Books

The Notebook + Crazy Rich Asians

Chocolat. Whoever read that boring mess of a book and turned it into this charming movie deserves an award!

Not a movie, but I hated the Haunting of Hill House book with a burning passion

FlashForward was a much better TV series than it was a book. The book felt like it was written by an incel while the show felt like a compelling mystery thriller.

I absolutely love the movie The Ice Storm but I thought the novel was completely generic 90s lit fic.

Starship Troopers.

Call Me By Your Name.

The film is indescribably atmospheric, erotic, emotional, charming, memorable

The book is just... So... horny... and tbh pretty confronting

Dawn of the Dead

The Swedish adaptation of Let the Right One In. The movie was much tighter than the novel to its benefit.

The Maze Runner series was alright as a book series, but the last chronological one sucked. Really wrote itself into a corner, the movie handled it much better even if the pacing was a bit ass

Forrest Gump.

I still say 'Red Dragon' was worse than 'Manhunter'.

I did not care for the ready player one movie. I’m reading the book now and I think I actually dislike it more than the movie.

ready player one. I mean, they're both terrible, but the movie wasted less time.

It's not a movie. But the MiniSeries Station Eleven on Max is superior to that book. The book is good, though! The series makes some changes that give the story so much more emotional weight, and it ties alot of threads together in a way that is more forward and coherent. Good book, better show.

No answer to the question but in my experience I find if you see the movie before reading the book, the movie will 99% of the time be better than the book in your mind. Like for me, Ready Player One is such a fantastic book but the movie was terrible but I had a friend who watched the movie before reading the book and he LOVED the movie but thought the book was terrible.

Forrest Gump and I am a legend, those books were so bad ….

For me, the De Vinci Code. I do not care for Dan Brown's writing, but I enjoyed the film.

Fight Club

The Hannibal books are so badly written oh lawd

The Road. It insists upon itself

Now, Voyager by Olive Higgins Prouty. The movie with Bette Davis is excellent, but probably 50% (literally) is just scenery descriptions.

Jaws. The wife and the affair and r* fantasy. No thank you

The Magicians. It was a TV show but still way better than the books.

2001: A Space Odyssey. The book is fantastic but the movie is even better

Don’t know how bad this is, I’ve only read the first Lord of The Rings book but I kinda prefer the movie version of it.

Girl interrupted. I liked the movie but couldn't get into the book

Not a movie, but the Handmaid's Tale was a decent show and a horrendous book.

I’m sad to hear that about Children of Men. Was looking forward to reading thar

Fight Club. Albeit misunderstood by many, even Chuck admitted the movie is better than the book.

I think Maze Runner and Beautiful Creatures movies were better than the books. I've read only the first of both series.

For The Hunger Games, I liked Catching Fire the least for books but liked it the most for movies. for the prequel, I'm expecting the movie to be better than the book. The book tho got better with each Part division.

I personally enjoyed the film adaptation for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest better than the book, but I think it'd be a stretch to say that the film was objectively better.

Lord of the Rings. (Sorry, friends. They asked the question directly.)

This is funny because I didn’t care for the movie and loved the book. But I read the book first and I do think that matters. Different strokes and all that.

The Descent

The movie took one small concept from the book and ran with it to great effect. The book was really weird, really gross, and somehow also really boring. The movie is brilliantly scary.

Arrival.
The book goes much more into the concepts but the presentation of the aliens is pretty lackluster. The movie is much better at conveying a sense of awe.