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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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That and there's no way Hollywood would allow the message behind the story to be released unmolested.
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Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.
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".
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Ann Rice's "The Witching Hour"
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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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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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One of the most inspirational messages about writing your own book for a movie.... worth listening to imo.
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I always wanted to see a movie version of Nelson DeMille's The Charm School with Willem Dafoe as CIA super spook Seth Alevy and Harison Ford as Cool, Calm and Collected Colonel Hollis.
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