Movies based on novels

Great book, great movie. This is a move only list but the TV series "Hannibal" is seriously must-watch for anyone that has read Hariss' Lecter books.

Great book, great movie. Love that Chuck Palahniuk acknowledged that the movie's ending is better. No need for King/Kubrick bickering here.

Great book, great movie. Still can't understand why it's unloved by some. It's clearly not for everybody but it accomplished exactly what it set out to do.

Great book, great movie. Tough read but I took Russian in high school so once I started to read all the Nadsat phonetically it becomes second nature and I didn't have to keep flipping back to the glossary.

Don't really remember the novella that well but it's a great movie. "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" Damn if that doesn't hit me every time.

Very good movie but amazing book. Of all the movies on this page, there are only two that I'd like to see redone. Improving on the movie is simply absurd but I'd love to see a weird psyhco-hallucanatory retelling closer to the book. Keep all of Chief's weird delusions and imagery and maybe add him in voice-over to keep it on the rails.

Good movie but the book ripped my guts out. Fantastic prose that just can't be translated to the screen.

“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

Good movie and great book. Like The Road, MacCarthy's prose doesn't all make it to the screen but the tension of the coin flip is absolutely maddening. "What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo? "

Great movie and great book. Just say no, kids. Not sure how I feel about a sequel.

The book is more disturbing than the movie. One of those books when you hear it's being turned into a movie you wonder, "How in the hell is that going to work?"

Very interesting. One of the few here that I read after I saw the movie but I definitely found that I wanted to know more even after a 3+ hour movie.

I think I did some sort of permanent damage to my health by reading this book cover-to-cover when I was in middle school. I think I might have forced myself to put it down around 4AM. A couple of years later I was delighted to hear Sean Connery's thickly Scottish accent intrude on the couple of passages where the Russian crew is still speaking Russian. Loved how they did the switchover.

Like Stand By Me, I don't really remember the novella that much but I read them together as The Body and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption novellas packaged together as Different Seasons by Stephen King. I know it's considered blasphemous but I just consider this a "good" movie.

Don't think I ever got through the whole book but for all intents and purposes it's two different things. I love end-of-the-world stuff and this movie did it for me, weird vampire zombies or not.

Only because I'm a Hunter S. Thompson fan did I read the book and see the movie. The book's best parts are where it's clearly almost purely autobiographical and everything else feels bolted on. The movie keeps the same feel and even though I'm a fan of the good doctor, I'm still not sure how or why this got made.

I'm going to be honest: Don't really remember much about this. I remember Phillip Seymore Hoffman's Freddy Lounds meets a gristly end and that it didn't have a distractingly 80s sound track like Manhunter. I do remember I really liked the book.

Hope you like 80s keyboards, cause you're gonna get 80s keyboards. You'll also get a much reduced role for Dr. Lecter which is disappointing. Fun fact: in the novels Hannibal Lecter has a fully functional 11th finger and maroon eyes.

As with Red Dragon, I don't really remember much about the movie but I do know I liked the book quite a bit more.

Based on the same novel as "I Am Legend". Awesome to see Heston bombing thorough the streets of LA in a big, pre-oil embargo, land yacht but the bad guys are pretty comical. Also interesting to see a time when your leading man could have janky, nicotine-stained teeth.

This is the other title on this list I'd like to see redone. Not because it's bad, just because it so wildly strays from the source novel that I feel ripped off. You want to make a zombie movie? Great but why get the rights to such an interesting novel then just make a straightforward narrative?

Ugh. I liked the book but was really disappointed in the movie. Sam Rockwell was good but I felt like the source material got neutered in the process. American Psycho managed to turn some completely over the top source material into a good movie. This movie should have taken some notes.