Movies you'd like to see remade

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Like everything else, adaptions vary. I prefer a series for the harder material, but things like Harry Potter have been adapted effectively. Nothing is going to be perfect but sweeping denial isn't very perfect either.

I think novelists can be influenced by the contemporary film medium in how they conceive of scenes and descriptions, and, without having film adaptation explicit in mind when they wrote, they construct their novel in a more film like way,  with more emphasis on external observation, more formulaic or stylized depiction of inner mental pictures and deeper psychological depth, so as to make their novels more film like in the first place.    in my opinion, without casting aspersions on their literary qualities, harry potter series of novels are more film like to start with.

J.K. was a single Mum on the dole when she wrote the first HP. I'm not sure she aspired to have it made into a movie. Things did change afterwards, but when or how is not interesting to me. I read the books because my then wife wanted to be a children's librarian and needed an adult to argue about the books with. We bought two copies of each book as it came out after the second one so we wouldn't have to wait for the other to finish.