Brought up on Alice In Wonderland books - my Mother collects them - but I thought in many ways the Tim Burton film was better than the book it was based on. It was certainly better than the reviews I'd read had lead me to expect - although I did find the 3d thing a bit distracting.

Since then I've been trying to think of any other films based on books that I'd rather watch than read. Are there any?

Bladerunner would be my first choice, the book was good too, but not as punchy as the film. Some of K Dick's work gets so caught up in those bizarre religious-like systems and drug things. The film was different though so not an exact adaptation by any means.

Usually I prefer the book (as in Howl's Moving Castle)and so on.

I think that I prefer the film of "The Princess Bride" to the book, but it is a close-run thing.


I tend to treat "Bladerunner" "Androids" as separate entities because there is so little similarity. I suspect that I will feel the same about "Alice in Wonderland" as it is not the same story as the book, just the same characters. We are going to see it this afternoon.

Stardust is another such one too.

Not read it, but an awesome movie.

Trying to decide whether I prefer Neverwhere live-action (programme) or as a book. Is pretty close.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
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We saw Tim Burton's Alice, and loved it! I don't think that it can be compared with the books, though as it is a sequel. I want a rocking-horse-fly.

I second both Stardust and The Princess Bride. Also I'd add Twilight to the list, but only because the movie was mildly awful, while the book was enormously awful.

Weird, I was discussing this with friends the other night!
Mine: Jaws, Labyrinth, Orlando, The Godfather (all of em!), Big Fish, A clockwork Orange, Fight Club (maybe... Close call though!), The Shining... Man, there are heaps, when I think about it!

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I prefer the book of "A Clockwork Orange", even though I love the movie. As mrs. SkidMarks is a huge fan of Stephen King, she doesn't like the ambiguous ending of "The Shining". I am not a fan and prefer the film.

Hopefully Mr. Moore isn't a lurker here, but I prefer the movie version of "V for Vendetta" to the graphic novel.

I would class Tim Burton's AiW in the same genre are Return to Oz and Hook in that they concerned a time after the original AiW story, a sequel where things had become worse, or run down.

That said I enjoyed the story and characterisation.

I was particularly impressed with the end titles. The surrounding of the titles were very real. I felt I could go up and touch them.

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Except that Frank L Baum wrote Return to Oz, and it's a part of the canon of the story... I dont think the others are.

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> I was particularly impressed with the end titles.

Taken out of context sounds like a particularly sarcastic critic, but they were absolutely lovely.

I did like the end credits too, I liked the film and don't mind it being different. Though some aspects strongly reminded me of Frank Beddor's versions The Looking Glass Wars and Seeing Redd.
Particularly the way the worlds were depicted and subsequently reminded of the graphic novel of TLGWs.

The cinema spoiled the end for me, because their system conked out during the most intense part and lost the visual, but kept the sound. Didn't feel the same and no staff were around either.

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> The cinema spoiled the end for me, because their
> system conked out during the most intense part and
> lost the visual, but kept the sound. Didn't feel
> the same and no staff were around either.


Before you demand a refund, please ensure that you did not have your 3-d glasses on back-to-front. This would allow the characters on-screen to see you, but not vice versa.

It would have been a darn sight mote entertaining if that was the case! < takes mental to wear 3D glasses on backwards at next 3D film and test theory>

Is 'The Prestige' better in book or film form? I've never read it.

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> Is 'The Prestige' better in book or film form?
> I've never read it.


I enjoyed the film more than the book. (But as I enjoyed the 1998 "Godzilla", Tim Burton's "Alice" and equally enjoy both film and book editions of "Coraline" I may not be a reliable source.)

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"Being There" was a very close call for me. On the other ffoot, "the Unbearable Lightness of Being" wowed me as a film, while Kundera's book surprised me with hoe dry the prose was. Better? Hard to say...