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will_5198
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"are there any good/great movies *NOT* based on a literary work?"


          

I'm struggling to name a single one (though there must be a few)

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are there any good/great movies *NOT* based on a literary work? [View all] , will_5198, Sun Mar-15-09 09:03 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
The Big Lebowski
Mar 15th 2009
1
Chinatown
Mar 15th 2009
2
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
Mar 15th 2009
3
White Heat
Mar 15th 2009
4
Limelight/City Lights/Modern Times/etc
Mar 15th 2009
5
The Harder They Come
Mar 15th 2009
6
The Apartment
Mar 15th 2009
7
Jules et Jim
Mar 15th 2009
8
Mar 16th 2009
61
      I knew I shoulda gone with 400 Blows
Mar 17th 2009
69
Citizen Kane
Mar 15th 2009
9
North By Northwest
Mar 15th 2009
10
Seven Samurai/Yojimbo/Ikiru
Mar 15th 2009
11
Yojimbo is based on a book
Mar 16th 2009
56
Back to the Future 2
Mar 15th 2009
12
Fargo
Mar 15th 2009
13
Taxi Driver
Mar 15th 2009
14
The Wrestler
Mar 15th 2009
15
Almost Famous
Mar 15th 2009
16
Network
Mar 15th 2009
17
Do the Right Thing, Heat, Planes, Trains.....
Mar 16th 2009
18
Being John Malkovich
Mar 16th 2009
19
Based on the replies, Im gonna say yes. Yes there are.
Mar 16th 2009
20
Ghostbusters.
Mar 16th 2009
21
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Mar 16th 2009
22
Office Space
Mar 16th 2009
23
Bound
Mar 16th 2009
24
The Goonies
Mar 16th 2009
25
Lethal Weapon
Mar 16th 2009
26
Wall-I
Mar 16th 2009
27
Krush Groove
Mar 16th 2009
28
Boogie Nights
Mar 16th 2009
29
Pulp Fiction
Mar 16th 2009
30
Cobra
Mar 16th 2009
31
Grandma's boy
Mar 16th 2009
32
Land before time 7
Mar 16th 2009
33
Fargo
Mar 16th 2009
34
Human Traffic
Mar 16th 2009
35
BMX Bandits
Mar 16th 2009
36
Evil Dead 2
Mar 16th 2009
37
Die Hard
Mar 16th 2009
38
die hard is based on a book.
Mar 16th 2009
52
House Party
Mar 16th 2009
39
This is Spinal Tap
Mar 16th 2009
40
The Dirty Dozen
Mar 16th 2009
41
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mar 16th 2009
42
Friday
Mar 16th 2009
43
Mallrats
Mar 16th 2009
44
Fight the Power
Mar 16th 2009
45
^did the wrong thing.
Mar 16th 2009
47
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Mar 16th 2009
46
Star Wars
Mar 16th 2009
48
is based off "Dune"
Mar 17th 2009
64
      Actually, it's based on The Hidden Fortress
Mar 17th 2009
68
Moby Dick
Mar 16th 2009
49
is this snark or something?
Mar 16th 2009
50
no -- honestly at the time I couldn't think of many
Mar 16th 2009
51
      we should do a post of adaptations vs. original scripts
Mar 16th 2009
57
Gleaming The Cube
Mar 16th 2009
53
LOL
Mar 18th 2009
76
some of y'all are pretty liberal with what qualifies as a great movie
Mar 16th 2009
54
there's a reason i only made one post
Mar 16th 2009
55
the post said good/great
Mar 16th 2009
59
RE: the post said good/great
Mar 17th 2009
65
i'd say everything above 20 is indisputable
Mar 16th 2009
60
What are u talking about? Land before time 7 is a classic
Mar 16th 2009
62
      as is bmx bandits
Mar 17th 2009
63
lol
Mar 16th 2009
58
Ever heard of Woody Allen?
Mar 17th 2009
66
not a fan
Mar 17th 2009
70
      I Can't Do Nothing for You, Man! (c) Flav
Mar 17th 2009
71
           What do you think of Vicky Cristina Barcelona?
Mar 17th 2009
73
                entertaining picture
Mar 17th 2009
74
                     RE: entertaining picture
Mar 18th 2009
75
                          Since "Crimes," I'd say his best work was.....
Mar 18th 2009
77
Lost in Translation
Mar 17th 2009
67
this was a weird post.
Mar 17th 2009
72

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