/lit/ - Literature

[I Am A Monster !!B3KUaG4lrop No.698183]

Cases where the movie is better than the book?

I'd have to say Requiem For A Dream on this one.

[Anonymous No.698190]

Fight Club
A Clockwork Orange
No Country for Old Men
V For Vendetta

[Anonymous No.698191]

Stardust and Ring, especially the last one since the Ring novel isn't remotely scary.

[Anonymous No.698195]

LOTR
Spiderman (if you want to include comics)
Perfume

[Anonymous No.698196]

Forrest Gump.

The movie, while I am embarrassed to admit, always makes me cry and hug everyone I love and tell them how special they are. It always makes me want to go out in the world trying my very best.

The book....uh... his dad gets crushed by a crate? And Forrest is whiny? Mmkay, yeah. No thank you.

[Anonymous No.698197]

Everything Kubrick ever did

Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Godfather 1 & 2, No Country for Old Men, Little Children, There Will Be Blood

[Anonymous No.698203]

This, more so than any other book to movie I can think of.

[Anonymous No.698206]

>>698197
>There Will Be Blood

Nope.

[Anonymous No.698207]

The Shining is the one that springs immediately to my mind. <3

[Anonymous No.698209]

The third one was a mindfuck beyond all mindfucks tho..

>>698197
i actually think shawshank redemption was a decent story, i dont know which i like better, the book or the movie.

[Anonymous No.698212]

>>698206

Yes, sorry :C Oil! is second-rate social criticism, TWBB is a masterpiece destined to last

[Anonymous No.698219]

>>698190
>A Clockwork Orange

I gotta disagree. Without that last chapter you really lose the meaning of the story.

[Anonymous No.698222]

Star Wars

[NeuroUbik !i5uypRzero No.698223]

Fight Club, by Palahniuk's own admission.

[Anonymous No.698232]

>>698183
Interracial Milfs 9...trust me.

[Anonymous No.698233]

>>698212

The movie killed the social criticism so it could be an over-elevated, third-rate citizen Kane. Guess what: capitalism and religion rarely disagree with each other, and James Arnold Ross was a very likeable man, which is the only way he got things done, like all robber-barons.

[Anonymous No.698235]

>>698232

[Anonymous No.698239]

>>698203
Absolutely 100% agree. The book is a piece of shit and the movie, while not spectacular, is still time very well spent. The movie changed A LOT of the story, and all for the better.

[Anonymous No.698254]

Fight Club was a movie that actually fixed plot holes that were in the book, the biggest example I can think of being Tyler Durden somehow contacting Marla's mother.
Pahlaniuk's biggest weakness as a writer, imo, is that he gets a great idea, and runs with it way too far, ignoring weaknesses like that.

[Anonymous No.698256]

>>698233

TWBB has better acting (MUCH, MUCH better acting), writing, directing and cinematography than Citizen Kane. It is superior in every way.

>capitalism and religion rarely disagree with each other

Jesus, moneychangers

most of the history of Europe before the protestant reformation

Although it's not like the conflict between the two in TWBB is anything at all like the "typical" religion and capitalism conflict at all

[Anonymous No.698261]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

The Gene Simmons one.

[Anonymous No.698266]

>TWBB has better acting (MUCH, MUCH better acting)

That's like criticizing the movie for being made in the '40s.

[Anonymous No.698274]

>>698266
Streetcar Named Desire had the worst CGI and soundtrack

[Anonymous No.698278]

>>698266

The Passion of Joan of Arc doesn't have such shitty acting and it was made in 1928

[Anonymous No.698280]

>>698278

The Passion of Joan of Arc also didn't have SOUND.

[Anonymous No.698281]

>>698239
>Children of Men film
>Not spectacular
Did we watch the same movie?

