ITT: the book was better
Post shit movies that had the potential to be as good as the book, but failed miserably.
>>63047276
>ITT: the book was better
All the time. Exceptions would be Stephen King adaptations but that's only because King is maxipleb.
Has there ever been a movie that's been better than the book?
>>63047276
The book was pretty bad too, actually.
This, so much. I know "it cut out the best parts" is a trite excuse, but they really butchered this adaptation. I don't even care about the gore they cut out, but so many other scenes didn't make it in
>The U2 concert where Bateman and his friends are in the front row, could not be any less interested in being there, but Bateman then hallucinates and thinks Bono is talking to him.
>The conference call Bateman has where he and his friends are trying to decide where to eat for 2 hours
>At a nice dinner with his girl, he gives her a urinal cake dipped in chocolate and watches with glee as she struggles to eat it.
>When Patrick has dinner with his snotnosed little brother, who gets the good table at Dorsia's (the restaurant that Patrick couldn't even get into)
>>63047361
I liked the shining a lot more as a film than the book
>>63047276
dont even remember the movie, but i dont think they could properly portray the level of insanity of these men after the sphere took hold of them
rip in peace crichton, you are truly missed ;-;
>>63047551
The book scared me a bit more but overall I also like the movie better.
>>63047331
>All the time.
> Dances with Wolves
> Who Framed Roger Rabbit
books were unreadable
>>63047276
Firestarter
Wayward Pines
>>63047396
This is true.
>>63047276
Michael Crichton books were ALWAYS better than the movies.
I've read JP1, 2, Andromeda Strain, Airframe, Timeline, and Sphere.
Still waiting to see if they ever make an Airframe movie
All the Pretty horses was a better book
could have been a masterpiece movie, but studio butchered it
>>63048017
Read Westworld and then watch the movie. Scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
>>63048056
Wasn't aware of that one. I'll read it next thanks.
>>63047429
Also the whole story with his ex Bethany , where he makes her read is 'Nigger on the wall' poem
The wachmen movie ending is better than the book.
>>63047276
>the book was better
Name a single adaptation where this was not true
A better thread would be films that improved upon books.
>>63048152
nop
>>63048017
all great books, read state of fear
>>63047276
Most of Crichton's adaptations fall short of the books, even the good ones desu.
I read Jurassic Park after the movie and was salty for awhile about it. Mostly little stuff like swapping the roles of the two kids, making the mostly useless girl the tech savvy one, and not getting to see Hmond get eaten alive by little dinosaurs like the ones we saw in The Lost World.
>>63047361
Jaws, easily. The Exorcist too.
>>63048206
JP2 movie was what the first one should've been tone-wise. Book 1 was pretty sinister and violent, and if based Jimmy Cameron directed it, it would've been more like that.
>>63047276
very unhappy that this is getting made into a shitty show
>>63048172
Arguably, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
>>63047429
>>63048151
Now I'm not so sure about reading the book
I fucking loved that film, but my fear is that as soon as I start reading the book, it will turn into shit
>>63047361
bladerunner
>>63048293
Read the book. It's worth it.
>>63047361
lord of the rings
>>63048385
Jumanji
>>63048271
I would trade 2001 for a Kubrick version of this in a heart beat
>>63047331
>Naked Lunch
Only pleb sounds to be you
>>63048172
Fight club
>>63048293
I love the movie and book. The movie definitely has a much different and less complex tone.
>>63048017
You should read Pirate Latitudes, awesome and very realistic and grounded pirate adventure. His last book too.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Contact (1997)
>mfw when watching these turds
The movie was actually pretty funny, but wasn't supposed to be.
>>63047939
>Firestarter
fucking rainbird
This should have been as funny as the book, instead it totally sucked.
>>63048152
Kek
They had a chance to start a great new spy-action franchise, but royally fucked up.
>>63048331
as a big fan of Blade Runner, I thought the book was great and deeper.
BR was pretty though
William F. Nolan did the screenplay, so I had hopes; but they just really fucked up.
>>63047429
The movie is a good adaptation, it condenses a long sprawling book into a feature length film and still mostly nails the tone. The movie's crimes are maybe not being dark enough and being pretty explicit about whether or not it was all in Patrick's head. But that doesn't negate the fact that the vast majority of the movie does right by the source material.
>>63049497
the book, by nature of being a book, had more time to explore more themes in a deeper way, but holy shit was PKD a bad writer
>>63048172
the shining
the book is horseshit
I can understand why that kept the really pornographic stuff out, to get the "R" rating. But
that's no excuse for being really wretchedly shitty.
>>63047361
I'll probably get shit on for even bringing it up, but Fight Club
trainspotting adaption is arguably better
>>63049606
thats an opinion
>>63048017
JP1 was better as a movie. I know shit was cut, I dun give a fuck. The visuals were awe inspiring.
>>63049606
You shut your mouth PKD is a great writer. Blade Runner is a quasi-adaptation, it takes his themes and riffs on them. There's some more interesting stuff in the book but his stuff is all about world building and Scott got it way right.
Man, this was really lame. Didn't come close to the book.
>>63049693
that a book has more time to explore things?
not really, unless we are talking about a fucking peter jackson adaptation or something
>>63049652
The book is better as it has many more characters and points of view and they are all just as good as the four characters we see in the movie. It's more about Scottish life in general than junkies on the outskirts.
