Will there ever be a film made that is better than the book?
>>63011533
Godfather II
>>63011533
Yes, its called The Shining.
>>63011533
The Hobbit
>>63011533
Jurassic Park. Book was boring as fuck.
the shining
The Shining. Suck it Stephen King!
>>63011551
>>63011554
>>63011603
>>63011604
>>63011612
You're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak
Misery
>>63011533
Lotr
Fight club
Shining
2001
American psycho
Forrest Gump, The Shining, Jurassic Park, The Godfather
Those were all better than the book, especially Forrest that book is terrible
>>63011533
fight club exists
Jaws
The Godfather
most Stephen King adaptations
Ur mums sex tape
Literally any film with a novelisation
Willy Wonka
>>63011533
Friday Night Lights
Full Metal Jacket
Forrest Gump
Psycho
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Thing
The Silence of the Lambs
Das Boot
The Untouchables
Die Hard (the original)
Goodfellas
The Shawshank Redemption
>>63011682
>>63011636
>Forrest Gump was a book
Didn't even know this.
>>63011700
Nope. None.
>>63011661
>>63011636
>The Godfather
Uh you don't get to bring pleb opinions.
Blade Runner is superior to Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
>>63011635
Disagree with 2001, agree with LOTR. Why can no one admit that Tolkien can't prose to save his life? World building is his only strong suit. The 2001 book was much less boring than the movie, but the movie was technically exceptional. Haven't read the rest.
>>63011730
the book is a decent read but the movie is one of the greatest of all time
Rambo
Watchmen
>>63011729
If you honestly believe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is better than Willy Wonka then you need to leave.
100x better than the novel
>>63011700
also The Exorcist
The Graduate
The Social Network
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Princess Bride
Once Upon a Time in America
and Mrs. Doubtfire
>>63011754
But 2001 wasn't based on the book, anon.
>>63011783
Stalker
>>63011661
>most stephen king adaptions
No, most of them are garbage. Perhaps you have a limited view of just how many of his stories have been adapted.
>>63011813
The Shawshank Redemption is literally the only one I can think of that is vastly superior to the source material. All of his other adaptions (even Kubrick's Shining) fall short.
>>63011808
I know. So what? It was written concurrently by a world class author.
>>63011533
Satantango is better than the book. The book is great but the movie is a masterpiece.
No Country For Old Men is significantly better than the book which is among McCarthy's weakest efforts (though he is obviously a genius).
I'm sure there are plenty of others but those are the first two that came to mind
Stalker
>>63011730
Don't worry, no charge for them.
The Shining BFTOd king's entire existence
Also forgot There Will Be Blood.
Some anon mentioned Jaws and the movie is leagues above the book.
The Orchid thief
This. But that's just my opinion.
Already been done long ago.
>>63011551
There's no Godfather II book (that is actually the story of the movie)
>books are good
When will this meme die?
LoTR movies are much better than the source material, which was mess and unreadable.
>>63011952
>>63011793
These are true. The rest of this thread is a lie
>>63011793
This is the most offensive answer. It's complete trash compared to the book. And I'm sure it was toned down because Bale wanted to launch his big Hollywood career with this movie
>>63011952
Oh man, this for sure. The editor who told Anthony Burgess it was OK to write an entire book in gibberish cockney should have been fired on the spot.
I really don't understand the way Americans pull the middle finger. Why don't you just make a proper fist and stick your middle finger up? Curling your other 3 fingers so they're...half up or whatever the fuck is just awkward and dumb.
cloud atlas was better than the book.
>>63011979
Godfather II was partially based on the Godfather book and Puzo later went on to write a sequel to The Godfather called The Sicilian, which spawned another sequel The Godfather Returns.
Both were written well after the release of the Godfather II and were, quite frankly, shite.
Akira and Ghost in the Shell
>>63011952
This. The book is great but the movie is on a whole other level.
>>63012077
Though, to be fair, the Godfather Returns was not written by Puzo.