[Anonymous No.698284]

>>698280

A testament to how awesome the acting is

[Anonymous No.698298]

>>698256
>not.... at all like the "typical" religion and capitalism conflict

The movie should have worked harder than just regurgitating Biblical symbolism then. Before or after the reformation, religion and capitalism (or feudalism) suited each other like peas in a pod. The most you could point to are the liberation theology types from the 70s.

>TWBB has better acting (MUCH, MUCH better acting), writing, directing and cinematography than Citizen Kane. It is superior in every way.

But now I know you're trolling.

[Anonymous No.698312]

>>698298

But it's not even capitalism and religion feuding each other. It's greed and greed. The conflict in TWBB isn't anything like the examples I mentioned (that's why I said it was atypical).

No trolling, Citizen Kane is important for its influence but nothing it did hasn't been fully absorbed by the filmmaking community.

[Anonymous No.698327]

>>698281
>opinions can be facts if you pretend hard enough.
I didn't think it was spectacular. It was a good story that they managed to bring to life pretty well. It's the best performance of Clive Owen's career, I'll agree to that no problem, but some of the scenes were forced and contrived, some scenes were just plain flat. I loved it when I watched it, but no, it's not that great. It's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.698335]

American Psycho.

[Anonymous No.698345]

>>698207

You must be high. Not only was the movie nowhere near as good as the book, it was downright awful just in general. Reasons follow:

>cheese
>shelley duvall
>little kid actor with clear case of teh downs
>cheese
>no hedge animals
shelley fuckin' duvall

Yeah.

[Anonymous No.698358]

Lord of the rings. Animated version

[Anonymous No.698359]

>>698358

Awww shit yeah nigger

The Hobbit was awesome too

[Anonymous No.698362]

*Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (the book was good, but my god I'm so glad the movie completely cut out the trial)
*The Shining (it takes Kubrick and a complete re-write to make Stephen King's stories watchable)

[Anonymous No.698364]

Fight Club

[Anonymous No.698366]

>>698345
>no hedge animals

Those were absolutely retarded. Especially in the Shining miniseries.

[Anonymous No.698367]

>>698358
Remember that part where Gandalf made the trolls debate until daylight, then they turned into stone? I fucking downloaded midget porn for a day straight and pretended I was Gandalf facially inseminating cloven toed trolls!!

[Anonymous No.698370]

>>698207
Just... no. Not anywhere close.

[Anonymous No.698372]

>>698366

Yeah, well, you know what?

You're retarded.

Also, my point is still valid because >shelly duvall

[Anonymous No.698450]

>>698312

Even accepting the premise of this guy getting as far as he does on his own: If they'd put some effort into the script, Plainview would have been intelligent enough to leap at the opportunity to have a populist theologian at his side and keep him there, no matter how grubby a prick (or implausibly dumb) the latter is. It's probably the main reason why all the workers are shuffling mute drones, as with the virtual writing out of the adult son, who abruptly becomes a (yawn) corporate rival. The movie takes on an increasingly cartoonish "enigmatic" tone, to avoid the fact that so much of it is unrealistic, psychologically or socially. Neither Oil! nor Citizen Kane was this muddle-headed, or resorted to violence to keep its audience awake.

[Anonymous No.698464]

>>698261

Gene Wilder?

[Anonymous No.698470]

>>698207
The only thing good about the film is how it subverted the whole Dick coming to the rescue thing. The rest of it was okay, but watered down compared to the book.

I'd have to say the Crow, the the comic was good as well.

[Anonymous No.698473]

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[Anonymous No.698480]

>>698278
I guess your idea of great acting is as hyperbolic facial expressions as possible.

In any case, my choices:

Touch of Evil
Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
Straw Dogs
Apocalypse Now

[Anonymous No.698483]

>>698480

2001 the novel explains all the crap that the movie leaves ambiguous. Therefore IMO the novel is better.

[Anonymous No.698490]

>>698480

Compared to just about any other movie at the time (or any, relatively speaking), the Passion of Joan of Arc was downright subtle.

