My hubby read Big Little Lies…(I’ve reserved the audio at the library) We watched the Ep.1 and he’s pretty excited say’s the movie is following the book pretty well… Until I read it we have the show on hold…lol
True Blood..Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris. The show is good but unfortunately it has a lot of sex scenes (too much) I stopped watching it on Season 3…
@Carol I agree and disagree. It followed one plot thread very well. At the same time it totally ignored huge chunks of the book. I think that is understandable. The movie is long as it is and not all of it would fit in a movie of reasonable length.
I actually like the film version of The Martian better than the book. Which is not to say that I don’t like the book, because I do–very much. But I think the movie did a *great* job of bringing the story and characters to life, and tightening up the story in places.
Anne of Green Gables. The one with Megan Follows. I know it’s technically a mini series and parts are very different from the books, but I absolutely adore it.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Holes (the screenplay was written by the author, so that probably explains that one). Anne of Green Gables (the TV series).
A Cari-ari Polick Usually…i disagree. *Spoilers* In Twilight book 1 (LONG as heck): Bella worked at Mike’s (I think that’s his name) father’s workshop or whatever. Boring. I’m glad the movie left that out. Thank God. There was a few page scene where Bella and Alice chatted from Washington to Italy. In the movie that was left out. It was just a quick plane scene. A few other scenes. *Spoiler* At the end of the Divergent Allegiant book, Tris dies. In the movie, Tris lives. I don’t know about anyone else, but I like where the females live. *Spoiler* Me Before You. I might get some of this wrong since I haven’t seen or read this in a while, but in the book, the girl wanted to get assistance from a guy online on how to make her patient less boring or bored and give him activities. While in the movie, she had that male assistant friend. The movie took out the boring parts and made what would have been 4 hours or so into 3 hours. I know it’s not based on a book…I don’t think, but Star Wars Rogue 1 was 2 hours. I would have made it into 1.
I usually like the movies better than the books, but I like the book in this case. I like that the girl saved the kids in the book while in the movie the father saved the kids.
@Phylicia I agree the book was very very good. What I liked about the book was that it showed how she was stealing the money from her husband to escape.
I didn’t know Mary Poppins was based on a book. I don’t know if “Mary Poppins Returns” is a sequel of the original, but I am not watching it. I don’t like sequels. It can’t be a remake. The title wouldn’t make sense “returns.” AND remakes are worse than sequels. Have you seen the new Charmed? REMAKE. Booo!
@Phylicia Mary Poppins is based off the books by P L Travers.. the movie is a sequel to the original when the banks children are adults.. The movie saving mr banks is based on PL Travers life and the making of Mary Poppins. Well worth seeing. As for the Charmed reboot i gave it 3 episodes and it was terrible.
Right? I mean, the Charmed remake is just a modern-day version (texting and whatnot). They didn’t even make it like the original. The plot is different a little, how they summoned their mother, blah blah blah.
The book “Alias Madame Doubtfire” was HORRIBLE compared to Mrs. Doubtfire. *Spoiler* Abuse, sex, and other stuff. I know movies and books are usually opposite, but so not what I was expecting.
The hunger games was amazing
@Sonia loved the book and the movies.. they changed a bit too much though.
BirdBox
The Zookeeper’s Wife
The Help was good and so was You Before Me. I took my husband to see that one and even he cried. And the man sitting next to me offered me a kleenex!!
It is a real old one……To Kill a Mockingbird.
@Judith a Classic?
The Hate U Give
The Princess Bride
The color purple
The Help
Cider House Rules.
Light Between Oceans – I actually liked the movie more than the book! =)
The Bookshop.
Wonder
@Rachel my students and I loved both <3
Requiem for a dream
The help
Solo A Star Wars Story is a good movie if you`re into Star Wars movies based on their book series, that is.
The Book Thief
Very good film, but sorry the book is for me better, as in the book , oh can’t say cause of spoilers.
Dr. Zhivago. Both book and movie are amazing.
Room
Girl on the Train
Silver Linings Playbook
My husband says Lonesome Dove. I say Gone Girl.
Color purple and dumplin
The Help
The Zookeeper’s Wife
The Princess Bride is almost as good as the book, as is How to Train Your Dragon, although the plot is completely different.
Stand by me
My hubby read Big Little Lies…(I’ve reserved the audio at the library) We watched the Ep.1 and he’s pretty excited say’s the movie is following the book pretty well… Until I read it we have the show on hold…lol
Upto now I haven’t seen a movie that is as good as the book.
Me too
The Help
True Blood..Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris. The show is good but unfortunately it has a lot of sex scenes (too much) I stopped watching it on Season 3…
Glass Castle
Lol fifty shades
The Help
Beautiful Creatures
I think they could of done so much better with the movie, was too rushed.
Holes
Lonesome Dove tv mini series
Is this a trick question??
The Help
The Longest Ride
On the Beach….read book first
The movie Giant is WAY better than the book, which reads like a tour-guide book of TX.
Exodus
Room with a view
The fault in our stars
Gone with the wind.
@Carol respectfully disagree
@Carol I agree and disagree. It followed one plot thread very well. At the same time it totally ignored huge chunks of the book. I think that is understandable. The movie is long as it is and not all of it would fit in a movie of reasonable length.