>>63011845
if you look at them as adaptations sure, but if you compare which conveys a more powerful story. Shining film defeats the book for being more emotional and generally haunting. The book is far more super natural and absurd. The film is just more potent at what it does. It doesn't matter if it's not a good adaptation, the movie is better.
That's the case with a lot of Kings work. King often focuses too much on one character and it makes for a weaker experience than if a film explores more than one.
>>63011746
This. Androids sucks.
>>63012089
But GitS movie didn't even have yuri.
>>63011688
Adderall child detected. You still mad about that "F" you got on your book report in fourth grade? Come back when your voice changes, son.
>>63011784
You're wrong. Deal with it, nigger.
>>63012055
The book is amusing and gets repetitive, like all of his other novels. The movie actually has pacing. The same is true for Rules of Attraction. Haven't seen the other adaptations of his novels.
>>63011952
what the fuck is with you dumbfuck Kubrick worshipers?
the book is a far, far better work and Burgess was leagues ahead of Kubrick as an artist in general. Grow up and read more you disgusting young men
>>63012064
Americans do that exactly. Jennifer Lawrence, you see, is a woman.
Edge of Tomorrow.
>>63011998
>I'm secretly ashamed of the fact that I don't read
don't worry though bro, from the looks of this thread nobody else on this board does either.
>>63011928
There's a book? Fuck, I better read that.
>>63012158
Name a book that was made better by novelization. They're always shameless money grabs by no name authors. 2001 and 2010 don't count.
>>63011845
I wouldn't call Shawshank vastly superior. I think it's probably the best adaption, but on par with the novella. It's not like FD spun gold from straw.
I used to say Stand By Me was better, but I rewatched it recently and it doesn't quite hold up.
To Kill a Mockingbird and the novel's incredible.
>>63011533
Harry Potter
because the writing was so bad
>ctrl+f and nothing.
The author wrote the screenplay, so I'm sure that helped.
>>63011533
jesus, /lit/, your scarf is tied so tight around your neck it's cutting off the oxygen to your brain.
>will a car ever be made as well as a plane
>will a chair ever be crafted with as much care as a desk
>will a light bulb ever be perfected in the same way a candle is
yes, you pretentious twat. now go back to reading your hardcover copy of lolita by firelight.
>>63012313
I think some of the change FD made to the novella when he adapted it for the screen made for a more powerful work (i.e. Tommy hearing from his cellmate bragging that he killed Andy's wife and her lover, as opposed to some "rich lawyer's wife" and a golfer; Tommy being killed by the warden instead of being moved to another prison).
Those little changes add to Andy's transformation over the course of the story and provide more emotional impact to the audience, which (imho) makes for a stronger story.
>>63011533
you mean again? probably. also look at that male hand trying to oppress her
Children of Men is better than the book.
>unironically using words like "novel" and "novella" instead of just saying "book"
its almost impossible to be better than the book, the book can go so much further than the film, you can fully immerse yourself in a book become the character whereas in a film you are always the observer, but when a book and a film are both really good it make the experience ten times better
>>63012373
I wouldn't call it better, but it certainly does the book justice. And that music....
>>63011928
>Cringe: The Movie
No.
>>63012067
No it wasn't. It's an okay adaptation but not better than the book.
>>63011554
I like both but prefer the book, though I do wonder how I'd feel if I would've seen the movie first.
>>63012382
:^)
>>63012055
>thinks the book is good
Either an edgelord or a high schooler who thinks he's patrician
>>63012187
>>63011533
the shining, so i've been told
>>63012735
>high schooler who thinks he's patrician
4chan in a nutshell m8
>>63011635
>>63011754
LotR books are way better than the movies.
except the part where merry and pippin are in the enting forest. That shit was boring as fuck and made me stop ther for 1 year. In the end i skipped that part.
HARRY POTTER XD XD XDXD
>>63012187
No. The stupid Catholic moralist ending alone ranks the book lower.
>>63013268
This is the only correct answer, even though the movies are utter shit.
