Having a debate right now about movies based off of books. Can anyone name a movie that was better than the actual book itself?
Having a debate right now about movies based off of books. Can anyone name a movie that was better than the actual book itself?
Nope! Ha ha ha
Gone Girl. Book bored me to tears. But the movie was better.
Never read the book but I have seen the movie!
Don’t bother with the book. I’m still mad I wasted time on it. Lol!
Lol good to know! Thanks because it’s on my TBR list!
Actually, you are completely right. I revoke my first comment. This film was far better than the book!
Agreed. I read the book before it became a movie. Everyone told me i would love it and to suffer through it. I did. I didn’t like it at all. But the movie was okay.
It’s so hard for me to watch a movie that I know is based off a book! But when I actually watch them, I have had to read the book first!
This is one of the few I watched the movie before I read the book.
Ooh now this is interesting. I’ve read the book (meh – didn’t dislike, was ok imo) but have held off watching the film as everyone I know has said it was pants. I wanna watch it now! ?
Into the Wild
The notebook.
I thought Murder on the Orient Express movie was better.
Cloud Atlas
that was a weird movie!!!
The Girl on The Train
They made a movie off of this book?
Agree. I struggled with that book also. Was boring for me.
Same. It was a very difficult book to get through. To be honest I don’t think I ever even finished it.
I still haven’t finished this book. I’ve tried several times.
I loved the book but found the movie boring, I wonder if it depends on whether you watch or read first?x
I didnt like the book much. Had the movie recorded. Not sure if I still have it though
Maze runner
Twilight
I actually liked the books better. More details. Movie differs from what the author wrote.
I liked the movies more.. apart from new moon..the book is more detailed than the movie..yeah i do agree with you..
The books are far better than the movies, Bella is more likeable in the books, or that might be because I hate the actress who plays her lol
When i read the first book i imagined Edward to be more good looking..then i saw the movie..well Edward Was Just a bit off for me. Yes i get you..in the books bella closes her mouth i imagine .
Carrie
I like that movie just the same as the book, only as in every movie.. they leave out alot of details.
Anything Nicholas Sparks
Haven’t read/seen this movie!
I meant any of the movies, I think he’s not a great writer, but has a good story, so the movies are cute.
Lol oooooh
Stardust.
I’ve not read the book but I love both the original and the remake ❤
I’ve read the book several times as I love Neil Gaiman, the film is amazing.
Ps I love you film was so much better than the book
Agreed!
@Jessica I found it more engaging. In the films the letters are so much more detailed! In the book it’s literally ‘go buy a lamp’
Lol yes!
I loved the book. Cecilia Ahern is one of my favourite author’s.
Sophie’s Choice and The Godfather were at least as good if not better than the book. To Kill a Mockingbird, the movie was better than the book.
Brighton rock
Woman in black
sadly I’ve read the books because I felt like I had finished the first and must keep reading but the 2nd and 3rd 50 shades movies were better than the books. Probably due to the lack of unnecessary talking to her inner goodness and referring to his shades of grey. The acting was still awful like the books but I enjoyed the movies more at least. Also agree Nicholas sparks movies are better than the books.
Under the Tuscan Sun!
The book bored me to tears might give the film a go then ?
@Victoria The film is VERY different!
@Nicole – awesome ?
I LOVE Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and the book (The Amazing Compendium of Edgar Magorium) is in a really fun format but the movie is so super magical! I don’t think this really qualifies though because they both came out the same year and I think the book is based on the movie?
Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium is a book!? ? How did I not know this? Hunting it out now! Love the film.
@Victoria it’s a kids chapter book- I read it out loud at work then show the movie. The kids love it!
Every time I’ve watched a film from a book I’ve read AND Enjoyed they ruined it the acting was bloody horrible and most of the story was left out. I read only now I never watch a film made from my favourite book’s.
Maze Runner
Yes
Little women. This could also be due to the musical score for the film by thomas newman, which is beautiful
Not better but as good, green mile and shawshank redemption
The golden compass (in my opinion)
Forrest gump
We need to talk about Kevin
Why, what has he done? ?
Not sure if it counts as TV but the darling buds of may first series was better than the book imho ?
Atonement
Agreed. Hated that book.
I loved the book. I felt like it followed the movie pretty well. But the movie was just so gorgeous, and the emotion was so on point.
Forrest Gump
Solaris
The Light Between Oceans
Not a movie, but The 100 tv series is way better than the books.
Love that show!
No. I cant.
I thought Jurassic Park the movie was better than the book.
The green mile
I enjoyed Psycho more as a movie than a book
Jaws
Breaking Dawn Part 2. I read the book a long time ago, but I don’t remember them emitting some crucial details, the battle scene has really worked for the movie. Plus the ending with both couples together. Amazing. And then when they showed final book words at the movie. Awesome.l
Faya Bokk: I have the entire Twilight series, and like the Potter series, I’ve read it again and again. I own the movies too, and have watched them several times in the past couple of years. To be honest, I’ve not found any fantasy since that I find is such fun. Most are darker or dig deeper into the filth of human nature, and they aren’t fun. Except—I did enjoy Once Upon A TIme on television. That was fun.
