1. Which movie adaptation of a book was your biggest disappointment?
For me, the easy answer is The Black Stallion Returns. That was a phenomenal book, on which the movie was VERY loosely based. A huge disappointment. The book was romantic, exotic, surprising, and highly evocative of time and place.
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2. Has anyone ever actually gotten a job simply from having posted a resume on a website like Monster.com?
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Easy - A Prayer For Owen Meaney by John Irving, one of my favorite novels. They had to make so many changes to the story that they renamed it Simon Birch. Though I'll admit they managed some charm, the changes stripped the story of its amazing power. Even worse if only because it was so preventable, they somehow managed to make Ashley Judd very average-looking in a role where she is supposed to be (and could easily have been) the iconic super-beautiful/perfect mom. So disapointing on every level.
And no, never tried Monster, sorry.
i've seen two that disappointed the hell out of me.
the first one was the Call Of The Wild, written by jack london. the movei was good, but chopped the story to shreds.
the second was F.I.S.T., and a movie by the same name. nothing at all like the book. not even close.
both books i read while still in grade school, 6th and 7th. and the movies soon after. this was late 70's.
i learned my lesson young, and since that time, have never, and i refuse still to do it, seen a movie based on a book i've alraedy read.
oh,yeah...
monster doesnt apply to millworkers.
Even in the dotcom boom I never had any luck with hotjobs or monster.com; however, I have had tremendous success with craigslist for jobs, real estate, and impromptu intercourse.
Oooh, Robb...good answer. That was disappointing -- and strange!
I was disappointed with the current Charlie and the Chocolate factory incarnation. What I enjoyed about the book was the sheer nastiness of the children and the catharsis I felt when they each got their come-uppance. There was more of that feeling in the original movie and the book.
In the new movie, the blame seems to be shifted more to the parents...especially Willy Wonka's father, who I don't remember really being mentioned in the book!
A children's book....but an absolutely wonderful one. Ella Enchanted. The book had a strong female character, who hopes for a saving grace from somewhere else, but ultimately saves herself. A wonderful adaptation of the Cinderella story.
I actually left the movie theater ranting. I've never been so angry after a movie. This could have been a movie that would be an inspiration to young girls. But no--they had to take away the strong girl element and have a male figure save her, as in all the stereotypical sexist fairy tales. They turned it into a teeny-bopper movie. I was so disgusted.
I'll tell you my favorite adaptation, and perhaps a movie that was better than the book: Fried Green Tomatoes. Mary Stuart Masterson really brought the role of Idgy alive.
No idea about monster. All I know is that finding a job is hard.
Luke--the father is talked about in the book. He's the sole breadwinner of the family. I didn't see the new movie, but my husband and kids did, and they were not impressed.
1. This could be a long list, but one particularly poor adaptation that I can think of off the top of my head is 1965's "The Alphabet Murders" starring Tony Randall. It'a a rather awful big screen version of Agatha Christie's "The ABC Murders." Avoid it all costs, unless you want to host your own MST-3000 evening. ;-)
2. I haven't personally, but a couple of friends have -- more than once, in fact.
Good question:
1) The Chocolate War, based on the novel by Robert Cormier. Boo and hiss...very Hollywood-ified. Very bad-Eighties movie (but was there really a good-Eighties movie?).
2) My wife got her current job with a lead from Monster, does that count? She applied both at Monster and at the company's official website. And yes, she's pretty happy with it.
I was discovered on Monster by a headhunter, and he got me my job. Does that count?
For (1), my answer is probably The First Wives Club.
The only employer to have found me on Monster in the last three weeks is my current employer. It's like being in an abusive relationship with a stalker who finds me through the police after I plead for a restraining order. So it happened like this... Yesterday I posted my resume on Monster. Last night Monster's tricky agents alerted my employer. This morning, he called me, saying, "You're not going to leave us are you? hahaha!" It's like Monster and Google are just arms of the military industrial intelligence complex. Next time, I'll take the red pill and enter the Matrix instead of the Monster.
About bad adaptations... I can pull one out of the air really quickly by citing one of my obsessions... The Scarlet Letter with Demi Moore was one of the worst adaptations of a novel I've ever seen.
I love it that you know The Black Stallion series. I read that book during some dumb IQ test in 5th grade. I was like...whatever...I'm in the middle of a horse race here people...and I'm not sure yet if the Black Stallion will win this race or not...
Great Gatsby
Worst. Adaption. Ever.
Redford and Mia Farrow- a great team in making this romance last forever. At least it seemed like forever.
Howard Da Silva was the only decent player as Meyer Wolfsheim.
i'll answer the first question in reverse - the most amazing movie from the most dreadful book - FIGHT CLUB. terrible novel, great flick.
2. Yes, my friend from last spring's Mittelstufe 2 German class went on to take Oberstufe and then could apparently speak German well enough that after he posted a resumè on Monster.de (yeah, .de, mind you), he was contacted, interviewed, and hired! He just started working last week.
yeah monster does not work, its the worst thing in the world - ever.
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