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- TazarYoot, on 11/30/2007, -5/+38Dugg for really telling us how hippies were created.
- benmakesmovies, on 11/30/2007, -0/+30Wow... a "You Didn't Know" list where I actually didn't know!
- Asianwaste, on 11/30/2007, -0/+23Genius!
- plizard, on 11/30/2007, -0/+21Hey, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter were based on books.
- Asianwaste, on 11/30/2007, -2/+22Almost everyone knew those were books just like the first few Bond movies.
I'm waiting for the first genius to point out that Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter were based on books. - PecanHead, on 11/30/2007, -0/+14O "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", Where Art Thou?
- saltywings, on 11/30/2007, -2/+16Also, Kurt Russell.
- Asdfglpwglion, on 11/30/2007, -1/+14Dugg for Die Hard starring Frank Sinatra...
- merr, on 11/30/2007, -1/+13I went to the page expecting to know at least a couple, but I didn't have a damn clue about any of them. Interesting info...
- Mjuboy, on 11/30/2007, -3/+14Dugg for Die Hard.
- NSMike, on 11/30/2007, -2/+13A Cracked.com article that is only one page!?
Day is night!
Up is down!
Dry is wet!
Dogs and cats, living together! - kmedlin, on 11/30/2007, -1/+11I thought everyone knew that I, Robot was based on a book. These are movies that people probably DIDN'T know where based on a book.
- ShugNinx21, on 11/30/2007, -0/+10Totally accurate as First Blood is a kick-ass movie. The other Rambo movies, well...
- TheUngod, on 11/30/2007, -0/+8The author of this list didn't seem to realize Dr. Strangelove wasn't meant to be a comedy at first. Kubrick had to change it into a comedy because he couldn't escape the somewhat ridiculous nature of the concept.
- plizard, on 11/30/2007, -0/+8yay for dr. strangelove
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9Everyone knows it was a book.
- Farceur318, on 11/30/2007, -0/+8Haha, I'm guessing you've never seen Rambo, and are basing your judgment on your hatred of dumb jocks and other people with muscles.
- MasonStormchild, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7Did you just call someone stupid for not reading a Die Hard book?
Seriously? - gn0stik, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6FTA: ""See that? It lives in the Arctic. If you keep driving your SUV, that thing is going to thaw. And, it's going to be pissed." Of course, the Nobel Prize Committee probably wouldn't go for that."
-Classic
On a side note, I noticed there was no Blade Runner / I Dream of Electric Sheep in there. Too well known? - gn0stik, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6The Odyssey - Homer.
good call. - AshamedAmerican, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5Strange how in the Die Hard book description it doesn't mention how it's damn good except for the ending which is down right damn depressing and John McClane is actually older (in his 50s) and he's trying to save his daughter, not his wife. This is also helped make Live Free or Die Hard kick even more ass!
- shredswithpiks, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5actually I bet most people don't know it's a book. most people on digg know it's a book, maybe...
- Gir53457, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5The poem itself is epic, not some thirty second beatnik jerk-off.
- Asianwaste, on 11/30/2007, -1/+6I Robot was very very loosely based on the short story.
I have not seen Beowulf yet, but I can safely assume 90% of the movie isn't in the poem. - Devan612, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5Glad I saw Roger Rabbit as a kid.
I don't think a book would have had the same impact on me.....oh, and the stabbing scene in Psycho. - inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4When I saw Sylvester Stallone, I thought Demolition Man would be on the list. Oh well.
- gn0stik, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4OH OH OH, I got one!!!
I am legend has been made into a movie 4 times from the book of the same name!!! - Coven, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4and everybody knows it was a book. its Heinlein for *****'s sake!
- Mongo1, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4Fun fact:
"Who Goes There", which was the inspiration for The Thing, has been the basis for two feature-length movies, at least two comic book series, a video game and there is now another movie being made based on the story. Not bad for a novella written in 1938! - consoneo, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4Yeah, same here... I only knew one, and that's Rambo because I managed to stumble upon the writer while I was at Fort Sam Houston. He was doing a book signing, so I purchased his book "Creepers" and he signed it "Best wishes from Rambo's father!" Which I thought was pretty neat :)
- gn0stik, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4Pffft. McClane would crawl through some hidden ducts in a building and dump acid on him. He'd rig up some kind of trap that would pile-drive him out of a window or something. It would be a good fight.
I think it should be Terminator vs. Robocop vs. Alien vs. Die Hard vs. Predator vs. Conan vs. Neo vs. Peter from heroes...
LLLLLLLLLLLllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllet's get rrrrrrrrrrrrrrready to rummmmble!!!! - barristerb, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4It's movies you didn't know were based on books. That makes it kind of hard to argue with the list.
- MarrowMan, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4No they didn't, it's a book, but the movie/acting sucked donkey balls
- SSCrow, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3I did,
But I don't consider that movie to kick ass. - heaintheavy, on 11/30/2007, -1/+4From the article: "Can you imagine a dry, mirthless and completely joke-free Strangelove?"
Yeah, I can, it is called Fail Safe.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/
Also, The Thing is a remake of 1951's The Thing from Another World. - NeoSporin, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Which in turn remind me of the ramones.
you know, the band the misfits blatantly ripped off - Gir53457, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Also in only slightly relevant context, Frank Sinatra was also supposed to play Dirty Harry.
- thePoopSmith, on 11/30/2007, -1/+4I actually like the "Planet of the Apes" book.
Although, I gotta say, I thought everyone knew that was a book first. - Trax91, on 11/30/2007, -2/+5Damn, I didn't know nearly all of 'em.
- johnnyz4282, on 12/01/2007, -0/+3They made you read those books? We read Huck Finn, not Monkey Planet.
- Tippis, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Weeell...
If there's ever a list of "Most known, but unexplicable, name changes from script to screen", Blade Runner would probably be on it... so yes. - cmdrNacho, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3it is possible at one point in time, hollywood actually had original ideas.. as hard as it is to believe
- Chicken2nite, on 12/01/2007, -0/+3Apparently Dr. Strangelove is more historically accurate than Fail Safe, which isn't hard to imagine considering the plot contrivances in that movie, such as the bomber pilot opening communications to talk to his wife over Soviet airspace, as well as the decision made by the POTUS to stave off complete nuclear Armageddon.
- hwy61, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3The link to "Who Goes There" full text has been shut off by yahoo, but available here :
http://web.archive.org/web/20001014033556/www.geoc ...
Thanks way-back machine. - bjs3171, on 11/30/2007, -1/+4oh ***** man, they seriously need to make "Die Hard vs. RoboCop". It would surely be better than "Alien vs Predator"
- blemm, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Hey, so the girl doesn't like Rambo, give her a break.
- Coven, on 11/30/2007, -1/+3It's "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
- phazon88, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2This is a list of "Kick-Ass Movies".
- edrift101, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2Those David Morrell books are actually pretty good. The Fifth Profession is still one of my favorites.
- Kiram, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2Except that it kinda gives this fact away in the opening credits of the film. I mean, most people probably forgot about it, but it's hard to justify, ya know?
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