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 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.

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.

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}











{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.

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

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^

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