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Originally Posted by pwalker8
What movie/book combos can you think of, were the changes needed, and where they for the better or worse?
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I like to look at The Shining where Kubrick took only the bare bones of King's story. You could watch the movie and read the book and have two very different experiences. I don't feel that either form of the story is clearly superior. They are both powerful works in their own way.
(There is the TV miniseries version of The Shining that is much closer to King's book and it was something of a failure, but I blame that on the director. Mick Garris has a long history of adapting King's works and none of his adaptations are really spectacular.)
Over the years I've come to believe that a movie adaptation of a book shouldn't try to slavishly follow the source. Jaws, Dune and Bladerunner all deviate from their source, but all work as movies (to me).
There is a limit to how far you can split, but I'm not sure where that line is. The Will Smith I, Robot was an okay movie, but it felt like a slap in the face to Asimov. I'm not really sure why they kept the Asimov connection. Making it wholly original probably would have helped the movie. It's not like there's been blockbuster Asimov adaptations.