>>63011631
Confirmed for never having read Misery, so many great scenes removed
Jaws. The book was shit, but the movie is easily one of the top 20 greatest.
Any of you guys read Sutter Kane?
>>63012055
>Being this retarded
You're so fucking wrong, you nigger.
>>63012055
>Bale wanted to launch his big Hollywood career with this movie
One of the dumbest things I've ever read on /tv/.
>>63013268
Doesn't matter if you're being ironic; it's true. Rowling is a shitty pulpy author. Try read those books now, especially the later ones. Her writing is TEDIOUS as fuck. Kids only read em for the plot.
>>63013343
>One of the dumbest things I've ever read on /tv/
Are you new to /tv/? Are you from reddit????????????????
>>63013345
I was just shitposting but now that i think about it, you are right. they both just suck cock though
>>63013250
yea the Two Towers is a major drag. Weakest film to boot.
>>63013483
The Two Towers EE shits all over any version of The Return of the King you care to mention.
>>63013384
Let me rephrase. It's one of the dumbest things I've read on /tv/ that wasn't just blatant shitposting.
>>63013532
>>>/reddit/
And don't come back, you fucking çuck.
>>63013513
each to their own it's a slim difference. It's carried by the powerful performances in Rohan and since those scenes are some of the best of the trilogy I'd have no passion to debate it too strongly.
It's the only of the films that could do with a CGI special edition and I'm still not really over Elves in Helms as cool as their Archers are.
>>63012187
That 21st chapter seriously ruins almost everything the first 20 built up to.
Interview with the Vampire
This. The book had the protagonists standing around pontificating about life, the universe, and somesuch, and that irritating "psalm-singer".
The movie is a hell of a lot better off without that shit.
>>63013575
Are you the guy that said that Christian Bale wanted to use American Psycho to launch his Hollywood career? If so, you're really dumb.
>>63012187
Burgess admits he only wrote it for the paycheck, and he intentionally tried to write the most juvenile and degenerate book he could. He's on record as considering it trash, and he hates that it is what he is best known for.
But yeah, pretend its literature.
>>63012269
The star wars prequels.
>>63013629
Go back to reddit, feggit.
>>63012002
upvote for you, friend ;-))
>>63013696
Telling others to go back to reddit is such a reddit tier comeback. You're a stupid person.
Fahrenheit 451. Author went nuts with the adjectives and mushy descriptions. Gawd. Story is good, we should burn more books. Oh yeah and brown people.
>>63013779
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>>63013816
Whatever you say, dum dum.
>The Godfather
>Drive
>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (original with Gene Wilder not the DUDE SO WACKY DEPP LMAO version)
>Any adaptation of Stephen King
>>63011793
No
>>63011554
this
>>63012247
Wrong. In the book you actually see what The Chief, however in the movie they didn't feature that so he's just a silent Indian for most of it.
>>63011533
Name one book better? The books don't have audio or video, and are boring as fuck to read.
>>63011533
The Silence of the Lambs
>>63011533
Holes.
>>63011533
Pahalniuk said Fight Club had a better ending than his original. I don't agree tho.
>>63011635
>American Psycho
Lolno
>>63013939
Aren't they pretty much the same? I haven't read Fight Club in a long time.
>>63011533
Divergent
>>63013975
Fuck, I ctrl+f for Holes as well, but the idiot forgot to post the picture! All this bad luck is the result of my good-for-nothing, pig-stealin' great-great-grandfather, I tell you!
>>63011746
No. It strips away the entire question of subjective self-realisation and existentialism. It replaced the paranoia and mind games and replaced it with action sequences.
>>63011533scott pilgrim vs the world
Inb4reddit
>>63014019
sing to me while I drink from the stream and I might forgive you.
I literally cringe when I read 'Based on Novel' at the start of the movie.
Why is this acceptable?
>>63014086
Scott was an entirely different person due to Cera's casting and the ending was shit.
