Name one (1) instance where the film was better than the book
Wanted (2008)
Fight Club
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Shining
>>221176892The Shawshank RedemptionGo home, OP
I haven't read it but I hear the Jaws book is DOGSHIT compared to the movie.
>>221176892A Clockwork Orange.
Army Dog.The film, although famously harrowing, gets the balance just right. In the book it gods WAY too far, like the scene when Rex gets his head blown clean off by the shrapnel but Big Spot just keeps on bumming his corpse until he shoots his load then argues to the horrified Fido that it doesn't count as necrophilia because Rex was alive when he started. Glad they never put that in the film, even if it did mean that there was less justifacation for that bit when Fido shoots Big Spot.
Never read it but I've heard the Jurassic Park novel is way shittier and more melodramatic than the movie
>>221177039ffs
>>221176892A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Conan the Barbarian literature was only a mere 9.5/10.The movie is a genuine 10/10.
Hairy Potter
The Godfather
Blade RunnerJurassic ParkThe Shining
>>221177039bad exampleIIRC the department of justice had to step in and basically tell producers "if you film these scenes, you will never release this film in america"
NCFOM
>>221176892Lord of the rings. Fucking insufferable.Never read it but apparently Forrest Gump is shit too.
>>221176892Jaws
did peps still read books ?w have AI now
>>221176892the martian and project hail mary because andy weir's writing is really cringe
>>221177104yeah the Forrest Gump novel is reportedly terrible, Forrest is morbidly obese and goes to space at some point
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>>221177115Yes. To some people the written word is more vivid in the mind than moving pictures. Who'd have thought.
>>221177128No.Great movie. Better book. The reason this movie is so much better than Edward Nortons Red Dragon is because its so much closer to the source material. If it had the budget to film the last arch and not end 30 minutes early it would have been on par with the book.
>>221176892edge of tomorrow
>>221176892Booktards are fucking insufferable when it comes to adaptations, it’s like they watch it looking for reasons to get madThey usually don’t even have a reason the book was better, they just bitch that some parts of a 400-page novel didn’t make it into a 2-hour movie
>Books
>>221176892I, ClaudiusStarship Troopers and Harrison Bergeron are great because they do their own thing with the source material but still feel connected to it but idk if they're strictly better movies.
>>221176892Jurassic ParkBram Stoker's DraculaCan't think of anything else
>>221176892>>221176892Storm of the century.Well, the book is literally a movie script so yeah. The shining mini serie is also cool, so is the movie. Most of Stephen King's adaptation are alright. The green mile, misery, cujo... except for those: The stand sucks, all of them the book is way above those adaptations. Dome too. And the one with the pets cemetery.
>>221176892Interview with the Vampire
why must I always be the one
>>221177039Thats not even the grimmest scene in the book. For me its the "raw dog food" scene that goes beyond the pale.
>>221176892The book ending of Stardust was very anticlimactic
Maximum Overdrive
Nobody even responds to each other's troll posts anymore. It's just a bunch of gosh darn YouTube comments--that's all the Internet is now.
Harry Potter unironically
>>221177408nobody here reads so how will they know that your pick is a troll?
>>221176892Fear and loafing in Las VegasFight clubJurassic park Clockwork orangeThe shining
seriously trad-redy in 2026?
>>221177395he was a baddie in the book , trad-read it several rotation ago.
>>221176892The shining
>>221176892exorcist
>>221176892Most of them because film is a better medium than books.
>>221176892fear and loathing
>>221177453>nobody here readsdo comics count as books?
>>221177183>>221177128Silence of the Lambs, however has a much better movie than book.
>>221177783Lol
>>221176892Rats of NIMH.Mr frisby is more pro active in the movie and alot more sexier
>>221176892Prizoner of Azkaban
>>221176892Jaws and Jurassic Park both immediately come to mind. They’re both miserable little airport novels that Spielberg elevated. Obviously a lot of King’s stuff too. The Mist has a better ending, the Shining is a flat out improvement and any sane individual would at least prefer that the Tim Curry version of IT removed the child orgy scene. I never watched the Zoomer remake but I’m sure it ditched that sick little passage too. Funnily enough, they’re all airport novels too. Miserable ones to boot, except you can’t call IT “little”. These kinds of books often make the best movies, because they have an attention grabbing through line, written in a clammy panic, but the director gets to discard the seething viewpoint of the misanthropic author and inject a sense of wonder, maybe make some of the characters more likeable, or at least understandable to any viewers who aren’t sociopaths. Crichton, in particular, never wrote a likeable character in his life.
>>221176892Anyone who reads actual literature, knows that LOTR movies are better than the books.
