movies inspired by books

Romeo + Juliet – (1996 movie)

2007-06-23

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/
romeoandjuliet.com

to be re-watched

Based on Romeo and Juliet – (1597 play), by Shakespeare

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Onegin – (1999 movie)

2007-02-10

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119079/

to be re-watched

It’s a movie about Russian people who have English accents. Waut, it’s a movie about Russian people who have English accents AND how hot Liv Tyler is. Cool.

Note that this is an unhappy story.

based on Eugene Onegin – (1833 book), by Alexander Pushkin

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The Manchurian Candidate – (1962 movie)

2007-01-17

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The Manchurian Candidate - (1962 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/

to be re-watched, probably

Inspired by The Manchurian Candidate – (1959 book), by Richard Condon

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Robin Hood – Prince of Thieves – (1991 movie)

2007-01-15

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Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves - (1991 movie)

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/

Notes to be added when this is re-watched.

Inspired by The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – (1883 book), by Howard Pyle

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Interview with the Vampire – (1994 movie)

2007-01-11

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/
product page, archive

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aka Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
trailers, archive 1
trailers, archive 2

The Shawshank Redemption – (1994 movie)

2006-12-24

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The Shawshank Redemption - (1994 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/

to re-watch

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338526/
was vanhelsing.net

An unaged man without a memory is sent by a secret multifaith order of monster hunters as the last hope of a lineage doomed to purgatory unless they slay the lord of all vampires.

Not a great or bad movie, but still good enough to be worth watching. It’s mostly interesting because of its main character, and the rest of it is piecemeal and without particular substance.

I think this movie was my initial introduction to Kate Beckinsale, and it turns out she’s a lot hotter in my memory than in this actual movie. Maybe she was better-presented in the next movies of hers that I saw after this.

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