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Based on the Book

This category is for those movies which have been adapted from works of fiction or traditional stories from myth or legend.

21st Century Take on Grendel star
Gunnarsson's Beowulf and Grendel isn't your English teacher's Beowulf, but it's entertaining cinema and a heck of a lot better than the Zemeckis film.

3:10 to Yuma (2007) star
If there were an award for Most Over-rated, I'd say that 3:10 to Yuma would be the most deserving winner.

Atonement (2007) star
Atonement, based on a novel by Ian McEwan, got a lot of attention at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremonies. Maybe the book is better.

Beowulf and the Elephant star
Nobody expects a movie-maker to reproduce a book on film, but some do a better job than others. Considering the extreme alterations to the source material, Zemeckis would have done better to change the characters' names and the title of the story to something else entirely.

Cocteau's Fairy Tale Masterpiece star
Filmed under the most trying conditions, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946) is movie-making at its magical best.

Great Film for An Election Year star
This film featuring Andy Griffith in the part of a bad man didn't receive the attention it deserved in 1957. It remains a powerful movie, throwing light on ways in which a wealthy elite shapes American politics by manipulating a gullible public.

Jason and the Titans star
Both Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Clash of the Titans (1981) are entertaining films, but Titans is more satisfying overall.

No Country for Old Men (2007) star
In a medieval morality play, Chigurh would be called Death. The Sheriff might be Moral Rectitude or Religion. Llewelyn would be Everyman.

Sophie's Choice Not My Choice star
Both Sophie's Choice and Schindler's List depict scenes of the Nazi Holocaust. Schindler's List, however, is a great film, while Sophie's Choice is an unpleasant experience, start to finish.

The Da Vinci Code (2006) star
Ron Howard does the best he can with a book that relies on word puzzles and the thoughts of the characters to advance the plot. One can only wonder what all the fuss was about.

The Non-Movie Beowulf star
The sweeping changes Zemeckis and his screenwriters have made in the storyline of Beowulf transform a Germanic hero into a 21st century lying thug. Here's what "really" happened.

There Will Be Blood (2007) star
This movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis received eleven Academy Award nominations, despite the fact that it's missing a coherent story and has no characters a viewer can identify with.

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