This just came up in a Philip K.Dick thread, and I was trying to think of examples other than Fight Club and some of the mmovies expanding on Philip K. Dick concepts. Anything else? There must be!

I take a lot of flak for this, but I'm sticking to my guns. Hannibal was a better movie than book. The book ending just didn't make any sense, wasn't true to the characters. The movie ending did.

Neither is on my list of favorite films/books, but there you go.

Maure

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Fight Club is on the edge... the book was great, but so was the movie... if one is better then the other, its pretty subtle... though i remember the movie more.
'Course, i've seen it more then i've read the book.

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http://lon.blogspot.com -- Its a slightly less eloquent me.

I dunno about 'better', but a timely example of a movie at least doing justice to a truly great book: "To Kill a Mockingbird".

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Lord of the Rings. I'm enjoying the films sooo much more than the dull, sexist books!

I'll tell you secrets so good you'll never tell a soul - Jeff Buckley

I was thinking of this the other day, and had one, but I've forgotten it.... will try to remember.


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Exit to Eden.



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As brilliant as the Lord of the Rings films are, and as much as I love them, (saw the two towers four times in theaters, including a whole day of school to see the first showing in my town) I can't call them better than the books. It just goes against every fiber of my being, and my opinion is in no way justifiable by any quantifiable aspects of either media. As for the sexism, well, maybe. The books were written a while ago, when books without female heroes were more common, and besides, they were supposed to be an epic in the same tune as Beowulf and the Oddyssey, and the only strong female character in beowulf is Grendel's mother, and she's not a good role model at ALL.

The other thing that I remembered I wanted to say after I got halfway across the website: the book fight club had a weird, random ending that had nothing to do with the rest of the themes of the book and seemed out of place, whereas the movie came to a good, dramatic close, in which the main character chose love over pain. Or something.

I liked Fight Club as a book and as a movie, but only when taken seperately.

Bridget Jones's Diary, I hated the book, but liked the movie.

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I thought Fight Club the movie was better than the book.

Interview With a Vampire; mostly because I get bored reading Anne Rice's descriptions of things.

I haven't read it, but my sister says Girl, Interrupted (or however its spelled/punctuated) was a better movie than book.

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Originally posted by phool2056:
The other thing that I remembered I wanted to say after I got halfway across the website: the book fight club had a weird, random ending that had nothing to do with the rest of the themes of the book and seemed out of place, whereas the movie came to a good, dramatic close, in which the main character chose love over pain. Or something.

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He chose love over pain? I was too busy grooving out to the Pixies as buildings blew up in beautiful slow motion to notice...

See you, space cowboy.

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I am a hunter of peace, chasing the mayfly known as love. -- Vash the Stampede

"Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased, and thus do we refute entropy."-- Spider Robinson
http://lon.blogspot.com -- Its a slightly less eloquent me.

The Princess Bride.

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Gingerly, I clunked down the tunnel, eager to surprise my prey.

*places cross and nails next to him*

Dune.

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Originally posted by Giabow:
I haven't read it, but my sister says _Girl, Interrupted_ (or however its spelled/punctuated) was a better movie than book.

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I totally disagree on this one, but it's probably a matter of taste rather than anything else. The book is told in a nonlinear way--it's like a bunch of photographs taken of different aspects of a building without any real reference to time. So it reads as a bunch of semi-interrelated vignettes.

The movie takes those vignettes, strings them together in some temporal order, then adds all this extra dramatic stuff that caricatures the experience of living at a place like McLean Hospital.

So...as someone who likes authenticity in madness (for various reasons), i go with the book on this one.

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Originally posted by Maure:
I take a lot of flak for this, but I'm sticking to my guns. Hannibal was a better movie than book. The book ending just didn't make any sense, wasn't true to the characters. The movie ending did.

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Medusa and I had a very interesting and spirited debate on this very subject (Hannibal the movie vs. Hannibal the book). I'm in total agreement with Maure here. Having Clarice run off with Hannibal was a betrayal of her character. I think that Thomas Harris became just a little too enchanted with Hannibal here, and found a way for him to get the girl (by drugging her).

The ending of the movie fixes this problem, quite nicely I think. I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but it's a helluva lot more believable, and it instilled in me a strange kind of respect for Hannibal.


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Originally posted by [bread and] Circus [bodyguard]:
I totally disagree on this one, but it's probably a matter of taste rather than anything else. The book is told in a nonlinear way--it's like a bunch of photographs taken of different aspects of a building without any real reference to time. So it reads as a bunch of semi-interrelated vignettes.

The movie takes those vignettes, strings them together in some temporal order, then adds all this extra dramatic stuff that caricatures the experience of living at a place like McLean Hospital.

So...as someone who likes authenticity in madness (for various reasons), i go with the book on this one.

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That makes sense. Knowing the type of person my sister is, I can see her disliking a non-linear sort of book.
However, I like that sort of thing. Maybe I should go read it now.

It's worth a read. And it's a quick one at that.

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Originally posted by Giabow:
I haven't read it, but my sister says _Girl, Interrupted_ (or however its spelled/punctuated) was a better movie than book.

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I disagree. The movie chopped out the last few pages of the book-- a wonderful scene with a Vermeer painting that really ties the whole thing together.

The movie was good, but the book was better.


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