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

[The Nothingness]

Moby Dick doesn't waste time talking about the whaling industry like the book does.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

I think No Country for Old Men is a better movie, though they're incredibly similar.

The book has more about Ed Tom Bell, but the main plot and most scenes are pretty similar. But the scene that I think puts the film ahead of the book is the death of Llewellyn's wife Carla, where she refuses to play along with Chigurh's coin flip, unlike her book counterpart who does. I like that despite the fact that the end result is the same, Carla puts the lie to Chigurh's weird fatalistic world view. No, he doesn't have to do what he's doing, the coin flip is just a pretext and lie that he is telling himself.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Ready Player one. The film was kinda bland but the book was just Ernest Cline going "My consumerist childhood was better than yours" the whole way through.

 

[Flatline]

just Ernest Cline going "My consumerist childhood was better than yours" the whole way through.

Gen X being Gen X.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Ready Player one. The film was kinda bland but the book was just Ernest Cline going "My consumerist childhood was better than yours" the whole way through.

yeah I've glanced at the prose and it's very "And the the Gundam from Gundam flew by. And then the Delorean from Back To The Future drove by" dry lists of shit
at least throwing visuals up on the screen of it is a bit more

I'm gonna go with Death Note
the comics are enjoyable but they really drag on a long time past when it was really interesting, the two live action movies just hit the good stuff and it ends probably where it should have

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Freely admit some of these are kind of silly:

• Ben Hur vs. the 1950s movie of the same name
• The Short Timers vs. Full Metal Jacket and as somebody else noted pretty much every other case of Kubrick vs. the source material
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vs. Blade Runner (oddly they also bought the rights to an SF novel called "The Blade Runner" just to lock up the title)
• Clueless vs. Pride and Prejudice
• Silence of the Lambs
• The 1970s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Both the 2000s and the 1950s movies are worse than the book)
• A whole bunch of Stephen King: Christine, Misery, Carrie, Hearts in Atlantis, The Shining, probably more, though the Dead Zone sucked as a both a book and movie and so did Cujo.
• Really liked Gangs of New York, so I'm guessing it is better than the book, though I've not read it.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Freely admit some of these are kind of silly:

• Ben Hur vs. the 1950s movie of the same name
• The Short Timers vs. Full Metal Jacket and as somebody else noted pretty much every other case of Kubrick vs. the source material
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vs. Blade Runner (oddly they also bought the rights to an SF novel called "The Blade Runner" just to lock up the title)
• Clueless vs. Pride and Prejudice
• Silence of the Lambs
• The 1970s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Both the 2000s and the 1950s movies are worse than the book)
• A whole bunch of Stephen King: Christine, Misery, Carrie, Hearts in Atlantis, The Shining, probably more, though the Dead Zone sucked as a both a book and movie and so did Cujo.
• Really liked Gangs of New York, so I'm guessing it is better than the book, though I've not read it.

iirc Supertoys Last All Summer Long (the short story AI was loosely based on isn't really much of anything, but it's been since AI came out that I had gone through it

 

[Jarl Varg]

Not a movie, but "The Pillars of the Earth". Book was great, series was excellent.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

for me the list is:

• barry lyndon. the book is very good, but i still like the movie better.
• clockwork orange. same as above
• blade runner (minus the retarded unicorn scene)

I think the book and the movie are about equal, with the exception of the last chapter which got cut from the movie because American audiences hate happy endings or some shit.

as an american, i didnt like the 21 chapter to clockwork orange, not because it is happy, but because it is just alex siting in a bar moping about how he is now too old to be a hooligan.

Also The Warriors (1979). The book can be very depressing and realistic.

one of my all time favorite movies. i havent read the book, but i know the story is based upon the anabasis, which i have read, and i can highly recommend to anyone interested in military history.

 

[Jerri's Kid]

I wouldn't say Doctor Sleep is a great film, but I really liked Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson's performances in it, and that child actor who was killed in the film did an excellent job. I read the book not long after that and it was totally forgettable. There was really no reason to make a sequel to The Shining, but I guess King needed a new summer home or yacht like Margaret Atwood did with The Testaments.