Novels Turning To Movies

That's right books are usually better than their movie interpretations. I believe in that but there are exceptions of course. There are some movies better than the book. One of my favourite movies is Shawshank Redemption. It is my number one movie. It's an adaptation of Stephen King's "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption".

Before the land of computers and lots of movies to go view or watch on TV, there was not much to choose from so books were our best entertainment. I read Gone with the Wind one of the biggest productions ever made into a movie. There is actually a 4pack DVD 2parts movies and one part on the actors and one on the making of the movie. But there was some parts left out of the movie that were in the book. Same as Titanic, and many other books I can think of. A movie is usually a simplified version of the book. However when my son had to do book reports after he read the book if there was a movie to go with it I let him watch it so it helped him understand what he was reading better. I think a book can compliment a movie and a movie can compliment a book if you do both.

I liked lord of the rings. I didn't read the book but i enjoyed the trilogy alot. I read memoirs of a geisha way before it was turned into a movie and i though the book was much better. The movie just didn'T give that spark that the book gave me.

I personally believe that books are better than movies period... not just when it comes to adaptations but in general. And I actually happen to like movies a lot. Books are just SOOO much better to me! The kind of novel adaptations that I enjoy are the kinds that stay true to the original plot of the book and keep the characters in character. If a movie makes a major change to the plot, or changes the personalities of the characters... then I don't enjoy it. I don't mind if the characters don't look how I pictured them, if some changes are made to better fit the format (Let's face it, movies and books are quite different and you can't translate everything to the screen.), or if the movie doesn't quite capture the "feeling" of the book. (Whatever that means. I happen to hear that excuse a lot.) I liked the adaptations for Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Holes, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (The first adaptation was just kinda okay, the second one was better... but the third completely nailed it.), and City of Ember. I didn't like the adaptations for Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Eragon, Ella Enchanted, and Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief.

well i like that they made novels into books so a lot more people can appreciate the story. there are so many novel turned movies that i like but some of my favorites are LOTR and the night watch and day watch