Is there one single movie that is better than the book?
Fight Club
>>7513806
No Country for Old Men.
Fight Club is universally accepted as a better movie than book.
Cloud Atlas - the book was trying way too hard, I liked the movie better.
Roadside Picnic - Tarkovsky adapted a bad Sci-fi novel into Stalker
Shawshank Redemption and pretty much all Stephen King
2001: space confusion
>>7513806
clockwork orange
Most books aren't masterpieces, most books are just movie scripts but worse. Outside of our meme books, most stuff could get adapted into a much better movie (if they haven't already). Honestly, even some books /lit/ kikes to dickride are better as movies. American Psycho is probably the best example of it.
Wristcutters: A Love Story is significantly better than the short story it's based on; Kneller's Happy Campers. I saw the film first and, from watching it, thought there were lots of allusions or bits of story that had been cut short to fit in the film. Turns out, the film has significantly more plot, explores the world far more and is played more subtly with a better ending.
Next to that but not quite the same, the film of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead was adapted for screen and directed by its original author, Tom Stoppard. Not only is the casting and direction perfect but I think the time between the play being published and it being made into a film gave him time to really polish the writing, specifically the dialogue. The original text feels amateurish by comparison.
>>7513806
Most of Kubrick's adaptations. Not Lolita though.
>>7513844
>AP: The Movie
>better than the book
Ayo, ya dun goof'd. Just because the movie has shown you Patrick "The Bateman" Bateman's ass, doesn't mean that it surpasses the book structure, shopping-ad like prose and sweet San Pellegrino water bottles (glass ones, for enhanced taste and freshness) descriptions. Stay poor, homeless.
t. man who read the book eight times in three different languages
>>7513844
Book is better. It has the Tom Cruise scene and the scene where he stabs a kid at the zoo.
Macbeth, 2001 space odyssey etc, the list goes on
>>7513908
This man gets it.
>uh, hello Tom
>ye nose is bleeding
>(armani handkerchief)
>ayy, Tom, coke yn
>>7513914
>Mac the Beth
>movie
Unless you say "filmed play" or "flat-screened play", you should stick with /r/books, plebeu :^)
werckmeister harmonies (?)
Solaris, both of em.
>>7514016
There are three adaptations of Solaris.
>>7513914
>macbeth
shut the fuck up
>>7513864
> the casting [is] perfect
fuck Richard Dreyfus, fuck Tim Roth, they're both really bad actors
>>7513838
I agree. The score made it.
Barry lyndon
Such a superior piece that it's not even funny.
The Godfather
American Psycho
The Shining
A Clockwork Orange
Naked Lunch
To Kill A Mockingbird
I'm struggling to think of others.
>>7514702
Stalker is immensely beautiful and every time I watch it, I feel an urge to rewatch it there and then.
>>7513902
Go the fuck back to /tv/.
Holy shit I seriously want to punch every person that says American Psycho movie is better than the book. The book is INFINITELY better. The movie didn't get the tone, the character or the fucking themes at all.
>>7514758
That guy legit said the book was better though. Calm down.
>>7514758
>he thinks american psycho was good
>not realizing the only good book BEE wrote was The Rules of Attraction
Lord of the Rings
>>7514764
Fuck I misquoted
American Psycho and Holes
How Green Was My Valley
The Diary of a Country Priest
The Thin Red Line
Forrest Gump
The godfather duh
Also Stanley Kubrick bodied Stephen king with his rendition of the shining
Blade runner
>>7514771
They're the greatest fantasy films ever made but Tolkien was way comfier, the lore was much deeper and to top it all off the booksconverted me to Christianity
>>7515525
>mfw Stephen King doesn't like the movie
>mfw Kubrick somehow managed to take some mediocre horror novel and make it into a work of art
>>7513833
>Stephen king movies are better than the books
JUST
FUCK
OFF
>>7515689
http://www.collativelearning.com/the%20shining%20-%20chap%201.html
This is a good read.
>>7514720
>Naked Lunch
This one is a bit shaky. Both are fantastic, but different enough to be almost incomparable.
>tfw Cronenberg doesn't have the balls to adapt the Nova trilogy
>>7515717
I don't think it's a matter of balls as much as it is a matter of financing & desire.
>>7515744
Yeah, I know. It's a shame he's stopped doing body horror after eXistenZ, and now does safer stuff. Maybe since he adapted Cosmopolis he'll try an actually good Delillo book, but I can't imagine him ever touching anything as weird as Burroughs again
>>7515695
yea most of the movies suck too
Most obvious is Jaws. Great movie, shitty drug store thriller book.
>>7515695
king couldn't write his way out of a soggy cardboard box
>>7516259
>be me
>be Stephen King
>be stuck in a soggy cardboard box
>decide to write myself out of this
>start off with a group of children
>ok time to be more nostalgic about my childhood
>first love, first touches of death
>the children have to make a journey through the unknown land of soggiton
>they bond through various adventures
>ok that's enough childhood nostalgia, time to turn the clocks 20 years forward
>everybody is adult and has realised that they're stuck in a soggy cardboard box
>ok let me construct a love triangle between the main character, some other guy and the only girl in the story
>what's my page count? 700, time to wrap this up in 20 pages
>how can i make this quick i have to go to the supermarket before they close, son's been asking for yugioh cards
>come up with ending
>a UFO appears and the soggy box disappears and everyone's free
>the box was an alien experiment all along to test mankind
>ship to publisher, make another cool million
>movie deal, tv deal
>can afford some good yugioh cards
>successfully written myself out of a soggy cardboard box
All of Kubrick besides Lolita, Gone Girl, American Psycho
>>7515695
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Jurassic Park. It was a good book but the movie was far better imho.
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>>7516368
Burgess' A Clockwork Orange was much better than Kubrick's film (one of his weaker pictures, though not bad). It's one of the best English post-war novels written.
I preferred Blade Runner over Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
I know this site is hated on 4chan because "reddit" but:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptationDisplacement
>>7514691
I loved the movie, how different is the book
>>7514720
i thought the godfather book was equal to the movie
>>7516291
my sides
The Warriors, From a 70s nigger rapefest to a visionary, if pop-cultural, 80s movie.
"Teen Wolf 2" was slightly better than the book.
lord of the rings is the answer that comes to mind right away
but there might be more
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is as good a movie as a book, thanks to Johnny Depp becoming Raul and also the voice-over narration on some of those pivotal scenes from the book done verbatim
>>7518604
Came here to say this. The films are far better, but only because they took the books' greatest strengths and elided all the greatest weaknesses (mainly the grinding historian's prose. Dave son of Blave son of Spave son of Zave son of Margave raised his voice and spoke thus).
>>7513806
Lost Horizon (the 1937 version, not the musical abomination).
All Kubrick.
>>7518823
Except his Lolita adaptations
>>7518896
adaptation*
Starship Troopers, different to it's source, but still great
Being There
MASH
The French Connection
There Will Be Blood
>>7513806
Yes, pic related.
>>7513806
Silence of the Lambs. For example, the book has this really weird misplaced scene where a guy talk to Clarice about his fecal fetish in too much detail.
>>7516291
O I am laffin
Edge of Tomorrow
>>7519136
Pretty much. Book went too much into the usual sci-fi wankery about minutiae, in this case, the exo-suit.
Pretty much all pulpy shit is much better as a movie.
>>7513806
Pretty sure everyone can agree on The Godfather
