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Some of the best book-to-movies that I can mention (where I'm familiar with both the movie and the novel):
- Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events: Although they made some changes, the film was very faithful to the look and feel of the first three books in the series and the casting was pretty much spot-on.
- Watchmen: Very faithful to a majority of the comic, with some (in my opinion) justifiable changes from the original comic book. For me, its main drawback is that even though the movie is over 3 hours long, they still weren't able to fit everything from the original comic book series in the movie.
- Scrooge (U. S. Title: A Christmas Carol), the 1951 version starring Alister Sim: For me, this is the best movie version of the story ever made and is the standard I compare other versions to. Also, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol is excellent, and Magoo is perfect cast in the role of Scrooge.
- Hoodwinked: An excellent version of "Little Red Riding Hood" that takes the familiar fairy tale and tells it in a new way (and very funny way) that will keep you guessing until the end.
- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II: Together, these two movies are an excellent adaption to the entire Puzo novel (Part II covers the parts of the book not covered in the first movie) and for me the first movie was one that I couldn't stop watching until the end.
- Superman The Movie: An excellent version of the Superman story, and still one of the best comic book movies ever made. It distills everything that you need to know, presents it in an entertaining manner, and tells a great story.
- The Adventures Of Pinocchio, the 1996 movie starring Martin Landau: Although they do make some changes from the original story, this version was true to the original story (unlike many versions, for me this version felt like it was taking place in Italy), and added some great enhancements not in the original story. That Pinocchio is played by a real puppet greatly adds to the movie.
- Chobits: An excellent 27-episode anime adaptation of the manga and very faithful to the original story (although, as usual, they made some modifications).
Although this is backwards, there is one movie-to-book adaptation I must strongly recommend: TRON. Although the movie was great, the novel version added so much detail to the original story and it is definitely worth reading.
If you give any of the above a look, I'm sure that you'll enjoy them.
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