[Anonymous No.698508]

>>698181

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[Anonymous No.698515]

>>698335
Are you fucking HIGH?

Yes, the movie is great but the book is waaaaaaaaaay better.

The fuck is wrong with you?

[Anonymous No.698516]

The Maltese Falcon
Out Of Sight
Mr. Majestyk
Being There
The Manchurian Candidate (the original, not the botched abortion that was the remake)
Winter Kills
The Andromeda Strain
Jurassic Park
High and Low
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Planet Of The Apes

[Anonymous No.698520]

>>698515
The movie is so distorted and doesn't capture anything that made the book good. The movie almost stands alone as its own weird horror flick.
Also neither are that good, American Psycho as literature is just shock schlock and heavy-handed satire, as a movie it's just a weird horror flick, neither one is great or enduring.

[Anonymous No.698521]

>>698520

I agree, my good sir.

[Anonymous No.698522]

Basically all popcorn literature is better as movies.

[Anonymous No.698556]

Phantom of the Opera

either the play or the movie

god damn :( the book just... and I thought it'd be like, a deeper, better, more detailed version of the musical or something. Boy was I disappointed- it's a fucking comedy.

[Anonymous No.698587]

The Secret in their Eyes

[Anonymous No.698596]

A Clockwork Orange. Anything Kubrick adapted, for that matter.

[Anonymous No.698597]

Requiem For A Dream...

I'm torn, I love both the book and film adaptation.

[Anonymous No.698600]

>>698195

LOTR, the book is so much better. Go die in a fire. If you really think the movie is better than the movie, you are CLEARLY a retarded inbred white trash.

[Anonymous No.698608]

I agree with every single one of these

[Anonymous No.698614]

>>698600
>If you really think the movie is better than the movie, you are CLEARLY a retarded inbred white trash.

[Kreisleriana No.699058]

Children of Men

[Anonymous No.699061]

>>698614
To be fair, there were a lot of movies.

[Anonymous No.699069]

Starship Troopers

[Anonymous No.699072]

>>698219
It doesn't so much lose the meaning of the story as change it, thereby making it better.

[Anonymous No.699076]

>>698345
You also forgot to mention that the film gave very little mention to the homosexual dressed as a dog.

[Anonymous No.699086]

>>698190
>V for Vendetta
I hate you so fucking much

[Anonymous No.699099]

clockwork orange and the shining

[Anonymous No.699100]

>>699099
>Clockwork Orange

Get. Out.

[Anonymous No.699113]

where the wild things are.

[Anonymous No.699122]

>>698190
AHAHAHAHAHA
FAGOT

[Anonymous No.699127]

The Godfather.

[Anonymous No.699133]

>>699100

I second this motion. The 'get out' motion for whatever faggot said A Clockwork Orange film is better than the book.

[Anonymous No.699136]

>>698190
>V For Vendetta
I smell a troll...

[Anonymous No.699146]

>>698197
I'd go against you and say that green mile is better in written form

[Anonymous No.699147]

Jurassic Park... Not that the movie was truly better in every aspect, but that I've read lots of stories about Dinos, but to truly see them realistically coming alive on the screen without looking like a blob of clay with Parkinson's... I was stunned. It was also on of the first (if not THE first) to feature a fully digital soundtrack in theaters, and my theater cranked the sound SO MUCH that when the TRex took a step, it could shatter dental work.

MUCH better than a quiet night at home with a book.

[Anonymous No.699149]

A Clockwork Orange?

No.

[Anonymous No.699157]

A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite books. Anyone who says the movie is better is sick in the gulliver.

[Anonymous No.699178]

Howl's Moving Castle
Stardust
Who Framed Rodger Rabbit

[Anonymous No.699267]

Fight Club. There are some aspects in the movie that make more sense than in the book.

