I almost always hate movies that are adapted from books, because, let's face it, it's generally a very very shallwesay creative interpretation of what the book is. Fidelity to the book is important for me in a film adaptation, at least as much as is required for the feel of the book to be kept intact. Interestingly, both my choices are animated. Coraline by Neil Gaiman is one of the creepiest children's stories I've read and the film, with its surreal stop-motion 3d animation just takes the creepiness a notch higher. Brilliantly complements the book. As with Persepolis, adapted from Marjane Satrapi's novel of the same name, which sticks as closely as possible to the book's original starkness.
P.S. Another movie I was overall satisfied with after reading the book was Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. Like the book, the movie is er... luscious, for want of a better word.
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Coraline was awesome. So creepy.
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