Anyone seen the movie K-PAX? I watched it once, and really liked it, and a couple years later ran into the book. Figuring that the story in the book would be more detailed, I started reading it. And to my horror, discovered that it read exactly like the movie. I was shocked, not least because the reason the movie was better was because of how closely it followed the book. It was a great story, but the movie took it, told it better and with wonderful visual. A very shocking experience for me.

I didn't like KPax the movie, or the book. And I love Kevin Spacey...

The only time I ever said the movie was better than the book was when I went to see The Prestige. It is easily one of the best movies I've ever seen. But the book is boring!

Oh my gosh, my friend is in love with Nicholas Sparks books! xD She adored The Notebook (book ver.) so much! She likes the movie too but not as much as the book itself.

I think Ella Enchanted came out better as a movie than it did for the book. Also, Harry Potter the first movie. Well, the book and the movie was equally good but the effort in making the movie itself was simply amazing! Of course it died out as time passes but the first one was definitely good.

Whoa!
O__O

I have to say, that I've yet to come across a movie that is far better then the counterpart book that I read. It's usually the other way around.
:'D

However, I'm sure I just haven't hit on it yet.
What I'll have to do is either read more or watch more movies.
x'D

Books that are based on movies all tend to suck more than the movie. :B It's rare for me to like a movie more than the book it's based off of, though.

Some I like equally, which is pretty rare, too. Like Practical Magic, the book was awesome and I love the movie, too, but they're so different that they're really separate from each other for me.

Meh...I have to say I disagree. The majority of books I've read that were turned into movies...ones I've seen that is, where severly lacking or rewritten so off course of the actual book. Sure LOTR was pretty awesome as a movie, but I rather prefer using my own imagination of what the characters look like than relying on what hollywood decided the characters look like. It's one of my major pet peeves. STOP SELLING OUT WRITERS! Sheesh.
Its terribly sad to me, that so much good literature is made into mediocre movies with special effects out the wazoo.

I don't know...
I don't think I've ever personally considered anything a case of this.
I mean, yes, slightly Lord of the Rings- but only because I enjoy constantly making comments on everything, as it all seems so full of INNUENDO to me.

I agree with the people who said Lord of the Rings is better as a movie rather than a book. I never finished reading the books because they just did not capture my attention. I'd also have to say that I thought Ella Enchanted was another book that didn't live up to the movie (even though some might say that the movie wasn't that great). I read part of that too and decided that it wasn't really necessary to finish it.

It depends on if you read the book or watched the movie first. I was sorely disappointed by the movie adaptation of The Nothern Lights (The Golden Compass). I've quit reading the Harry Potter books by number six and I've seen the movies up to date. To tell you the truth, the movies are horrible.

However, I like reading and watching "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner.

I was completely disappointed when I read "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson. I couldn't stand Neville in the book. He was an extremely unlikeable character with a harsh personality whose actions were equally rough. This probably the one instance when I can say that I did like the movie better then the book. The movie version of Neville was much more personable and you could connect with more easily. There was more feeling and depth to the movie then to the book.

Forrest Gump. I love love love love love love the movie!

Then I read the book. I did enjoy it, but it was outlandish and hard to take seiously sometimes. Not to mention, Forrest was a far more endearing character in the movie. I like the ending of the movie alot better as well.

And I do believe that is the only instance in which I enjoyed the movie more.

I actually read LOTR after I saw the movies and indeed, I liked the books better.

One movie/book thing that rather shocked me was the Phantom of the Opera. I have seen MANY different Phantom movies and series, and so I thought the book would be one astounding piece of literature. While it WAS a good book (after all, the book WAS the original), the charactesr models and development was hardly anything to write home about and the interaction was disappointing.

Also, the Golden Compass movie... the book is QUITE different. well, it SEEMS so anyway. I compared notes with my sister as she only watched the movie, and I only read the book, haha. Anyways, it seems, from what I've read and her description of the movie, that I would probably have liked the movie better, although the book does explain things in more detail.

Silence of the Lambs, or so my partner says anyway.
Also I preferred th Jurassic Park movie, though I think it's for sentimental reasons as it was one of my favourite childhood films. The book's good too.

I've not really read a lot of books that are also movies.

I can't think of anything were the movie was better. For both Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice, the book was better (more so for Queen of the Damned). Lord of the Rings was an amazing piece of art by Tolkien. The movies were alright. Amusing to say the least. Twilight, books were better. Harry Potter, books were better... I don't know. :sweat:......Actually now that I think of it Party Monster was a better movie than book... wow, I found one! Yay. :P

Hmm... *thinks*

I'm going to go for something a little different and say The Hunchback of Notre Dame. :) Maybe I'm just a sucker for Disney movies from when I was little, but I absolutely adore them. I haven't finished the book, admittedly, but from what I have read... Well, it's not like the movie attempted to recreate the book very faithfully, but I simply greatly prefer Disney's interpretation. :P

Howl's Moving Castle is a tough call for me. I love the book and movie both, but sort of in different ways. I'd say they roughly even out. :)

I can't say I've ever loved a movie and hated the book..
But I usually read the type of books that would never become a movie anyways. xD

Yeah... I loved Stardust the movie. It was awesome. The sort of movie fairytale I'd love to see made more often, instead of stuff like Spiderwick. The novel, however...Well, as much as I love Neil Gaiman, I was disappointed with that one. In the first half of the story nothing much was happening, and the events were described in a quite detailed way. But in the latter half there was so much things going on, but described so hastily and roughly as if Mr. Gaiman was in a hurry because his publisher was pressing him with deadlines - and it probably was so. :P And there were no pirates and captain Shakespeare. D:

@ Katurine * WHAT?! No Captain Shakespeare? I loved him! He was the best part of the movie... Wait, so how'd they get the idea to add him?

Originally Posted by ScarletStratholme

*cough* lotr *cough*

NOOO ;_; How can you say that! LOTR was fantastic! This troligy is art! *tolkien fangirlie*

I loved the movie the note book haven't yet to read ither book.

mmm, same thing for me with the notebook

I havent yet seen a movie better than the book. The closest was the fourth Harry Potter movie, which was just as good as the book...

...though I think some of it had to do with Robert Pattinson getting killed off. >_<

I had the opposite. I loved the books and hated the movie so bad I bought the DVD just to break it.

It was twilight.

Interview with the Vampire - Crushing disappointment!

I love the film (especially Lestat- one of Mr. Cruise's finer points, I must say), it's fantastic, but when I read the book it was so dull... Just Louis whining and whining in the third person, interview format :angry: Bloody awful!

However, I had also been given the two follow-ups in The Vampire chronicles (The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned) and I loved them to pieces, mainly because of the Brat Prince :)

For some peculiar reason, I liked the movie adaption of The Great Gatsby, but didn't care much for the book. It kind of helps that I skimmed the book, rather than actually read it.