Children of Men? I don’t know, I haven’t been able to get through the book, but the movie rules.
I feel like the movie Fight Club is at least more fleshed out than the book was.
Can we just appreciate art regardless of the medium?
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.
People who like both
Unpopular opinion: The Hunger Games movies were better than the books.
I could barely get through the books with Katniss being so insufferable.
Oh, your hard drive has the whole movie series on it? Well I got the whole series right here!
Wow that’s a really cool installation. Is it supposed to be a display of some sort or does it have something to do with the word press in the background?
That was great.
This is why I try to watch the movie first, so I can enjoy both of them.
There are a few exceptions where the movie was far better (Jaws comes to mind). And a few instances where both, while different, stand on their own quite well (How To Train Your Dragon).
But mostly, yes.
Arguably it’s not a movie but a show, but for WOT the show was much more enjoyable
I have to heavily disagree, but people are allowed to like different things, so I’m glad you got enjoyment out of it.
No, books generally give more information, but that doesn’t make them better.
They are different media with completely different aspects that shouldn’t be looked at in the same way. The only similarity is that they both tell a story.
I’m always in favour of watching the movie. Since you get the story in 1.5 hours instead of spending multiple evenings to essentially get the same information. And I like visual media in general.
Of course, if no movie exists then reading the book is also a good option. Looking at you Terry Pratchett.
Going Postal was a pretty good adaptation, I thought. As was Hogfather. But no film adaptation could ever capture Pratchett’s prose.
The Colour of Magic was ok, but sorely miscast both Rincewind and Twoflower, as much as I love David Jason and Sean Astin, they were wrong. Tim Curry almost made up for it though.
We don’t talk about The Watch.
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.
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.
I had the same feeling when I was reading the Harry Potter books. Mind you, I only read the first three before tiring of them.
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”.
“Where the Wild Things Are” is a cute little children book about being wild sounds good at first but gets boring over time and it’s fine but the 2009 movie was so much more depth, go watch it!
In the case of The Boys, the show is objectively better than the comic book.
