Are there any movies that you like better than the book? The only one I can think of is Princess Bride.
Are there any movies that you like better than the book? The only one I can think of is Princess Bride.
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Forrest Gump
The notebook.
Nerve
Prince of Tides
I have several: Jaws, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, House of Sand and Fog, Cloud Atlas…
I agree with Jaws. Haven’t read the other books.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Penelope
I didn’t know Penelope was a book.
I have it ?
Rob Roy
Definitely The Princess Bride. I also like the Maze Runner movies better than the books.
Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption
I like ‘The Joy Luck Club’ movie better than the book. But the book explained a couple of things that the movie didn’t
Stardust
Green Mile was pretty equal imo
Stardust
Winter’s Tale, Woman in Black.
Legally Blonde
Harry potter
Fight Club
I liked Emma better as a movie. In the book she was wholly unlikeable, in the movie she had a bit more humanity.
I still haven’t finished Emma. I keep getting stuck around page 40.
Which Emma- the bbc version or the one with gwenyth Paltrow (or either)?
maze runner
Gone Girl and The Fault in Our Stars. I loved the movies. Liked TFiOS as a book. Gone Girl book was just.. meeeh for me
Beaches
Stand By Me
Eat love pray
My sister’s keeper
Forrest Gump
The book thief!
The boy in striped Pajamas
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Freaky Friday
Princess diaries (though maybe only because I saw the movie first)
Sometimes I wonder the same thing!
Pretty little liars.
Great Gatsby
Coraline
Pride and Prejudice
TFIOS and Warm Bodies
Practical Magic
Same
I loved the original Anne of Green Gables movies and find I can’t get into the books as much.
Cloud Atlas
Not a movie, but 13 reasons why
Princess Diaries, hands down
Strangers in a Train
Practical Magic
Princess Diaries, The Godfather
The Handmaids Tale. Well, the series.
Jaws
The End of the F*****g World. series 5/5. book 2/5.
I almost always prefer the book to the movie but not “The English Patient”!
The perks of being a wallflower
TV show, but, Man In The High Castle
Death Comes to Pemberly by P. D. James.
If I Stay, Brooklyn, and The Lucky One
Pride and prejudice and zombies
Slumdog Millionaire
Atonement
Bridget Jones.
I think, I like the book and the tv series, Game of Thrones
Room
The Count of Monte Cristo for me!
Alice in wonderland
Cold Mountain, The Lovely Bones
Yes definitely Princess Bride and A Walk to Remember
Coraline
Big Fish!
The Boy In The Stripped Pajamas. Pretty Little Liars (sorta). The Magicians. Bridge to Terrabithia. Perks of Being a Wallflower (from what I can remember of the movie). The Lovely Bones. Others I can’t remember.
The Jane Austen Book Club
Practical magic
The Great Gatsby, Philomena,
How to Train Your Dragon
We named our cat after Toothless
Children of men