The book is always better than the movie, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But some films get things mostly right and are actually watchable, regardless of whether or not you’ve read the source material. This week we discuss 3 random examples of a Good Adaptation: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. All are fine novels in their own right, and each of the films adapted from them manage to work cinematically without sacrificing what originally made the books so engaging in the first place. At the very least, the filmmakers didn’t screw anything up and they transitioned the properties well from page to screen. Which is all we really ask when we are too lazy to read the damn book, anyway.

| 0:00 - Intros

| 2:50 - Star Trek: Picard (2020)

| 4:48 - Top Gun: Maverick (2020)

| 8:05 - The End Of The Fucking World (2018)

| 10:07 - Star Trek: Discovery (SPOILERS for Season 1)

| 15:00 - Apollo 11 (2019)

| 21:29 - The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

| 24:00 - Good Adaptations

| 26:48 - Trainspotting (1996)

| 41:00 - The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

| 49:35 - Ready Player One (2018)

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| Tears For Fears - Change

| Star Trek: Picard - SDCC 2019 Trailer

| Cats (2019) Official Trailer

| Top Gun: Maverick - Official Trailer (2020)

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| Buzzcocks - Why Can’t I Touch It?

| Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack)

| Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam

| Matt Morton - Liftoff and Staging - Apollo 11 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Jazz Collective - Feeling Good

| Trailer for Three Men and a Little Lady

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

| Howard Shore & Munich Symphony - Main Title - The Silence Of The Lambs (Original Motion Picture Score)

| Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses

| Alan Silvestri - Ready Player One (End Credits) - Ready Player One (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| David Bowie - Changes