If I didn't know better ...

[spritelyone]

... I'd say that the person who adapted The Three Musketeers to the silver screen (for Disney, mind you) never even read the book. I'm about a third of the way through it, and it bears no resemblance to it other than that there are a Cardinal and a King; three musketeers of the names Porthos, Athos, and Aramis; and one aspiring guard named D'

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[summergrey]

The most memorable thing about the Disney Three Musketeers movie is watching an absolutely -miserable- Kiefer Sutherland before he got his career turned around...you feel positively awful for the guy.

And I'm reminded of Bob's old quote about the film adaptation of The Bourne Identity - Saying that the movie version of the Bourne Identity is "based on" the book is like saying that the Biblical book of Numbers is "based on" the phone book.

[spritelyone]

That's another good example. The movies of the Bourne books bear very little resemblance either. Maybe Hollywood can't read.

And I like the Disney version, actually. *laughs* It's pretty fun for what it is. It's the lack of faithfulness that I find interesting.

[bbendick]

I thought "I, Robot" did a very good job of capturing the essence of the novels. It didn't really follow the book plot wise, though. It was still a good movie though.