[Anonymous No.699284]

>Stardust

[OP No.699645]

>>698345

The Shining was a crappy film. The book was great. OH NOES BLOOD IN AN ELEVATOR HOW FUCKIN SCARY, OH OH OH AND I'LL LIKE, PUT SOME TWINS IN TO JUMP OUT AND BE ALL 'BOOGA WOOGALLY!' OH OH OH I'LL LIKE, CAST A GUY WHO'S GOT A REPUTATION AS A PSYCHO SO HE'LL BE A BAD GUY, TOTALLY FUCKING MISSING THE POINT ON A GRAND FUCKING SCALE.

>>698281

I thought it was fucking amazing too.

[Anonymous No.699687]

>>699645
the shining was a great film and your criticism is retarded. for instance, you try to claim the ghost twins are used in some sort of startling, shocking moment, and that's not how it's done at all. this is an especially retarded claim on your part because of the several scenes where kubrick specifically avoids using such "jump" scares, for example the scene where nicholson catches his wife reading his manuscript. ugh why am i even trying you're probably 16 and an idiot.

[OP No.699709]

>>699687

And the casting of Nicholson and his quick degeneration, as well as the way it's hard for an audience to sympathise with him? That was a unforgivable.

[Anonymous No.699726]

>>699157
The movie works better than the book. Lots of the tools the book uses (violence, music) work much better in an audiovisual medium, and the book ending wasn't really necessary for the "free will x control" discussion (if anything, the movie's ending, with Alex still "evil", was better).

And Malcom McDowell was one sexy motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.699733]

>>699709

Well he had to degrade quickly, it's only a two hour film not a full length book: Kubrick didn't have the time that King had.

If he done it any slower Jack wouldn't have snapped until the very end of the film, making the rest of it incredibly boring.

[Anonymous No.699748]

African Queen
Maltese Falcon
The Innocents (Turn of the Screw)
Treasure of the Sierra Nevada

[Anonymous No.699758]

>>699127
the book was really shitty compared to the movie

[Anonymous No.699761]

2001

[Anonymous No.699766]

>>699761
This.

[Anonymous No.701268]

silence of the lambs.

[Anonymous No.701279]

>>699127
Truth

[Anonymous No.701532]

Rum Punch (Jackie Brown)
The Godfather
Watchmen (the monster in the comic book was flat out retarded)
Ghost World
Pride and Prejudice (the BBC miniseries)
Misery (as is the case with several steven king novels)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Goodfellas

[Anonymous No.701537]

>>701532

>Watchmen

[Anonymous No.701542]

>>701537
I stand by my belief that the movie version of Watchmen was better than the comic.

[Anonymous No.701553]

>>701532

>(the monster in the comic book was flat out retarded)

Too deep for you.

Ozymandias says he is "not a Republic Serial villain" yet he blows up New York with a giant psychic squid, this is vitally important to the meaning of the comic

[Anonymous No.701564]

Agreed on Watchmen, the movie ending was much better. Made a lot more sense, and added dr whatever to the mix in a good way.

[Anonymous No.701567]

>>701542

>movie version of Watchmen
>better than the comic

[Anonymous No.701568]

>>701567

If you can actually sit down and read comic books for any period of time you are a complete asshole and should never come to this board

[Anonymous No.701570]

>>701568

[Anonymous No.701572]

>>701568
If you are so up your own ass you can't accept comic books as literature, you do not belong on this board.

[Anonymous No.701576]

>>698190
>V for Vendetta
>>698197
>Lolita
>>698261
>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
>>699113
>WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
>>701532
>WATCHMEN
>>701542
>YOU SHOULDN'T, IT'S A REALLY STUPID OPINION. THERE'S A LOT MORE TO THE BOOK THAN THE FUCKING SQUID.

Most of the ones I can think of have been said. The only one I'd add is Let the Right One In, and it's a close call.

[Anonymous No.701580]

>>701572

>comic books as literature

Not that guy, but they aren't. Comics have no more in common with literature than do films.

