And now for something light

[rhu]

OK, let's get a good discussion going here. :-)

The other night, introverte and I were discussing film adapations of science fiction stories that originally appeared in print. We were unable to come up with a single example of a story that meets all these criteria:

• Science fiction (not fantasy) (excluding, for example, The Lord of the Rings and The Wizard of Oz)
• First appeared in print (excluding, for example, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
• Movie adaptation remains essentially faithful to the print story (excluding, for example, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, I, Robot, etc.)
• Both the original print story and the movie adaptation are generally accepted as great (excluding, for example, well, most others).

The closest I could come up with was Farenheit 451 but I'm not sure the movie really qualifies as great. But I figure that if there exists a true example, you, gentle readers, will let me know.

Comments

[crackboy.livejournal.com]

another coming from mabfan...

What do you mean by 'great'? I think all of these movies are great, and I'm sure you'll find hoards who think their print sources were great, too. They're not Oscar-worthy (well, except for SFX or something), but they were enjoyable. I can't comment on whether the stories are particularly faithful to the story, though. I'm sure there's some source, somewhere.

Spider-man
Spider-man 2
X-men
X-men 2

Sin City isn't SF, but it's extremely faithful to the original stories, down to the same inner monologues by the characters, and both the graphic novels and the movie are awesome.

If anyone would get around to adapting some Neal Stephenson, those would qualify, too...