Ready Player One being the exception for this rule
Yeah, but it had its own awfulness, like the Iron Giant used completely inappropriately.
I really liked the book! I really like the film too though
and forest gump.
Children of Men? I don’t know, I haven’t been able to get through the book, but the movie rules.
Agreed wholeheartedly
People who like both
In the case of The Boys, the show is objectively better than the comic book.
The Martian is one example where they’re about equal.
It helps that it was a short book, so very little had to be left out.
I’m super stoked for the Project Hail Mary movie. But I was super disappointed in the trailer, because it shows the WHOLE freaking movie. If you haven’t read the book, you’re far better off skipping the trailer and going in blind.
Yup, that’s my go to as well for “did right by the book”.
It also helps that Andy Weir is not good at writing prose, so his books work better as screenplays.
Reading it made me feel he wrote it specifically to be made into a movie.
Blade Runner, Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me?
In the words of Jim Gaffigan: You know what I liked about the movie? It took me two hours, then I took a nap.
In all seriousness, I really enjoy watching the show/movie first, and then reading the book. I’m not disappointed about the things the show left out, which are often necessary exclusions for pacing or limitations in visual storytelling vs internal narration. And then, when I read the books, it’s like I’m getting the director’s cut with commentary. It adds depth to characters and sometimes has deleted scenes.
Of course this isn’t universally true. I will say it worked spectacularly for The Expanse
This is why I try to watch the movie first, so I can enjoy both of them.
I watched and loved the movies before reading the books so my opinion may be biased, but I think Lord of the Rings movies were more enjoyable than books.
I see how the books were great in their time and the worldbuilding of the books is amazing - but the movies do great job at streamlining the story and making it fun.
The battle of helm’s deep is way better in the movies at least. Battle of gondor… some parts are better in the books, the whole “ghosts killing everyone” in the movies was a bit cheap. But either way both are great.
Oh and frodo in book > frodo in movie
Hot take, the battles in the book aren’t great because Tolkien doesn’t want to glorify violence. Half of the fights are like two pages in the books before the point of view character passes out. After realizing that I was kind of disappointed in how “campy early 2000s action movie” the battles in the films are.
There certainly are things I liked better in the books, I remember that much. But when judging entirety of books vs entirety of movies movies were better in my opinion.
(I’m only talking LotR itself ofc)
Yeah the movies have 1 extra thing that puts it way above the books: music
The Hobbit and LOTR books are actually fantastic to listen to as audiobooks. The narrator (at least in the version I had) sings all the songs.
Oh yeah I loved those too. Depends on the narrator I guess as well. But the music in the movies is on a different level.
The film is helped with amazing casting and a lot of care over the script. However there are things that were changed that do not matter and done for the right reason, such as Arwen being given more screen time (not quite a sausage fest as it was before), Glorfindels role in the Black Rides bit, but also bits that I really didn’t like, such as messing with the power levels of Gandalf and Witch-king during their confrontation.
This lead to the abomination that is the Hobbit adaptation, partly because the film studio wanted to add an Aragorn to it, despite Thorin being nothing like Aragorn, and adding the three way love triangle because people liked the expanded Arwen story from LotR.
Yes, I very distinctly talk LotR only.
As for Hobbit, the Maple films edit made it quite ok and cuts most of the questionable stuff. Still too much Alfrid though. I hated Alfrid more than the love triangle if you’d believe it.
Yeah Alfrid was awful, I didn’t like anything about that characterization.
I haven’t tried the Maple films edit, the M4 edit was my favorite of the ones I have tried, its super aggressive with what it cuts out and tweaks the film grading
i am usually the meme boy, but i fully agree with you
The Mist
Yep film is way better
Even King says so. They fixed the ending in the film.
A movie made by someone else will never compete with the tailor made vision you created in your own tastes. That’s why people tend to dislike adaptations compared to the source.
Unpopular opinion: The Hunger Games movies were better than the books.
I could barely get through the books with Katniss being so insufferable.
I put recreational readers up with vegans and cross fit.
