Matt Staggs at “Enter the Octopus” has tagged me for the following meme:
Top 48 SF Movies Based on a Novel
Rules:
- Copy the list below.
- Mark in bold the movie titles for which you read the book.
- Italicize the ones that you’ve watched.
- Tag 5 people to perpetuate the meme.
1. Jurassic Park
2. War of the Worlds
3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
4. I, Robot
5. Contact (though we do have the book; does that count?)
6. Congo
7. Cocoon (this was a book?)
8. The Stepford Wives
9. The Time Machine (1960 version)
10. Starship Troopers
11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
12. K-PAX
13. 2010 (this was a pretty cool flick)
14. The Running Man
15. Sphere
16. The Mothman Prophecies
17. Dreamcatcher
18. Blade Runner(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
19. Dune
20. The Island of Dr. Moreau
21. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
22. The Iron Giant(The Iron Man)
23. Battlefield Earth (tried watching the movie — ugh!)
24. The Incredible Shrinking Woman
25. Fire in the Sky
26. Altered States
27. Timeline
28. The Postman
29. Freejack(Immortality, Inc.)
30. Solaris
31. Memoirs of an Invisible Man
32. The Thing(Who Goes There?)
33. The Thirteenth Floor
34. Lifeforce(Space Vampires)
35. Deadly Friend
36. The Puppet Masters
37. 1984
38. A Scanner Darkly
39. Creator
40. Monkey Shines
41. Solo(Weapon)
42. The Handmaid’s Tale
43. Communion
44. Carnosaur
45. From Beyond
46. Watchers
47. Nightflyers
48. Body Snatchers
Conclusion? I’m under-read and I don’t watch enough SF movies based on SF books. Not sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing.
I’m tagging: Greg van Eekhout, Jenn Reese, Joya Mannan, Steve Nagy, and Tez Miller. 🙂
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Hey, you should work on bolding and italicizing Starship Troopers. The book is famously fascist, but it’s gooood. And the movie satirizes Heinlein’s message in a pretty sophisticated way. Just my 2 c.!
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If you haven’t seen “Blade Runner”, “Stalker”, “A Clockwork Orange” or “Children of Men” then I’d check them out as they are all classic sci-fi films based on books. I think “Children of Men” and “Stalker” a fairly loose adaptations but they are still based on sci-fi books.
“Minority Report” while not as fantastic as those four is also worth checking out. There is also a crazy (and awesome) animated film called “Fantastic Planet” that is apparantly based on a book (although I haven’t read it).
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Woops, sorry – I see “Blade Runner” is on your list.
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Okay, cool — thanks for the tips. I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve not read ANY Heinlein. Ever. Yikes.
And I did see and read “A Clockwork Orange,” which was pretty awesome. Did I miss that on the list (I was only working on my 1st coffee of the day when I did the meme)?
I really dug “Children of Men,” too. Need to see the latest version of “Blade Runner” to see what was changed. Thanks!
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Hmmm…I don’t see Jumper up there. And speaking of loose adaptations..except for the 3 laws, I, Robot had nothing to do with Asimov’s book.
I’m guessing comic books don’t really count. I do like this list however…makes me aware that I have a lot of reading to do. I didn’t even know some of these movies were based on novels. Interestingly, two of these movies are considered amongst the top ten scifi movies from the past decade.
To me, scifi novels are totally different beasts from scifi movies. A scifi novel can be very…subjective and artistic. Also, I’ve noticed a lot of scifi literature is usually trying to promote a certain stand or belief.
You don’t get that same feeling from a scifi movie. Science fiction movies are more about the visuals and the plot. The message (and sometimes the acting) takes a back seat.
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You should totally check out Starship Troopers. I read it my senior year in high school, and completely loved it.
Also, I filled out the meme, and pasted it in my LJ (my name links to it). 🙂
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