My cirrent favorite fantasy/sci-fi series is Lunar Chronicles due to how author puts a twist on classic. It’s a bit darker, but still very interesting
Nerve
The power of one – Bruce Courtney
Loved the book. The film is even better imo
The Shining
Gone Girl. I found the book hard to read and gave up but the film was excellent.
The secret life of bees. The movie was pretty much exactly the same at the book.. which goes to show how slow the book was lol
Hidden Figures! The book had so many facts, details. The actresses who portrayed these marvelous women were so wonderdul! The movie captured thier struggles and brilliance so well. Awesome movie!
The Ten Commandments
Silence of the lambs and jaws
The Woman In Black, and Interview With The Vampire both movies far exceed the books
Have yet to read Interview with the vampire. I gave up after a few pages but I do love the movie and Anne Rice is a great author!!
I wanted to jump up and down on it Louis was such a humongous whiner in the book, I was ready to slap him lol
The notebook
Misery.
Color purple
The Hobbit
Last of the Mohicans
Legends of the Fall
Water For Elephants
Nope I generally try not to compare them or i’d never watch the move they cut 50% of harry potter out of the movies and i still enjoy them because the film really is an adaptation of the book not a carbon copy
Fried green tomatoes and the color purple
Somewhere in Time
I never read “Bid Time Return,” but I did enjoy the movie adaptation.
I forgot the books actual original name. Ha, that’s how much I loved the movie
Fight Club
American Psycho
I know I am not alone in my opinion when I say that I think the period pieces from the books of Jane Austen, and the Brontes are the best viewing possible. And other great authors from the past. Ms.Gaskell and on and on.
The hobbit. Movies rule!!! Book was just ok.
I liked the Hobbit too. Never read the books, but some stories hold up really well in movies.
The Godfather
The movies were so good, I didn’t bother with the books. Although I may still read them in future.
The Painted Veil
Terrific movie. Beautiful even. Norton is a terrific actor.
@Janet I LOVED the movie, the scenery was spectacular and the music good too. Toby Jones was great as Waddington.
@Sandra I bought a copy of it. I bought it because of Norton, but found the entire cast was terrific.
Anna Karenina
Dr. Zhivago.
Jaws
Fight club
Gone Girl!
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Devil wears Prada
A clockwork Orange also the princess bride
Bridges of Madison County
Princess Bride
The Help
Fried Green Tomatoes
I loved The Help. The movie was good though.
The book was good. I liked the movie better, though. The book went a little slow at times.
Eat, Pray, Love.
The lovely bones
Maybe I will see lovely bones, because I hated the book
Princess Bride
The Wizard of Oz
PS I love you
Jasper Jones
I liked A Walk to Remember better as a movie. Only time I have ever said that.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Apart from the fact it had great special effects for the time, I found the movie more emotionally moving than the book and the characters more believable.
The book has always been better but I think it was Dear John, Nicholas Sparks book, that they changed the ending in the movie so it ended better in my opinion if I remember right….LOL.
They did the same thing with Cujo by Stephen King, I was looking through this thread to see if I could find a movie that was better than the book, so thanks for your post or I would never have thought of one, lol.
Forrest Gump
The boy with the striped pajamas
I would love to read the book.
I second that, the movie was phenomenal! I bet the book is even better!
I liked the movie of ‘Deep End of the Ocean’ but I thought the book was awful, just rambling words that didn’t even form sentences most of the time.
With all due respect to Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner was better than Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I think this is the classic example of a mediocre story becoming an excellent film.
And while most movies based on Stephen King’s novels don’t do him justice, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining did, in fact, outshine the novel, pun intended!
I give it up to FOREST GUMP!
Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Jaws.
Jaws was a better Movie in my opinion. I agree with Forest Gump as well. Otherwise to me even decorated movies like The Godfather were not as good as the books.
Not better but the hunger games films are on par with books. Still glad I read the books first though
Wicked the musical.
Not really.
I agree with Nicole -Wicked but that’s abt it
Interview with the vampire, maybe.
Last play I saw I Misery and the book was way better.
The the actress in it was amazing with what she had to work with..
Book thief, couldn’t finish the book loved the film
Nik sorry
Didn’t mean to spoil if I did
I’m thinking I need to see Wicked the Musical. I loved the books.
The Book Thief. I enjoyed the book but the film was great!
13 Reasons Why
Jurassic Park and my friend said the Princess Bride Movie was better than the book.
The Colour Purple
Wizard of Oz. Marry Poppins.
one flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Gone With The Wind….
The Commitments
The 100, not a movie but a tv series.