Another day, another meme. This time I was tagged by Rob Bedford. This time around it’s Science Fiction Movied Based on a Novel.
Here are the rules (which I’ve changed a bit to make it more interesting).
Copy the list below.
Mark in bold the movie titles for which you read the book.
Italicize the that you’ve watched.
Tag 5 people to perpetuate the meme. (You may of course play along anyway.)
1. Jurassic Park
2. War of the Worlds
3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
4. I, Robot
5. Contact
6. Congo
7. Cocoon
8. The Stepford Wives
9. The Time Machine
10. Starship Troopers
11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
12. K-PAX13. 2010
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
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. Nightflyers
47. Watchers
48. Body Snatchers
Tagged:
John Scalzi (Hey, a man can dream, right?)
The Book Smugglers
Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic
Shawn Speakman at Suvudu
Mark Newton
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Dude, I had no idea the Stepford Wives has a novel to inspire the movie and to tell it’s not a bad movie. I think I have a very long list of movies to watch! ;) Great meme!
Tell me about it. I didn’t know half these movies (mostly the bad ones) were books first!
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Whenever I see a mediocre movie that I hear is a book as well, I’m always convinced that the book’ll be better and that I should read it so that my only experience of that story isn’t the movie. I’m not going to lie, this has led me to read more than a few mediocre books.