Dr. Strangelove. The source novel Red Alert was very straightforward and serious but Kubrick turned it into a dark satire.I also prefer Cronenberg’s version of The Dead Zone over the Stephen King novel.
I just think the movie streamlined and gets rid of some unnecessary text in the book. The intro at the begining is so tedious and other parts where the author cuts of the story. Otherwise it is a very accurate adaptation.
I just had a hard time with the constant use of the kids’ made up language. For me, it made the book hard to read. But that’s just my opinion….many people loved the book.
tv series: The vampire diaries. Started to read the books but UGH Elena is soo unfriendly/unappealing in it and how she mets Stefan.and all..no..just no..the series is one of my favs <3
ms. peregrines home for peculiar children AND twilight. i love love loooveeee the movies. but i read the first book but i just wasnt feeling it. SPOILER PART, it just was so similar to the movie that i didnt bother reading the other books.
the actors in twilight (mainly jacob, bella and edward) ruined the movies for me :/ Edward sounds so much more attractive in the books and the actor is just urgh for me….
like I said ..because I don’t like kirsten something and the actor who plays Edward.. Jacob is ok..but those two.. no.. Edwards actor is SO unattractive I couldn’t stand it haha
that was maily the reason i love the movie. it was for the story haha. i dont bother with the characters. except for their daughter. The Actress is so pretty <3
Oh gosh no!!! The movie had it all mixed up. Emma is the one with the fire in her hands, not olivine. They reversed their peculiars. And Miss Peregrine was not young and beautiful. She was old.
that was kind of the reason why i was kinda pissed because they changed their peculiarity. so when i read the book i kept thinking of the movie. when i see a movie first and read the book, my mind just instantly compares the 2. and my mind was so jumbled up with the movie and the book that i kept rereading paragraphs.
but they are leaving so many important things out in the movies.. :/ not only sex-related and they changed so much :/ like they soft-washed the story lol
hm..well for me it was a sweet love story about man who got abused in his childhood and overcomes insecurity and fear to really love a woman and breaks free from his abuser,learns to love (not only ana but also his family). and a woman who held herself back for the right man and has to face a lot of challenges,gets stronger and fights for herself and her love. a lot of suspense I could find,too so..more than enough story for me 🙂 and after reading a lot of NA books lateley the sex descriped in fifty shades is almost innocent haha 😀 but I know everyone has their own opinion about the story of a book. 🙂 so no offense 🙂
I liked the first season of the Handmaids Tale series better than the book and the first season of Thirteen Reasons Why better than the books! I also liked the movie Love, Simon more than the book ?
The movie is my all-time favorite too but wish I could say the same about the book…Gave it a shot about a year ago but the plot seemed kinda splintered and disorganized. None of the characters seemed well developed, at least not to me. I hate to say it as a bookworm, but the movie was better 🙁 But I’m glad you liked the book 🙂
Cathy. It was completely different. They didn’t even attempt to stay true to the book. They added a bunch of unnecessary action scenes and made it seem like the elders were all evil and corrupt rather than blissfully ignorant like the rest of the community. But for fans of action and dystopian I can see why the movie would be more appealing than the book.
I won’t say that the Harry Potter movies were “better” than the books, but I was glad I saw the movie first, because I don’t think my pea-brained imagination could have done the book justice. It was good to have those visuals when I read the first book.
Blasphemy! ? I definitely liked the first ones better than the later ones in the series, when they became darker. Then, honestly, they didn’t appeal to me nearly as much.
Pretty much any movie based on a book written by Michael Crichton. I enjoyed his Jurassic Park books but the others I’ve read of his are terrible. The Eaters of the Dead comes to mind first. I loved the movie which came from it (The Thirteenth Warrior), but the book was such a slog.
I agree. I liked the books, and I love what they did for the fantasy genre, BUT the movies were just so much more enjoyable. The books were so detailed that it made them boring to read in places. But that was also what made it possible for Peter Jackson to capture the details perfectly.
The Sound of Music The original book that told the family’s real story was so different from the movie, if you didn’t know it was the same story you could not have figured it out..also Hacksaw Ridge which came from Desmond Doss’s biography. The movie was better.
I personally liked The Never Ending Story movie better than the book, probably because I grew up watching the movie and didn’t read the book until recently
At first I was shocked by this comment 😀 but yeah the order is extremely important, especially when movie and book differ so much like they do in The Never Ending Story I am now able to like both, taking into account that they had to cut like 90% of the book’s content for the movie to be feasible
Isn’t the scene where Pjörnrachzarck looks at his hands, unbelieving that he couldn’t save his friends, just the saddest? I cry every time ?
