ITT: books who's movie adaptation was better

the Aviary too, but that's in JP3.
Hammond rolling off a cliff and being nipped at by Compies.

Recently... Annihilation. But that probably wasn't too hard of a feat to accomplish.

Fight Club

>evil Hammond
>unhollywood ending
Considering Spielberg has made a career out of expertly crafted, meticulously executed shlock, no surprise he didn't stay true to the story.

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DELETE THIS

youtube.com/watch?v=SQkygZdZ_Vk
theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/19/peter-jackson-battle-of-the-five-armies-i-didnt-know-what-the-hell-i-was-doing-when-i-made-the-hobbit
independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/peter-jackson-admits-the-hobbit-was-a-shambles-i-just-starting-shooting-without-most-of-it-prepped-a6740136.html

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A clockwork orange

lies

Spielberg hates nuance and wants every film to have a happy ending. His adaptation of The Minority Report is a prime example of this. In the original short story:
>getting rid of the precog system would send society into chaos and martial law would be enacted
>the precogs are deformed mutants who wouldn't ever be able to function in society or on their own
>the ending is very downbeat
Spielberg got rid of all of this. In his film the precog system is shut down and doesn't have any negative impact on society, the precogs are normal looking ESPs, and everyone lives happily ever after.

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Blade Runner
John Carpenter's The Thing

However, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Who Goes There? are both very good. I'm not insulting either of them. I simply prefer their film adaptation.

Stephen King BTFO

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The movie is always better. Film is simply the superior art form.

Drive
Jaws
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Based on the tag line, I assume this is shota porn.

at first I thought you were referring to 'Based on the best-selling novel'

>Love Knows No Boundaries

could've sworn the line was "Love is blind"

No one has said The Godfather yet

are you implying there is ONE phrase along those lines, and the poster fucked it up? Or are you saying you thought Room's tagline was different?

>the little kids fucking murder the old man days after the danger has passed
it was a different time

Only indirectly.

> ONE phrase along those lines, and the poster fucked it up
Yeah man, you never know. People are very strange these days.

still felt bad desu
goddamn little shits
imagine a jurassic park, book and movie, without the constant complaining and fucking it all up for the adults
at least the boys idolization of alan make him okay at the start

they toned it down enough for the movie though. book Lex was unbearable

JP is a novelization of a screenplay, so it's not really surprising

Blade Runner movie and book are completely different stories. I don't think they can be compared.

You can compare scenes, though. For example, in the book the scene where Deckard visits the Rosen/Tyrell company (and sees the owl) is an incredible, intense scene in the book. For the movie, even though some of the dialogue is the same, it's completely different.

Now, I'm a big fan of the movie and I thought the book was pretty good, but I really think they should be judged on their own merits and not as the same work in a different medium.

Meh, I don't know. Looking back, I prefer the book. The JP movie was only so well-received because of the groundbreaking effects. They still hold up well, and when did it come out? '96 maybe?

That's disingenuous to say that it was only well-received because of the effects. It's a fun movie with fun characters, a good score, an exciting thrill adventure...

It's only disingenuous if I don't really believe that...and I do. Yes, there were good characters (all in the book as well), a good score, and adventure. But many films have those. JP was HUGELY popular, and, in my opinion, the main reason for that was Stan Winston's dinosaurs.

still disingenuous.

Is that guy dabbing in Bateman's portrait?

I think you need to look that word up.
Anyway, I said:
>the JP movie was only so well-received because of
The 'so' is important there. You are right that it had other virtues, but the absolute craze around that first movie was definitely mostly driven by the animatronics and effects. That, and the subject matter. People fucking love dinosaurs.

>That, and the subject matter.
told you you were being disingenuous.

Meh, same difference. The subject matter was dinos, and the 'effects' WERE the dinos. My point stands.
JP won the Oscars for best effects and for sound. It didn't win any actor, director, or writing awards.
I'm not slamming your precious movie, dude. Just telling you my opinion of what made it such an insane blockbuster at the time. I saw it in theaters at around the age of 10, and I fucking loved it. I still like the movie, but I prefer the book. It has all the characters, most of the story (and more), and all the excitement. The movie's one advantage over the book is Winston's dinos. Sorry if you don't agree.

hellraiser

Pleb, the book was way better.

I disagree

Fuck off Stephen

>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
It's really better? I'm about to start the book, I've heard good things
I loved the movie so I bought the book cause I just want more of the same

>any of those movies
>good

They toned down the movie compared to the book which I did't like but atleast they got rid of the cringey "I want to be your abortion" line

Barry Lyndon, American Psycho, Fight Club, The Godfather

They kept the right amount of edge and pushed the rebel but made him less like, legit crazy

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>it's almost the end of the novel and the park is back online, the characters are all safe in reinforced buildings, the boat has been called and the raptor babies culled, the military is on their way to get them, Rex was neutralized, and all the plot threads are wrapped up with the characters just waiting for their ride home
>Grant demands they go and literally scour the island for raptor eggs so they can monotonously count them one by one despite the fact that the island is about to be fucking obliterated

Jesus Christ Crichton learn how to wrap that shit up

there's always one more waterfall to careen over

>books who's movie adaptation was better
Doesn't have to be a masterpiece, just better than the book.

>Everybody lives happily ever after.
Never happened. The movie ending is Tom Cruise dreaming the happy ending inside the prison.

Inferior remake to the Tommy Wiseau original.

Fuck, Hellraiser was a great film. Still can't believe that was his debut directorial, what a wasted talent.

>who's
The word is "whose" and I don't know how none of the other 37 posters in this thread haven't already corrected you.

About to start reading this. Is the movie better? I loved the movie.

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I, for one, liked Jurrassic Park.

it's practically the same story beat for beat, and I really enjoyed the first couple hundred pages, but it just got too dry during the second half.

I've not read the book, but I would blindly believe you if you meant the tinker tailor tv series
absolute masterpiece

never seen the series, but I've heard it's supposed to be top-tier.

It was a little weak, but the reason Grant gave when Gennaro raised the same objection you did was that he wanted to know if any raptors had already gotten off the island. Yeah, we can doubt his ability to ascertain that, but it wasn't a complete wtf moment.

>Film is simply the superior art form
right
>The movie is always better
wrong

yeah, it wasn't bad. I read it while abroad and it was a fun book that I've yet to read a second time.

Thank you. Thought I was the only one.

>Bladerunner
Get the fuck out. Do Androids Dream is leagues better than the movie. The movie barely touched on the importance of owning animals, and completely got rid of empathy boxes, mercerism, mood organs, and Buster Friendly

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Helen of Troy
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