>>63014115
"If only, if only"
the woodpecker sighs
“The bark on the trees was as soft as the skies.”
while the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely;
crying to the moon,
“If only, if only…”
>>63011533
The faggot
>>63014086
both are equally shit and gay
CIA Rises
>>63013989
The movie was better than the book you tremendous cocksucking autist. It is a fact.
Divergent
protip: you cant prove me wrong
>>63014008
No. In the book the bombs fail to go off and the protagonist dies and goes to heaven/winds up in a mental ward.
The film version of Gone Girl was better than the book, imo.
>>63011635
>>63013989
>American Psycho
Fuck no!
The novel's Patrick Bateman was almost a late 80s version of Humbert Humbert. The movie's Patrick Bateman, while brilliantly portrayed by Bale (credit, where credit's due), just didn't work as the sort of unreliable narrator the story requested.
>>63011746
Nope
Won all top five Academy Awards.
>>63011845
King is a hack writer. You're a pollen if you think his grocery store tier novels are as good as the adaptations of It, Stand By Me, Shining, etc
>>63012269
>2001 and 2010 don't count.
They weren't "novelizations" anyway. "2001" was what you'd call a cross-media project nowadays, while the "2010"-movie was an adaptation of the corresponding novel anyway
>>63012055
Ellis is garbage.
>>63014831
>thinking oscars mean shit
>>63014363
They both are complete shit anyways.
Neverending story
Starship Troopers
Die Hard
ummm...probably some others.
>inb4 people pretend to like StarShip Troopers the book.
its not very good
>>63014930
>its not very good
M-mommy this science fiction book doesn't confirm my limited world view, waaah.
>>63014930
No need for pics like this on here. Report it
https://sys.4chan.org/tv/imgboard.php?mode=report&no=63008953https://sys.4chan.org/tv/imgboard.php?mode=report&no=63008953
>>63014955
pretty much the response I expect.
It's simply not well written.
His politics are idiotic but plenty of Sci-Fi writers have dumb beliefs but can write a competent story. Making a parody of it is the only way it could work,
>bbbbbut my right wing fantasy
its not even right wing...its just a bad story with terrible characters.
>>63015017
>It's simply not well written.
Well that is some fantastic and scathing critical analysis.
>>63014930
>neverending story
Motherfucker you never even read the book talking shit like that.
>>63014008
The movie tightens everything up, changes some scenes, has a different ending. After watching the movie, the book feels like a rough draft.
>>63015262
Even little things, like changing "Joe" to "Jack" worked better.
I wouldn't hate seeing a movie based on Survivor though.
>>63014967
>>63014930
Because /sp/ faggots always post unrelated shit to their garbage posts.
They act like Facebook normies - which I bet half they are.
This place needs to get rid of its mobile CSS and ban all mobile IPs.
>>63015442
>implying tits aren't always relevant
I want newfigs to not exist anymore.
>>63015566
>newfags
I love your projection, /sp/ cancer. Sure tits are fine - if they're on an actress, faglord. Not some retard ho-ha picture. Take that shit back to /sp/, /b/, or /trash.
>>63013345
Doesn't everyone read books for the plot?
>>63015650
No. Example
Harry is a wizard and he fights his nemesis voldemort with no nose.
there's the plot.
The writing is the rest
>>63015639
Wrong. Tits are always relevant. Deal with it projecto.
>>63011533
I've never read the book, but I've heard its pretty meh. Movie is great.
>>63015912
>lmao im catposting XD tits are always relevant
Your justification for shitposting is belliegerent at best.
Plebposting from /sp/ cancer. Your last reply.
>>63015960
>4CHAN IS SRS BSNS 4 MATURE PATRICIANS LIKE ME
No one would miss you if you just killed yourself.
>>63011533
The Prestige
Apocalypse Now > Heart of Darkness
>>63012055
Impressive, very nice.
>>63011533
Literature is a better storytelling medium than cinema, so as far as storytelling goes, no, you will not find a film better than the book. But I'd say the godfather was a better film than the godfather was a book.
