The book is better than the movie...

[recklessdreamer]

That said, the Return of the King could do with about 4 less "endings". Never thought that one was going to end.

so with you on that. I went to it in the theatre and I was like is it over... okay is it over now... how about now.... wait it isn't over... WHHAAAHAHAHAHa

 

[recklessdreamer]

I agree Princess bride movie surpasses the book 100 times over. Specially if you read the unabridged version. you think Tolkien goes on...

I enjoy Anne of Green Gables the movie very much and though the books are wonderful I have only read them once and I have watched that movie more times than I can count.

I equally love Jane Austen books and movie adaptions (not all versions but most)

Narnia I like together.

The Love comes softly series I think they butchered it so now I watch it as a totally dif. story apart from the books. Making Missy older changed all the rest of the movies and they are so far off I don't even know what happened.

Ben Hur. BUt then again that is thanks to Charlton Heston

 

[Katie_3]

I like the movie To Kill a Mockingbird over the book...Gregory Peck is the greatest actor!

 

[keith99]

so with you on that. I went to it in the theatre and I was like is it over... okay is it over now... how about now.... wait it isn't over... WHHAAAHAHAHAHa

I tend to agree, which illustrates the limitations of film compared to books. The books were able to 'reset' things. The reader can (and likely will) stop after the one ring is destroyed. The reader then comes back and is in a way in a different story, the story(s) of the returning heros. Writing easily conveyed the thought that the 4 Hobbits of the quest were thought of far differently in the wide world than they wer in the Shire. The same did not come over in the films.

Heck, some loose ends are handled in the apendicies of the book, unusual but far from unique. A film has to handle such in the film or not at all. The reader can delve into the appendicies (or not) at their leisure and even if the content is boring it tends to draw the reader back into the joy of the body of the book.

 

[Isambard]

I would say the recent Scott Pilgrim film did an amazing job.

Also, not really what you asked but I would say Metro 2033 the game is far superior to the book on just about all levels, including atmosphere, story, and characterization.

 

[Cynthia85]

Harry Potter? Are you for real?
I mean: I can understand how people might *not* like the novels. There's no accounting for taste, after all.
However, virtually ALL of the "Potter"-films pretty much lacked what made the books special to begin with, focusing on the dazzle but losing the magic, so to speak. It's not the flying broomsticks or the raw skeleton of the plot that makes Rowling's novels stand out from the average crop of children's/young adult literature, you know?

I was given the first Harry Potter book to read, read the first 20 pages and never picked it up again. The film, however, I enjoyed a lot. But that was a few years ago and now that the hubby's read through the whole series I want to give it a go.