What is a movie that is better than the book?

[karmasabiotch]

Beaches.

[sangria]

Revolutionary Road

[demofea01]

West Side Story.

[Deleted]

I am lazy, so I think all movies are better than books.

[spedrunner]

lol im with miso, yet i preach to my students how important and wonderful reading is...........

hmmm

[katieido]

Forrest Gump

[kristie]

I think "a time to kill". The movie was powerful in a way the book wasn't. I don't know.

Umm, I can't think of anything else

[sangria]

Dec 17, 2012 18:46:16 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

Dec 17, 2012 18:43:34 GMT -5 sangria said:

Revolutionary Road

Really? I loved the movie and wanted to read the book.

Don't get me wrong the book was very good, I just thought the movie was just that much better

[sangria]

I loved Memoirs of a Geisha too, but I LOVED LOVED that movie more.

[kristie]

The last twilight. Lol

[limey]

The Shawshank Redemption

I feel like S King just didn't quite finish the ending in the book and the movie was more complete and satisfying.

[pantsparty]

Dec 17, 2012 18:52:02 GMT -5 sangria said:

I loved Memoirs of a Geisha too, but I LOVED LOVED that movie more.

Oh really? I thought the opposite.

I can't think of a movie I like more than the book, but it's usually cool to see the story come to life. The key to me enjoying them is not to read the book too close to seeing the movie.

[Deleted]

The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood. (Don't judge)

[pinkeggs]

The Notebook

Bridges of Madison County

[game blouses]

Dec 17, 2012 18:54:10 GMT -5 limey said:

The Shawshank Redemption

I feel like S King just didn't quite finish the ending in the book and the movie was more complete and satisfying.

I was going to say the same thing. I also thing The Shining was a better movie than book (the Kubrick version, not the miniseries).

[limey]

Dec 17, 2012 20:07:19 GMT -5 game blouses said:

Dec 17, 2012 18:54:10 GMT -5 limey said:

The Shawshank Redemption

I feel like S King just didn't quite finish the ending in the book and the movie was more complete and satisfying.

I was going to say the same thing. I also thing The Shining was a better movie than book (the Kubrick version, not the miniseries).

You're right; The Shining was a better movie than the book. I'd forgotten about that one.

[melindafelinda]

Stand By Me which was in the same book as Shawshank Redemption. Both movies were better.

[Deleted]

I might get flamed for this, but Little Women.
I couldn't even get through the book. I got stuck when Jo is in New York, and just couldn't get through the boring.

[simplyinpenguin]

The Stand (loved the book, LOVED the movie...well miniseries if you want to get technical)

[Deleted]

Dec 17, 2012 20:51:38 GMT -5 jjwritergirl said:

Dec 17, 2012 20:42:43 GMT -5 @pixiechinchilla said:

I might get flamed for this, but Little Women.
I couldn't even get through the book. I got stuck when Jo is in New York, and just couldn't get through the boring.

REALLY? I that book! I grew up with 3 sisters, so I felt like it was reading about ourselves (or who we wanted to be.)

I forgive you though, since you at least like the movie.

Oh, I loved the movie! I watched it over and over again, which may have been part of the reason why the book seemed to drag. I enjoyed it well enough up until New York, and then I just lost all interest.

[sonrisa]

Devil Wears Prada
Eat Pray Love (which wasn't a great movie)

Basically, every self involved claptrap of a "memoir."

[auntie]

I would say the first Harry Potter movie. J.K. Rowling got better, or maybe her editors did, as the series progressed.

I feel the same about Shawshank, Stand By Me, Gone with the Wind, Anne of Green Gables.

[sonrisa]

Dec 17, 2012 18:48:53 GMT -5 katieido said:

Forrest Gump

That book must have been awful.

[bab]

Misery

[mx27]

i agree with sonrisa.

the devil wears prade - i really liked the movie, didn't care for the book.

[laptopvixen]

Dec 17, 2012 19:12:55 GMT -5 carrotsmakemefat said:

One flew over the cuckoos nest

Neh.

[laptopvixen]

Dec 17, 2012 21:42:29 GMT -5 bab said:

Misery

hmmm, this might be the only SK reference that I'm giving a pass to in this thread...

[janegold]

Mrs.Doubtfire
The Hunger Games

[starlily]

The Jane Austen Book Club

[leahmel]

The Help, and I loved the book.