Ordinary People was based on Judith Guest's best seller Ordinary People.
I like the way you make me feel even when I'm nowhere near...
Brokeback Mountain. It's an almost word for word filming.
The Almighty Space Potato
I have to say it's probably The Lord of the Rings.
The original trilogy is just fantastic, especially The Two Towers.
Gone With the Wind. Margaret Mitchell
I read the whole series of New Moon and The movies were as close as you can get
I'm hoping this book I was reading for fun college gets made into a movie mostly because the setting and visuals described took a lot of imagination to picture in my head. I want to see someone else's take on the setting. It's a science-fiction book called Wool that takes place in the near future when the Earth's atmosphere is too polluted to live in and all of the civilization lives in a giant silo.
Full Metal Jacket, basd upon the novel The Short Timers. Kubrick's film is brilliant, and I actually prefer it to the novel, which was also good.
Someone else mentioned The Shawshank Redemption, based on a novella by Stephen King. The written story is one of my favorite of King's works, and it is likely the most fiathful adaptation of any of his works, and certainly in my mind the most successful- Frank Darbont did a brilliant job, and all the acting is top notch!
The Lord of the Rings movies were all well made, though I think that they were better when they stuck close to the source material, and suffered at those moments when they wildly diverged.
One trilogy of books that I love deeply has never been adapted to the screen, and I do hope that eventually someone will do The Fionavar Tapestry justice on the big screen, because I think they would make a fantastic trilogy of fantasy movies.
I enjoyed reading The Fault in Our Stars, but the movie made me cry like a baby.
My favorite? Howl's Moving Castle
The movie was sweet, but the book was wonderful.
Also favorites based on books:
The Hobbit
Harry Potter
Starship Troopers
Dune
Contact
I'm looking forward to the new movie adaptations of A Wrinkle in Time and Annihilation.
The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo(origical series...not the american version)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Princess Bride, which was so much better than the book.
We were soldiers once and young
The 50 Shades trilogy & The Bridges of Madison County.
Brandie
The 50 Shades trilogy & The Bridges of Madison County.
Brandie