With the reboot of Total Recall hitting theaters this week, and Cloud Atlas on the horizon we’ve been thinking a lot about the way films are adapted from books, and how often people totally miss the books in favor of the movies that spring from them — including us. With film adaptations of Philip K. Dick stories like Total Recall, which tend to veer so wildly that you might not recognize even if you had read the source material, we understand. But as it turns out, there are a lot more movies that we didn’t realize were based on books — until now. Click through to see our list, and let us know which movies surprised you (or which ones you totally knew about, smarty pantses) in the comments. … Read More
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Movies Totally Different From the Books They Were Based On
With a few rare exceptions, most people tend to agree that the book version of a story is always better than the movie. But what about the cases when those two works are so different that they’re practically impossible to compare? We don’t mean stories where things have been tweaked a bit for the film adaptation, but rather movies that feature totally different endings, story lines, and main characters than the original book. Here are a few of our favorite examples. Be warned, spoilers ahead! … Read More
Video of the Day: There Will Be Blood as 16-Bit Video Game
Did you ever get the feeling, after sitting through all 158 minutes of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-nominated opus There Will Be Blood, that the entire movie would have been better off as a 60-second video game? Well, a group called Tomfoolery has pulled it off, creating a minute-long clip that reimagines the film as a 16-bit platform adventure that has Daniel Day-Lewis collecting cash and milkshakes in a quest to defeat his mortal enemy, Paul Dano. Relive the notorious bowling alley scene, Super Mario-style, after the jump. … Read More
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