What other movies are better than the books they were based on?

What other movies are better than the books they were based on?

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Possibly the entire LOTR franchise. Those were some really damn good movies.

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Books a shit.

But neither are that good.

Might just be my personal preference for Roeg's erratic style of filmmaking as the book is also pretty good.

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Stand by Me. The original book has a melodramatic rainstorm suddenly start up during the climax, and the Ace Merrill character is way scarier in the movie. Not to mention the over-the-top ending, where ALL of the narrator's friends die instead of just River Phoenix.

>movie showcasing a white man who stands up for the black man.
>years later the author turns him into a hypocrite bigot and racist.

Oil!

There Will Be Blood to the uninitiated.

This, I have heard so many people say the book is better but Kubricks changes to the story made it much better.

this one

Forrest Gump

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Secret Window.

I think part of it is that Stephen king can't write decent endings.

naw

Jurassic Park

Starship Troopers if you think of it as a satire on adaptations. Funnier still when you know Verhoven didn't finish reading the book.

Not hard when the source is 2500 years old.

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Gone Girl
Goodfellas
Jaws
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