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Live poll: Film Adaptations - The Second Round
List page: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls568253554/?ref_=m_ur
the poll page: https://www.imdb.com/poll/zZYDASXtskg/
The question is “Which film is as great or good as the classic source they are adapted from?”
Reviving a great idea for a poll by Nastasia that was started as Film Adaptations - The Second Round , but never completed and left it inactive since 2016 and at only 23 selections. Her description is “This list includes great film adaptations that just weren't lucky enough to get the place in The first list., because there are so many good movies made from the books and the criteria were a bit harsh. Here we can lower our standards a bit - overall rating of the movie may go down to the number 7, but no less, please!”
I’ll fill up the rest because I have a good library of unabridged classic hardcover books by Reader’s Digest, paperback books I bought on my own, and finally classic literature that I know about but don’t have a copy of.
To discuss this list, go to this library, and keep your voice down.



dgranger
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Nastasia, if you are still out there. I hope you are not mad. Did I do this right? Did I do you justice? Did I pick good films. I was going for the type of classic literature that schools would require reading in English class while reserving really good ones for round 3 and 4. And it will include epic proms and classics plays. Did you ever have a high school English class or college English literature class that didn’t include a reading of watching a Shakespeare play? I’ll include Voltaire, Ibsen, checkov (?), and Homer too
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Tsarstepan
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3 years ago
You're making an assumption that people will follow the white rabbit to the older suggestion and its predecessor poll.
Please...
1. Write out a/the question.
2. Add some necessary spacing between paragraphs.
3. Turn that ugly straight up link into a text link.
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Jessica
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3 years ago
It's great that you credit the original author, but I think you can shorten the title to Film Adaptations - The Second Round since you mention Nastasia in the intro text (it's also inaccurate since the list was a suggestion and not a live poll).
Maybe you can also move the question further down to make it more visible (plus a correction in bold, and you can replace the link to the "first list" with the live poll):
Reviving a great idea for a poll by Nastasia that was started as Film Adaptations - The Second Round , but never completed and left inactive since 2016 and at only 23 selections. Her description is “This list includes great film adaptations that just weren't lucky enough to get the place in the first list, because there are so many good movies made from the books and the criteria were a bit harsh. Here we can lower our standards a bit - overall rating of the movie may go down to the number 7, but no less, please!”
The question is “Which film is as great or good as the classic source they are adapted from?”
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Jessica
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Live Poll
https://www.imdb.com/poll/zZYDASXtskg/
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riverotter
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3 years ago
All Quiet on the Western Front (2023) only had the title and character names in common with the novel.
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