I just thought of one. Well, it's not a movie it's a miniseries, but whatever. Mists of Avalon. I loved the miniseries, I learned it was based on a book and then I felt the book was... ugh. It was alright, there were elements I thought made a little more sense, but it just dragged and dragged and dragged... it was also too romance novel-y for me. There were some parts that I could have done completely without.

Lotr is long in the beginning and get really amazing in the second part of the first book. I'm really amazed on how he manage to create such a world. And the movie was a great adaptation with good compromise.
I think it can depends on what we saw first and people prefer watching than reading. I like reading and get easily immersed in books.
But it happened for me, not for a book but for a comic adaptation : Constantine. I don't find the comic really that great as the movie really was cool ^^ It depends on everyones.

Well for me is the other way around. I read the book then went to watch the movie...
The book is Eragon. I read it first then wanted to compare it to the movie. The book was WAY better because It had good details. The movie missed alot of things from the book and the movie practicaly added some things in there too! Even though the book was long it was better then nothing!!!

I think the people who didn't like the LOTR book but loved the movie usually tend to not like literature in general that much. Either that, or they're younger and they saw the movie first and picked up the book later and were confused by how it wasn't ACTION ARAGORN the whole time. Tolkien is more of a mythology writer than an action writer. :D It's not a failing to dislike the books, it's just preference. I tend to see that the people who do like the book better were introduced to the book before the movie and tend to be very literary people. Personally, I'm in the camp that adores the book and likes the movies. I disliked the second movie, though. I had some higher expectations for it.

@ Gaina- I'm totally with you on Constantine. I loved the movie and found the comic to be kind of... annoying.

I'd have to say Harry Potter and Mists of Avalon, as well. Although I still read the books first, I never really cared for them, and the movies cut out a bunch of the dreck in the books, to the point where the movies were actually entertaining.

I guess I'm with Noir in the viewpoint of the childhood lover of JRR Tolkien. But then, I never found them dry writing and I read them when I was really young. I loved the first movie, with the exception of Arwen, whom I wanted to bitch slap. The second movie, though, I hated so badly that it sort of tainted my enjoyment of the third.

I can empathize with that one as I've felt that as well.
Occasionally I've had this happen but usually it's only when the book was released after the movie.

LOTR- My biggest one, I never made it through book one. I quite literally kept falling asleep while reading it and eventually gave up.

Loved the Mists of Avalon as a movie, it was another one of the uberly detailed books that put me to sleep.

You mentioned The Notebook and A Walk to Remember - both of those I liked much better than the book.

The Count of Monte Cristo, Interview with a Vampire (Mainly because the book and movie were darn near the same!)

But as stated before it's a pretty rare occurence.

Oh man.

Don't even get me STARTED about Memoirs of a Geisha. >__<;
I read that book far before the movie came out, and when I heard that there WAS a movie in production I freaked out (in a good way). I thought that it would remain true to the book, and that it would be wonderful.

Oh jeez, was I wrong. >__>;
The movie was a disgrace! They left out HALF the book. @[email protected];
And it was important things that they left out too! And on top of that, they added some scenes in that just came out of nowhere. D:

I was so excited when I went to see the movie in the theatre, but I actually found myself glancing at my watch every 10 - 15 minutes, wondering when it was going to end. It was THAT bad.
I was heartbroken, I had heard that the movie was supposed to be great and storywise it was supposed to be awesome.
Hah! No.

If any of you have read the book, I STRONGLY suggest you DON'T watch the movie. It's awful. </3

I thought that LoTR was great as a book. The movies were great, too. I was so disappointed that they had to leave out so many things (Tom Bombadil [sp?]), but they are equally good in my mind.

I actually didn't like the Harry Potter movies as much as the books, either...

Where the Red Fern Grows as a movie was better than the book, though.

Harry Potter. xD
The books are way better.

I think I may take an interest in those books, because both movies made me cry. However, a lot of people may have took the books into a different perspective. For me, I've always enjoyed the books moreso then movies, and that comes with close to all the books I've read that have a movie out about it. Ella Enchanted was one of those books I loved to pieces but I didn't enjoy the movie, in fact, it got rather boring. I'm just a big book reader, so I think I'm a little biased in my opinion, because I would rather read then watch the movie.

Hmm I know what you mean.
Though what i'm about to say is the opposite.
Well sort of.
Well no.
The book Speak. I really liked the book and the movie but in the book they had her kind of big like she gained weight from beiing depressed but she was stick skinny in the movie. And in the movie they made her and the guy be all happy before he raped her. There are just slight differences. I still liked both. I probably liked the movie better.:3


I've never read The Notebook or A Walk to Remember. Only seen the movies.xD

Oh I have done that ALOT...I think im just a visual person more than a mental! I love movies cause they are just so easy! But on the other hand, I do like reading cause then I can imagine myself in the part instead of some actress!

The Notebook was a real let down as a book. I loved the movie sooo much that when my friend let me borrow the book i was so excited. I sat down to read it right then. and the next day when i had finished the book. (im a fast reader most of the time XD ) i was like....'eh' the movie was omg so amazingly sweet and lovey! the book was... flat for lack of better descriptive words.

but thats really the only book/movie that comes to mind at the moment.

I love the mists of avalon book! the movie was just... eh for me though.

Originally Posted by Alegretto

Hrm. I'm going to have to join the legions who say Lord of the Rings. Why? I just simply couldn't stand Tolkien's dry, repetitive writing. yes yes, the concept is brilliant and all that delightful stuff. But he's soooo dry. ;_;

I'm going to agree with that as well. I just can't bear his writing style. I tried, I really did... and just made it out of the shire then I couldn't take any more!