>>221177030Not Kubrick's fault, but they didn't adapt the real ending, so the book is better
>>221176892Don Camillo and Peppone (The Films of the 50´s,the newer ones ar shit)
>>221176931>>221176967These>>221177101I can't choose between the films or novels from old Corncob. Honestly it's worth reading and watching both.
>>221176892I'm going to just go ahead and say Twilight
>>221177453Sorry anon but the correct wording is you don´t read and you are projekting on the rest of us,...faggot
>>221177455You dident like the fear and loathing in las vegas book, i loved it (i also loved the film but the book had much more contend)
>>221179577Checked. That seems like a very low bar.
>>221176892For me it's Cloud Atlas, Blade Runner (even if the book is another story and it's good).
>>221179577seconding this.i've read some trash, but Twilight really was just a bad book. the film is at least cohesive.
>>221176892Pokemon 2000
>>221176892James Bond moviesThe ShiningPornoSpace Jam
>>221176892All of them, books are for faggots.
>>221177269whoever took that photo is twice as gay as the other hipster
>>221176892m*a*s*h
>>221176892Quite spectacular how almost none of the suggestions in the thread are correct. I wonder how many of them are bait? Some, I guess, but not nearly enough.Plenty of good-or-better movies come from not-great books. For example:— Kind Hearts and CoronetsComes from an obscure little book called Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal. The book is darker and more sour, a bit like a Victorian Room At The Top (ruthless outsider is determined to conquer high-class English society). The film made it lighter and funnier.— PsychoThis was a thriller by a guy called Robert Bloch, published in 1959. I think it was basically cashing in on the Ed Gein story. I had a look and it's not very good.— GoodfellasPileggi's book 'Wiseguy' is just the nuts and bolts of the story. It hasn't got any of the style & humour that makes the film great.— First BloodIt's a workmanlike thriller but no more. [In the book, Rambo dies. They originally filmed it like that but test audiences didn't like it. The change was correct.]It's rare for a good book to make an even better film. A few:— Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence of Arabia)— The Talented Mr. Ripley— The Assassination of Jesse James
The Godfather is a great example. One of the greatest films ever made, based on a a very mediocre novel.
Holes
>>221176892I am done pretending... reading a book fucking SUCKS so i guess... all of them
>>221176892Hunt for Red October
>>221176892All the Lord of the Rings films Shrek
>>221177423Fuck no
>>221178002>second worst movie is better than probably the best book‘no’
>>221183109Another mainstream example:— The Last Of The MohicansThe book is pretty boring. The film is almost perfect. (Only flaw really is they cut out too much of Alice's story, including one crucial scene with the guy she likes. That spoils her ending scene a bit.)
>>221177423>>221178002The closest the HP films came was Chamber of Secrets, only because it's the worst of the novels, and it still wasn't half as good as the book
>>221177395Didn't notice this when I posted.>>221180431>Blade Runner (even if the book is another story and it's good).Correct, although BR would be at least 1 point out of 10 worse without tears in rain.
>>221176892JawsJurassic Park
>>221177055what idiot told you that?
>>221183325The books are shitty stories for kids. Movies have amazing atmosphere, great practical effects and music.
>>221176892How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966).
>>221183380The movies were the same stories only with 90% of what made them good in the first place (the slice of life, schoolgoing elements) cut out to make time for the stupid main mystery plots
>>221183432Movies are more than just the story.
>>221183455The way Hogwarts and other settings (Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley) were described in the book were far more fun and whimisical than anything shown in the films. The only thing of worth the films added were the John Williams music, and I can just listen to that on my headphones without sitting through the shitty films.
>>221183380What is this cope downplaying the Harry Potter books? Shitty books do not become phenomenons. They do exactly what they need to.
>>221177055The novel is darker, and the characters are flatter and less interesting. It's definitely worth a read and Creighton's ideas about chaos theory are interesting, but ultimately I prefer the film.
>>221183526I generally prefer movies to books. I need my visual and auditory stimuli. The books are fine, but I'd rather rewatch the movies than reread the books.
>>221177066except for the nigger.YOUR OPINION?D R O P P E D !ROPPED!
>>221183639I’m not talking about it that, there’s this weird thing where very bitter people even before the her controversies tried to downplay the quality of the books. As if their success is just an accident.
>>221183231For me it's only Fellowship. Maybe not even the entire movie, but the second half. Jackson botched Two Towers and Return of the King.
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>>221183109I don't think people realize how many notable Hollywood movies are adapted from books, plays, and short stories. Usually the original works were pretty average or mediocre but had the characters and plot laid out so the screenwriters had most of the work done for them
>>221177039wow I remember the psyop of putting dogs and cats on VHS covers and parents would buy up 10~20 of them as a way of babysitting.
