I love Les Mis even though the movie is based more off of the musical rather than directly from the book it is still a fantastic movie. Damn, speaking of that I need to watch that movie again

"Gone with the Wind" should've been on this list. It was an outstanding film.

The Prestige?? Christopher Nolan did an amazing job bringing Christopher Priest's book to the big screen.

The best ever is Mystic River. Really all the Dennis Lehane novels that have been made into movies have been done well, but that was my favorite.

Literally everything about the LOTR movies went right and the exclusion of the last few chapters of the book I actually did not miss and I found myself completely satisfied