are there any other cases where the original book was inferior to the movie adaptation?
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are there any other cases where the original book was inferior to the movie adaptation?
are there any other cases where the original book was inferior to the movie adaptation?
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Fight Club
The book is better than the movie. The movie went full moron in the last act.
any marvel movie
So you've never read a comic?
comics are shit, but for an entirely different reason as to why the movies are shit.
The Shining
The Godfather
ben hur 1959
A sizeable number of Stephen King adaptations are better than the stories they are based on:
Shawshank
The Shining
The Mist
Misery
Most other mainstream adaptations (ie: not direct to streaming service shit) are about as good as the original material as well. IT, Christine, Carrie, Pet Sematary and The Dead Zone fall into this category.
Really Dark Tower is the only one that I can think of which is obviously worse than the books.
>Shawshank
You know the scheme with the man who existed only on paper who owned all the warden's assets, whom Andy seamlessly impersonated upon his escape?
That was made up for the movie.
In the book, Andy crammed tightly wadded bundles of cash directly up his butthole, taking advantage of the loosening the Sisters had provided him. The practicalities of prison rape were a lot more prominent in the book in fact.
Didn't he set up a ton of that stuff before he went to prison in the book?
Like the false ID, shell companies and the like?
I don't recall that, but possibly. If so that's a bit better, but not as elegant as the movie.
>The Mist
Ending was better in the book, I feel. Leaving the journal documenting their experience in the gas station, then heading off into an uncertain future, but well supplied and equipped. The movie ending was pure shock value.
Stephen King is a shit writer. He is comparable to Rowling. Just cause they are popular doesnt mean theyre good. frick it pisses me off how many people love these shit stupid butthole c**ts
The mist ending was terrible, everyone in the movie theater I was in hated it
It was part of that era of "abruptly killing off main characters to subvert expectations". It was a stupid time.
Zemeckis also did Roger Rabbit. Is that book any good?
The shining
Starship Troopers
nooooooooooo
Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
For people that have never read it, y’know how the teacher gives the pro-fascism lecture in a scene at the start of the movie? Well, in the book those lectures last for like a million pages
Willy Wonka and the Chocolacte Factory.
Dahl was a hack.
Goldfinger
American Psycho
And I enjoyed the book
yes
This. 1000%
No joke, the books are boring af and the movies added a hell of a lot more depth and dimension to what otherwise feel like 2D characters when reading LotR. The books are great for guys who jerk off over world-building, but they lack the S O U L which Jackson somehow miraculously pumped into the film adaptations despite such gray source material.
Precisely.
>haha JRR Tolkein spends ten pages describing a door
No, he doesn't. There's very little sense of place in the books. He wasn't a talented prose writer, but he had talent for constructing legendary tales with archetypal characters. The Silmarilion was a format better suited to him.
weak
Jurassic Park
Fight Club
Controversial opinion but IMO the American Psycho movie was better than the book, although the book is still very good
A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. Kubrick knew just the perfect way of making homosexual authors seethe.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
First Blood
The Watchmen
>ITT: gays who don't read
>The Watchmen
The starfish was a stupid ending
The movie really cuts out the bulk and makes for a more memorable experience.
Plus you don't get a whole arc on the prostitute Sonny cheats on with her vegana issues
oh frick I almost forgot about John Grisham. Pretty much all his adaptions are better then the books:
>The Pelican Brief
>The Client
>The Chamber
>The Firm
>The Rainmaker
It's a show, but The Terror. The book is so dry and none of the characters are interesting. The show injected many layers of much-needed humanity.
would've been perfect if it didn't had that lame magical bear
based birkin enjoyer
Every Stephen King adaptation.
God, how has nobody mentioned Jaws yet? That’s probably the most glaring example that I know, and I’ve read and watched most of what’s been posted so far.
Holes
Wolf of Wall Street
Star Wars
Any Dracula film.
All of them. I will never ever read a book.
>Forrest Gump the book, autistic savant has a series of incredible adventures before finally finding contentedness
>Forrest Gump the Movie: GAWD SENDS A moronic ANGEL TO EARTH WHO EMBIGGENS THE HEARTS OF MANY WITH HIS CHILDLIKE NAIVITE.
the book is better