Films Better Than The Books

[Judge Dredd]

I find it interesting that so many people prefer the Jurassic Park movie to the book.

Because Crichton's script for the movie was closer to his first pitch of the book.

He wanted the book to be more kid friendly and the editors wanted it darker with each draft.

For me it is childhood nostalgia thing one the first big movies I saw in the theater and loved it. The book however was also very good, but cannot top the movie in my book. Now the Lost World was a much better book then a movie.

[Tee]

Nanny McPhee
The Lovely Bones
The Princess Bride (although they are both great)

These are really a tie for me:
Life of Pi
The Color Purple

I agree with most others, except for Watchmen. The book was miles and away better than the movie.

[Joker]

It's a close call, but I believe The Revenant was more compelling as a film than the book.

It's a visual feast, but also highly sensationalized, and fictionalized.

[Mia]

First three Bourne movies were better than the first couple of books, IMO.

Oh definitely. I was disappointed when I picked up the first novel and saw it was nothing like the film

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

It's a visual feast, but also highly sensationalized, and fictionalized.

Author Michael Punke was inspired to write the novel after reading about Hugh Glass' encounter with a grizzly bear. The film's source material stuck pretty close to the historical accounts and records of Glass' odyssey. Fitzgerald's death, however, was fictionalized. The technical aspects of fur trapping, hunting, and wilderness survival were quite accurate.

[Joker]

Eh, there's a lot that didn't happen. I'd have to re read the details but it's a pretty heavily factionalized retelling of the events.

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

Eh, there's a lot that didn't happen. I'd have to re read the details but it's a pretty heavily factionalized retelling of the events.

LOL Well, hell, Joker. It ain't no documentary.

[Panic]

Fight Club

The Ipcress File (not actually read the book, just listened to a radio adaptation, but I like the film's story so much more)

[Iron_Legion87]

Strongly disagree. Book was way better and much detailed. The movie completely butchered the ending.

The Shawshank Redemption is better than Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Which is amazing considering RHatSR is already great.

Do comic books count? If so, Wanted movie was way way better than the comic.

I never got around to finishing the Harry Potter books to this day, stop reading them right after Goblet of Fire. I always meant to get back into them but always got sidetracked by comics and other stuff growing up. I ended up just waiting for the movies to release ha. But I did read a good chunk of the final book and I do feel it was better than the movie. Deathly Hallows part 1 just felt like filler and the major plot points could have been covered in like 30-40 mins or so instead of being dragged out for 2 hours and a half. I wanted to see more of the battle of Hogwarts in Part 2 but it was quickly glanced over.

[GOLGO 13]

The Crow
I honestly don't care what O'Barr was selling in the book. Visually it was unique. The Brandon Lee movie was more memorable than the book.

Silence of the Lamb
Saw the movie first then read the book...shouldn't have bothered.

Ghost World
Book was edgier but no Seymour? Buscemi's Seymour was brilliantly played & he stole that movie. Cool little movie.

[The Question]

Deliverance the movie was better than the novel.

[AndrewCrossett]

Ghost World
Book was edgier but no Seymour? Buscemi's Seymour was brilliantly played & he stole that movie. Cool little movie.

Seymour was a composite character meant to fulfill the structural needs of the film format... like Bert in the Mary Poppins movie.

I love the Ghost World graphic novel, and agree with those who call it Gen X's Catcher in the Rye.

[Hiromi]

Annihilation was light years better than the books it was(loosely) based on

[TheInvisibleMan]

'The Hunt For Red October' is an amazing book

the film cuts some of the fat and is a tight thriller

[JBatmanFan05]

The film No Country For Old Men was better than the book.

Never read the book, but I'd bet I end up agreeing.

I wonder what Trainspotting book readers think: book or movie?

I love the movie to death. Never read the book.