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Fandoms where you prefer the movie/TV adaptation to the book.

I'll start with an easy one -- The Notebook. Reading the book was like watching paint dry, but the chemistry the actors brought to the movie made me enjoy it.

I also prefer Matilda to the original book - I like how they gave Matilda more friends and gave the Miss Honey + Trunchbull backstory more depth.

Not in the fandom, but the movie for Interview With A Vampire is way better than the book. The book about put me to sleep.

I think all the good Stephen King movies are better than the books. And he agrees for some of them. :p

I'd agree with you for a lot of King's stuff. I agree with him on The Shining, though. The casting and the way it plays out makes it look as if Jack is abusive and terrible all along. It loses the nuance, progression, and the commentary on alcoholism and what it does to you of the original story.

Stand By Me was way better than "The Body". It's not that I disliked the novella, but the movie told a more cohesive story and the casting and setting was perfect.

Jurassic Park. I like that they split up the characterization between the two kids. I just in general think the movie was better.

Hunger Games. All 4 movies. First Person just doesn't work for me.

Count of Monte Cristo. Mind you, I love the book too. But I prefer the movie. I prefer some of the changes the movie made.

Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Red Dragon. Also Hannibal the tv series. I just really don't like the writing style of the books. And the changed ending of Hannibal was far superior.

Game of Thrones. Sorry. I just don't like the books. I tried.

The Postman. I read the book one day because I really liked the movie (yeah, come at me) and was kinda weirded out by the sudden appearance of mutant super soldiers.

Practical Magic.

The First Season of Hemlock Grove.

The Version of The Count of Monte Cristo, where he ends up back with Mercedes (younger me felt very betrayed when she found it that's not how it end in the book).

The 90s movie version of Little Women.

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame

Forrest Gump. If you loved the movie, do NOT read the book!

Pick a Clamp anime, any Clamp anime.

(except Rayearth, Tsubasa, and Chobits, none of which I've watched. Except Tsubasa at least never turns into what the manga turned into, and Chobits fixes the part where the manga screwed up the worst)

I admit bias because I quite like the Tsubasa manga but still, the anime (excluding the OAVs) is terrible. All the characters in the anime are so dull and lifeless and the filler worlds have no creativity behind them at all. The anime also deliberately tried to de-gay Kurogane and Fai which is a pretty big negative for multiple reasons.

Rayearth is hit or miss, the second season in particular takes some interesting deviations from the manga and not all of them entirely work out... there's a death that's in the anime but not the manga that's particularly strained.

Not the xxxHolic anime for me. They exaggerated the lanky artstyle of the bodies and made movement look a little goofy.

And the muted colors were more lackluster than interesting.

The xxxHolic anime ends and doesn't just peter out in pseduo-philosophical BS because it needs to correspond to the dumbfuck that was the Tsubasa ending. Much as I adore large parts of the manga, and will never deny that it is aesthetically superior, the finale stretch of it is infuriating. And the anime, well... isn't.

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(Anonymous) - 2019-07-15 12:11 (UTC) - Expand

The Talented Mr Ripley. One of my favorite movies. Didn't really care for the book.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher version). The book was alright, but I think Larson was a better journalist than novelist. His ideas and plots were solid, but a lot of the finer nuances of fiction writing weren't his strength. And Fincher's directing always enthralls me.

Game of Thrones. Sure the last season didn't live up to the promise of earlier seasons but overall I enjoyed the show. But the books! I have no idea why anyone wants to read that! Like, the idea is good. The characters are interesting, the things they do are (mostly) interesting. But the writing is unbelievably terrible and the books are just so boring.

But I also feel the same about all of the biggest names in fantasy. I love when their stuff is adapted to screen because then I get to enjoy it.

I read the first book (A Song of Ice and Fire?) and can't remember a thing about it except that there were several POV characters. The prose just kind of slid off me.

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philstar22 - 2019-07-15 03:20 (UTC) - Expand

I totally agree on Game of Thrones. I do like Fire and Blood, weirdly. But the writing style of that one is very different.

I just started watching The Man in the High Castle and I'm finding it a lot more engrossing than the book. It doesn't actually follow the book but takes the setting and characters and expands on them, which is understandable since while you could do the book as a movie, the story isn't enough for a 10-episode tv season, let alone an ongoing show.

Stardust. I like all the humor the film added.

I enjoyed the movie. I didn't love it, but I enjoyed it. I didn't particularly love the book. I don't like Gaimon's writing style all that much.

The Lord of the Rings...Tolkien's prose just doesn't work for me.
I agree with secret OP on Good Omens - while I enjoy them both in other media, including short stories (I'm actually a huge fan of Neil's), neither Gaiman nor Pratchett can pace a novel to save their lives (I have gotten through 1 Discworld novel, Wyrd Sisters), IMO.

I totally get you on Tolkien. My mother feels the same way. I felt the same way as a kid. Something switched when I read the Silmarillion and I fell in love with Tolkien's writing style. I still love the LOTR movies, though. I just think of them as a separate thing from the books.

Out of curiosity, when you say Wyrd Sisters is the only one you've gotten through, do you mean it's the one you've tried, or the only one of several tries that you actually finished? Because if it's the latter ... Wyrd Sisters is sort of an odd one to have been successful on? I wouldn't have said Wyrd Sisters was paced particularly well, at least not compared to, say, some of the Watch books, or even some of the later Witch books. The later books in general tend to be tighter about the writing (well, up until the very end, at least).

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kamino_neko - 2019-07-15 10:56 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2019-07-15 11:37 (UTC) - Expand

Phantom of the Opera. I loved the 00s movie, as well as the 1943 one.

Same with Scarlet Pimpernel, as the prose is too flowery and Mary Sue-ish.

I don’t mind the 1943 PotO, but the 2004 one still makes me grind my teeth, not because it’s a bad adaptation of the book (I mean, there’s one where the Phantom isn’t deformed but does get off by putting rats down his pants, so my wtf no benchmark may be a little extreme) but the 2004 film is a terrible adaptation of the ALW stage musical.

Re: Inspired by #2

(Anonymous) - 2019-07-15 04:02 (UTC) - Expand

In general, I prefer all the adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma that I've seen over reading the book. Emma isn't my favorite Austen heroine and Knightley isn't my favorite Austen hero, so it helps when adaptations tone that down or trim stuff out.

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