The Tailor of Panama written by John LeCarre. Don’t get me wrong, LeCarre is one of the great English language writers however at times his writing style is so abstract its a challenge to figure out the plot. However, its clear even when reading for the first time there is something very special in each of his books. ‘A Prefect Spy” was a great example, however reading the book a second time it all becomes clear as to the course of the plot. Can’t say the same thing about Tailor. The movie did an excellent job of filling in details that the book left to the readers imagination, and most important element of the story is completely missed in the book while the movie gets it right, even though the movie is based on the book. The movie was much better and it turns out the plot is very original and a great story, and I might add is much more realistic than people believe. This doesn’t stop there. I read Tailor and at the end could not figure out what happened. Then shortly afterward I read another spy novel entitled Our Man in Havana. This was a great book and the plot is very strong and believable. However, it wasn’t until I saw the movie that I realized that Panama (the movie) and Havana (the book) were much the same story. I have always claimed that the movie The Tailor of Panama is really taken from the book Our Man in Havana. One explanation is that LeCarre was worried about having readers believe he was copying the Havana novel, written by another great English author Grahame Green. I’ve never encountered any thing like this before, where the movie is used to explain the book, typically its the other way around, where the book fills in details missed in the movie. One other thing, Pecrce Bronson, who at the time played James Bond in the Bond series plays the British spy and its a great contrast watching James Bond playing British spy Danny Osnard (sp) whose character is much more real life in the movie.
I’ve been trying to read the books for a while now, but I honestly wonder how it could become such a success I find the first 50 pages (or so) so hard to read; someone please tell me if it’s still worth fighting my way through to the actual plot
my problem is that one of my now favourite book series started off super chewy as well, I only forced myself to go on bc I already loved the author – in the end it was so worth it! I don’t want to miss out on something so many people love 😀 Also: I feel the frustrating urge to memorize all that history stuff at the beginning of LotR in order to understand the following story – is that even necessary?
hahah i know how you feel but telling the truth i have completly forgotten how the books go and am just sticking to the movie because the last book dragged on and on on that river xD but if you read and not rember the the book for the next book it is kinda hard to read with all the names and places xD
Divergent.
@Lojain ☺?
Hobbit (all 3)
As much as I loved the films I really, really loved the book
I thought the book was boring and got really annoyed when the characters told us what action just happened instead of showing us in words.
I have to agree with this one but only because we actually get to see the battle in the end whereas in the book Bilbo gets knocked out
Exactly!!!
Practical Magic
One of my favorite movies <3
Agreed
Agreed! I saw the movie first and than found out it was a book. Was so excited. Got half way thru and was like ya NOPE!
Coraline
I thought the book was much darker, but I love the movie and the book.
The Notebook.
Eek I hated the movie but loved the book ?
Loved them both
Loved them both
Warm Bodies.
I loved both the movie and the book! (The soundtrack was perfect in the movie)
@Nicole I liked the book, but I thought the ending in the movie was better. Both were good though.
Legally Blonde
Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas ?
Sex and the City
A Walk to Remember and The Devil Wears Prada.
The Body/Stand By Me. American Psycho.
The Bridges of Madison County
Loved both…?
Dr. Strangelove. The source novel Red Alert was very straightforward and serious but Kubrick turned it into a dark satire.I also prefer Cronenberg’s version of The Dead Zone over the Stephen King novel.
I love that movie
Forrest Gump, The Princess Bride, The Shawshank Redemption.
Usually I can think of a lot more, but just woke up and my mind is blocked.
I thought the book of The Princess Bride was great
I just think the movie streamlined and gets rid of some unnecessary text in the book. The intro at the begining is so tedious and other parts where the author cuts of the story. Otherwise it is a very accurate adaptation.
True there were some slow parts
Maze Runner
I actually preferred the book.
I just had a hard time with the constant use of the kids’ made up language. For me, it made the book hard to read. But that’s just my opinion….many people loved the book.
The Maze Runner. I’m sorry. The film’s way of the Gladers to exit the maze was more realistic than on the book. But the book was great imo
Under the Tuscan Sun
Catching Fire
I agree that they did a great job with these movies but I also loved the books
i have always felt that the book is better than the movie! however, THE MARTIAN feels like an exception. the movie was probably as good as the book.
You need to see more movies. There are many many exceptions.
I would say equally good, yes!
Dune
Julie and Julia
Up in the Air
Harry Potter
On this one is say both were good
@Michelle yes, both were but the books were better
No, joking ?
