Movies That Should Have Been Epic

[Rev. Rye]

every single novel which was attempted to be put onto the big screen. At least every single one I have seen is shit.

Except for "Angela`s Ashes"

I have to disagree, and not going to argue but...

The Road, Silence of the Lambs, The Thing, Trainspotting, Ex-Drummer, Children Of Men, Das Boot, The Godfather and hundreds more.

So you can say that you've never seen any movie based on a book that you liked?

Here's my addition to the list: Night of the Hunter, Pickpocket (based loosely on Crime and Punishment), Lincoln Lawyer, Sophie's Choice, The Hunger Games, Mystic River, Shutter Island, Gone With the Wind, Postman Always Rings Twice, No Country For Old Men, True Grit (either version), Little Children, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Maltese Falcon, From Here to Eternity, either the 1933 or the 1994 version of Little Women, American Psycho, The Shining, Day of the Locust, The Butcher Boy, and (my all-time favourite film) A Clockwork Orange. And that's just movies I own on DVD!

Oh, and Angela's Ashes is an autobiography, not a novel, unless in Germany "novel" means something very different from what it means to us yanks.

Of course, I do agree with you: The Tourist is definitely big a step down.