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The only movies that did justice to the book that I have seen are Gone With The Wind, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile that I can think of off the top of my head.Lord of the Rings and Hannibal Lecter movies for the exact same reason - the movies trimmed out all the meandering, annoying, unnecessary fat the novels had, which made the plot feel a lot more streamlined and better-organized in general.
The Shining - I'm glad Kubrick cut out of all the sappy family melodrama crap of Stephen King's book and completely focused on the more cold-blooded, mysterious, chilling aspects of the story.
Hellraiser - I didn't really like Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart because it felt too manic and the story felt really cluttered and scrambled. But the movie's plot felt a lot more clear and focused.
Carrie - Brian DePalma's 1976 movie was so much more shocking and fiercely flamboyant and visceral than King's pedestrian first novel. It had the kitchen-crucifixion scene of that evil mother that the book didn't have.
I never read LOTR books or The Hobbit, but LOVE the movies.
I did see the first Lord of The Rings. It was pretty good. I was entertained. 
Trainspotting
The book was good, but it was so chaotic and crazy to read. It's still a good read, but the movie was much better.
That was one of the weirdest movies ever! Remember the baby on the ceiling? That was really quite creepy. The toilet scene?Gross.
Shawshank was a mini novel..like The Mist...in one of Kings condensed books of short stories. Yes, both were excellent movies.The only movies that did justice to the book that I have seen are Gone With The Wind, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile that I can think of off the top of my head.Lord of the Rings and Hannibal Lecter movies for the exact same reason - the movies trimmed out all the meandering, annoying, unnecessary fat the novels had, which made the plot feel a lot more streamlined and better-organized in general.
The Shining - I'm glad Kubrick cut out of all the sappy family melodrama crap of Stephen King's book and completely focused on the more cold-blooded, mysterious, chilling aspects of the story.
Hellraiser - I didn't really like Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart because it felt too manic and the story felt really cluttered and scrambled. But the movie's plot felt a lot more clear and focused.
Carrie - Brian DePalma's 1976 movie was so much more shocking and fiercely flamboyant and visceral than King's pedestrian first novel. It had the kitchen-crucifixion scene of that evil mother that the book didn't have.
I never read LOTR books or The Hobbit, but LOVE the movies.
I recently read The Green Mile for the first time. The movie was very true to the book (or maybe I should say books, wasn't it originally a bunch of short books?). Shawshank is one of my favorite movies, and I'd probably put it on equal footing with the book, but there's a bit more difference between them than with Green Mile. Both are definitely excellent movies.
It was published in Different Seasons, which also had Apt Pupil, The Body (which became Stand By Me, also a good movie), and The Breathing Method. I read The Mist in his book of short stories called Skeleton Crew, but apparently it was first published 5 years prior to that in an anthology called Dark Forces. I hadn't realized The Mist was also a novella, but I guess it was. I definitely preferred the novella of The Mist to the movie.
The only movies that did justice to the book that I have seen are Gone With The Wind, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile that I can think of off the top of my head.Lord of the Rings and Hannibal Lecter movies for the exact same reason - the movies trimmed out all the meandering, annoying, unnecessary fat the novels had, which made the plot feel a lot more streamlined and better-organized in general.
The Shining - I'm glad Kubrick cut out of all the sappy family melodrama crap of Stephen King's book and completely focused on the more cold-blooded, mysterious, chilling aspects of the story.
Hellraiser - I didn't really like Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart because it felt too manic and the story felt really cluttered and scrambled. But the movie's plot felt a lot more clear and focused.
Carrie - Brian DePalma's 1976 movie was so much more shocking and fiercely flamboyant and visceral than King's pedestrian first novel. It had the kitchen-crucifixion scene of that evil mother that the book didn't have.
I never read LOTR books or The Hobbit, but LOVE the movies.
I was supposed to read The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings for an elective I took called Tales and Legends. I never read them though. I just kind of winged it and got an A because the teacher liked me. Lol. What a punk I was.
I read Bram Stoker's Dracula, and NONE of the movies can compare to it for me. Now that was an excellent book, so creepy too.
The only movies that did justice to the book that I have seen are Gone With The Wind, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile that I can think of off the top of my head.Lord of the Rings and Hannibal Lecter movies for the exact same reason - the movies trimmed out all the meandering, annoying, unnecessary fat the novels had, which made the plot feel a lot more streamlined and better-organized in general.
The Shining - I'm glad Kubrick cut out of all the sappy family melodrama crap of Stephen King's book and completely focused on the more cold-blooded, mysterious, chilling aspects of the story.
Hellraiser - I didn't really like Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart because it felt too manic and the story felt really cluttered and scrambled. But the movie's plot felt a lot more clear and focused.
