Better as movies than books

[melchar]

Heard a comment made on the radio that books were always better than the movies and wanted to immediately take issue with this. So wrong.

I can think of 3 movies right offhand that dispute this =

'Jaws' was tons better than the book - and made one of the characters sympathetic instead of a complete ass;
'Princess Bride' is better as a movie than a book by far [in part because the author just plays too many literary pransk with himself];
and 'The Relic' is much better than the book [which isn't saying much, this is true]

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[higginsdragon.livejournal.com]

Princess Bride the book and screenplay were written by the same person. Fitting enough that Princess Bride, the movie, plays a lot of film genre/cliche pranks. :)