Best/Worst Non-Japanese Movies

[Suki]

Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y

the best conversion from Book to Cinema has to be the Lord of The Rings trilogy.

O.O Have you read the books? So many important characters were cut out of the film; where was Glorfindel? How could they forget about him?

The best based-on-book movie (in my opinion) is Fight Club and Dead Poets Society.

[ivi0nk3y]

Originally Posted by noodle

Usual suspects is among the top! Any type of film like that tbh. Identity, 7even, fight club,88 minutes etc But to be honest, i can't say i have a fav film but I do love watching films

Whats 88 minutes o.O The rest of those choices seem sound to me

Originally Posted by Suki

O.O Have you read the books? So many important characters were cut out of the film; where was Glorfindel? How could they forget about him?

There is always going to be something cut out or whatnot. Even so, I think the Lotr trilogy was done very well. A lot of time and effort was spent on it and it was very good to watch. You can't deny that.

I'm just dreading the conversion of my favourite Sword Of Truth series of books into a tv series -_-'

[noodle]

Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y

Whats 88 minutes o.O The rest of those choices seem sound to me

It's one of the more recent films staring Al Pacino! It's rather good!

[koaku]

In conversion from book to cinema there are some Stephen King movie...
like Shinning (Jack N.) ,The Stand( when i was kid this movie traumatized me lol) one of my favorite : Misery lol nothing to say...,Hummm also The Shawshank Redemption, a good one with Morgan Freeman,The Green Mile with Tom Hawks,Dreamcatcher with Freeman again and 1408 but i didnt saw this movie yet lol

[Suki]

The Green Mile! That's such a good movie! I love the part when Mr. Jingles gets resurrected <3 Tom Hanks just surpasses expectations as usual.

Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y

There is always going to be something cut out or whatnot. Even so, I think the Lotr trilogy was done very well. A lot of time and effort was spent on it and it was very good to watch. You can't deny that.

I know, you can't fit a 1000-paged novel into a movie without shortening the original plot. But Arwen was just as relevant to the story as Glorfindel, and she completely took over his part! Legolas stole his appearence and Arwen was put in his part and given so much credit... *disappointed and mad*

The trilogy is entertaining though but there're some major mistakes... most of them are unnoticable unless you watch it in slow-mo, but they're there, like the red car in the scene where Frodo is about to leave the Shire and he and Sam are eating apples or something. Btw, did anyone notice Frodo's nails? o.Ô

[xYinniex]

the best japanese film..up to date is probably letter from iwojima. Because it was SUCH A GREAT FILM and it made me cry. XDD

Uhm. the last samurai was pretty bad. But the scenery was nice though. C=

[koaku]

Originally Posted by xYinniex

the best japanese film..up to date is probably letter from iwojima. Because it was SUCH A GREAT FILM and it made me cry. XDD

Uhm. the last samurai was pretty bad. But the scenery was nice though. C=

Tom Cruise RULES??

[ivi0nk3y]

Originally Posted by koaku

In conversion from book to cinema there are some Stephen King movie...
like Shinning (Jack N.) ,The Stand( when i was kid this movie traumatized me lol) one of my favorite : Misery lol nothing to say...,Hummm also The Shawshank Redemption, a good one with Morgan Freeman,The Green Mile with Tom Hawks,Dreamcatcher with Freeman again and 1408 but i didnt saw this movie yet lol

lol I love all those movies, cept The Stand cos I haven't even heard of that.
The Shining especially because No. Johnny 5 in Short Circuit 1 & 2 uses "Here's Johnny" for himself a lot (which also happen to be two films I love.)
I also agree that The Green Mile is an awesome movie Tom Hanks doesn't always do good roles though. I was pretty disappointed with The Lady Killers, even though his character wasn't that bad and I preferred Marlon Wayans to everyone else in that movie.
Of course Forrest Gump is a classic.

ps. The Last Samurai was alright in my opinion. Nothing amazing and nothing too crappy.

[Sundae16]

I like The Butterfly Effect alot. Just amazing ^.^
Requiem for a Dream's good too. Jared Leto's my favourite actor after all, lol.

I like horror movies (not sadistic ones). Specially Japanese, but it has to be non-Japanese right?:P

I don't know about the worst one...there's just too many of them xD

[ivi0nk3y]

Originally Posted by Sundae16

I like The Butterfly Effect alot. Just amazing ^.^
Requiem for a Dream's good too. Jared Leto's my favourite actor after all, lol.

I like horror movies (not sadistic ones). Specially Japanese, but it has to be non-Japanese right?:P

I don't know about the worst one...there's just too many of them xD

Any movie you love or hate lol
Requiem for a Dream was simply.. disturbing. Awesome movie but I was just really disturbed when I first finished watching it. Sarah Connelly very much reminded me of someone I loved to death, so the conclusion of that movie really really shocked me.
Which reminds me, Blood Diamond was also awesome! I used to hate Di Caprio but he totally made that movie excellent.