Hahahah
Thank goodness!!
The Shining
There are no movies that are better than the book ?
Totally agree!
sooo you read all books and see all movies? 😉 I highly doubt that
Let’s keep it nice please! @Rebecca was just stating how she felt. No big and let’s not make it an issue k! If you don’t agree please move on k!
Forest Gump
Not a movie but a TV series called The Winds of War. POWERFUL!
LOTR
I agree because the books are full of tons of unnecessary detail that makes them very boring.
@Katelyn this is truth
Boo.
I’ve heard that Love, Simon is better than the book ?
I don’t think so…
tv series: The vampire diaries. Started to read the books but UGH Elena is soo unfriendly/unappealing in it and how she mets Stefan.and all..no..just no..the series is one of my favs <3
I agree. Didn’t like the first book. So never read anymore
ms. peregrines home for peculiar children AND twilight. i love love loooveeee the movies. but i read the first book but i just wasnt feeling it. SPOILER PART, it just was so similar to the movie that i didnt bother reading the other books.
the actors in twilight (mainly jacob, bella and edward) ruined the movies for me :/ Edward sounds so much more attractive in the books and the actor is just urgh for me….
how did they ruin it may i ask? hehe
like I said ..because I don’t like kirsten something and the actor who plays Edward.. Jacob is ok..but those two.. no.. Edwards actor is SO unattractive I couldn’t stand it haha
i realize i do kinda agree haha.
? I watched all movies.. more than once because I really like the story and all..but the books I absolutely love
that was maily the reason i love the movie. it was for the story haha. i dont bother with the characters. except for their daughter. The Actress is so pretty <3
thats true. I also like the rest of the cullens a lot 🙂
I definitely prefer the twilight books. Bella’s actor just completely ruined the movies. Like her lack of emotion was ridiculous
oh yeah!! them too haha. love them. edward may be the least cullen i like.
Bellas actor is ridiculous.. rly.. looked the same in every scene..bah..no.. with the bella in the books I could feel compassionate
Oh gosh no!!! The movie had it all mixed up. Emma is the one with the fire in her hands, not olivine. They reversed their peculiars. And Miss Peregrine was not young and beautiful. She was old.
that was kind of the reason why i was kinda pissed because they changed their peculiarity. so when i read the book i kept thinking of the movie. when i see a movie first and read the book, my mind just instantly compares the 2. and my mind was so jumbled up with the movie and the book that i kept rereading paragraphs.
@Cestiana I do the same thing. That’s why I try to read the book first.
i might reread the first book in the future. but idk. im still sur eim gonna be in the same situation if i reread it soon.
@Michelle ya the books in my opinion were way better. Twilight I loved both but Bella’s character adaptation was awful!!! Love Edward!
Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
Blade Runner
Fifty Shades…all of them
but they are leaving so many important things out in the movies.. :/ not only sex-related and they changed so much :/ like they soft-washed the story lol
Without the sex and swearing in the books, there wasn’t much story. Movies were more expressive.
hm..well for me it was a sweet love story about man who got abused in his childhood and overcomes insecurity and fear to really love a woman and breaks free from his abuser,learns to love (not only ana but also his family). and a woman who held herself back for the right man and has to face a lot of challenges,gets stronger and fights for herself and her love. a lot of suspense I could find,too so..more than enough story for me 🙂 and after reading a lot of NA books lateley the sex descriped in fifty shades is almost innocent haha 😀 but I know everyone has their own opinion about the story of a book. 🙂 so no offense 🙂
I liked the first season of the Handmaids Tale series better than the book and the first season of Thirteen Reasons Why better than the books! I also liked the movie Love, Simon more than the book ?
To me the book is better
LA Confidential
Stardust… The movie is nothing like the book, but it’s so much better
A Time to Kill
But possibly only bc I saw the movie first and loved it, THEN read the book.
The Perks of being a Wallflower
Think like a man
300 movie
The Manchurian Candidate (1962 version)
Princess Bride and Stardust.
I usually read the book first. I have never seen a movie that was better.
Power of One
Silence of the Lambs. Misery.
Forrest Gump
One of the very, very few instances of this is Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Something borrowed.
Princess Bride
Stardust! The only book till date that I’ve found has a better movie version.
Princess Bride, Winter’s Tale
The fault in our stars
Shawshank Redemption
Forest Gump
The Devil Wears Prada.
Agreed
Fight Club
Stardust
The book was good but just too sad for me. Lol
Pay it Forward. Movie was about a thousand times better.