[Anonymous No.701584]

>>701572

I liked comic books.... when I was 10 years old. I can read a graphic novel them in about three seconds without thinking deeper than I would watching a reality tv show. Enough said

[Anonymous No.701588]

>>701580
>static
automatically have much more to do with literature than movies
but yes I agree they are their own independent art form and this is not the thread for intramedia flaming

[Anonymous No.701591]

>>701576

>Lolita

Oh dang I forgot about that one, that sucked except for Peter Sellers.

[Derp De Doo !7Q1qJNYWx. No.701592]

>>698190
>V for Vendetta
Id normally trash you right now and call you alot of names but instead im going to give you a chance to explain your opinion.

[Anonymous No.701600]

>>698235
>>699709
>>699733
>>699645
To me, the changes defocusing the 'consciousness' of the Overlook hotel, and not having Jack Nickelson beat his own face in with roque mallet to indicate the final destruction of his own identity (whereas previously he struggled with his identification with his own father), and the destruction of the hotel via the bioler, was massive missed potential and was poor change.

[Anonymous No.701601]

>>701592

Put this tripfag into the category of likes comic books and can't be taken seriously

[Anonymous No.701602]

>>701584
>>701580
Again. Pretentious assholes who can only appreciate books because LOL BOOKS ARE INTELLIGENT. Get a grip.

[Anonymous No.701615]

>>701602

No they don't challenge me in any way and I find them boring. I thought I made that clear. I don't give a shit if the pretty pictures make you happy just don't bring it here

[Anonymous No.701616]

>>701580
>>701567
>>701553
the movie ties dr. manhattan's conclusion very well, and doesn't go into further absurdity by ignoring the kidnapping of 'elites', leaves out the in-comic book pirate thing (if you ignore the extended version of the movie...the meta-medium-self-reference reeks of unnecessary post modern pretentiousness) giving dr. manhattan more reason into leaving earth. could you please elaborate on why you think the comic is better? i don't mind you disagreeing with me, but i'd appreciate if you explain why.

[Anonymous No.701621]

>>701591
I figured it was probably just overlooked, but the reason it's so easy to overlook is because it was a huge fucking disappointment.

[Anonymous No.701624]

>>701591
what about the one with jeremy irons?

[Anonymous No.701632]

>>701616

Wow you sound like one of those academics who walks around hunched over and gets beat up a lot

[Anonymous No.701635]

>>701632
you're going to resort to name calling?

[Anonymous No.701637]

>>701615
>challenge me
If you read books because it's challenging to read them, you are not enjoying books.

[Anonymous No.701638]

>>701637
>It's impossible to enjoy a challenge.

[Anonymous No.701641]

>>701638
>it's impossible to enjoy a book without a challenge

[Anonymous No.701644]

>>701641
>it's possible to be satisfied by a book that is in no way challenging

[Anonymous No.701645]

>>701644
Exactly. If you can't derive enjoyment from a well-written children's book, then you don't know the joy of reading. You're just an asshole who wants to look smart.

[Anonymous No.701646]

>>701616
the reason nobody wants to get into this is because it isn't the right thread for it. and because this argument was done to death back when it was actually timely.

essentially, you're ignoring everything other than the conclusion, right? well, the development of all of the characters within the context of the book was much more interesting and led to much more complex looks at their internal moralities and deconstruction of their 'superhero' identities. the very notion that the only people who would want to be costumed heroes were needy, weak, and essentially less than regular people was completely lost as the characters were warped into actual heroes.
the point of the comic was to deconstruct the nature of superheroism, it had little to do with the actual ozymandias kill-few-save-many gambit, other than to 1. illustrate the darkness within the most shining example of heroes and 2. illustrate how desperate war-torn america was, that he would think to kill so many for a war that we now know would denouement not too long from his time
the use of the black freighter was fucking brilliant, not only was it funny/cleverly employed in a lot of scenes but it echoed the fallacy of ozymandias' victory: as the narrator learns how empty and perverse his 'victories' were, so too does ozymandias
not to mention all of the outrageously stupid nitpicky changes like "your hands, my perspective"->"your hands, my pleasure" or forcing the "well, I guess if Dr. Manhattan were here, he might say that nothing ever ends" line

