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In reply to the discussion: Great Books turned into bad movies [View all]dogknob
(2,431 posts)12. Dan Brown is such a mind-bogglingly shitty writer...
... that The Da Vinci Code is one of the few instances where the film was actually superior.
Brown's gift is his ability to relate complicated subject matter to an audience who, as we are seeing from the racist reactions to the casting of The Hunger Games, apparently need plot and character details spoon-fed to them over and over... and over again before they (maybe) sink in.
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The Choir Boys. Not a great book so much as a great read. The movie was an exercise in mediocrity.
ohiosmith
Mar 2012
#2
Girl with the Pearl Earing. They could have done that movie so much better. The Other
Justice wanted
Mar 2012
#7
Dan Brown wants so bad to be Robert Ludlum...but isn't within a light year.
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2012
#17
I think that they are finally shooting Ludlum's Matarese Circle (my favorite of his) - casting
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2012
#18
I thought that Buck Henry did a good job with an impossible book - "Catch 22"
underpants
Mar 2012
#21
Paul Verhoven has a time machine, and that movie was an allegory on the Iraq War
Taverner
Mar 2012
#66
An honourable mention should go to almost every Roald Dahl book adapted into a movie
RFKHumphreyObama
Mar 2012
#76