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Book to Film Adaptation Poll! (Patreon)

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2025-11-30 06:17:14
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2026-06
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Book to Film Adaptation Poll!

  • 1408 (2007)* 32
  • All About Eve (1950) 28
  • Atonement (2007) 27
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) 30
  • Death on the Nile (1978) 30
  • Doctor Zhivago (1965) 29
  • The Firm (1993) 84
  • Frankenstein (2025) 60
  • The Help (2011) 29
  • The Horse Whisperer (1998) 12
  • Jane Eyre (2011) 2
  • Little Women (2019) 33
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962) 51
  • Out of Sight (1998) 44
  • Papillon (1973) 37
  • Pet Sematary (1989) 83
  • The Right Stuff (1983) 67
  • Slumdog Millionaire (2008)* 47
  • Watership Down (1978) 38
  • Wonderboys (2000) 24
  • 2025-11-30
  • —2025-12-28
  • 787 votes
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Content

Help pick the Book to Film Adaptation we will react to!

Please feel free to suggest other options in the comments for future polls!

NOTE: Sam has seen 1408 so this would only be my first time watching! I have seen Slumdog Millionaire so this would only be Sam's first time watching!

Comments

James

The Firm!!!

Brandon Meng

Ahhh Perks of Being a Wallflower would have been the absolute best choice for this poll!!!

TBR Schmitt

Oh shoot! I didn't realize that was a book! -Sam

Brandon Meng

Some of its literary accolades (copy pasta): American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults: 2000 ALA Best Book for Reluctant Readers: 2000 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults: 2002 Other recognition New York Times Bestseller: The book was a #1 New York Times bestseller for over a year. Frequently challenged book: Due to its content, it has appeared on the American Library Association's list of the 10 most frequently challenged books multiple times. NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels: It placed at number 16 on this list in 2012.

Jeromy M

Always keen to inflict Watership Down onto others as it was to me as a child.

Gary

Frankenstein is a masterpiece. Missing a few book bits but most films do omit storylines .

John Fitzpatrick

You have The Right Stuff on this poll. Good choice!!

Tyler Foster

There's a problem with this poll, you might want to take it down. It's that there are like five movies on here I want to win, which is impossible, and also, none of them are probably going to actually be the winner, which is devastating.

Florian Meier

Great Poll !!! So many good ones !!! For me it's The Firm and Wonderboys

Athos Count de la Fère

This has got to be the most varied choices for a poll I've seen yet. It's hard to choose.

Tyler Foster

Little Women (2019), Out of Sight (1998), and Wonder Boys (2000) being my top 3, plus also Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008) also being good. Would also do first-time watches of several others: Papillon (1973), The Right Stuff (1983), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Watership Down (1978), and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

Jax

If neither of you have seen an adaptation of Jane Eyre, I would choose any other but the 2011, which has the worst casting of the main characters. Just my opinion, and everyone has their favorites when it comes to BBC/Hollywood period adaptations

TBR Schmitt

OMG you scared me haha I thought there was actually a typo or something! -Sam

mikethemotormouth

Next go round, A Scanner Darkly(2006). Keanu, Winona, RDJ, Woody and a very unique art style.

Toc

100% agreed.

Warren H

Oh wow—I hit “The Right Stuff” thinking it wouldn’t win—-fingers crossed it stays up there!

Tyler Foster

I would apologize...but I may have been joking like that on purpose... ;)

Backlog Andy M.

Oh The Right Stuff (1983) i grew up with that film. My parents loved it!

L Mazz

Oh wow, I never thought I'd see Watership Down on a poll. This film was repeated shown on tv in the UK in the 80's. A lot of young children (like me) watched it, cause it kinda seemed like it was a film for children. LOL. So many great movies on this poll though. Difficult choice.

Stephanie

It's a shame that The Horse Whisperer doesn't get so many votes. It's a great movie. It's the first movie whose soundtrack caught my attention and that made me pay attention to the music of other movies. Thomas Newman also became kne of my favourite composers because of this movie.🙂

Duncan

Absolute classic 🐰🐰🐰

Stephanie

Watership Down is a fantastic movie, although it wrecked me as a child. It left quite an impression. 😅

Max Rinaldi

Oh, boy, I'm unable to decide in this poll too, after the one of 80s.

PIG

Pet Semetary being able to survive this poll is both rewarding and hopeful. One of my favorites of that time!

Paul Cox

Not really any bad choices here (Liberty Valance has been my spin wheel submission many, many times), but I'm probably most invested in The Right Stuff because I grew up in a NASA family and this movie was treated like a sacred text in our house. It was only when I became an adult I learned it was a box office flop.

Indy Traveler

The World According to Garp written by John Irving ... Robin Williams, John Lithgow, Glenn Close ... how could it miss it be bad?

ChopSockey

Out of Sight!!!!!!!!! This is one that you two will enjoy so much. Such a slick thriller and so many great actors and performances. Tense, clever, great characters and funny as well

Paul Cox

It's not out of the realm of possibility (in fact it seems likely at this early stage) we could get a Gene Hackman twofer with Mississippi Burning and The Firm. I wouldn't be mad about it. ☺️

PIG

Never heard of it. I'll have to check it out!