[Anonymous No.701647]

>>701645
No, you just enjoy crap

[Anonymous No.701650]

>>701637

By "challenge" I meant it's not a picture book and I have to actually read words. That's enough fo a challenge for me

[Anonymous No.701651]

>>701644
>>701641
>>701638
this is going downhill fast, guys

[Anonymous No.701654]

>>701616

The acting in the movie is often fucking horrendous, every scene with Akerman is practically unwatchable, Snyder's direction of Goode is laughable (derp let's take the homoerotic undertones into LOOK AT THIS FAGGOT tiem, also it'd be a great idea to remove any ambiguity about whether or not he's a hero or a villain and have him looking sneaky every fucking frame), the cinematography consists solely of LOL SLOW-MO! DO YOU GET IT IT LOOKS LIKE A COMIC FRAME whereas Gibbons and Moore use every frame to layer their story, he throws in asinine action scenes and comic book violence (funny how the film is packed with more shitty cliched comic book bullshit than the comic itself), the soundtrack is god awful because again Snyder has no conception of subtlety ("Everyone Wants to Rule the World" when the villain appears? HOT DAMN YOU CLEVER BOY), and that fucking sex scene that takes what happens in the comic and stretches it out to five minutes of comically over-the-top horseshit, and then of course he gives the MOST SIGNIFICANT LINE of the entire fucking thing to the worst actor (Akerman) in a throwaway scene, ruining what should be the emotional and thematic climax ("Nothing ever ends").

The movie is so fucking bad compared to the comic it is only believable because it was directed by Zach Snyder.

But I liked Rorschach at least, JEH is a cool dude :3

[Anonymous No.701656]

>>701647
If you think that any tastes besides yours are crap, you are a pretentious asshole.
This argument is going down the drain pretty fast.

[Anonymous No.701657]

>>701644
not a big vonnegut fan, are you?

[Anonymous No.701659]

A Confederacy of Dunces movie is WAY better than the book.

[Derp De Doo !7Q1qJNYWx. No.701660]

>>701646
>pretentious

stopped reading there. That should word filter to something.

[Anonymous No.701663]

>>701657
He's a bit overrated but I like him

[Anonymous No.701667]

>>701660
...but I didn't use that word at all

[Anonymous No.701672]

>>701654
thanks for your input, i think i'll reread it now.
>>701646
ehh...i too could belittle all the intricacies of what others say make the comic version better. as for akerman's acting, you may be right, but i wasn't that thrown off by it.

[Derp De Doo !7Q1qJNYWx. No.701676]

>>701667
terribly sorry I meant to refer to this post
>>701616

But really pretentious should wordfilter something. Like "Sexy"

"God I hate those sexy hipsters and their skinny jeans"

[Anonymous No.701679]

>>701646
also, i guess i'll apologize for reviving something that some would rather leave buried
>>701660
are you sure you're referring to the right post?

[Anonymous No.701680]

>>701676

Hipster doofus alert

[Anonymous No.701682]

Mortal Engines.

[Derp De Doo !7Q1qJNYWx. No.701684]

>>701680
>hipster

A hipster walks into a bar and then he orders a drink.

You see its IRONIC because you expected a punch line.

[Anonymous No.701696]

>>698183

There is no "better." Movies and books are different and really can't be compared in my opinion. In some cases both the book and the movie are great (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Slaughterhouse-Five).

[Anonymous No.701697]

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[TehWoodchuck No.701854]

I forgot Bicentennial Man based off of Asimov's "The Positronic Man" because the movie screenplay and the book (more of a short story) are SO close, you can watch the movie and haven't missed anything. All that was added to the movie was a little comic relief to give Robin Williams something to goof around with for additional character depth, which I feel he did well.

