Yesterday I did a Top Ten Tuesday list where I looked at ten of the Worst Movie Adaptations in my opinion. These were books that really don’t translate well to the screen. But as a counter balance I thought I would give you five good movie adaptations. Yes only five, there are not many adaptations that I feel work as well as the book. So in no particular order:
5. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
4. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
1. Scott Pilgrim Verse the World by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Also I would like to include The Virgin Suicides, Revolutionary Road, Perfume, Fight Club, The Road, American Psycho and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which are not perfect but they are still pretty decent compared to some of the other adaptations out there. Now it’s your turn, what do you like that worked well as a book adaptation? Maybe next time I’ll look at decent Noir adaptations.
I’ve picked my top 5 and The Maltese Falcon didn’t make it, you’ll have to stay tuned to find out what I thought was better 😛
I know it’s slightly off, but I love The Thin Man, more than the book actually. Neverending Story was a good adaptation, as is Auntie Mame.
The Bat, with Agnes Moorehead and Vincent Price is a good adaptation from The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Of course The Bat is the novelized version of the stage play that was adapted from her book, The Circular Staircase.
I think the big screen adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express was pretty good. I also enjoyed The Unsuspected, both the book by Charlotte Armstrong and the movie.
I haven’t read it yet, but I think the The Uninvited with Ruth Hussey and Ray Miland was based of a book, I need to make sure though.
I’ve not read any of those books