Paul Cox

It's about NASA putting together the Mercury program in the early 60s and the first several flights before the Apollo program started aiming for the moon.

John Fitzpatrick

In my opinion, The Right Stuff is the best film of the 80's. I'm still mad it lost to Terms of Endearment.

Eric

Both my picks as well. Great performances and movies!

Smooticus

Wow this is a tough one. Almost too many choices and all good

dieselbeast

It probably won't win, but keep this years Frankenstein in mind, maybe you can get to it sometime next year, it's definitely Oscar worthy in my humblest of opinion lol modern day masterpiece!

David Wilkins

Great category, and it’s loaded. I would be happy with about half of them.

Tyler Foster

It's kind of shocking how little pull this movie seems to have with people. It's great. The Ocean's trilogy is so well-liked and yet this earlier collaboration between Clooney and Soderbergh gets no love. What a shame.

David Wilkins

Yeah, the same applies to several of them. We seem to be getting the effect of how streaming is now the only way people know about most movies. And often it’s not a matter of “availability”, but which available titles they want to “feature” and promote. Everything has changed.

Tyler Foster

I have been lucky enough to see it on two channels but one of them made it a Patreon exclusive and the other one (which I paid for as a request) chose not to release it at all, I think (not a complaint, up to them, just a statement of fact). Hopefully it catches the YouTube algorithm somewhere and becomes a more popular title for reactions.

Roy Wright

All the greats in this poll and Pet Semetary and The Firm are winning lol. Both good movies but man

David Wilkins

I was hoping that The Right Stuff would be in the lead, but that’s okay. Lots of good stuff here, and hopefully someday it will win a monthly drawing, along with Papillon and Wonderboys.

David R

The 2019 adaptation of Little Women isn't even the 6th-best adaptation of the at least 7 major motion picture adaptations, of which there is at least a record of since 1917, and of which copies of the first TWO, both 1917 and 1918, do not EXIST and can't even be VIEWED anymore. Pretty much the ONLY thing adapted from Tom Wolfe's EXTENSIVELY researched The Right Stuff by the 1983 film version is THE TITLE. I haven't actually watched the 2025 adaptation of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, but what I have seen of it is John Carpenter slasher horror movie style CRAP, which is why I have no interest in wasting my time watching it or anyone's "reaction". If I hadn't been so preoccupied over the last 3 weeks trying to find a new home for myself and trying to find a new home for my emotional support companion of three years, that age-related circumstances are forcing me to give up, I'd have recommended from what's left on your list: #! Dr Zhivago - the only other movies that I can immediately recall having seen the heavenly beautiful Miss Julie Christie appear in are the 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (IMHO Sir Kenneth Branagh should stick to the only thing he really good at, Shakeseare) and the David Heyman/Alfonso Cuarón film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. #2 Breakfast at Tiffany's - After Stanley Donen's Charade (1963 often referred to as the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock didn't actually make), ths is my second favorite Audrey Hepburn movie featuring Miss Hepburn singing the Henry Mancini Academy Award-winning Best Song Moon River, only to be ignominiously and disrespectfully insulted, and frankly DEFAMED, 3 years later by having ALL of her vocals OVERDUBBED for My Fair Lady. If there is, or has ever been, any doubt as to what an enormous ASS Jack L Warner was, nothing in his career illustrates it more than his PERSONAL decision to axe Julie Andrews from consideration to reprise in a film adaptation her Tony-winning role she originated on Broadway for the "established" film star Audrey Hepburn only to turn around then and PERSONALLY demand the VANDALIZATION of her musical performance by covering up her vocals with someone else's voice. When all was said and done, the ONLY good thing to come out of the Audrey Hepburn/Eliza Doolittle film debacle was Miss Julie Andrews being available to accept the consolation prize of appearing instead in the title role of Walt Disney's last truly magnificent film adaptation, which BTW is NOT on this list, before his untimely death 2 years later. #3 All About Eve - my favorite Bette Davis movie, with a house party scene in which the entire main cast is gathered on and around the stairway, and everyone in the scene is entirely outclassed, outshown and outperformed as actors by the performances of Miss Bette Davis, as she always did, and a very young and still new to film audiences actress, almost entirely in the background, with only a single line of dialogue (her second of only two in the entire Act and motion picture) Miss Marilyn Monroe. Whenever Bette Davis is on screen, everyone else in the scene fades out, but in this particular scene of this film, Marilyn Monroe, even as a background bit player, still irradiates the part of the scene around her.

David R

The Ocean's trilogy you refer to is a typical, very expensive, cheap 2000s knockoff that NO ONE involved in it had any business whatsoever thinking they had even half the "cool" of Sinatra, his Rat Pack pals, and Angie Dickinson. Same with the "Thomas Crown Affair" and "The Italian Job." There haven't been more than a half dozen movies made in "Hollywood" in the last 25 years that haven't been a sequel, a prequel, or a cheap knockoff featuring soft-core pornography or a hundred million dollars' worth of digital tricks intended to plaster over bad acting, bad directing, and bad writing. Even the LOTR and Harry Potter franchises are dismal disappointments because, for those of us WHO READ, unlike the other lazy, illiterate 90% of the movie-going public, we recognize that 70% of the material from the books has never made it onto film.