Carrie - Brian DePalma's 1976 movie was so much more shocking and fiercely flamboyant and visceral than King's pedestrian first novel. It had the kitchen-crucifixion scene of that evil mother that the book didn't have.
I never read LOTR books or The Hobbit, but LOVE the movies.
I was supposed to read The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings for an elective I took called Tales and Legends. I never read them though. I just kind of winged it and got an A because the teacher liked me. Lol. What a punk I was.
I read Bram Stoker's Dracula, and NONE of the movies can compare to it for me. Now that was an excellent book, so creepy too.
I very much liked the Dracula with Gary Oldman. I never read the book to compare it to, though.
Movies Better Than Their Books
There are none.
I agree.
It's very difficult if not impossible to bring a book to life.
It can happen, but very, very rarely.
The only movies that did justice to the book that I have seen are Gone With The Wind, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile that I can think of off the top of my head.Lord of the Rings and Hannibal Lecter movies for the exact same reason - the movies trimmed out all the meandering, annoying, unnecessary fat the novels had, which made the plot feel a lot more streamlined and better-organized in general.
The Shining - I'm glad Kubrick cut out of all the sappy family melodrama crap of Stephen King's book and completely focused on the more cold-blooded, mysterious, chilling aspects of the story.
Hellraiser - I didn't really like Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart because it felt too manic and the story felt really cluttered and scrambled. But the movie's plot felt a lot more clear and focused.
Carrie - Brian DePalma's 1976 movie was so much more shocking and fiercely flamboyant and visceral than King's pedestrian first novel. It had the kitchen-crucifixion scene of that evil mother that the book didn't have.
I never read LOTR books or The Hobbit, but LOVE the movies.
Books with a LOT of freaking characters and places in them, can become much easier to follow when made into movies.
You don't have to, with the beginning of each chapter, or sometimes even paragraphs, placing the character and the place, which in my opinion interferes with getting into the story.
Lord of the Rings benefited from that a lot, and does Game of Thrones.
Charlotte's Web (I prefer the animated copy.)
Fudge A Mania
The Outsiders
God bless you always!!!
Holly
^^^ I was 14 when I was introduced to the book and film in my 9th grade English class. C. Thomas Howell (Pony Boy) is my favorite of the film.
God bless you and him always!!!
Holly
P.S. May Darry (Patrick Swayze) rest in peace.
Movies Better Than Their Books
There are none.
It depends on a lot of different things I guess. Of course they are going to have to put a lot more in a book than in a movie for imagery purposes. They have to set a tone and atmospheres and since that is done with words in a book as opposed to pictures, well, you see what I mean.
my wife reads erotica
do you know where i am going with this?
The only movies that did justice to the book that I have seen are Gone With The Wind, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile that I can think of off the top of my head.Lord of the Rings and Hannibal Lecter movies for the exact same reason - the movies trimmed out all the meandering, annoying, unnecessary fat the novels had, which made the plot feel a lot more streamlined and better-organized in general.
The Shining - I'm glad Kubrick cut out of all the sappy family melodrama crap of Stephen King's book and completely focused on the more cold-blooded, mysterious, chilling aspects of the story.
Hellraiser - I didn't really like Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart because it felt too manic and the story felt really cluttered and scrambled. But the movie's plot felt a lot more clear and focused.
Carrie - Brian DePalma's 1976 movie was so much more shocking and fiercely flamboyant and visceral than King's pedestrian first novel. It had the kitchen-crucifixion scene of that evil mother that the book didn't have.
I never read LOTR books or The Hobbit, but LOVE the movies.
Shawshank was a mini novel..like The Mist...in one of Kings condensed books of short stories. Yes, both were excellent movies.The only movies that did justice to the book that I have seen are Gone With The Wind, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile that I can think of off the top of my head.Lord of the Rings and Hannibal Lecter movies for the exact same reason - the movies trimmed out all the meandering, annoying, unnecessary fat the novels had, which made the plot feel a lot more streamlined and better-organized in general.
The Shining - I'm glad Kubrick cut out of all the sappy family melodrama crap of Stephen King's book and completely focused on the more cold-blooded, mysterious, chilling aspects of the story.
Hellraiser - I didn't really like Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart because it felt too manic and the story felt really cluttered and scrambled. But the movie's plot felt a lot more clear and focused.
Carrie - Brian DePalma's 1976 movie was so much more shocking and fiercely flamboyant and visceral than King's pedestrian first novel. It had the kitchen-crucifixion scene of that evil mother that the book didn't have.
I never read LOTR books or The Hobbit, but LOVE the movies.
I recently read The Green Mile for the first time. The movie was very true to the book (or maybe I should say books, wasn't it originally a bunch of short books?). Shawshank is one of my favorite movies, and I'd probably put it on equal footing with the book, but there's a bit more difference between them than with Green Mile. Both are definitely excellent movies.
