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What Are Some Great Films Not Adapted from Books? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When films are adapted from books, more often than not, I tend to find the books a lot more enjoyable. So I have skipped watching a lot of films in the hope of reading the books later.

So what are some great films not adapted from books? Or what are some films that are significantly better than the book they were adapted from?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

            
              Pulp Fiction
Donnie Darko
The Big Lebowski
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
In Bruges
The Matrix
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ocean's Eleven
Indiana Jones original trilogy
Get Out
Bladerunner (a book, apparently)
Bladerunner 2049
28 Days Later
American Beauty
The Usual Suspects
Gladiator
Schindler's List (also a book??)
Saving Private Ryan
There Will Be Blood (dammit, a book!)


            
          

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gonna get pedantic here:

Blade Runner is based on "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" by Philip K Dick.
There Will Be Blood is based on "Oil" by Sinclair Lewis.
Both were acclaimed in their own right before the film adaptations.

Okey dokey then... carry on!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely fair!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also Schindlers List was a book first