I never read the book but this movie was incredible!!
I saw the movie, several times, before I read the book and I was immensely disappointed.
Jurassic Park
Have to disagree there. While the movie is fantastic and is my favorite movie ever, the book just has so much to it and is amazing.
This one is always tough for me. The book was amazing but so was the movie, especially for it’s time!
The movie is my all-time favorite too but wish I could say the same about the book…Gave it a shot about a year ago but the plot seemed kinda splintered and disorganized. None of the characters seemed well developed, at least not to me. I hate to say it as a bookworm, but the movie was better 🙁 But I’m glad you liked the book 🙂
Agree the books were better than the movies but love both
The Notebook
Nocturnal Animals (Tony & Susan the book)
Big Fish
Bladerunner
Carrie. Improves vastly on the Stephen King novel.
shame on you!!
Forrest Gump
Nope! I cannot, from my perspective ?♀️
Jaws
Shutter Island
High Fidelity
Sorry, but I think the book is always better than the movie.
Have you read Forrest Gump, and then seen the movie?
For Forrest Gump, I had just watched the movie and have never read the book. Should I consider myself lucky then??
1408. Sorry Stephen King.
agreed
I’ve never read the book, but that was an awesome movie.
Being There with Peter Sellars (book by Jerzy Korzinski)
The Giver
? Noooooo.
Lol, I’m glad you liked the movie, I wasn’t a fan personally, but The Giver is my absolute favorite book.
I haven’t seen the movie, but the previews I saw sure looked different than the book.
That’s why movie was better
Hmmm
Cathy. It was completely different. They didn’t even attempt to stay true to the book. They added a bunch of unnecessary action scenes and made it seem like the elders were all evil and corrupt rather than blissfully ignorant like the rest of the community. But for fans of action and dystopian I can see why the movie would be more appealing than the book.
The Notebook…I know that’s unpopular but ??♀️ I like how it was directed and I think it shows the emotion well
I agree
The P.S. I love you book was way better. The movie was 100% different than the book
The vow
Jane Austen Book Club
Agree! The book was Meh!
Practical Magic
The Shack
The notebook
The Help
Can’t. None exist.
The help and the green mile
Trainspotting. Although, I did love the book, the movie was just the bee’s knees!!!
The princess bride
Haven’t watched a movie better than books other than LOTR. Just couldn’t get into them.
Yes. True.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. ?
Fight club, first one that comes in mind!
Stardust
Any of them.
Check out Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18692431
I won’t say that the Harry Potter movies were “better” than the books, but I was glad I saw the movie first, because I don’t think my pea-brained imagination could have done the book justice. It was good to have those visuals when I read the first book.
Don’t tell anyone, but I just couldn’t get into the books. I love the movies.
I admit, I’ve thought about trying again.
Blasphemy! ? I definitely liked the first ones better than the later ones in the series, when they became darker. Then, honestly, they didn’t appeal to me nearly as much.
the thin red line by @Jodi
About a Boy
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
let me give you the classic https://amzn.to/2xGBDBu
Yes! The film was so much better! The whole affair thing was so cheesy and pointless….
the Godfather https://amzn.to/2xALlp7
I always watch the movie before I even read the book
Same here. Less disappointment that way.
The Firm
I can’t lol
A Man Called Ove.
Nooooooo
Open Range. The ending was much better!
The Painted Veil
That’s tough bc books always have so much more detail…
The Book Thief. Just could not get to grips with the book format.
Don’t think that’s possible!
Scarlet Pimpernel….and the ending to Watchmen was better in the film
There is a film?
For Scarlet? Yes….its brilliant….young Ian Mckellan and Jane Seymour. So Good!
There is no such thing!
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children and Harry Potter.
The Last of the Mohicans
Winter’s Tale.
The Princess bride
I agree.
American Psycho
Gone with the wind
Ooh, I loved that book but you’re right… they did a darned good job on that movie.
I feel the movie made the book come alive for me
“Hobbit”
In my experience, the book has always been better.
Can’t think of any
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I thought the book and movie were very similar. I enjoyed both
Cold mountain. I couldn’t even make it through the book.
The Godfather
oh I just noticed someone already said this one
Ha-ha nice joke
I have not seen one yet!
Forrest Gump the movie is 10,000 times better than the book.
Prince of Tides
Jurassic Park The Hunt for Red October Охота на Красный Октябрь
Pretty much any movie based on a book written by Michael Crichton. I enjoyed his Jurassic Park books but the others I’ve read of his are terrible. The Eaters of the Dead comes to mind first. I loved the movie which came from it (The Thirteenth Warrior), but the book was such a slog.
