From best to worst:
Waitress
Eastern Promises
Casino Royale
Mrs. Brown
Michael Collins
La Vie en Rose
Garden State
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
The Lavender Hill Mob
Bride and Prejudice
Capote
Little Children
The Door in the Floor
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Lawrence of Arabia
To Kill a Mockingbird
Funny Face
Little Miss Sunshine
Jules and Jim
L’ultimo Bacio
Jamaica Inn
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Imitation of Life (1959)
Imitation of Life (1934)
And didn’t finish:
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
The Squid and the Whale
Wonderland
Blue Crush
To Kill a Mockingbird was the 16th best movie you saw in 2007? Really? The 16th? How can that be? I mean, I’m not a huge fan of the young actor who played the Scout and Jem’s friend, but other than that, I find the film pretty darned good. ???
I imagine maybe the book conveys the point of view of the child better than the movie did for me. As it was, the movie seemed more like a sort of omniscient view that focussed too much on the white kids and not nearly enough on the life and death struggle of poor Tom Robinson. For me Robinson emerged as much more of an object of the movie rather than a subject. Like whatever lesson Scout learns about life or whatever is more important than the man’s very life itself.
Like I said, I imagine that the book does (or could do) a better job of making us understand that Scout is trying to even just figure out what’s going on. I don’t know. I haven’t read the book. But I think of it as a point of view thing, something maybe a book can do better than a movie.