[Anonymous No.701888]

>>698183
Battlefield Earth

[Anonymous No.701897]

The Orchid Thief

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[Anonymous No.702034]

>>699069
>>699069
>>699069
THIS THIS THIS

The book is a bullshit pro-fascist tract that weighs down its boring action scenes with even more boring conjecture being vomited from Heinlein's mouthpiece for like 10 pages per monologue.

The movie strips that bullshit to what's necessary, and fills the rest with awesome, making the perfect book-to-movie adaptation: removing superfluous details and shifting the underlying concept enough to make a worthwhile basis for a movie.

Starship Troopers. Fuck yeah.

[Anonymous No.702043]

>>702034

I'm suing you.

I really hurt my head when i facepalmed that.

[Anonymous No.702044]

To Kill A Mockingbird
Psycho
Most James Bond things (not that the stories aren't awesome, it's just that the Bond everyone knows is from cinema)
Silence of the Lambs (granted it only wins out by a squeak)
Hannibal (not a great film. But the filmmakers had it figured out that the Hannibal/Clarice romance was retarded)
Secret of Nimh
Die Hard (I shit you not, it's based on a book. Look it up.)
The Princess Bride (debatable)


Also, I'll risk getting lynched to point out Twilight. Still shit, but less so than the books.

[Mr. Eko !!Kvd62zjcAJW No.702047]

>>698195
>LoTR

Best be joking...

[Anonymous No.702167]

>>698516 The Maltese Falcon

While the John Huston version is god tier, you're forgetting that Huston himself repeatedly stated his version was the best because he used huge chunks of Hammett's book unaltered. The movie also leaves out the (in)famous "Flitcraft Story" which makes it inferior to the book.

>> The Andromeda Strain

Both the book and original movie (not the shitty recent TV remake) are excellent, but both simply have to be different. The book is written almost like a congressional investigatory report and there's no way a movie could mirror that. The movie also leaves out one of the most chilling parts of the novel, something Crichton seemingly adds as an afterthought or as a hook for a sequel.

A few months after the events of Andromeda Strain, the heat shield of a manned US space capsule fails during reentry killing the astronauts aboard. The failure is due to the Strain and all manned space exploration is canceled until further notice while the effect on satellite launches is still being examined.

That little tidbit could have easily been added to the movie to make the entire affair even more chilling, but it was left out.

[Anonymous No.702180]

Twilight is definitely better than the books
I mean, they're both retarded, and feature the most (unintentionally) unlikeable protagonist in all fiction, but at least the movie has actually pretty nice cinematography where the book has awful prose

[Anonymous No.702182]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

I tried to get into the book, but I'll take the Disneyfied version any day.

[Anonymous No.702198]

First thread on /lit/.

Wow.

Not only do most of you know nothing about books, but obviously some of you just come here because you think it makes you smart, and others obviously never read and are just repeating bullshit opinions they digested.

Not that I expected much from 4chan, but you've all disappointed me.

Oh, and where the fuck is the discussion about non-fiction books?

[Anonymous No.702201]

Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Paths of Glory

[Anonymous No.702229]

twilight

[Anonymous No.702235]

>>702198
>some of you just come here because you think it makes you smart

and you are probably one of these people too, wait, let me guess...2399 SAT (no-one is perfect), full scholarship to Amazing Education University etc etc

Before you reply, I just come here to see what books are out there that aren't of the shelves of my local bookshop (Jodi Picoult, Stephanie Meyer, John Grisham)

[Anonymous No.702677]

Any horror I have ever read. I have to be startled to be scared, so a book has never done it for me.
Sad thing, that.

[Anonymous No.702689]

>>702198

>Oh, and where the fuck is the discussion about non-fiction books?

>Implying anyone on 4chan gives a fuck about reality.

[Anonymous No.702712]

The Warriors