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David Kern
Mar 20, 2023
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Well, we’re down to eight adaptations. Someone left a comment saying that this bracket might be where we have jumped the shark as a group and I think it may be true. But other than two rather significant surprises (looking at you Prisoner of Azkaban and My Fair Lady) six of the final eight entries make a lot of sense, as you can see here:

So what happens next? Which adaptations will be in the final four? That’s up to you! Get to it . . .


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Eliminated in previous rounds: Emma (2020); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; West Side Story (1961); Twelve Years a Slave; Wuthering Heights (2011); Clueless; The 39 Steps; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979); Emma (1996); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Hamlet (1990); Dr. Zhivago (1995); Atonement; A River Runs through It; Anna Karenina (2012); Romeo + Juliet; A Passage to India (1984); Children of Men; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Casino Royale (2006); Master and Commander; The Color Purple; War and Peace (2016); Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011); Les Mis (2012); The Shining; Strangers on a Train; Apocalypse Now; Rebecca (1940); Bridget Jones’s Diary; Babe; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Hunt for Red October; Emma (2009); The Great Gatsby (2010); The Count of Monte Cristo (2002); Charlottes Web (1973); Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1973); Les Mis (2018); Jane Eyre (2011); Little Women (1994), The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh; True Grit (2010); The Godfather; Princess Bride; No Country for Old Men; Watershed Down; The Big Sleep; Lonesome Dove miniseries; Ben Her; Jurassic Park; Roots; Pride and Prejudice (2005); Remains of the Day; Wizard of Oz; Henry V (1989); Sense and Sensibility (1993); Gone with the Wind; Brideshead Revisited (1981); The Lion King (1994); Dune (2020); A Muppet’s Christmas Carol; All Creatures Great and Small (2020); Mary Poppins (1964).

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Christy Isinger
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Mar 21Liked by David Kern

The therapy I need because of this bracket!!

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Sam Patet
Mar 21

Not fair to pit "To Kill a Mockingbird" against "TLOTR." Despite the latter probably being my favorite movie (along with the other two in the series), I voted for "Mockingbird." So good!

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