Movies that were better than the Books

[Leedo2502]

Saying that movies are better than books is like saying that watching highlights of a football game is better than watching the game itself.

Sometimes the Highlights are better than the football game, Superbowl XXXV for instance. While it was fun watching Ray Lewis dominate the Giants and make them his bitch It got boring after the first quarter and I jsut kept watching for the commercials and went to the bathroom during the game.

And just like some (not all) movies are better than the books, Some football games can be summed up with lack-luster QB preformance on a highlight reel.

[Leedo2502]

Comes to Books subforums, says movies are better.

Just some

[Osiris]

Just some

I should punch you in the nutballs for that.

[Leedo2502]

I should punch you in the nutballs for that.

There are quicker ways to end up in the ER

[Osiris]

There are quicker ways to end up in the ER

[Vlarken]

Just some

Just none.

[Leedo2502]

Just none.

Ones that haven't been mentioned, Jaws and The Godfather.... just off the top of my head.

I love to read but it's crazy to assume that the best media for telling a story is always going to be a book.

And the novelty of this thread is to show those rare examples of the movie being better than the book.

Any John Grisham movie. (mainly because he should have written scripts instead of novels)

[Hellbringer]

Ones that haven't been mentioned, Jaws and The Godfather.... just off the top of my head.

I love to read but it's crazy to assume that the best media for telling a story is always going to be a book.

And the novelty of this thread is to show those rare examples of the movie being better than the book.

Any John Grisham movie. (mainly because he should have written scripts instead of novels)

From a money perspective, most movies are better than books. That's monetarily speaking. Again, I got back to Forrest Gump as a prime example. That movie made over 667,000,000 million dollars worldwide. I seriously doubt the book was better in generating that kind of revenue. On amazon, the book price is comparable to the dvd and blu-ray, but that will never help the book be better than the money-making machine that is the movie. Again, all this from a financial point of view.

The same goes for Leedo's examples of Jaws and The Godfather.

[Chuckingdice]

Psycho....Robert Bloch was a great writer, but the film had it all over the book. Also Norman Bates was completely different from the book. I think Anthony Perkins was more unassuming and eventually creepier. The book however is much more gorier.