Any Movies Better Than Their Books? - Page 4

[the_lissa]

Originally Posted by Lucy VanPelt

About A Boy
Jude (not Jude the Obscure, just Jude...great film!)
Chocolat

All better than their books, IMO. Chocolat was a fab book, but it was very different than the movie, so I put it in this category.

eta: I have to disagree with the previous poster about SK movies being better than the books. The movies are horrible! Oh, man. Horrible! The books are great. (Well, I think It was a decent film. The Tommyknockers...I'm still pissed at how badly that movie turned out compared to the book.)

I agree. I hate most SK movies except Stand by me and The Shawshank Redemption, but maybe because those were short stories.

[holyhelianthus]

Jaws was way beter than the book and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was about equal. i enjoyed both.

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Originally Posted by Lucy VanPelt

eta: I have to disagree with the previous poster about SK movies being better than the books. The movies are horrible! Oh, man. Horrible! The books are great. (Well, I think It was a decent film. The Tommyknockers...I'm still pissed at how badly that movie turned out compared to the book.)

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[LadyMarmalade]

Originally Posted by themamamama

I thought The Hours was a better movie than book, but then Michael Cunningham just annoys me for some reason.

I totally agree. The visual details really added to the story - gave it much more depth than the book. I liked the book, don't get me wrong. But I really loved the movie.

[guestmama9911]

Dune. I'm still convincd most people say they like it becuse they think they have to. I hated that book so much! Go ahead and flame me, NCDaddy will shield me!!! Dune the television series was great IMO.

[holyhelianthus]

Originally Posted by alisaterry

Dune. I'm still convincd most people say they like it becuse they think they have to. I hated that book so much! Go ahead and flame me, NCDaddy will shield me!!! Dune the television series was great IMO.

which Dune movie? the ealry 90s one or the newer Sci Fi chanelle mini series? i LOVED the latter.

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Originally Posted by magstphil

which Dune movie? the ealry 90s one or the newer Sci Fi chanelle mini series? i LOVED the latter.

DW means the SciFi Channel version. That's the one we had on DVD (along with its SciFi Channel sequel Children of Dune) until we decided (needed?) to sell them for gas money. But I agree that the SciFi remake was much better than the Dvaid Lynch travesty. I'm looking forward to the SciFi remake of Stephen King's IT. Not that I didn't like the ABC miniseries with John Ritter and Harry Anderson and John-Boy Walton (I can't remember his real name) and Annette O'Toole, and you will never have a better Pennywise the Clown than Tim Curry , but the special effects were and there's only so much you can do on network television. SciFi has such a good track record of miniseries (Dune, for example) that I - a big Stephen King fan - believe they will do King's story justice.

[loon13]

Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy

DW means the SciFi Channel version. That's the one we had on DVD (along with its SciFi Channel sequel Children of Dune) until we decided (needed?) to sell them for gas money. But I agree that the SciFi remake was much better than the Dvaid Lynch travesty. I'm looking forward to the SciFi remake of Stephen King's IT. Not that I didn't like the ABC miniseries with John Ritter and Harry Anderson and John-Boy Walton (I can't remember his real name) and Annette O'Toole, and you will never have a better Pennywise the Clown than Tim Curry , but the special effects were and there's only so much you can do on network television. SciFi has such a good track record of miniseries (Dune, for example) that I - a big Stephen King fan - believe they will do King's story justice.

EEEK!!!! They are making a new version of IT? I can't wait.

I, too, loved the actors in the original, *especially* Tim Curry as Pennywise, but I hated how the movie ended. Totally agree that the special effects stank. And there is so much more detail and depth in the book.

I think the reason Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me turned out well is because there wasn't any supernatural in it. Stuff like It and Tommyknockers were great in the books but you just couldn't bring them across on the screen.

I love SK's books but some of them are really really too hard to translate to screen. Think Dreamcatcher.... That movie was horrible!


As for the original topic of the thread, I always liked the movie version of The Natural way better than the book. Let's just say the movie is a much better ending for me.

[ledzepplon]

Originally Posted by Teensy

I liked the movie House of Sand and Fog better than the book.

I agree with PPs that The Godfather and the Tom Clancy books were better movies than books. I couldn't even finish reading the Clancy books.

Totally agree about House of Sand and Fog. And the Godfather. Although I liked the Clancy books

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Originally Posted by loon13

EEEK!!!! They are making a new version of IT? I can't wait.

I, too, loved the actors in the original, *especially* Tim Curry as Pennywise, but I hated how the movie ended. Totally agree that the special effects stank. And there is so much more detail and depth in the book.

I think the reason Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me turned out well is because there wasn't any supernatural in it. Stuff like It and Tommyknockers were great in the books but you just couldn't bring them across on the screen.

I love SK's books but some of them are really really too hard to translate to screen. Think Dreamcatcher.... That movie was horrible!


As for the original topic of the thread, I always liked the movie version of The Natural way better than the book. Let's just say the movie is a much better ending for me.

Yes. Yes they are. Check it out.

And, for those of you who read Stephen King's Cell ... Eli "Hostel" Roth will be directing the film adaptation.

[AntoninBeGonin]

Forrest Gump.


~Nay