Look at the time, it's Angry O'Clock

GUYS. Let's make a list of movie adaptations that are as good as or better than their source.

I WILL BEGIN.
Better than: Bladerunner, Kiss Me Deadly, The Godfather pts 1 & 2
As good as: Night and the City (The plot may be mangled, but Dassin translates Kersh's poetic griminess perfectly. Also Richard Widmark's face.)

(I still want a movie of Prelude to a Certain Midnight sooo baaad but idk the likelihood of a movie with a deeply flawed, old-school-bamf, middle-aged single woman as protagonist.)

I'd list 2001 but I haven't read the story it's based on. Hmm.


C'mon help me out here. Every time someone cries online about how Hollywood should stop adapting novels, the sound of my teeth grinding is audible from the moon.