Not that it’s better but American Psycho I prefer the movie
LOTR
I agree. I liked the books, and I love what they did for the fantasy genre, BUT the movies were just so much more enjoyable. The books were so detailed that it made them boring to read in places. But that was also what made it possible for Peter Jackson to capture the details perfectly.
The Jane Austen book club
it’s not a movie but a tv series from netflix. Thirteen Reasons Why. 🙂
There’s a book?
yes! The author is Jay Asher. 🙂
I don’t know one that’s better. But The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is almost as good as the book
The Sound of Music The original book that told the family’s real story was so different from the movie, if you didn’t know it was the same story you could not have figured it out..also Hacksaw Ridge which came from Desmond Doss’s biography. The movie was better.
Jaws!!!
I personally liked The Never Ending Story movie better than the book, probably because I grew up watching the movie and didn’t read the book until recently
At first I was shocked by this comment 😀
but yeah the order is extremely important, especially when movie and book differ so much like they do in The Never Ending Story
I am now able to like both, taking into account that they had to cut like 90% of the book’s content for the movie to be feasible
Isn’t the scene where Pjörnrachzarck looks at his hands, unbelieving that he couldn’t save his friends, just the saddest? I cry every time ?
The Tailor of Panama written by John LeCarre. Don’t get me wrong, LeCarre is one of the great English language writers however at times his writing style is so abstract its a challenge to figure out the plot. However, its clear even when reading for the first time there is something very special in each of his books. ‘A Prefect Spy” was a great example, however reading the book a second time it all becomes clear as to the course of the plot. Can’t say the same thing about Tailor. The movie did an excellent job of filling in details that the book left to the readers imagination, and most important element of the story is completely missed in the book while the movie gets it right, even though the movie is based on the book. The movie was much better and it turns out the plot is very original and a great story, and I might add is much more realistic than people believe. This doesn’t stop there. I read Tailor and at the end could not figure out what happened. Then shortly afterward I read another spy novel entitled Our Man in Havana. This was a great book and the plot is very strong and believable. However, it wasn’t until I saw the movie that I realized that Panama (the movie) and Havana (the book) were much the same story. I have always claimed that the movie The Tailor of Panama is really taken from the book Our Man in Havana. One explanation is that LeCarre was worried about having readers believe he was copying the Havana novel, written by another great English author Grahame Green. I’ve never encountered any thing like this before, where the movie is used to explain the book, typically its the other way around, where the book fills in details missed in the movie. One other thing, Pecrce Bronson, who at the time played James Bond in the Bond series plays the British spy and its a great contrast watching James Bond playing British spy Danny Osnard (sp) whose character is much more real life in the movie.
The game of thrones show
How to Train Your Dragon
The help
The Godfather
The Lord of the Rings movies. I prefer watching them to reading them, but I did like the books as well.
feel the same and the hobbit
I’ve been trying to read the books for a while now, but I honestly wonder how it could become such a success
I find the first 50 pages (or so) so hard to read; someone please tell me if it’s still worth fighting my way through to the actual plot
i quite enjoyed them because they where my very first english reads but if you strugle then just read something else you do enjoy 😉
my problem is that one of my now favourite book series started off super chewy as well, I only forced myself to go on bc I already loved the author – in the end it was so worth it!
I don’t want to miss out on something so many people love 😀
Also: I feel the frustrating urge to memorize all that history stuff at the beginning of LotR in order to understand the following story – is that even necessary?
hahah i know how you feel but telling the truth i have completly forgotten how the books go and am just sticking to the movie because the last book dragged on and on on that river xD but if you read and not rember the the book for the next book it is kinda hard to read with all the names and places xD
ahh that’s too bad, was hoping it is only to set the mood or for the real fans to nerd about or something 😀
guess it’s not the thing for me after all…
The Notebook
Not better, but worthy… How To Train Your Dragon
Yeah movie was better than book
Stardust
Lawnmower Man, even though it was eff all to do with the story.
The book thief
Out of Africa
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit 🙂
I read both books and I still liked watching their movies more 🙂
The prestige
Ps I love you.
The Notebook
The Godfather
the notebook!
A walk to remember
Shawshank Redemption
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Forest Gump
The Life of Pi
I Am Legend
Not even close.
Girl, Interrupted
The Hobbit and its subsequent parts?
Ensemble c’est tout
Ella Enchanted
The Warriors
The Lovely Bones
Call me by your name
The hobbit anf the Lord of the rings movies..