I agree with the LOTR statement.. I tried to read the first book. I managed to get halfway through then it got too much for me.

I'm not one to read books with too much description because it gets too boring if you take a page and a half describing the grass to the fine details and the sky with abnormal clouds telling the shape of almost every single one. It's not for me and extremely boring.

I can't believe my brother managed to finish the books because he reads LESS than me and can't sit still longer than five minutes unless he's on the computer.

I'd have to disagree with those who keep saying Lord of the Rings. You have to remember that it was originally supposed to be only one story, and Fellowship of the Ring was the part where Tolkien was setting everything up. The movie could never compare to things such as this:




{SPOILERS RETURN OF THE KING NOVEL}

"...Snowmane wild with terror stood up on high, fighting with the air, and then with a great scream he crashed upon his side: a black dart had pierce him. The king fell beneath him. The great shadow descended like a falling cloud. And behold! it was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank...Down, down it came, and then, folding it's fingered webs, it gave a croaking cry, and settled upon the body of Snowmane, digging in its claws, stooping its long naked neck.
...Upon it sat a shape, black-mantled, huge and threatening. A crown of steel he bore, but between rim and robe naught was there to see, save only a deadly gleam of eyes: the Lord of the Nazgûl. To the air he had returned, summoning his steed ere the darkness failed, and now he was come again, bringing ruin, turning hope to despair, and victory to death. A great black mace he wielded.
...But Théoden was not utterly forsaken. The knights of his house lay slain about him, or else mastered by the madness of their steeds were borne far away. Yet one stood there still: Dernhelm the young, faithful beyond fear; and he wept, for he had loved his lord as a father. Right through the charge Merry had been borne unharmed behind him, until the Shadow came; and then Windfola had thrown them in his terror, and now ran wild upon the plain. Merry crawled on all fours like a dazed beast, and such a horror was on him that he was blind and sick.
... "King's man! King's man!" his heart cried within him. "You must stay by him. As a father you shall be to me, you said." But his will made no answer, and his body shook. He dared not open his eyes or look up.
...Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling some other voice that he had known.
...'Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!'
...A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye.'
...A sword rang as it was drawn. 'Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may.'
...'Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!'
...Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. 'But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.'

{End Spoilers}


Sometimes, though, I end up being more impressed with a film than I am with a book. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head right now, but I'll post in this topic when I do think of them. XD

See!! I can't even manage to get myself to read the spoiler... I got to the end of the first paragraph... To me his writing is way too slow paced and well as Alegretto said, dry. I can't manage to read much of that and sometimes if I come through books I want to read and can't get through certain parts... I'd get my mom to read it to me because she has more tolerance for that stuff than I but even she agreed that she couldn't read it... *dies*

I really tried to read the books, I wanted to but I couldn't.

Well, I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree, then. That's my favorite passage out of the entire novel, and I find myself re-reading it over and over again. XD

That's the really awesome thing about books, though; there's a writing style to suit everyone's tastes. ^_^ Anyway, I'm glad you at least tried to read the book; most people don't.

I think Fight Club the movie is better than the book Fight Club, but only slightly.
Don't get me wrong, it was a fantastic book, but the movie was amazing.

Originally Posted by Kale Dragonheart

See!! I can't even manage to get myself to read the spoiler... I got to the end of the first paragraph... To me his writing is way too slow paced and well as Alegretto said, dry. I can't manage to read much of that and sometimes if I come through books I want to read and can't get through certain parts... I'd get my mom to read it to me because she has more tolerance for that stuff than I but even she agreed that she couldn't read it... *dies*

I really tried to read the books, I wanted to but I couldn't.

Same for me! I got about as far as you with that spoiler!

Freodwyn- I do know it as one book because the copy I tried to read was just one very thick old book. As for the 'fellowship of the ring part' being set-up... Why did it have to be so slow and (imho) over-descriptive? I have an imagination and that much description just seems unnecessary. ): Still... I guess it provided excellent references for the visual aspects of the film!

You have to remember that "Lord of the Rings" came out during a time when people saw all elves as similar to the Keebler elves, when worlds like the one Tolkien envisioned didn't exist in literary or popular culture. Hence why it seems over-descriptive to some people now; he needed it to be that descriptive for the audience of the time to understand what his world was like.

...I love how I've suddenly become the Tolkien expert. XD

Originally Posted by Kale Dragonheart

See!! I can't even manage to get myself to read the spoiler... I got to the end of the first paragraph... To me his writing is way too slow paced and well as Alegretto said, dry. I can't manage to read much of that and sometimes if I come through books I want to read and can't get through certain parts... I'd get my mom to read it to me because she has more tolerance for that stuff than I but even she agreed that she couldn't read it... *dies*

I really tried to read the books, I wanted to but I couldn't.

Oh man, really? I read the whole passage and even got a little chill from it.
I guess I'll always be a fan of the Lotr books. xD

I watched "the notebook" a long time ago, and never read the book! I agrea with you, it was much better ^ 3^

Originally Posted by Apple

Harry Potter. xD
The books are way better.

i definitely agree on this one... HP movie sucks... they've cut through
many scenes from the books which i think is crucial in the flow of the
story.. they also should have made some of the new actors they've casted
to take acting workshops before starting the movie... especially danielle
raddclife (did i spelled that right?)
and why in the world did the Durmstrung students need to breakdance.. XC

As sad as it is, you're right the movie was waaaaaay better then the book "The Notebook"