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i can totally get behind this one.

remember the Abyss? i think orson scott card wrote the book AFTER the movie. he made the book rock, with an otherwise very lame movie.

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Atlas Shrugged IMO does not lend itself well to being made into a movie, for a variety of reasons.
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While I'd love to see Atlas Shrugged, I doubt it could live up to my expectations. Imagine Steve McQueen as John Galt.
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Catch 22 was one of the all time great books made into one of the all time worst movies.
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Atlas Shrugged IMO does not lend itself well to being made into a movie, for a variety of reasons.
Even after cutting all of the minor characters, it would still have to be 10 hours long just to cover Galt's and D'anconia's soliloquies.

That and there's no way Hollywood would allow the message behind the story to be released unmolested.
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It would probably have to be a miniseries to be long enough, a 2 hour movie would require it to be chopped up too much.
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i have always wanted to see a movie made of edward abbey's "the monkey wrench gang".
just googled it and, lo and behold......it IS projected for a 2010 release. yippee!
thanks for posting this thread, i wouldn't have known otherwise.
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Clear and Present Danger - the movie with harrison ford, was not too bad I thought. I liked Willam Dafoe as Clark.

Sum of All fears would have been good if it wasn't Ben Afleck as Jack Ryan and they focused more on Clark's story.

Clancy's books are so detailed, and this detail cannot be easily put into a 2 1/2 hour movie.

I remember reading Bear and the Dragon (My favourite Clancy novel by far I believe), all 1100 pages of it... and just being blow away with not just how much detail each character's story portrayed, but also how many characters they were and how they all tied into the plot. I get a real sense of "Real" when reading those books, even if they are made up. Which is good, because that is what he is going for obviously.
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Clear and Present Danger - the movie with harrison ford, was not too bad I thought. I liked Willam Dafoe as Clark.

Sum of All fears would have been good if it wasn't Ben Afleck as Jack Ryan and they focused more on Clark's story.

Clancy's books are so detailed, and this detail cannot be easily put into a 2 1/2 hour movie.

I remember reading Bear and the Dragon (My favourite Clancy novel by far I believe), all 1100 pages of it... and just being blow away with not just how much detail each character's story portrayed, but also how many characters they were and how they all tied into the plot. I get a real sense of "Real" when reading those books, even if they are made up. Which is good, because that is what he is going for obviously.
Couldn't disagree more. Willem Dafoe is great, but he ain't Clark. I still refuse to see Sum of All Fears. Bear and Dragon was good, but probably not Clancy's best researched piece. At least, he didn't spend any time in China before writing about the poor quality of women and food there. And I've never ever heard anyone utter the term "Joe Chink", as is tossed around so much in that one.

Clancy's work is best left to book, though I think Without Remorse would fit into a movie. I always pictured Clark as looking like Kono from Hawaii Five-O.
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That'd be cool. I bet they will.
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I havent read that in ages, that could be an interesting flick.

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I generally hate it when my favorite books are made into movies. The Lord of the Rings is a perfect example. I understand when they have to cut 2/3 of the book out, but Peter Jackson didn't like the way Tolkien did some things so he just changed them. Like having the elves come save the day at Helm's Deep instead of the Ents and Huorns. The elves had been withdrawing from contact with other races for thousands of years, had been slowly leaving middle earth, and their armies didn't leave their forests until after the Ring was destroyed.

If that were the only major change Jackson had made I could live with it, but it was one of many. Don't get me started about the orcs that could crawl walls like spider-man in Moria. Or how orcs were portrayed as much more deadly, capable fighters, and the members of the fellowship less capable fighters then they were in the books. And the list goes on and on.

So I really don't want any more of my favorite books made into movies.
I thought they did a pretty good job considering the massive amount of story they had to work with. Catch the Extended DVD extras on the Fellowship, they have a large feature on how they brought the book to script. You can't beat the books, but I also enjoyed the movie immensely.


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