Times when the book was superior to the movie

Times when the book was superior to the movie.

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Getting the two obvious ones out of the way

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Imagine George Lucas as Rambo.

I'm reading The Dark Fields so I'm going to say that, the movie is Limitless.

I was thinking Kris Kristofferson.

Lotr, The hobbit especially, harry and the hendersons movie adaptation, dragonslayer, it, 300, point of impact stephen hunter

Why is It a better book than film?

Not only that, the sequel movies completely missed the point.

>Times when the book was superior to the movie.
Like everytime?

Well yeah, but First Blood Part 2 is a great blueprint on how sequels should be made.
Sucks that Stallone's ego kept it from being everything it could have been. If only they kept Cameron on board for the script.

>First movie is about a man traumatized by the horrors of the Vietnam War and how he struggles fitting in to American society
>"I know, in the sequel let's have him voluntarily go back to Vietnam to kick some commie ass and portray him as super badass and cool and awesome! And let's also push stupid conspiracy theories about POWs for good measure!"

every Crichton book is better than the movie
my favorite Crichton book is Prey

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And in the other sequel, they have the fucking Taliban as the good guys because anybody who opposes the commies must be a good guy, right?

came here to post this
rare for movie to be better

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literally all of them ol

The book is generally better than the movie, though.

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Just because is based, it does not mean is good

Have you read it?

>reject eastern communism
>reject western globohomo
Why are they ever considered the bad guys?

Every single time.
Adaptations are cancer.

Shining and The Godfather are the only examples I can think of the opposite