>>63049695
you'd think he has never actually heard anyone talk before
he's a fantastic thinker and world builder, but the execution is so-so
>>63049742
yeah the book is great too, thus 'arguably'
>>63048172
I'd argue Hellraiser. Barker took his own work of dark fantasy and turned into full blown horror.
I'm starting to think Crichton and Koontz have the same Hoodo cursing them.
>>63049746
His dialogue can be weak, and his prose sparse, but the man can turn a phrase and tell a story.Aside from being tapped into a higher consciousness.
>>63048271
I'd like to see a movie verson of the Rama series.
Don't get me started.
>>63047361
by fucking miles, and the movie isn't even that good
>>63049865
just because of kat denning's enormous breasts
Super-lame. They couldn't decide if they were making a parody or a hipster-action flick.
>>63049922
yeah pretty much
>>63049865
wow, the book must be horrendous if this was better than it
>>63049850
I Robot is an extremely boring collection of short stories with the most bitchy female "hero" in the story of literature. Boring, boring, boring. Pretty good "action" adaptation, though they shouldn't had stopped there and a miniseries based on the great parts of the book would have been great.
>>63049726
you just outed yourself as pretty dimwitted if you think I was saying that.
I had no expectations and I was still disappointed. Although to be fair, Lovecraft is a bitch to adapt effectively.
I know Cornel Wilde really tried, but man, this just fell on its' face.
>>63050008
it was a trick
looks like you're the dumb-witted one
Troll reply that the book sucked coming in--
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>>63048017
I hope they make a Prey movie. One of Crichton's seriously underrated books.
Still need to read Andromeda Strain and JP2
>>63048017
Andromeda Strain was the most boring shit I've read in my fucking life
Changed the villains from Muslim to Neo-Nazis because they "didn't want to offend Muslims."
And what happened? It turned to shit! To be fair, the producers were shitty to begin with.
The first movie was okay, but JESUS, could you be more boring and have dinosaurs at the same time? Not even Dana Gillespie's tits could save this movie.
>>63047276
The Road.
Throughout the book the Man keeps telling the Boy they are carrying the fire. At the end when the Man is dying he tells the Boy he has to keep carrying the fire. The Boy says that he cannot see it, he doesn't understand. The Man reveals that the fire is inside him. It is a beautiful scene that ties the entire story together.
They just shoehorn the conversation in the middle of the movie with no other reference to carrying the fire.
Such a waste of an amazing story of the love between a father and son.
>>63047429
Nope, the movie is one of the rare cases where they improved on the book.
I wanted to throw shit at the screen as the final credits rolled. because of all the religious aspects they left out were what made the book really scary, and I knew that Michael Mann was a much better director than this. he was smart enough to pay attention to detail about the SS unit and the regular Wehrmacht troops, and the actors tried their hardest, and it just lay there, like a nice shiny, broken toy. Dammit!
>>63049850
this was originally a totally unrelated movie about will smith fighting robots and they shoehorned some asimov shit in at the last minute. it's 0% based on the book.
>>63047276
I remember reading that book, and the characters putting on throat devices to make their voices sound normal in the heavy helium environment. I thought then that he was writing for a movie.
Also, the movie would have been better with an entirely different cast.
Even though 95% of the book is in the film.
saw it as a kid, the only thing I wanted to know was, "why didn't that fucking poodle get eaten by a T-REX?
I watched The Dirty Dozen and Damnation Alley before I read the books. The books are different enough to make them interesting.
I really wanted to like this, it was Bert I. Gordon's swan song as a genre director; but it wasn't even entertaining schlock.
>>63050586
I wasn't thrilled by the changes but found the post-apocalyptic world pretty impressive. That much grey translating to a movie didn't seem possible to me but they did it.
>>63051442
I only knew about that Terence McKenna book.
>>63049532
Bravo Nolan
>>63049839
Yes. Please. Make it
>>63049839
Morgan Freeman is still trying to get that adapted.
>>63047361
How to Train Your Dragon
A lot of people really like the movie, but it simply doesn't do the book justice.
Marlon Brando had the rights to the film adaptation originally, tried for years to get it made but could never get it done. I'd be curious to see his take on it.
>>63047361
No Country for Old Men
I'm as big of a Cormac fan as you'll ever meet, but the film beat the book hands down
>>63050357
>entire movie building up to the nuke going off
>literally the worst nuke scene in cinematic history
>>63048017
>Timeline
Wait, is that the basis for that Paul Walker, Gerard Butler movie where they go back in time to Medieval France?
I've never heard it was based on anything, but it seemed like a movie that just felt like it was based on something better.
>>63052645
It was a good book. Doomsday Book, written years earlier, by Connie Willis is a much better book.
>>63047361
Jurassic Park
>>63047331
>>63047361
If you cut out the ten minutes with Kevin Costner's real life kids, The Postman would be better than the book. (At least it wouldn't have all that weird "whores of babylon" bullshit.)
I also seriously doubt there's anyone who prefers William Goldman whining about his son being a fatass to Fred Savage and Peter Falk.
>>63047276
The book was pretty shit.
>The Lord of the Rings
Films better than the books
>The Hobbit
Book better than the films
>>63049132
Fuck you, Contact is a fun heartwarming adventure
>>63053758
No, the movie ruined the entire tone and point.
>>63053844
Poetry
Paolini is still a hack though
>>63053849
Whatever that's supposed to mean.
The movie is a better movie than the book is a book and infinitely more important to its medium too.
The Great Gatsby
Congo
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Relic
The Golden Compass
Choke
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Every Stephen King movie that isn't The Shining