It left out the 2 children by previous husbands,but that wasn’t really essential to the main story,it seems.
Dances with Wolves
Llife of Pi
I couldn’t understand the language, but I like the movie
Out of Africa
I actually like the film version of The Martian better than the book. Which is not to say that I don’t like the book, because I do–very much. But I think the movie did a *great* job of bringing the story and characters to life, and tightening up the story in places.
The Help. Where The Heart Is. Only times I thought the book wasn’t better.
The film of The Bridges of Madison County is much better than the book.
@Janet I agree
The Lovely Bones.
The Wizard of Oz
Ben Hur
The Last Unicorn.
The Harry Potter movies, tho the books are better.
@Mary the books are better, but the movies were done brilliantly!
The first Harry Potter movie was great!
I think i’m just bias towards the books but i didn’t like any of the movies.
The Namesake
The Outsiders
Beaches
Anne of Green Gables. The one with Megan Follows. I know it’s technically a mini series and parts are very different from the books, but I absolutely adore it.
@Ashley Agreed. I mentioned it as well before I read yours.
The Hunger Games / Harry Potter
An oldie-Gone With the Wind!
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Holes (the screenplay was written by the author, so that probably explains that one). Anne of Green Gables (the TV series).
Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone With The Wind & To Kill a Mocking Bird. They’re neck & neck!
The Green Mile
The Jane Austen Book Club
Lincoln Lawyer
A Time to Kill
For sure The Jane Austen Book Club!
Jaws
old yeller
to Kill a Mockingbird
I don’t like the book. Too confusing.
Movies are almost always better than the book
@Phylicia no!!! the books are usually better!!!
A Cari-ari Polick Usually…i disagree. *Spoilers* In Twilight book 1 (LONG as heck): Bella worked at Mike’s (I think that’s his name) father’s workshop or whatever. Boring. I’m glad the movie left that out. Thank God. There was a few page scene where Bella and Alice chatted from Washington to Italy. In the movie that was left out. It was just a quick plane scene. A few other scenes. *Spoiler* At the end of the Divergent Allegiant book, Tris dies. In the movie, Tris lives. I don’t know about anyone else, but I like where the females live. *Spoiler* Me Before You. I might get some of this wrong since I haven’t seen or read this in a while, but in the book, the girl wanted to get assistance from a guy online on how to make her patient less boring or bored and give him activities. While in the movie, she had that male assistant friend. The movie took out the boring parts and made what would have been 4 hours or so into 3 hours. I know it’s not based on a book…I don’t think, but Star Wars Rogue 1 was 2 hours. I would have made it into 1.
Anne of Green Gables on Netflix
The Lovely Bones.
Definitely.
I read a few pages and I stopped when I found out the girl was raped. No thanks
The Reader.
The green mile
Gone With The Wind
@Christina yes ♥️
Amen and amen
2 movies that were better than the book:
A Man Called Ove
Tuck Everlasting
Forest Gump
Harry Potter
Fried Green Tomatos
I personally have never seen a movie as good as the book it came from.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
The Green Mile
I’d say Safe haven by Nicholas Sparks.
I usually like the movies better than the books, but I like the book in this case. I like that the girl saved the kids in the book while in the movie the father saved the kids.
@Phylicia I agree the book was very very good. What I liked about the book was that it showed how she was stealing the money from her husband to escape.
@Maja
@Maja I don’t remember that. I just remember the girl kick butt part.
@Phylicia you mean when she drugged him?
The Book Thief!
Bird box
I didn’t know that was a book. I love the movie
I found the movie a bit of a let down at the end, but i havent read the book yet and i want to when i find it
Personally I prefer the film of Confessions of a Shopaholic to the book.
@Christie me too!
The Secret Life Of Bees
The Shack
I don’t know if better -but as good as “The Magnificent Obsession”, “Rebecca” “Jaws” “One Flew Over the cuckoos Nest”
the shack
The Harry Potter movies.
???? no way! ?
A monster calls
I thought that was boring. Even more boring movie. I slept through it.
I loved them so much, I even wrote a paper for a conference on it xD definitely different taste 🙂
90% of the time I like the movies than the books. There are few times I like the books more.
Mary Poppins, Under the Tuscan Sun
I didn’t know Mary Poppins was based on a book. I don’t know if “Mary Poppins Returns” is a sequel of the original, but I am not watching it. I don’t like sequels. It can’t be a remake. The title wouldn’t make sense “returns.” AND remakes are worse than sequels. Have you seen the new Charmed? REMAKE. Booo!
@Phylicia Mary Poppins is based off the books by P L Travers.. the movie is a sequel to the original when the banks children are adults.. The movie saving mr banks is based on PL Travers life and the making of Mary Poppins. Well worth seeing. As for the Charmed reboot i gave it 3 episodes and it was terrible.
Right? I mean, the Charmed remake is just a modern-day version (texting and whatnot). They didn’t even make it like the original. The plot is different a little, how they summoned their mother, blah blah blah.
No
The book “Alias Madame Doubtfire” was HORRIBLE compared to Mrs. Doubtfire. *Spoiler* Abuse, sex, and other stuff. I know movies and books are usually opposite, but so not what I was expecting.
Mmmmh ???… maybe The Lord of the Rings
The Girl on the Train, A Light Between Oceans.