Films that were better than the books

[Commander]

99% of the time the book is better than the film. However, there is the odd exception, where the film is actually better. I will start.

The Football Factory.

 

[RM-Taylor]

Casino Royale
Harry Potter

 

[5 past Kuipers]

Shawshank Redemption (Rita Hayworth & the ....)

 

[Trufflehound]

I'd say Brighton Rock.

It's a tough call as both film and book are excellent. What clinches it for me though is that the film has one of the greatest endings of any film, ever. FACT.

 

[Buzzer]

Got to be the Godfather

Mario Puzo is a piss poor author.

Truly awful.

Words can't express how bad an author he is, in fact.

 

[John Boy]

I'd say Brighton Rock.

It's a tough call as both film and book are excellent. What clinches it for me though is that the film has one of the greatest endings of any film, ever. FACT.

The ending of the book is MUCH better than the film

 

[Gwylan]

It's a cinematic cliche that the better the book, the worse the film: look at the piss-poor attempts at filming Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Joyce, Proust, Dickens and many others.

There are great films made from OK or poor books though: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Little Caesar, Blade Runner and many more that I can't be arsed to think about right now.

 

[Brixton Seagull 2]

Garfield 2.

Seriously, Fight Club! Much as I love Chuck Paluniuk's books, the film is a bone-fide masterpiece.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Casino Royale

:thud:

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Harry Potter

The books are a million times better than the films!!!

 

[McShane79]

Got to be the Godfather

Mario Puzo is a piss poor author.

Truly awful.

Words can't express how bad an author he is, in fact.

I'd generally agree with that. All the great ideas that we know from the first 2 films were in the book, but they were threaded together pretty badly.

 

[Trufflehound]

The ending of the book is MUCH better than the film

Well I like the record getting stuck. So there!

 

[withdeanwombat]

It's The Bible,innit?Masquerading as The Greatest Story Ever Told.

Personally,I'd vote for Holes.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Plague Dogs

The book actually has one of those Hollywood style out of the blue happy endings which the film rightly did away with making it far more ambigious.