Book better than movie

I knew someone else who didn't like that version.

 

All of them.

 

The Right Stuff (although the movie was pretty dang good, too).

 

Original movie was quite faithful to the book, I thought.

 

War Horse movie might equal the book or come very close.

I think reading the book gives you a greater character development for Topthorne and Emilie, but this was a beautiful movie.

 

Agreed.

Only major difference I can recall off the top of my head is the female scientist in the movie is a male in the book.

 

The Natural
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby

 

With the right director and screenwriter, a remake of Chrstine would be awesome today. They tried gamely but the special effects of yore didn't quite cut it. But nowadays? I'd love to see that scene of the car ripping through the house.

 

I couldn't make it through it, either, and I loved "The Right Stuff." That book might qualify as better than the movie.

 

I'm with you on The Natural. Glenn Close, the obvious aging issues and of course the ending ruined the movie for me. Though Joe Don Baker as "The Whammer" is the goods in his portrayal of the Babe Ruth-inspired character.

 

Jaws is an extreme case where the movie is miles better than the source material.
Peter Benchley's novel is not just poor, it's a huge piece of crap.
There are a few redonkulous subplots in there (the mafioso control and the love triangle).

 

Benchley came out years later acknowledging that sharks, even great whites, were nowhere near the killers his book made them out to be. Almost every great white attack is a case of mistaken identity, where the shark mistakes a person for a seal or some other natural game. And that's why there are very few cases of great white's going back for a second bite on a person. Of course, one bite is usually enough to do the trick.