Ever seen a movie that was better than the book?

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Shazbot 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 2882	The only one that comes to mind right away is The Ninth Gate. Polanski took a lot of liberties but the story was more provocative than the book it is based on, The Club Dumas.

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Dyzfunk7ional 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 3942	I took as "hobby" a few years ago to read a book (if i like it of course) before been adapted on screen. Since then I haven't seen a movie better than the book. I think there are some factors to be consider for this reason. Literature is subjective (specially fiction) so its difficult to delight everyone... Hollywood/film directors persistence in mainstream money-making audience stumping out the book's mood/tone... the difficult task to do a script based on a story/novel wich in most cases are quite lengthy. Also if you happen to be a big fan of the author/book is most likely you end up dissapointed as I have been with some books... I'm a big fan of C.L.Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)and no luck so far though there has been some good adaptations.

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LingLingo 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 67	Actually yeah, Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis) was way better than Fenimore Cooper's novel...Cooper just couldn't romanticize well...the film is much more emotional, engaging, thought provoking, better paced, and has better dialogue...and THAT SCORE!!!
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Riphard
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Gone with the Wind or The Wizard of Oz?
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Stickykeys09 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 290	Dyzfunk7ional wrote: I took as "hobby" a few years ago to read a book (if i like it of course) before been adapted on screen. Since then I haven't seen a movie better than the book. I think there are some factors to be consider for this reason. Literature is subjective (specially fiction) so its difficult to delight everyone... Hollywood/film directors persistence in mainstream money-making audience stumping out the book's mood/tone... the difficult task to do a script based on a story/novel wich in most cases are quite lengthy. Also if you happen to be a big fan of the author/book is most likely you end up dissapointed as I have been with some books... I'm a big fan of C.L.Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)and no luck so far though there has been some good adaptations. This is why so many movies today suck. There are alot of great scripts out there that get shred to pieces by producers because of the budget. The higher your budget, the less say you have in your film, thus all flash no substance.
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Dyzfunk7ional 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 3942	^ Exactly[!]... and sometimes even the scripts are already fucked up before the producer/director's intrution.

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Sense of Self
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I liked the Fear and loathing in Las Vegas movie better book same with Fight Club.
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Shazbot
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Another one i just thought of is JAWS. The book was slow and uninteresting compared to the movie.
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Echidna64
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Into the Wild- actually gets into the family dirt
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eastervideoguy
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Jurassic park the lost world book still rrocked though.
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tbondrage99 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 925	Only movies I cant think of that I liked more then the books are The Shawshank Redemption and A Clockwork Orange.
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Stickykeys09 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 290	Sense_of_Self wrote: I liked the Fear and loathing in Las Vegas movie better book same with Fight Club. Fail. lol
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DMoney89 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 2531 Account Disabled	vkimo wrote: DMoney89 wrote: vkimo wrote: Yep, Jurassic Park was better than the book. DUDE. The book was cool. But come on JURASSIC PARK. I'm sure Timbox will agree. All you gotta do is say the word "Dinosaur" and he starts whacking himself while making an 80-page long post about how awesome they are. He's biased. Sure the movie had it's cool moments here and there (like that intense kitchen scene with the raptors), but the book had more of them

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Shazbot
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Hammond dies at the hands of "compies", which don't even make an appearance in the movie.
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Riphard 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 1293	Gone with the Wind or The Wizard of Oz?

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Sense of Self 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 471 Account Disabled	I liked the Fear and loathing in Las Vegas movie better book same with Fight Club.

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Shazbot 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 2882	Another one i just thought of is JAWS. The book was slow and uninteresting compared to the movie.

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Echidna64 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 1368	Into the Wild- actually gets into the family dirt

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eastervideoguy 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 1096 Globally Banned	Jurassic park the lost world book still rrocked though.

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DMoney89 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 2531 Account Disabled	vkimo wrote: Yep, Jurassic Park was better than the book.

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Shazbot 4 years 10 months ago Posts: 2882	Hammond dies at the hands of "compies", which don't even make an appearance in the movie.

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