Hey Pandas! Tell Us A Movie That Is Surprisingly Much Better Than The Book (Closed)

It's a TV show, but the series of unfortunate events Netflix series. Don't get me wrong, I love the books, but the miniseries is so much funnier and very accurate to the books, and Neil Patrick Harris is perfectly casted.

Practical Magic.

The movie is so much better than the book. They actually use magic in the movie and stuff.

Fight Club. Chuck P said so himself!

Hands down - Shawshank Redemption. It's based on a novella called "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King. Frank Darabont was the screenwriter and director of the movie. He had adapted one of Stephen King's "dollar baby" short stories (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_Baby), and paid King $5,000 for the rights to the Shawshank Redemption story. The original novella is only a part of the movie. The main character's dealings with the warden, my favorite part of the movie, isn't in the story at all, and many great plot points were added as well.. A genius adaptation resulting in an amazing movie!

First one off the top of my head, is JAWS. The movie was MUCH better. Peter Benchley's (the author) book was a bit convoluted, especially the mess with Hooper having an affair with Mrs. Brody, ugh.

The Princess Bride. The book is very good, but the movie is a classic.

Like Water for Chocolate. Not actually movie better than the book, but the BEST book to film adaption ever, in part, I believe, because the author also wrote the screenplay AND her husband directed it.

Blade runner. Granted, I saw the movie first, but the book while ok, is bit boring at times. The movie however.... shioot I cried when Rutger Hauer had his moment near the end. Keep in mind I'm not often moved by movies to the point of tears.

The Mist…by a mile!

Forrest Gump. I could not read that book for anything.

Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I love the language and use of words Tolkien uses in his books, but dang, 100 pages and Frodo still hasn't left the Shire, and is still auctioning the furnitures. And the dwarfs had way more personality in the movies.

I also don't understand how people complain that LotR was too short, but then complain that Hobbit was too long.

Empire of the Sun. The book is looooong and boring and the movie is breathtaking in performance and photography.

"The Green Mile" with Tom Hanks, based on Stephen King's novel. I loved the book and was really enchanted by the movie. First time I wasn't deceived by an adaptation!

How to train your dragon. It may not be like the books but that's ok think of it like a glow up in way(for real though Toothless wasn't a night fury in the books)

Jurassic Park. A lot more people die and a lot of people are far more dislikeable. For example Malcom dies, John Hammond dies, and they also go into excruciatingly disgusting detail about nedrey's death. Also in the book, John is a grey money horder.,Ellie is a idiot, and Lex is a winey brat. All in all, the movies have far more likeable characters.

Like others, this isn't strictly to the question: The Running Man. The book was by some made-up guy that turned out to be Stephen King and the movie is starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, they both sound good, right?

The book and the movie are so vastly different (which is usually a bad thing) that you may not have connected the two together if they didn't have the same name, but they are both *so* good each on their own.

Silence of the Lambs... by a lot...it's upsetting how bad the book is compared to the movie...

Doctor Sleep
The book was good too but I like the movie better, much better.

lovers of the book will hate me for saying this but aussie movie " Bliss"

Hands down - Shawshank Redemption. It's based on a novella called "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King. Frank Darabont was the screenwriter and director of the movie. He had adapted one of Stephen King's "dollar baby" short stories (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_Baby), and paid King $5,000 for the rights to the Shawshank Redemption story. The original novella is only a part of the movie. The main character's dealings with the warden, my favorite part of the movie, isn't in the story at all, and many great plot points were added as well.. A genius adaptation resulting in an amazing movie!