What are some movies that are better than the books? - The book is always better, usually

[Tablet County]

The one thing that might make the book worth reading is that the movie only covers the first half of the book, and there is some interesting stuff in the second half (which has never been accurately adapted into a movie)... if you can stand the Ende-isms.

Technically speaking, Neverending Story 2 sort of covers the latter half of the book. It just sucks is all.

 

[skykiii]

Technically speaking, Neverending Story 2 sort of covers the latter half of the book. It just sucks is all.

You'll notice I said the second half was never accurately adapted. The second movie really only gets across that Bastion actually goes to Fantasia, that he makes wishes that cause memory loss (which happens for a different reason in the novel), and that there's an evil queen named Xayide.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Stardust
Under the Skin
To Die For
Psycho
Flower Drum Song
The Piano Teacher
Paprika
Perfect Blue
Mildred Pierce
Double Indemnity

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Plus the insane plot point of Sonny's giant dick

Pretty sure that's at least implied in the movie too. His wife is shown in the wedding scene talking to some women and stretching her fingers out further and further to indicate how big something is and they're all giggling, then she looks over and sees him making moves on some other chick and realizes that bragging about how big her husband's dick is may have backfired.

Agreed on the book adding some additional depth though especially on Luca Brasi, but to make a real comparison with the book you have to lump both films together.

 

[KhorneFlakes]

Watchmen works far better as a movie than a book/comic book. Plus the whole nuking the world makes more sense than squid aliens

 

[Lovely Kin]

Psycho

 

[BradeRunna]

I had some Star Wars books in the late 90's when I was in my early teens. I thought that Star Wars was much better in movie form than book form. The movies are kind of a heavy visually. It just doesn't translate to books well.

 

[Tablet County]

Watchmen works far better as a movie than a book/comic book. Plus the whole nuking the world makes more sense than squid aliens

I hate the guy who plays Ozymandius.

 

[Safir]

Easy. Star Wars the movie is better than Star Wars the book by Alan Dean Foster.

The book is always better, usually​

No, the original is usually better. That the original usually happens to be a book has to do with the cost of producing books and movies.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

The Postman. I found the movie to be ok but the book seriously threw me for a loop with plot points that seemed ass-pulled, sci-fi elements that didn't mesh into the story and a weird feminist message that I can't even say is cringe and garbage as much as I can say is completely under baked and unfinished to the point I can barely tell what sort of feminist point it was trying to make.

Really disappointing. I was expecting a comfy book but seems Kevin Costner was the one behind the more comfy elements and hopeful message focusing on the restarting of civilization than the book with it's weird attempt at feminist message and out of nowhere sci-fi elements. They literally pull bioengineered supersoldiers out of the ass on the 3rd act of the book it was super shit.

 

[ProfDongs]

Since comics have been mentioned I'll throw in Oldboy. The manga isn't bad but the film does a much better job with the concept even if a lot of story stuff was changed.

 

[Buttz McSmellington]

I thought the movie 1408 was better than the short story it was based on.

 

[NoReturn]

Men in Black the film is better than the comics.

I would argue The Princess Bride, though I like the book.

I like the book and the film but they are independent in my brain.
The Princess Bride is one of my favorite films.
The Princess Bride is one of my favorite books.
These are two different things.

Similarly, Howl's Moving Castle (film) and Howl's Moving Castle (book) are also different works.

Stardust

+1 to this one, too

 

[The News Crews]

If OP means "Who Goes There?" the short story, that's very much worth reading, and it's not super long either

I personally enjoyed who goes there, but I found The Thing to be a greater retelling of the story.

 

[Calandrino]

Dostoevsky btfo

 

[Jobama]

• Basically every Kubrick movie
• Stalker
• Solaris
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Satantango
• Gone With the Wind
• Goodfellas
• There Will Be Blood
• Casino
• The Godfather
• The Wizard of Oz
• A Man Escaped
• Silence of the Lambs
• Manhunter
• Bridge on the River Kwai

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

The Mist gave a faaar more better ending in the movie than the novel written by King.

Want an ambiguous ending? Fuck you! Have a brick of an ending to your face and we're also gonna make you bawl in tears for the tragedy that happened!

This could be the best example. Stephen King said he had wished he could have written a better ending like that. Now that’s a compliment.

The Mist just isn’t exactly a “feel good” movie, and the twist ending doesn’t make people want to rewatch it if they already know what happens.

But boy was that a sneaky sucker punch

 

[skykiii]

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Dostoevsky btfo

Are either of these movies actually based on books? I know for a fact House of the Dead is a video game...

 

[Basil Julep]

Contact.

The movie portrays Jodi Foster as an atheist who has beliefs that are, for her, a leap of faith.

The book is just like straight up "religion is stupid and religious people are stupid."

On the other hand the movie has some blind character who serves no purpose who isn't in the book.

Oh and almost forgot, the trick shot at the beginning of the movie is badass.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

The prestige. Although the book is quite good in its own right. Nolan made a lot of different choices, quite a few of which are side-grades rather than up or downgrades. The movie is about ambition and competition spiralling out of control and the book is more of a quant story with a bit of a weird horror bit at the end.

The shining. Shit book, great movie. I love how Kubrick took an intentional shit on it by adapting it.

Repo men (the book was called "the repossession mambo"). One of those books that was intended to be filmed. Although the film kinda rips of oldboy and brazil, it's still an enjoyable flick.

I felt blade runner was better than "do androids dream of electric sheep".

In contrast, minority report was a made a lot worse by being filmed. They even removed the original meaning of the title from the work. Though I suppose recursive future prediction that it was about was an idea to complex for movie goers. To spoil it for the philistines that haven't read it, refers to when one of the three clairvoyant pod people sees a different future than the other two. When the main character is fingered as being a murderer by them, it sets events in motion where the prediction of him murdering that general causes him to not murder the general, which then sets events in motion where he does again for a different reason end up murdering the same general. Each of the precognition pod people saw one of those different possibilities playing out, so instead of a 2v1, it's actually a 1v1v1 future result.
In the movie they ask the question "Who is right when they disagree?" To which you get the anodyne proto-woke answer: "The woman of course".